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Sorry, it’s all jazz to me

Apollo Gees

Monday, November 8th, 2004

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 skatadoodoo, doodoo
wap a da boo boo, boo boo
barp barp a da barp barp a di barp
oh skoodoo di doo doo
I used to play
Home and away
boo boo bi do boop
In Green and White Hoops
Demobbed from the troops
barp barp a di ba barp
Scored a few goals
Inspired a few souls
Including my son
Now he’s having fun …
skatadoodoo, doodoo
wap a da boo boo, boo boo
barp barp a da barp barp a di barp
oh skoodoo di doo doo, doo doo, doo doo ……..

© Apollo Gees, 8th October 2004

Notes

I know, I know :
what do I know about jazz?
Nothing – the only two times I went to Ronnie Scotts, was to see first,
The Adventures (Broken Land)
and then Latin Quarter (Radio Africa) –
both very much under the ‘pop’ banner.

But only last night I saw a piece on tv about Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong
and how he invented ‘Scatch’
and then today I saw ‘jazz’ in a football story,
ergo the above.
Probably nothing like what Gil Scott-Heron sounds like?

inspired by this question found at Guardian Unlimited :

http://football.guardian.co.uk/theknowledge/story/0,13854,1341709,00.html

Did the father of Gil Scott-Heron, jazz radical, play for Celtic in the fifties (maybe sixties) and if so for how long and to what effect? asked Greig Aitken.

Gilbert Heron began his footballing career in the Canadian Air Force and went on to play for the Detroit Wolverines, Chicago Sting and Detroit Corinthians.
He signed for Celtic in 1951 after scoring twice in an open trial. Heron would only play one league game for the Hoops, however, although he would make four appearances in the Scottish League Cup, scoring two goals. He was released by the club in 1952 and went on to enjoy short spells with Third Lanark and Kidderminster Harriers.

His son – who made his name in 1970 with the superb jazz-funk polemic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – was recently asked about his father’s exploits by Scottish magazine One: “It’s a blessing from the spirits. Like that’s the two things that Scottish folks love the most; music and football, and they got one representative from each of those from my family. Personally I support Rangers and I’m going to wear my Celtic scarf and Rangers hat when I come over.”

We’re not sure how that’ll go down in Glasgow.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/sorry-its-all-jazz-to-me/