Talk:Eddie Calvert

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I seem to recall that, while in South Africa, Calvert recorded a pro-apartheid/white supremacy track entitled 'Amazing Race'. Does anyone have any further information?

I call shenanigans. Sounds like crap to me, only found one solid reference to it on Google and Yahoo, couldn't be bothered to read over 15 pages of scanned images. P.S. Sign your posts --Hellahulla 00:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

So it would seem [1], [2], [3], [4]. Keresaspa (talk) 01:28, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Eddie Calvert's death

I recall Eddie appeared at the Gaborone's Holiday Inn in 1978 and he ran clear out of encore steam with his audience. They simply couldn't get enough of him. He left Botswana on what must have been an unimaginable nostalgia high for him as well as for them. But my recollection is that he went on to South Africa afterwards, not back to Rhodesia, and died not too long after his appearances in Botswana, in his room at the Johannisberger, I think its name was then. Bang in the town centre. Opposite corner to Fontana Inn.

Does anybody out there have a similar recollection?

(202.154.134.21 (talk) 21:57, 6 November 2010 (UTC))

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Amazing Race

Is there another source for this record? There's nothing coming up on the regular record sites (see discogs at https://www.discogs.com/artist/340209-Eddie-Calvert?limit=500&page=1 does not even have it - under whatever title - as an album track) and the only internet sources for it quote right back to wikipedia, or to the Denselow book, which also does not source it. There's no sign of a label scan or video of it anywhere. I suspect Denselow took someone's joke seriously, q.v. Bob Holness' saxophone virtuosity. In Vitrio (talk) 21:40, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Answering myself: possibly - found a source suggesting a woman called Doreen Sanders had written lyrics for husband Jim to sing, and was introduced/accompanied by Calvert at a concert in Gwelo (Zimbabwe); an article by Denselow, who was there; "Why the songs are bursting out all over Rhodesia", The Guardian, 15 October 1977, p. 15; link In Vitrio (talk) 12:01, 1 January 2023 (UTC)