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The Innes Book of Records

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Released
  
1979 (UK)

Artist
  
Neil Innes

Label
  
Polydor Records

The Innes Book of Records (1979)
  
Off the Record (1982)

Release date
  
1979

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop music

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Producer
  
Neil Innes & Steve James

Similar
  
Neil Innes albums, Rock music albums

The Innes Book of Records is the third solo album by Neil Innes and was released in 1979 to accompany the BBC television series of the same name. Each episode in the series was an anthology of short music videos featuring Innes and other performers. At the beginning of each episode, a short video showed a man in a spacesuit exploring a deserted house, finding a record player covered in cobwebs, sitting down, and listening to a record, beginning the first song and its accompanying video.

Contents

Allmusic's reviewer, Richie Unterberger described it as "imbued with the characteristic droll, wry wit and knack for pastiche of all manners of pop music that typify Innes' work", and noted that it veered "more to Ray Davies territory than comedy rock, though Innes isn't at all imitative of the Kinks.".

Track listing

All tracks written by Neil Innes

Side one

  1. "Here We Go Again" - 3:20
  2. "Montana Cafe" - 3:31
  3. "All In the Name of Love" - 3:43
  4. "Kenny and Liza" - 3:48
  5. "Amoeba Boogie" - 4:27

Side two

  1. "Theme" (instrumental) - 2:51
  2. "Human Race" - 4:30
  3. "Spontaneous" - 3:41
  4. "Love Is Getting Deeper" - 3:34
  5. "Etcetera" - 3:49

Personnel

  • Drums: Stuart Elliot, Peter Van Hooke
  • Bass: Bruce Lynch, Harvey Weston
  • Keyboards: Billy Livsey
  • Guitars: Brian Holloway, Richard Brunton, Mitch Dalton
  • Piano: Brian Lemon
  • Vocals: Sharon Campbell, Yvonne Keeley, Annie Kavanagh, Paul Travis, Kenny Dukayne, Gary Travers
  • Trumpets: Henry Lowther, Digby Fairweather, Martin Drover, Dave Spence
  • Trombones: John Mumford, Paul Nieman, Pete Strange
  • Saxophone: Bill Skeat, Randy Colville, Tommy Whittle, Keith Gemmell, Pat Kyle
  • Strings: Leader: Dick Studt (special thanks to Nigel Warren-Green)
  • Arrangements: John Altman
  • Songs

    1Here We Go Again3:17
    2Montana Café3:30
    3All in the Name of Love3:41

    References

    The Innes Book of Records Wikipedia