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‘Hot Up Dey Head’

sung by Anslem Douglas
composed by George La Barrie

   

 

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LYRICS

Verse 1

They call it Panorama - ah real hot head for arrangers
When the judges
Make dey comments about we arrangement
Some men does get totoolbay -
When they hear that the judges say
The tune lacking modulation and improvisation
Arrangers start worrying
Panorama they want to win
So some will try just anything -
Dey put some ah this and then some ah that
And damble an old time part
Trying dey best to capture the judges’ heart

Chorus 1

Ah doh care what they say -
Ah go play it my way
Judges hot up meh head - night and day
What they putting me through -
What they want me to do
I don’t know - I just doh have a clue
All the years arranging -
It’s so disappointing
When I hear the comments dat they making
Mc Collin and Vice tell me
“Doh hot up yuh head, Dougie”
Just do yuh thing instead -
And hot up dem judges’ head

Verse 2

So now yuh really confuse
With those fancy terms they does use
Yuh lacking variation and need orchestration
You want to make improvement -
So you listen to dey comments
And try to make all the necessary adjustments
But when yuh look at the score -
You was hoping to get much more
You get much less than before
You do what they say - and play it their way -
What again yuh could do
These judges have you - on ah music curfew!

Chorus 2

Ah doh care what they say -
Ah go play it my way
Judges hot up meh head - night and day
What dey putting me through -
What dey want meh to do
I don’t know - I just doh have a clue
All these years arranging - It’s so disappointing
When I hear de comments that they making
Junior and Trevor tell me
“Doh worry with them, Dougie”
Just do yuh ting instead -
And hot up dem judges’ head

Verse 3

I mean you no disrespect -
My music you do reject
My idea is to create a musical concept
I always trying new things -
Let me soar and doh clip my wings
The music playing today, it keeps on evolving
It comes from deep in my soul -
And I play it for all the world
So pleasing people is my goal
Ah come every year -
With brand new ideas to break through musically
Remember Bunji, and Differentology

Chorus 3

Ah doh care what they say -
Ah go play it my way
Judges hot up meh head - night and day
What they putting me through -
What they want me to do
I don’t know - I just doh have a clue
All these years arranging -
It’s so disappointing
When I hear the comments dat they making
Bernard and Lio tell me
“Doh worry with dem, Dougie”
Just do yuh thing instead -
And hot up dem judges’ head


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“Hot Up Dey Head”
Anslem Douglas

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Vocalist Anslem Douglas
Anslem Douglas

 

For the 2015 Panorama season, Hot Up Dey Head is sung by Anslem Douglas, one of the top vocalists out of Trinidad & Tobago. The  Grammy award-winning composer of “Who Let The Dogs Out,” Douglas’ vocal work has also brought alive such marquis ‘Pan Songs’ as Len “Boogsie” Sharpe’s Musical Vengeance, Battle Zone and It’s Showtime by Edwin Pouchet, and Brian “Bean” Griffith’s Big In De Dance, to name but a few over the last several years.

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George La Barrie

George La Barrie has been composing calypso music since 1975. His love for steelband music started as a young boy living on Nelson Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad. In 1959 La Barrie played pan with ‘Mexicanos Steelband’ for the first time. His musical heroes are Lord Kitchener and master musician Clive Bradley.

Last year La Barrie penned  Thoroughbred of Pan, and he is back again for 2015 as composer of Hot Up Dey Head sung by Anslem Douglas.

 
 

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