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Biggy Twiggy Band
Mama Won't Let You b/w I Don't Want That to Change - 7"
Westmount - 1975
Robert Williston
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Singer and bandleader Skip Pollard moved to Calgary in 1971 and formed the Biggy Twiggy Band to tour between Thunder Bay and Vancouver. This undiscovered gem, the band's lone seven-inch, was recorded at an old refurbished church for Peter Bentley's Calgary-based Westmount label, known more for country music than for stellar funk/soul dancefloor monsters like this. 'Mama Won't Let You' has a nice seventies funk sound with great falsetto vocals. A real dancer! The flip, 'I Don't Want That to Change', is a smooth upbeat seventies soul ballad with an amazing horn section and vocals.
Though both sides are credited to Pollard alone, guitarist Lou DeAdder recalls, "I wrote the chord structure/arrangement for the b-side 'I Don't Want That to Change'. Leo Sullivan wrote all the horn section stuff for both tunes. Skip Pollard wrote the words and melody for the b-side. The a-side was written by an American artist. The single made it onto the charts in Calgary and Edmonton - somewhere around the 30 mark." And apparently the lads made sartorial statements as well. "...With the Biggy Twiggy Band we wore many strange outfits. Skip would see something in a magazine or catalogue and send the picture to this woman in Thunder Bay that made us all costumes - that's what they were, costumes, not clothes".
A near-mint copy of 'Mama Won't Let You' sold for $125 in 2010.
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