Friday, February 15, 2008
Little Darlin'
Zoomer Roberts: vocals, bass, lead guitar
Buddy Winston: rhythm guitar
Cindy Bickford: drums
After seeing Sha-Na-Na perform "At the Hop" in the Woodstock movie, I began singing it myself as a solo. Then I bought one of their albums, and heard songs I had missed the first time around, including the Diamonds' "Little Darlin'." I tried doing them all as a one-man blue-eyed doo-wop group, and at one time had a fair-sized repertoire worked up (including a histrionic "Teen Angel"), but "Little Darlin' " was the one that caught on. (I found out later that Joan Baez did the same thing with the same song years before I did.)
This was recorded at the same 1982 session that produced "You're Not Mine Anymore," and again I'm presenting a dub of the track as it sounded before it was bathed in echo.