Emile Ford & The Checkmates - (STEREO) What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For

[karbritt]

I love this song..love the 50's music....you can so sing along to it...

[SirBasildeBrush]

@karbritt and if you kill the right stereo channel, you can add your own lead vocal!

[professordumbledorf]

Stereo...WOW

[SirBasildeBrush]

@professordumbledorf ...it doesn't get much better than this

[hungryherbie]

Great oldie ..top marks ..heard it on the radio today that's why I'm here

[68highland]

this was the most popular disc on juke box in cafe in Coleraine in 60's,

[GunnarBorgstrom]

One more classic song from Emile , thank you for all the memories ! ! !

[jamiegoudling1987]

This was the first song I learned the words from when I was 5 yrs old. What lovely memories. Thanks

[SirBasildeBrush]

@jamiegoudling1987 cute!

[RickmalR]

One of the best pre-Beatles records

[graduatedan]

I've never heard this in stereo before. It sounds just great. Is it true that the legendary Joe Meek had a hand in this record?

[fathertedism]

what cd is the stereo version from

[SirBasildeBrush]

@fathertedism A 1991 CD from from See For Miles Records Ltd - "The Very Best Of Emile Ford & The Checkmates".

[perransands]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING.BRILLIANT OLD CLASSIC.

[SirBasildeBrush]

@perransands My pleasure, hope you enjoyed the stereo.

[snakeweirdo]

This kind of music has always made me laugh, there's something comical about it. Not very musical but fun.

[Monade2]

Hey my husband Tony Hart doing the skiff!! on drums!! wow!!! what a great drummer!! Emile made lots!! he made ..?? another story!! lol .. But everyone seems to remember the drum skiff?? wop!! lol

[Monade2]

Hey, listen to the drum skiff .. it's my Tony, clever bugger!! !! Rock on my baby in heaven xxx

[hyperzuk]

Hey Jac

I remember it so so well, never thought for one minute that id be mates of the drummers Wife to be , hope ur ok Jac, tc , Mikexxxx

[JacquiHUK]

May I add grandson Jamie is also a brilliant drummer!! only 14, perhaps following in hid G/dads footsteps!! bring it on love .. your band rocks!! Nan 3 minutes ago .. sorry Monade 2 is another name of mine .. Used wrong one xx

[Monade2]

May I add grandson Jamie is also a brilliant drummer!! only 14, perhaps following in hid G/dads footsteps!! bring it on love .. your band rocks!! Nan

[jaredc40]

My Grand Uncle Tony was drumming in THIS song. =D

[JacquiHUK]

Hey Jared XXX He sure was!! He recorded this with Emile Ford as a Checkmate ...a brilliant Drummer, best on the South Coast!! Now gone from this world on 09/09/09 :-( but forever in our thoughts and remembered XXX May his memory live on through his artistic playing XX Auntie Jacqui XXX

[SirBasildeBrush]

I'm impressed! Someone to be proud of.

[seedeehen]

this is one i had forgotten about how its revised some old memories for me (brill)

[SirBasildeBrush]

...and in stereo. Good stuff!

[hrpman]

Our LaVerne knows her stuff! I haven't checked Google, but I seem to remember Emil was a Londoner. This came out at the time I was just beginning to take an interest in the charts (the Hit Parade back then) Happy memories!

[SirBasildeBrush]

LaVerne's a man...

[hrpman]

And a good one, too, I'm sure. The blessing of YT's anonymity occasionally bites back ...

[SirBasildeBrush]

Well it is a feminine name, so it's not suprising. He chose it after one of the Andrews Sisters.

[grandprix1963]

Besides London, Emile Ford also lived in Sweden in the sixties.

On a tour in northern Sweden their bus got a flat tyre outside the town Lycksele. Emile walks away to a nearby house to use the phone.

The girl who answered the door became the mother of two of Emile's children.

He even had a basement musicstudio in Lycksele.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Lucky Emile...that's Swedish girls for you.

The only thing I ever got when I had a flat tyre was a bill for a new one.

[hrpman]

We make our own luck. Grandprix didn't say how many doors Emil had to knock on before he found the right one ...

[LaVerne37]

Great wonderful gem...written in 1916!!!

This version reached #1 in the UK for six weeks. And Shakin' Stevens took it to #5 in 1987. A great run for a terrific song!

Many thanks for posting!

Wolfman Jack.