Favourites : Was (not Was) : What up, Dog?

I first got What Up, Dog? on cheap cassette, then cheap cd and finally cheap album. When the boys were growing up Walk The Dinosaur was a favourite song - especially for games of Pass The Parcel at birthday parties.

The album is an interesting mixture of solid funk, good songs, mock cabaret and avant garde sounds, "stories" and collages.

Somehow it works.

Songs like Out Come The Freaks, Somewhere in America (there's a street named after my dad). Spy in the House of Love

Then there is the weird stuff like Hello Dad I'm in Jail and the title track.

One of the Was "Brothers", Don went on to be recognisd as onne of the foremost producers of the last 25 years recording with almost everyone