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Released
  
February 1974 (UK)

Length
  
35:20

Artist
  
Stackridge

Producer
  
George Martin

Recorded
  
July - September 1973

The Man In The Bowler Hat (1974)
  
Extravaganza (1975)

Release date
  
1974

Label
  
Angel Air Records

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Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock

Similar
  
Friendliness, Mr Mick, A Victory for Common, Stackridge, Something for the Weekend

The Man In The Bowler Hat is the third album by the British rock group Stackridge. The album was produced by George Martin at AIR Studios, London and released in the UK by MCA Records. This was their highest charting album, peaking at number 23 in the UK Albums Chart.

Contents

A different version of the album was released by Sire Records in the US and Canada under the title Pinafore Days. The US album removed two songs and replaced them with two others (produced by Tony Ashton) from the UK version of the next Stackridge album Extravaganza. Although the front cover was the same, the jacket photos were changed to show the Extravaganza lineup. Pinafore Days was the only US chart entry for Stackridge, reaching number 191 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Stackridge fundamentally yours


Track listing

All songs credited to Andy Davis, Smegmakovitch except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Fundamentally Yours"
  2. "Pinafore Days "
  3. "The Last Plimsoll "
  4. "To the Sun and the Moon" (Mutter Slater, Peter Denman)
  5. "The Road to Venezuela"

Side two

  1. "The Galloping Gaucho"
  2. "Humiliation" (James Warren)
  3. "Dangerous Bacon" (Warren, Smegmakovitch)
  4. "The Indifferent Hedgehog" (Davis, Graham Smith)
  5. "God Speed the Plough" (Wabadaw Sleeve)

Track Listing: U.S. version "Pinafore Days", Sire Records SASD-7503

All songs credited to Andy Davis, Smegmakovitch except where noted.

  1. "Fundamentally Yours"
  2. "Pinafore Days"
  3. "The Last Plimsoll"
  4. "Spin 'Round The Room" (Rod Bowkett, Lucy Vernon)
  5. "The Road To Venezuela"
  6. "The Galloping Gaucho"
  7. "Humiliation" (Warren)
  8. "Dangerous Bacon" (Warren, Smegmakovitch)
  9. "One Rainy July Morning" (original title: "Highbury Incident (Rainy July Morning)") (Davis, Slater, Bowkett)
  10. "God Speed The Plough" (Sleeve)

Bonus tracks on the 1996 CD re-issue on Demon Records

  1. "Do the Stanley" (single) (Davis, Warren, Slater, Crun Walter)
  2. "C'est la Vie" (b-side) (Davis, Warren)
  3. "Let There Be Lids" (first released in the UK compilation album Do The Stanley) (traditional)

Personnel

  • Andy Cresswell-Davis - guitars, vocals, keyboards, percussion
  • James Warren - guitars, vocals
  • Michael 'Mutter' Slater - flute, vocals, keyboards, percussion
  • Mike Evans - violin, vocals
  • Jim "Crun" Walter - bass guitar
  • Billy Bent (aka Billy Sparkle) - drums
    • Additional personnel
  • Reg Leopold - violin
  • William Reid - violin
  • Graeme Scott - viola
  • Vivian Joseph - cello
  • Jack Emblow - accordion
  • Ray Davies - trumpet/cornet
  • Derek Taylor - french horn and solo on "To the Sun and the Moon"
  • B. Lamb - trombone
  • M. Fry - tuba
  • R. Chamberlain - clarinet/saxes
  • Andy Mackay - sax on "Dangerous Bacon"
    • Production
  • George Martin - production, orchestration and piano on "Humiliation" and "The Indifferent Hedgehog"

    • Other credits

  • Bill Price - engineering
  • John Kosh - cover design
  • John Swannell - cover photography
  • AIR London - studios
  • Big Ben Music/Christchurch Music - publishing

    • Songs

    1Fundamentally Yours
    2Pinafore Days
    3The Last Plimsoll

    References

    The Man in the Bowler Hat Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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