BOTH SIDES OF FIVEPENNY PIECE

Release Date: April 1978

Running Time:  43 minutes

The ninth album for EMI would be business as usual with the mix of comic and serious songs.  The jaunty 'Rainbow' opens the album whilst a lovely ballad 'You Had Been This Way Before' takes us into a reflective tone.  'City Of Manchester' remains a wonderful homage to the Northern industrial and cultural  hub and Bernard Wrigley's touching 'Molly Kershaw' is very safe in Fivepenny hands.  'Weight Watchers' leads the lanky comic assault which is further strengthened by Eddie Crotty's 'Fishin' and a setting of Stanley Ashton's 'Ow Do, Ow Are You?'  This is the third and final EMI LP to have an inner sleeve with lyrics printed on it. 

Producer: FIVEPENNY PIECE

Drummer:  Phil Barlow

Sound engineer:  Peter Tattersall

Musical arrangements:  Harry Robinson

Cassette Version TC EMC 3234

Side 1

1. Rainbow (J. Meeks / C. Radcliffe)
2. You Had Been This Way Before (J. Meeks / C. Radcliffe)
3. Can’t See The Wood For The Trees (J. Meeks / C. Radcliffe)
4. Yellow Faded Pages (J. Meeks / C. Radcliffe)
5. General On A Rocking Horse (J. Meeks / C. Radcliffe)
6. City Of Manchester (J. Meeks / C. Radcliffe)

Side 2

1. Weightwatchers (J. Meeks / C. Radcliffe)