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Back to the Story

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Released
  
1996 Re-released 2007

Artist
  
The Idle Race

Label
  
Regal Zonophone Records

Recorded
  
1968–1971

Release date
  
1996

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Producer
  
Eddie Offord & Gerald Chevin Jeff Lynne The Idle Race & Kenneth Young

Genres
  
Rock music, Psychedelic rock

Similar
  
The Birthday Party, Idle Race, Time Is, A Message from the Country, Looking On

Back to the Story is a compilation box set by sixties band The Idle Race. the box set contains all three official studio albums and non album singles and b-sides, released in 1996 on EMI's short-lived "Premier" series and the original CD featured the earliest known tracks featuring Jeff Lynne in The Nightriders it quickly went out of print. In 2007 the 2-CD set was re-released on EMI's newly reconstituted "Zonophone" label minus the Nightriders tracks.

Contents

Tracks

  • CD One

    • (The Birthday Party)

    1. The Skeleton And The Roundabout
    2. Happy Birthday
    3. The Birthday
    4. I Like My Toys
    5. Morning Sunshine
    6. Follow Me Follow
    7. Sitting In My Tree (mono)
    8. On With The Show
    9. Lucky Man
    10. (Don't Put Your Boys In The Army) Mrs. Ward
    11. Pie In The Sky
    12. The Lady who Said She Could Fly
    13. End Of The Road

    (Idle Race)

    1. Come With Me (rechanneled to simulate stereo)
    2. Sea Of Dreams
    3. Going Home
    4. Reminds Me Of You
    5. Mr. Crow and Sir Norman
    6. Please No More Sad Songs
    7. Girl At The Window
    8. Big Chief Woolley Bosher
    9. Someone Knocking
    10. A Better Life (The Weather Man Knows)
    11. Hurry Up John

    Alternative Versions

    1. Lucky Man (mono)
    2. Follow Me Follow (mono)
    3. Days Of Broken Arrows (mono)
  • CD Two

    • (Non-album Tracks)

    1. (Here We Go 'Round) The Lemon Tree (mono)
    2. My Father's Son (mono)
    3. Imposters Of Life's Magazine (mono)
    4. Knocking Nails Into My House (mono)
    5. Days Of The Broken Arrows (mono)
    6. Worn Red Carpet (mono)
    7. In The Summertime
    8. Told You Twice
    9. Neanderthal Man (rechanneled to simulate stereo)
    10. Victim Of Circumstance ((rechanneled to simulate stereo)

    (Time Is)

    1. Dancing Flower
    2. Sad O'Sad
    3. The Clock
    4. I Will See You
    5. By The Sun
    6. Alcatraz
    7. And The Rain
    8. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune
    9. Bitter Green
    10. We Want It All
  • 21. It's Only the Dog (mono)
  • 22. Your Friend (mono)
  • These last two tracks by The Nightriders appear only on the original 1996 release

    • Songs

    Skeleton and the Roundabout2:26
    Happy Birthday0:23
    The Birthday3:01

    References

    Back to the Story Wikipedia
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