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Dandy Livingstone — Rudy a Message to You
Album: The Best of Dandy Livingstone
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Released: 1967
Length: 2:31
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Stop your runnin' about
It's time you straighten right out
Stop your runnin' around
Making trouble in the town

Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you

You're growing older each day
You want to think of your future
Or you might wind up in jail
Then you will suffer

Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you

Stop your runnin' about
It's time you straighten right out
Stop your runnin' around
Making trouble in the town

Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you
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 Proclivities wrote:
"Rudy" refers to a "rude boy", a Jamaican slang term, not someone named Rudolph.
 
Wondering if the double meaning was intentional; it could have been titled "Rudie a Message to You" and minimized the ambiguity.
Posted 6 years ago by Carl    [ Reply ]
So laid back! Love gettin to the SOURCE. 
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
{#Hearteyes}
Posted 7 years ago by Azrica    [ Reply ]
 Grammarcop wrote:
"Rudy" performed by a crooner. An early attempt at modern hipster irony, perhaps?

 
"Rudy" refers to a "rude boy", a Jamaican slang term, not someone named Rudolph.
Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 rcurrier wrote:
Rudy Vallée perhaps?
 
i'm going with Guiliani {#Wink}
Posted 7 years ago by the_jake    [ Reply ]
Rico Rodriguez (trombone)  is the best !
Posted 7 years ago by tee_dee    [ Reply ]
Grew up on The Specials but diggin this. So Laid Back.
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 PeterMC3 wrote:
Impossible not to sing along to this...

 
so true !
Posted 8 years ago by Azrica    [ Reply ]
I loved the Two-Tone Specials cover but this is so so much better. I assume its the origonal.
Posted 9 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
Impossible not to sing along to this...
Posted 9 years ago by PeterMC3    [ Reply ]
Love to sing the harmony!  Thx
 
Posted 10 years ago by caatgrrrl    [ Reply ]
Super Solid, bringing lots of pleasure thank you!
Posted 10 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Like everybody else here, I hadn't heard the original, but grooved on the Two-Tone Specials' cover.

I'm shocked (SHOCKED!) Dandy Livingstone didn't receive any radio airplay in the upper-midwest during my formative years of the late 60's through the 70's.



Posted 11 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
 kcar wrote:

Remind me to hypnotize you on payday...  {#Wave}

 

 

That comment just made my day!
Posted 11 years ago by EarthMama    [ Reply ]
 unclehud wrote:
This song evokes a love/hate feeling:    repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, burst of solo, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.  

Yet I find myself singing it for hours after listening.

 
Remind me to hypnotize you on payday...  {#Wave}

 
Posted 11 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
This song evokes a love/hate feeling:    repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, burst of solo, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.  

Yet I find myself singing it for hours after listening.
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
{#Jump}
Posted 11 years ago by sub-arctic    [ Reply ]
 lazylemming wrote:
Like so many others below, I had not realized The Specials version was a cover.  
Thanks for sharing this original version!
 

Click on this link to really blow your mind:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNfjQqtVxA
Posted 12 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
 alanthecowboy wrote:

Looks like they used the same trombonist.

 
It is the same trombonist.  The Specials made a point of enlisting Rico Rodriguez for their recordings. He had played on hundreds of Ska and Rocksteady tunes.
Posted 12 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 lazylemming wrote:
Like so many others below, I had not realized The Specials version was a cover.  
Thanks for sharing this original version!
 
Ditto.
Posted 12 years ago by grungepuppy    [ Reply ]
Very nice.  I'm downloading the album now, and I see that it also has something called "Let's Do Rocksteady".  I know rocksteady is a transition genera between Ska and Reggae, so I'm excited to hear it.  Maybe Bill should play that too.  
Posted 12 years ago by smdeeg    [ Reply ]
Like so many others below, I had not realized The Specials version was a cover.  
Thanks for sharing this original version!
Posted 12 years ago by lazylemming    [ Reply ]
 scraig wrote:
Ska in 1967?
 
Ska started in the 1950's.  I remember getting into an argument with a guy once about Ska predating Reggae.  He said it did, I disagreed, I lost the argument... 
Posted 12 years ago by drsteevo    [ Reply ]
Once again my awareness of a dominant cover version has been changed by RP!
Posted 12 years ago by UltraNurd    [ Reply ]
{#Cool}   You should play a little more ska, Bill   {#Smile}

Posted 12 years ago by coffeeadikt    [ Reply ]
WOW!  The original version!
And all this time for all these years I never knew!?

