I'LL BE STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU / FLAMINGO

Release Date: 30 October 1978

Having established themselves as an ‘album band’, it was another two years before EMI trusted the band with a single release.

1978 also saw The Fivepenny Piece demoted from the flagship EMI label onto the lower-profile Columbia label, and one can presume that this would also have meant less label support for the releases. This was the first release on the Columbia label; two songs written from outside the band with a new producer at the desk.

And it was a strange choice of single – I’ll Be Still In Love With You had been a B-side on the 1975 Gene Pitney single Train Of Thought – but obviously EMI saw something in it. In an interview for Louder Than War website, songwriter Tony Hazzard said of the song: “There is a very old song called “Silver Threads Among the Gold” about a couple growing old (sings an excerpt of said tune) which was written in the 1800’s which inspired my song “I’ll Be Still In Love With You”.

Side 1

1. I’ll Be Still In Love With You (Tony Hazzard)
   

Side 2

1. Flamingo (S. Elson – D. Stephenson)
   

Arranged by Don Gould; produced by Keith Rossiter for ERM International.