That is a cleverer title than I suspect you are going to give it credit for. And that's a badly constructed sentence, as English teachers out there might notice. Anyway...
Charlie Chaplin the comic actor and director seems to be one of those Marmite performers. People either love him or hate him.
There is no such division of opinion about the reggae DJ Charlie Chaplin (Richard Bennett to his Mum), although admittedly that may be because many people have never heard of him. Hopefully these two tracks from 1982 and 1983 respectively will encourage you to join the pro-Chaplin 2 camp.
Chaplin 2 was fairly successful in the 1980s in Jamaica and is still about although according to Discogs he hasn't released any new material since 2006. When I looked for him on Bandcamp I found a single from 2016 released by Operation Sound System with Charlie Chaplin credited on vocals, but it turned out to be a sample of Chaplin 1 from the film in the title.
The credits on "Dictator" are pretty confusing all round. I assume Razzle and Sasquatch are not related to the saucy magazine and hairy mythical creature with whom they respectively share their names.
"Jamaican Collie" - Charlie Chaplin
"Unity Is Strength" - Charlie Chaplin (with Don Carlos)
"Dictator" - Charlie Chaplin, Razzle, Sasquatch
Chaplin 1 also turned his hand to music, writing a lot of his own film scores. One instrumental theme from his 1936 film "Modern Times" had some lyrics added in the early 1950s and became a standard. Chaplin 2 hasn't done a MRV of it, which seems a missed opportunity, but he isn't averse to adapting an old Peter Tosh tune.
I'm sure the rest of the post is fascinating, but I'm still stuck on the first sentence.
ReplyDeleteUnderstandably. With hindsight I don't think it was that clever after all. I was trying to refer to both the film of that name by Chaplin 2 and Chaplin 1's ability to speak forcefully and with great authority. But then I looked in the dictionary and that's not really what 'dictate' means.
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