Santa Lucia - Clive Whitelock & Dave Bowden 1968

Today I bring you a rerecording of 'Santa Lucia' performed by Clive Whitelock, jointly written in 1968 along with Respect lead singer Dave Bowden.  Dave and Clive appear below in this 1968 photograph sitting outside  a pub in the estate they grew up in in the High Wycombe area of London.

Clive, a renowned songwriter, singer and poet can be found here at occasionallydavid

The IBC acetate recording of Santa Lucia can be heard Respect 1969-unreleased-acetate

RESPECT - Original line-up circa 1966/7. With thanks to Paul Russell

I am fortunate in being able to bring you 2 previously unseen photographs of the High Wycombe  band 'Respect' whose acetate Santa Lucia I previously posted  and which you can now hear along with four Respect compositions on Psychedelic Schlemiels 4 (Wooden Hill).

Many thanks to original band member Paul Russell for sending me these and granting me permission to publish them here.  Regarding the photographs and origination of the band, Paul says:-

"My role in the band was nothing extraordinary, I was as suggested previously and original co-founder with Blackie, and co-writer of 'Nothing' I played mainly rhythm guitar when Mick joined the band as he was a little more versatile than I so he was appointed Lead guitarist, I sang lead vocals on a couple of songs one namely 'All or Nothing' the superb Small Faces hit and Mick and I sang BV's on most others, apart from this my role nothing too noteworthy. I played many of the High Wycombe Town Hall functions as support act to the named artists of the day, Small Faces, Geno Washington & Ram Jam Band, The Move, The Who I believe from memory and a fair few others that escape me at present..."

RESPECT 1969: Update

I am thrilled to have made contact with band member 'guitarist' Michael Henry Grant, who has kindly passed on some fascinating information about the band. I copy below, some of the email sent to me recently:


"I have just been surfing the web and what did I just find? An original of our Bands demo disc recorded in London at the IBC studio. The recording of both songs were done in an hour. We had a few cut for our own use and also a few that we left with Recording Labels in London and also one with Roy Wood and Trev Burton of the Move. They wanted to start up a label for unknown groups and as we got to know them fearly well we drove up to Birmingham from High Wycombe and left them a copy to hear.

Our lead singer Dave was often said to resemble Paul Jones of Manfred Mann, although we could never hear the simularity. Dave and Keith left the band and joined up with a band called "Farm" who's bassist was Nigel Harrison (yes ,of Blondie fame) and the late Paul Hammond who played drums with Atomic Rooster and had a number one hit with Tommorow Night.

Take a look at this web link for more information on our Band, which I believe, disbanded

http://www.california-ballroom.info/bands/respect.htmd

when I moved to Germany.

Ah! yes, both songs were originals. Santa Lucia was penned by Dave Bowden and Clive Whitelock (a friend of Daves) and was originally an accoustic spanish feeling - The Minstrel was a co-operation of the band - Dave writting the words and the basic melody from me - although alot of comparison was made to The Weight by the Band - wasn't intentional and I'm not sure even if I heard The Weight before the tune came into my head.

So, let's hear it for the Minstrel :-)

with Respect

Michael Henry Grant
Kaiserslautern, Germany"

Link to the original acetate:-

• Respect (1)

1969 unreleased acetate

For your delight, the best of English progressive/psychedelia.

An unkown recording from 1969, titled Santa Lucia, by 'Respect'.


An IBC acetate.

Side 1 is titled 'The Minstrel', a more acoustic affair.