> Folk Music > Records > Vivian Stanshall: Teddy Boys Don’t Knit
Vivian Stanshall: Teddy Boys Don’t Knit
Teddy Boys Don’t Knit Charisma Records CAS 1153 (LP, UK, 1981) |
Produced by Malcolm Brown,
ecorded by Martyn Webster at Morgan Studios, Willesden Green, London in April 1981;
Musicians
Vivian Stanshall: vocals [1, 5],
baconium [1, 6],
banjo [2],
mandolele [2, 6, 8, 10],
slit-drums [2],
banjolele [3, 7, 11, 13],
recorder [3],
euphonium [4, 12],
jew’s harp [6, 13],
tuba [6, 10-11],
kazoo [7],
Great Bean [9],
talking-drum [9],
rhythm guitar [9],
Chelonian pipes [10],
piano [11],
bass harmonica [13],
tamtam [15];
Malcolm Brown: effects collage [2],
teeth [3];
Jim Cuomo: soprano sax [1, 4, 6, 16],
tenor sax [1, 9],
recorder [2, 5, 10, 14],
clarinet [2, 7, 10-11, 14-15],
piano [2, 4, 9, 12-13];
Rosco Gee: bass [1-7, 9-16];
Ollie Halsall: guitar [1, 5, 7, 11, 14, 16],
vibraphone [5];
‘Admiral’ John Halsey: drums [1-3, 5-7],
finger-cymbals [2],
brushes [4];
Neil Innes: piano [1, 3, 7, 11, 16];
John Kirkpatrick: concertina [3, 6, 8, 11, 13],
melodeon [7];
Lennox Langton: steel drums [5];
Chris Lycett: bicycle [11];
Pete Moss: electric piano [1, 5],
fiddle [2, 13],
accordion [2],
marimba [5],
double bass [8],
flageolet [10],
tambourine [10],
glockenspiel [10],
guitar [10],
melodica [12],
steel guitar [13],
triangle [14];
Roger Ruskin-Spears: xylophone [6],
cornet [6],
tenor sax solo [9];
Andrew Sheehan: clogs [2];
Charmaine Sheehan: chanteuse [5];
Rupert Stanshall: narrator [10];
Silky Cyme Longfellow-Stanshall: The Tube [6];
Richard Thompson: Spanish guitar [4],
guitar [6, 12, 15],
lead guitar [9],
acoustic guitar [13];
Rick Wakeman: piano [15]
Tracks
- King Kripple (2.52)
- Slave Valse (4.38)
- Gums (2.06)
- Bewilderbeeste (2.57)
- Calypso to Colapso (3.00)
- The Tube (3.26)
- Ginger Geezer (3.04)
- The Cracks Are Showing (0.46)
- Flung a Dummy (3.10)
- Possibly an Armchair (and Embodying) Fresh Faced Boys (5.16)
- Terry Keeps His Clips On (3.34)
- Bass Macaw and Broken Bottles (2.55)
- Nose Hymn (2.21)
- Everyday, I Have the Blows (5.01)
- Smoke Signals at Night (3.12)
- Nouveau Riffe (3.33)
All tracks written and arranged by Vivian Stanshall