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This Old Skin

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Released
  
December 2004 (UK)

Genre
  
Format
  
CD single

Writer(s)
  
Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray

"This Old Skin"(2004)
  
"This Will Be Our Year"(2005)

"This Old Skin" is a song by The Beautiful South which appeared on their 2004 covers album, Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs, and was the second single released from the album. It was purportedly written by Bobby Cristiansand and Barry Klein of the band The Heppelbaums, supposedly appearing on their album Hunt For The White Nightingale. In fact, it was written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray of the Beautiful South. When performed live, the song was accompanied by a pastiche of a 1970s music documentary, with The Beautiful South appearing as The Heppelbaums.

Contents

The song appeared on the UK charts for 2 weeks, entering at #63 on 18 December 2004 and peaked at #43 the following week.

The Beautiful South single comprised two CDs with the following tracks:

CD1

  1. "This Old Skin" (3:55)
  2. "Lipstick Traces" (3:18)

CD2

  1. "This Old Skin" (3:55)
  2. "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (4:03)
  3. "Livin' Thing" (Video) (3:13)

References

This Old Skin Wikipedia


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