Dee Dee Sharp-It's Mashed Potato Time (1962)
Artist: Dee Dee Sharp
Title: It's Mashed Potato Time
Label: Cameo
Format: LP
Sell Date: 5/15/25
Condition: VG/VG
Discogs Last Sold:n/a
Low: $18.99
Median: $18.99
Average: $18.99
High: $18.99
Current low price: $2.99 VG+/VG
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3
Have/Want: 27/24
Where Sold: Portland, OR
Time It Took To Sell: 6 months
Where and When Bought: Whatnot lot auction
Gwiz-gau Grade: A-
Sad To See It Go: No
The cover may say that it features the hit "Gravy" and even though it was top 5, it is dwarfed by the title track "Mashed Potato TIme" The latest, the greatest, perhaps the ultimate early 60's single. "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" is pretty great, since it is a continuation of the same theme musically and content-wise. If it was on it's own you'd almost think it was slyly dirty.
After those two songs the album is a bit of what you might expect as a long player in the singles era. Nothing bad or below very good, but nothing head turning beyond what time has already deemed exceptional. You get credible renditions of recent hits like "Splish Splash" and "Duke of Earl" or reaching back to the 50's with "Gee" by The Crows or "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman" by the Silhouettes. It's the long running singers album template of the first decade of Rock 'n' Roll before everyone was expected to write their own material. You also get a duet with Cameo label-mate Chubby Checker, "Slow Twistin'." What else would you sing about with Chubby Checker in 1962?
Sometimes if you downgrade a record it seems harsh. I went back and forth from B+ to A- but "Mashed Potato Time" is such a cataclysmic, genre defining song and "Gravy" such a conceptually perfect follow-up that you almost want to give the whole damn thing an A+ without listening to the rest of it.
Gimmie Gravy! For my mashed potatoes!!!
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