The Judge
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Date: 07/08/10
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - "Last Night In Soho"
Back at the start of last year, I did a brief obit of Dave Dee, mentioning one of their more intriguing hits, Last Night In Soho, written (as were all their chart records) by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley.
Contrary to what I said then, it's quite clear now that the song was not about a rent-boy, but rather about a young hit-man for the gangsters who proliferated around the seedy side of Swinging London. The lyrics are here.
It's a great story song - and was Dave Dee's stated favourite as a result - and it's a song I've not been able to get very far away from in the last eighteen months. So I thought I might as well link to a YouTube video of them performing (i.e. miming) on the German TV show Beat Club at the time of its release.
It's in that terrible fake stereo they went in for around that time and the sound drops out a bit in the last verse, but the excellence still shines through.
