The
Fivepenny Piece Discography
Makin'
Tracks
The Fivepenny Piece
Columbia
SCX 6536
Release
Date: 1973
The
second The Fivepenny Piece album, like
the first, contained a mixture of different
styles, but this time the humorous and nostalgic
Lancashire songs (such as A Gradely Prayer,
Home Made Brew and I'm Henpecked)
were interspersed with the "pop" or "contemporary
folk" oriented numbers. The band were gaining
in popularity across the country, partly thanks
to their TV appearances, and this LP managed
the lower reaches of UK Top 40 pop album charts
- quite an achievement!
Side
1
- Lou-Lay-Lye
- Land
Of The Musical Telephone
- Winter
Sun
- Home
Made Brew
- Emerald
Dew
- The
Old Tyrant
- He
Willy Nilly
- The
Journeys Of My Mind
Side
2
- The
Time Is Now
-
Gradely Prayer
- The
Passing Of Today
- he
Day Of The Rain
- I'm
Henpecked
- Rembrandt
- See-Saw
Song
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The
album cover shows the band posing next to a steam
locomotive at the Dinting Railway Centre, Glossop,
a former museum devoted to the preservation of old
railway engines and equipment. The centre closed in
1990 and the stock relocated to the Keighley &
Worth Valley Railway in Yorkshire.
For
those interested, the loco shown in the picture is
the 1935-built 5XP "Jubilee" Class 4-6-0
Bahamas no. 5596, in its pre-war LMS livery.
It served BR until 1966 and it was saved from scrap
in 1967 by enthusiasts who set up the Dinting Railway
Museum to preserve it. If you want to know any more
about the loco, have a look at the websites of the
Bahamas
Locomotive Society and UK
Heritage Railways.
