"El Dorado Cadillac"

[Aeskow@xxxxxxx]

Actually it WAS Calvin, and not Clarence Carter, who wrote the tune, no 
disrespect to www.allmusic.com intended.  Clarence and Calvin began as a gospel 
duo, cut a few early deep-soul tunes on small labels in the early '60s, including 
a phenomenal one called "I Stayed Away Too Long," which was later covered by 
several groups including the Wallace Brothers.  Calvin went on to be a 
writer-producer and scored a few more regional hits in the deep South on other 
artists, including James Carr, while brother Clarence over-chuckled his way through 
"Patches" and scored good dough singing that frat-boy kind of pseudo-soul that 
involves single-entendre titles like "Strokin'," "More Strokin'" and 
"Strokin' in the Back of an Eldorado Cadillac" (not really), accompanied by 
ever-greater amounts of chuckling.  The waste of a real talent, but at least his family 
has food to eat.

Next time maybe we should just all say "The Yardbirds."

Peace and Respect
Johnny T