Released 1970 Genre Pop | Release date 1970 Label Sanctuary Records | |
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Producer Bill Martin & Phil Coulter | ||
The World Beaters Sing The World Beaters is an album by the 1970 England World Cup squad created as a spin-off to the success of the song Back Home. The album featuring songs such as a recording of "Sugar Sugar" by Bobby Moore and Francis Lee. The album was issued by Pye with a football shaped sleeve, and reached the UK top 5. The album was arranged by Phil Coulter and produced by Coulter and Bill Martin. Aside from the single "Back Home" and B-side "Cinnamon Stick", the album featured a third original Martin-Coulter composition "Glory-O", which was re-recorded two years later by a marching band directed by Martin and Coulter as the B-side of the songwriter's Philips single of the Munich 1972 Summer Olympics fanfare composed by Herbert Rehbein.
Contents
Reissues
Moore's contributions were reissued on Forever Blowing Bubbles a 1997 compilation album by West Ham United FC and supporters. The track listing includes:
- West Ham United — Boleyn Boys with the 1975 FA Cup Final West Ham United squad
- Oh Sweet England — Moore, Hurst & Peters with the 1975 FA Cup Final West Ham United squad
- Sugar Sugar - Bobby Moore & Friends
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Cockney Rejects
- West Side Boys — Cockney Rejects
- Viva Bobby Moore - The Business
- Bobby Moore Was Innocent - Serious Drinking
- Leroys Boots - Barmy Army
- Devo — Barmy Army
- Blunted Irons — United Nations
- Billy Bonds MBE — Barmy Army
- Come on You Irons - Rainbow's Quest
- Bobby Moore's legs — Barmy Army
- Up the Hammers — Alf's Army
- Over Land & Sea - Chicken Iron
- Terminator - Flat Back Four
Songs
1Back Home2:09
2Sugar Sugar2:36
3Lovey Dovey2:55