I had to choose between two youtube videos for Run Run - I ended up choosing the synchronous dancing quasi-Sims couple posted by TheAchlessWarrior over the static image of one D.J Rabbit. This is the fourth song I've posted from the Respect to Studio One compilation celebrating Jamaican record producer Coxsone Dodd.
Over a classic rocksteady groove, Delroy Wilson sings:
a) a stalker song, like Every Breath You Take, One Way or Another, I Will Follow Him.
b) a hide and seek song. Just a playful game.
c) both b and c
d) all of the above except for a and d
Is this guy a stalker? Nah, he's more like the hide and seek farmer in the Schoolhouse Rock video about five, but whereas that guy is propelled along by a snappy tune, the music in Run Run is like a clankety old jalopy, rattling out pieces of metal as it bounces along the streets of Kingston. It finally breaks down on the side of the road, so Delroy gets out and lays down by the hide and seek tree. From 3:06-5:15 we hear a dub section of the song, while Delroy naps. At 4:03 and 4:27 he wakes up just long enough to let us know that we had still better run, but by now the jig is up. We stand over him smirking. At 5:16 he starts up with his games again, but by now we are no longer around. With 20 seconds left in the song, he is mumbling in his sleep, his arms wrapped around the tree trunk.
The double-tracked vocals align perfectly, kind of like rocksteady Everly Brothers. It's fun to kind of go 'crosseared' if you will and let one vocal line take the lead over the other, you know? Listen to the vocals together or focus on one over the other, since neither one really dominates. (what's up with the phrase 'if you will' anyhow? does it matter if you will or won't? Not to me)
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