Soldering (song)

"Soldering"
Single by Desmond Dekker and the Four Aces
B-side	"Beverley's All Stars's Just In Time"
Released	1965 (1965)
Genre	Ska
Label	Beverley's Records

"Soldering" is a song recorded by Desmond Dekker and the Four Aces in 1965. ^[1] The title is a euphemism for sexual intercourse, the lyrics are about a young girl wanting sex, and how a man wants to give her that.

The chorus of the song may be an interpolation of the 1956 mento track "Give Her Love" by Chin’s Calypso Sextet ^[2] —which has a similar lyrical subject matter of a woman wanting a man's love and tenderness—along with taking a part of the Shenley Duffus song "Rukumbine". ^[3]

Other versions

Another version was recorded by the Starlights featuring Stanley Beckford in 1975 and credited to Ewart Beckford and Alvin Ranglin, ^[4] It became a big hit in early 1975 for Jamaican Stanley Beckford, ^[5] he is often not credited due to the lack of copyright in Jamaica at the time. Other artists who recorded his version of the song include the Specials Hall & Oates, and Count Owen. The lyrics of the song is about a woman's choosiness when it comes to having sex with a man.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described Hall & Oates' cover from the 1975 album Daryl Hall & John Oates as, "fall[ing] flat," and, "reggae tinged." ^[6]

References

1. "Soldering: Desmond Dekker And The Four Aces", Discogs.com.
2. Michael Garnice Chin's Calypso Sextet, Alerth Bedasse, Everard Williams and Ivan Chin's label mentomusic.com
3. Michael Garnice Cover Versions of Mento & Jamaican Folk Songs mentomusic.com
4. "Soldering: Starlights" AllMusic.com.
5. (1976). Arts review, Volumes 1-2; Volume 4, p.51. Creative Arts Centre, University of the West Indies.
6. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Daryl Hall & John Oates (Bonus Tracks)", AllMusic.com.