PROPS TO YOU DANDY LIVINGSTON!!

And props to RP for playing this!

{#Clap}
 
Posted 12 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
 scraig wrote:
Ska in 1967?
  

 

Oh yes.

The first time I recall ska being big in the UK was around '68/'69.  The Two Tone explosion was like the second coming really.  It was very much the adopted music of the then emerging skinhead movement.  Being a bit of a biker at the time, I had to avoid many of the local youth clubs where this and similar music was played lots.  I must have been an odd biker for I have always loved ska and reggae!



Posted 12 years ago by Stropatus    [ Reply ]
him use big word: PROTO nice word.
Posted 13 years ago by Giselle62    [ Reply ]
Ska in 1967?
Posted 14 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
 socalhol wrote:

me neither!

 

i knew it was a cover but have never heard the original... better enunciation in this than the Specials version.
Posted 14 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
Rudy Vallée perhaps?

Posted 14 years ago by rcurrier    [ Reply ]
 michaelc wrote:
A gem never knew this was not a specials tune
 
me neither!

Posted 14 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
"Rudy" performed by a crooner. An early attempt at modern hipster irony, perhaps?
Posted 14 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
 DaveInVA wrote:
All the way from 1967, not bad
 
Ska was huge before the UK picked it up mid 70s.

Study the history of reggea and discover treasures! 
Posted 14 years ago by Albert1967    [ Reply ]
such happy memories of the Specials cover of this
Posted 14 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
A gem never knew this was not a specials tune
Posted 14 years ago by michaelc    [ Reply ]
Beauty.  I loved the Specials version from the first time I heard it.  It was very true to this version, though Dandy's voice is more mellifluous.  Love it when RP takes me to the root.

Posted 14 years ago by Clark_Novato    [ Reply ]
Smooth,,indeed ! {#Yes}
Posted 14 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
Smooth in comparison to the Specials version.  I like them both but I am admittedly biased towards the Specials version because it's the one I grew up with and identified with.  I never even new it was a remake but I suppose a lot of those early Two-Tone releases were.  I learned my new thing for the day!
Posted 14 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:

No' bad, but I prefer the Special's version which has a bit more zip and oomph, IMO.

 
1. pick a song
2. add "zip" and "oomph"
3. ???
4. profit

Posted 14 years ago by gumby    [ Reply ]
 Dave_Mack wrote:

Me neither, and they sure used a lot of this original.

 
Looks like they used the same trombonist.

Posted 14 years ago by alanthecowboy    [ Reply ]
All the way from 1967, not bad
Posted 15 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
 ericconrad wrote:
One of the many reasons I love RP: I had never heard this original version.  It's excellent!  {#Dancingbanana}

 
Agreed. This is truly wonderful. Thank you once again, Bill, for enlightening us.

Posted 15 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
Specials = 8. This = 9. Soulful!
Posted 15 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
{#Sunny}

Love it!!!!

Love those trombones!!

Posted 15 years ago by Mugro    [ Reply ]
 ericconrad wrote:
One of the many reasons I love RP: I had never heard this original version.  It's excellent!  {#Dancingbanana}

 
No' bad, but I prefer the Special's version which has a bit more zip and oomph, IMO.

Posted 15 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
 Phlegmaticman wrote:
Who is this Rudy guy, anyway? He gets in all sorts of trouble.
 
He owns a bar in NYC hell's kitchen

Posted 15 years ago by echoes    [ Reply ]
One of the many reasons I love RP: I had never heard this original version.  It's excellent!  {#Dancingbanana}

Posted 15 years ago by ericconrad    [ Reply ]
 jsjacob wrote:
I didn't know the version I knew was a cover!
 
 
Me neither, and they sure used a lot of this original.

Posted 15 years ago by Dave_Mack    [ Reply ]
Who is this Rudy guy, anyway? He gets in all sorts of trouble.
Posted 15 years ago by Phlegmaticman    [ Reply ]
I didn't know the version I knew was a cover!
 
Posted 15 years ago by jsjacob    [ Reply ]