The Idle Race
Gary Jackson
Seeing the recent post about the original Nirvana, I thought I'd add
that all the Idle Race albums are now available on EMI as a double
mid-priced CD.
I bought it because someone recommended it, and it's the best thing
I've heard in years, having missed them first time around.
For those of you who don't know who they were, they were a Birmingham
band fronted by Jeff Lynne before he joined the Move and then ELO.
If you like the Beatles circa '67, and ELO you WON'T be disappointed.
The album's called "Back To The Story"
--
Gary Jackson
You are welcome to visit the 60's UK music homepage at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gary_jackson
Chris P. Mezzolesta
Gary Jackson <gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>Seeing the recent post about the original Nirvana, I thought I'd add
>that all the Idle Race albums are now available on EMI as a double
>mid-priced CD.
Great to hear! I only have the "Here We Go Round The Lemon Tree" 45
but if the rest of "The Birthday Party" et.al. are anything the same,
it'll be a great listen, nice & trippy! All countries or just UK for
the CD release?
george gibson
In article <199701121...@zetnet.co.uk>, Gary Jackson
<gary.j...@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>Seeing the recent post about the original Nirvana, I thought I'd add
>that all the Idle Race albums are now available on EMI as a double
>mid-priced CD.
>
Radio 1, especially from Kenny Everett, I have a very vague memory
of them singing jingles for Everett, encouraging him to
"play the Beatles every day and stuff The Idle Race". I like a
songwriter who does not take himself too seriously.
I'll look out for the CD with Skeleton at a local Megastore.
If you are into late 1960's music the fully "Teenage Opera" is
on CD now featuring "Grocer Jack" and many others that were never
released at the time of the "Grocer Jack" hit. Well worth a listen.
--
George Gibson E-mail geo...@widgy.demon.co.uk
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
Brian Harvey
george <geo...@widgy.demon.co.uk> writes:
>If you are into late 1960's music the fully "Teenage Opera" is
>on CD now featuring "Grocer Jack" and many others that were never
>released at the time of the "Grocer Jack" hit. Well worth a listen.
Wow! I didn't realize they had recorded more than "Grocer Jack"
and "Sam"! How do I get a copy? What label? Available in the US,
or only in the UK? Etc.
Keith Webley
Chris P. Mezzolesta <mezzo...@mindspring.com> wrote in article <5bdvbk$1...@camel5.mindspring.com>...
> Great to hear! I only have the "Here We Go Round The Lemon Tree" 45
> but if the rest of "The Birthday Party" et.al. are anything the same,
>
EEK! Wasn't that by the Move? I don't remember the IR doing it. (I'm in the office so can't check my lp's)
Keith
Brian Harvey
"Keith Webley" <keithk...@unn.unisys.com> writes:
>EEK! Wasn't that by the Move? I don't remember the IR doing it. (I'm in the
>office so can't check my lp's)
Both groups recorded "Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree". Roy Wood
suggested it for the Idle Race, but by the time they got around to
recording and releasing it, the Move had already released their
version as a single. As a result, the Idle Race version wasn't
released as a single in Britain, although it was in the US and elsewhere.
The _Back to the Story_ liner notes explain all about this.
Chris P. Mezzolesta
b...@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) wrote:
>Both groups recorded "Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree". Roy Wood
>suggested it for the Idle Race, but by the time they got around to
>recording and releasing it, the Move had already released their
>version as a single.
Was "Lemon Tree" indeed the A side of the Move single? I thought
"Flowers In The Rain" was the hit side, especially reading about how
it was the first song on (Radio 1?????) The matrix numbers on the 45
suggest that Flowers was the A, or was it released as a double-A?
(Wasn't there. :-) )
For the record (Doh!), the info is:
The Move: Flowers In the Rain/(Here we go round) The Lemon Tree
Regal Zonophone RZ 3001 (UK)
The Idle Race:
Here We Go Round The Lemon Tree/My Father's Son
Liberty 55997 (US)
Any idea if the weird ending on the Idle Race version was intentional
(tape grinding to a halt), or was it another case of "Prepared for
release in the US by........."??
Thanks
C
Greg W
For the record, here is the 45 release list of the idle Race in the UK
9-67 Imposters of Lifes Magazine / Sitting In My Tree
3-68 Skeleton and The Roundabout / Knocking Nails Into My House
5-68 End Of The Road / Morning Sunshine
9-68 I Like My Toys / Birthday
5-69 Days Of The Broken Arrows / Warm Red Carpet
7-69 Come With Me / Reminds Me Of You
Lemon Tree was never released in the UK as a single, undoubtedly
because of the success of the Move version.
Any fans of the Move / Beatles / Jason Crest type sound should get
there hands on any and all Idle Race stuff. It's brilliant.
Greg
Gary Jackson
In message <lggJmKAk...@widgy.demon.co.uk>
george gibson <geo...@widgy.demon.co.uk> writes:
> If you are into late 1960's music the fully "Teenage Opera" is
> on CD now featuring "Grocer Jack" and many others that were never
> released at the time of the "Grocer Jack" hit. Well worth a listen.
>
I thought I'd read that the music is newly written, apart from the
60's singles?
Gary
Gary Jackson
In message <5bisml$a...@camel0.mindspring.com>
mezzo...@mindspring.com (Chris P. Mezzolesta) writes:
> Was "Lemon Tree" indeed the A side of the Move single?
No.
Gary
John or Max
mezzo...@mindspring.com (Chris P. Mezzolesta) wrote:
>Was "Lemon Tree" indeed the A side of the Move single? I thought
>"Flowers In The Rain" was the hit side.
--snip--
I think you're right. That was the side that charted on my local
station, anyway.
John Frank
george gibson
In article <5bhrh7$p...@agate.berkeley.edu>, Brian Harvey
<b...@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU> writes
>george <geo...@widgy.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>If you are into late 1960's music the fully "Teenage Opera" is
>>on CD now featuring "Grocer Jack" and many others that were never
>>released at the time of the "Grocer Jack" hit. Well worth a listen.
>
>and "Sam"! How do I get a copy? What label? Available in the US,
>or only in the UK? Etc.
Full Title:
A TEENAGE OPERA . The Original Sountrack Recording.
Label: RPM Records Ltd Catalogue Number RPM 165
The CD contains 23 tracks some are instrumental versions of the
songs, some of the tracks were issued in 1967/68, but without the
Teenage Opera tag. e.g. Shy Boy by Kippington Lodge & Mr. Rainbow by
Steve Flynn. Although some of the tracks are fillers, IMHO it's worth
a listen.
Do not know if it's available in the US, the only CD shop I know
on the net in the UK is blackmail (www.blackmail.co.uk/one/html/rpm165.
html), I have never used them, so I can't recommend.
BTW CD's cost more in UK than US. This CD was mid-priced £11.99(UK
pounds) x 1.7 for dollars.