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Various Artists - Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Sound 1967-1974 [CD]

Artist: Various Artists
Release Date: 07/06/2024
Genre: Pop
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Packaging: Clamshell
Label: Grapefruit
EAN: 5013929191907

Description Track Listing Delivery & Returns

First-ever legitimate anthology of British toytown pop, a much-loved sub-genre among collectors.

Four-hour compilation with 87 tracks including hits, misses, rarities and previously unreleased material.

Issued at the start of 1967, Beatles’ single 'Penny Lane' coupled a widescreen production (bolstered by a phalanx of session musicians on brass and woodwind) with a mildly hallucinogenic lyric populated by mundane characters going about their unremarkable suburban lives.

It proved to be an enormously influential record. For the next year or two, British pop was awash with records that married quasi-classical arrangements with newly-minted fairy tales and character vignettes based around the grey everyday lives of ordinary small-town folk.

Many years later, this burst of English eccentricity came to be known in collector circles as toytown pop – a pseudo-genre that took in everything from Jeff Lynne's early band The Idle Race and Deram-era David Bowie to backroom auteurs like Mark Wirtz, whose ambitious ‘Teenage Opera’ project inspired the young Andrew Lloyd Webber, who provided similarly over-the-top arrangements for CBS hopefuls Cardboard Orchestra.

Featuring 87 excerpts from various pre-teenage operas, ‘Climb Aboard My Roundabout!’ is a 3CD celebration of the toytown pop experience. It includes contributions from the key players as well as many obscure delights and some huge rarities, including a hitherto-unreleased track from Wirtz's aborted ‘Teenage Opera’ project.

With four hours of music housed in a clamshell box featuring a lavish 48-page booklet, ‘Climb Aboard My Roundabout!’ is an invitation that very few late 60s pop aficionados will be able to resist.

Track Listing

THE SKELETON AND THE ROUNDABOUT (mono single mix) – The Idle Race
LAVENDER POPCORN - Scrugg
(HE'S OUR DEAR OLD) WEATHERMAN – Mark Wirtz
JENNY ARTICHOKE - Kaleidoscope
KNOCKING NAILS INTO MY HOUSE – Ambrose Slade
ZEBEDY ZAK – Cardboard Orchestra
CUDDLY TOY – Fruit Machine
MR. JOB - Jigsaw
FLORENCE - Tapestry
PHENOMENAL CAT – The Kinks
UNCLE ARTHUR – David Bowie
MR. MOODY'S GARDEN – Gilbert O'Sullivan
LITTLE LESLEY – The Alan Bown!
THE BITTER THOUGHTS OF LITTLE JANE - Timon
MUTINY – The Alan Bown!
EMILY SMALL (THE HUGE WORLD THEREOF) – The Picadilly Line
CELLOPHANE MARY JANE – Astronaut Alan and The Planets
UPTIGHT BASIL – Magic Valley
MAN IN THE TEAPOT - Fire
MR. KIPLING – Tuesday's Children
BANG BANG - Kidrock
MR. LIGHT – John Carter and Mickey Keen
IT'S THE BEST SEASIDE IN THE WORLD – Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon
TOYMAKER – Wild Silk
THE DUBIOUS CIRCUS COMPANY – Clifford T. Ward
AND NOW FOR A LITTLE TRAIN NUMBER – Kenny Everett
LANTERNLIGHT – Peter and The Wolves
ICE CREAM MAN (alternative version) - Kidrock
GLORIOUS HOUSE OF ARTHUR – Fairfield Parlour
LOVE AND THE BIG BRASS BAND – Dave Christie
LOLLIPOP MINDS – Wimple Winch
LAUGHING BOY FROM NOWHERE – Simon Dupree and The Big Sound
PICCOLO MAN - Friends
PETER'S BIRTHDAY (BLACK AND WHITE RAINBOWS) – World Of Oz
AUNTIE MARY'S DRESS SHOP - Tomorrow
UWE AUS DUISBERG – The Hi-Fis
HA! HA! SAID THE CLOWN – Tony Hazzard
THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
EINER KLEINER MISER MUSIK – Tony Rivers and The Castaways
SAD SIMON LIVES AGAIN – Tim Andrews
JAMES IN THE BASEMENT – Denis Couldry
THE HAPPY KING – Music Box
UNCLE JOE, THE ICE CREAM MAN – The Mindbenders
TALES OF FLOSSIE FILLETT - Turquoise
MRS DAISY – Tintern Abbey
PHOEBE'S FLOWER SHOP – The Cortinas
MY BEST FRIEND – The Picadilly Line
MRS MURPHY'S BUDGERIGAR – Blossom Toes
COPLINGTON – Persimmon's Peculiar Shades
HAPPINESS IS TOY-SHAPED – Harmony Grass
ANNIE'S PLACE – Gene Latter
COLOUR SERGEANT LILLYWHITE – West Coast Consortium
BIRMINGHAM BRASS BAND – The Bullring
GLASSHOUSE GREEN, SPLINTER RED – John Pantry
OUR FAIRY TALE – The Herd
WATCHMAKER – Persimmon's Peculiar Shades
HENRY EVERYDAY* - Timothy Blue
TEENAGE LOVE SONG - Hetherington
ROOM AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS – Timothy Blue
DEAR OLD MRS. BELL – The Shadows
EBANEEZER BEAVER (demo version) – The Mirage
AFTER TEA – Spencer Davis Group
MR. NICE GUY - Dragonmilk
FAIRY TALE (demo version) – The Next Collection
DREAM DREAM DREAM - Kidrock
MISTER WHITE'S WHITE FLYING MACHINE (album version) - Ayshea
BROTHER JACK – Barry Wigley
LEMON PIE FAIR - Complex
MAGIC SHOES (demo) – Fire
TRAFALGAR SQUARE – The Good Time Losers
UNCLE HENRY'S MAGIC GARDEN – David Matthews
KING OF THE CASTLE – Jason Crest
SADIE AND HER MAGIC MR. GALAHAD – The New Generation
BRIC-A-BRAC MAN – Bill Niles
THROUGH MY TELESCOPE – Marty Wilde
MARJORY DAW – Morning Glory
WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE* (full version) – Chas Mills and Mark Wirtz
TIME TO GO HOME – The Tots
THE LAST PERFORMANCE OF THE ROYAL REGIMENTAL VERY VICTORIOUS AND VALIANT BAND – The Syn
EVERYBODY LOVES THE CLOWN - Nirvana
THE SAD STORY OF SIMON AND HIS BUGLE* (correct version) – Mark Wirtz
RAINBOW ROCKING CHAIR – Majority One
SHARKEY - Christopher
EXCERPT FROM “A TEENAGE OPERA” - Keith West
POOR JOHNNY – The Secrets
FAIRGROUND – Pure Gold
TOY SOLDIER – The Riot Squad

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