groovin’ with mr bloe – mr bloe

8/18/2019 Groovin’ With Mr Bloe – Mr Bloe

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Groovin’ With Mr Bloe – Part 1 [..with tab]

Posted by Wilf

Groovy baby – yeah!

Otis stopped by this morning for a nice cup of tea and a sit down

and brought us a lovely letter from Stuart Willowgate.

Been blowin’ since Christmas ‘08 – or trying to, and loving

it! I heard the song Groovin’ with Mr Bloe as the ot msic

to " and #ames’ beer tor o$ Britain and have now $ond

it on yor site% I remember it the $irst time rond! I thin&

its on a C har' based in or arond the ( or ) hole draw%

*ny ti's to 'laying it, or a tab 'erha's+ Thanks for your comments Stuart. You’d be referring to the entry

about roovin’ With !r "loe on our #arp Trivia Who Played

That page. $t’s not the first time !r "loe has come into

conversation% so we ought to investigate the song and nail that

tab for you right away.

Background

roovin’ With !r "loe reached &o.' in the "ritish pop charts in

!ay ()*+. $t was held off the top slot by !un go Jerry’s In he

-mmertime. ,nbeknown to many% it is actually a cover

version. The original% called rooving With !r "loe% was released

in the ,S- as a " side on ife /ecords by a studio band called

Wind and the song’s creation is credited to their band members

"o entry% Paul &aumann and Kenny Laguna.

Wind had briefly teamed up with Tony Orlando in ()0) to

record the ,S hit Ma&e Believe. Stuck for a " side% they threwtogether !r "loe% another bubblegum groove with some thrown

together harmonica lines. -nd yes% it is the same Tony Orlando

who had the hit record ie * .ellow /ibbon in ()*1 with his

band Dawn. The "ritish hit featured arry Ptch on harmonica

and was issued on DJ" #ecord$.

http://www.harpsurgery.com/http://www.harpsurgery.com/?page_id=150http://www.harpsurgery.com/?page_id=150http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_Jerryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_Jerryhttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qtd4_mungo-jerry-in-the-summertime_creationhttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qtd4_mungo-jerry-in-the-summertime_creationhttp://joanjettbadrep.com/Biography/kenny.shtmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Orlandohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjHjXj3xzmAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2tZREt17Cchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2tZREt17Cchttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Orlando_and_Dawnhttp://harmonica.co.uk/harry.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJM_Recordshttp://www.harpsurgery.com/?page_id=150http://www.harpsurgery.com/?page_id=150http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungo_Jerryhttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qtd4_mungo-jerry-in-the-summertime_creationhttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qtd4_mungo-jerry-in-the-summertime_creationhttp://joanjettbadrep.com/Biography/kenny.shtmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Orlandohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjHjXj3xzmAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2tZREt17Cchttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Orlando_and_Dawnhttp://harmonica.co.uk/harry.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJM_Recordshttp://www.harpsurgery.com/


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Writer 2enny aguna recalls3 Bo Gentry and I found him [Tony

Orlando] looking rather portly, and working behind a desk at

April Blackwood ublishing! "e talked him into singing a hit

called #$ake Belie%e&, a shameless 'our (easons knockoff! I sang

the high %oice and Tony sang baritone!!"hen #$ake Belie%e&, the

first "ind single, was ready to be released, we needed a B)side!

Our Bddah releases were known for their ridiculous B)sides,

like A)sides played backwards in order for the business dudes to

copyright something with themsel%es as writers, e%en though

they couldn&t write songs! *One of the record company heads

actually had a +)year old daughter who had written more songs

than ole orter-!"e dusted off a backing track from a #.ummy .ummy&, #hewy

hewy&, #(ugar (ugar&, #$oney $oney& wannabe song that was

called something like #Bingo Bingo&, and impro%ised a hapha/ard

harmonica and melodica o%erdub for the B)side! After #$ake

Belie%e& was a Top 01 hit in the 2nited (tates, we sent it to

3ngland! There, the %ery e4ited and supporti%e BB was happy

to showcase the latest hit by our bubblegum dynasty! It was an

instant success!

I got a call from Bo Gentry, who said, I&%e got a wedding present

for you, you wrote the 56 record in Great Britain! "hat song7 I

asked! Groo%in& with $r Bloe was the answer! I didn&t remember

a song with that title! It turns out the Beeb *BB- had

unwittingly played the wrong side of the single and the throw

away B)side became a worldwide hit, one of the biggest

instrumentals of all)time, one of my greatest songwriting efforts,and, although in the 2( it only reached top 81 in Billboard, it was

used as 9ick lark&s American Bandstand theme for many years!

Ah, the many and %aried wondrous ways of the record business!

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%hattng wth #oger and arry

/oger Trowbridge% chairman of the ,2 &atonal ar'onca

League% has been researching the track for some time and has

gathered a lot of information which we may cover in a future

post. /oger comments% the original was played on a diatonic

harmonica and appeared on the b)side of a single by the 2(

#bbblegm# band "ind!

:ac ;aurence pro%ided sheet music for the session which he had

scored from the original record!


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()' gone 'an* $old gone!

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9chromatic: versions of !r "loe.

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harmonica

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