***NOTE TO GOOGLERS***
I do not have the All Aboard Compilation! Instead buy the HMV "Chilrden's Classics" Volume One and Two. If another person emails me about "All Aboard" I'll scream.
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Seems like yesterday was the day in which everything was turned upside down!
My old mucker Matt Moore scuppered me by identifying the compilation which I have that Terry Scott "My Brother" track from. It's called Children's Classics. I bought it for Lulu a while back and ripped it to disc cos she mangles all her CDs something 'orrible. Here's the track-listing:
1. Laughing policeman - Penrose, Charles
2. Ugly duckling - Kaye, Danny
3. Robin Hood - James, Dick
4. Right said Fred - Cribbins, Bernard
5. Hippopotamus song - Wallace, Ian
6. Banana boat song (Day O) - Freberg, Stan
7. Goodness gracious me - Sellers, Peter & Sophia Loren
8. Bee song - Askey, Arthur
9. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf - Pinky & Perky
10. I know an old lady - Ives, Burl
11. My boomerang won't come back - Drake, Charlie
12. Teddy bears' picnic - Hall, Henry
13. Nellie the elephant - Miller, Mandy
14. Sparky's magic piano - Blair, Henry & Ray Turner
15. Owl and the pussycat - Hayes, Elton
16. Ernie (the fastest milkman in the West) - Hill, Benny
17. Buckingham Palace - Stephens, Anne
18. Windmill in old Amsterdam - Hilton, Ronnie
19. Grandad - Dunn, Clive
20. My brother - Scott, Terry
21. Morningtown ride - Seekers
22. Gnu song - Flanders & Swann
23. Two little boys - Harris, Rolf
24. Runaway train - Holliday, Michael
Yeah, and it's wicked. I'll admit I adore it. Matt says:
"Nothing could touch the ecstatic exuberance of Nelly the Elephant, the tongue-in-cheek elegance of the Gnu Song or the sheer bowel-weakening terror of Runaway Train.
As a pre-pubescent child you listen to music as pure sound - an eternal NOW devoid of history / context / genre."
As I type this I can imagine Reynolds on the point of picking up pen to commend Matt's remarks. Queerly it's Coldcut at their most psychedelic who give me a fix closest to those that these tracks do. They have this unique ability to tap into that Roald Dahl circa Charlie and The Chocolate Factory/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* vibe; shades of Wacky Racers and Heath Robinson too. Don't ask me how I made this synaesthetic jump.
I also got dropped a line by man like Jim Eaton-Terry, who suggests that Elizabeth David is probably Elvis in my cookery cosmology. He also quite rightly takes me task over Nigella. Jim points out that: " How To Eat is one of the all time stone classic cookbooks." Fair enough blud. I'd follow that by by grudgefully conceding that "How to be a Dosmestic Goddess" is also well solid. I'll have to revise my placing of Nigella. Let's think, someone who blew it big time, how about Lee Perry pre- and post- Black Ark incineration?
Finally, almost forgot to admit that I found myself listening to Lloyd Cole today. You start to enjoy it, and your critical faculties recoil in horror.
WOEBOT: Keepin' it real.
*Yeah I know Ian Fleming wrote the book, but Dahl wrote the screenplay.
Posted by Woebot at July 6, 2004 10:46 AM