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'Here I Stand' was the 3rd UK chart success for new Midlands chart sensation Delroy "Bitty" McLean... His previous hits were 'It Keeps Rainin' and 'Pass It On' and he has just completed a successful tour supporting UB40.
Not a very surprising booking there as they McLean had been an employee of UB40, working as a tape op and sometimes backing singer for them before he went solo. Most of his hits were covers and this one apparently originates with the Jamaican singer Justin Hind[e]s, though I admit I hadn't heard that version until now. Nor had I heard the 1958 US hit by Wade Flemons which this faintly recalls in places. Mind you, I don't think I'd heard Bitty's either.
He has a good enough voice but the song isn't quite interesting enough to withstand the unexciting performance and arrangement. I didn't want to dislike this and I don't quite but I'm deeply unenthusiastic. His nephew had a hit recently (as McLean) and I didn't like that much either.
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