The
Fivepenny Piece Discography
Lanky
Spoken Here!
Various Artists
EMI
Note NTS 161
Release
Date: 1978
A
light-hearted "Lankyphone"
course in the Lancashire dialect or "Lanky",
written by leading Lanky expert Dave
Dutton. It was recorded in front of a live
audience at the Derby Room in Leigh
in the heart of central Lancashire, and featured
various artists from the Lancashire area including
The Fivepenny Piece. Much of the record
was spoken and illustrated the rich vein of
humour in the Lanky lingo, with the colourful
phrases "translated" into English
for the benefit of "foreigners"!
The
track listing below is from the album cover
and only lists the songs, which only form a
small part of the record. The rest consists
of the spoken sections, which are not listed
on the cover or label.
Side
1 includes
- Lanky
Spoken Here! - Gary & Vera Aspey
- Brewer's
Droop - Bob Williamson
- Saturday
Cowboys - The Fivepenny Piece
Interpolating 'The
Magnificent Seven' (Bernstein)
Side
2 includes
- Buggerlugs
Luvs Sugar Butty - Bernard Wrigley
- I'm
Powfagged - The Fivepenny Piece
- The
Heavy Breather - Bernard Wrigley
- Reprise:
Lanky Spoken Here! - Gary & Vera Aspey
and whole cast
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The
Lanky language course was interspersed with
songs, two of which were by The Fivepenny Piece.
The participants in the spoken bits included Lynda
Meeks, George Radcliffe and Eddie Crotty
of The Fivepenny Piece. Other
participants in the record were Gary & Vera
Aspey, who sang the title song; Bob Williamson,
Dave Dutton, Tony Melody, and future
5PP member Bernard Wrigley; and posh-voiced
former BBC TV newsreader Robert Dougall
who provided the English translations along with Sheila
Tracy.
Some
of the band's best-loved songs appeared on this album,
including the Northern humour of Where There's
Muck There's Brass, Affluence
and Hear All, See All, Say Nowt; the
lovely Watercolour Morning and Sail
Away, Tin Soldier Friend; and the thought-provoking
Old England - and of course the title
song. A
point to note is that the band's name was shown on
the front cover as Fivepenny Piece (not The
Fivepenny Piece), for the first time.
