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Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs

Peter Bellamy: Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs (Dambuster DAM 019)

Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
Peter Bellamy

Dambuster Records DAM 019 (LP, UK, 1989)

Recorded by Nigel Schofield;
Cover design by Peter Bellamy, based on a woodcut which appeared on the cover of The Bookman magazine in January 1903.

Musicians

Peter Bellamy: vocals [1-14], concertina [1, 3, 6];
Jamie O’Dwyer: fiddle [1, 6, 9, 11];
Sharon and the Students (Maggie Adam, Neil Adam, Anthea Bellamy, Peter Bellamy, Jim Ellison, Joel Griffiths, Lynda Hardcastle, Helen Hockenhull, Mike Hockenhull, Alan Rose and John Wade): harmony vocals [14];
Jim Ellison: vocals [7, 13]

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Back to the Army Again (1894) (4.46)
  2. Big Steamers (1911) (2.27)
  3. Gethsemane (1919) (1.54)
  4. The Prodigal Son (1901) (2.20)
  5. The Roman Centurion’s Song (1911) (3.43)
  6. We Have Fed Our Sea (1896) (3.23)

Side 2

  1. The Dutch in the Medway (1911) (2.30)
  2. A Song to Mithras (1906) (2.03)
  3. En-Dor (1919) (2.50)
  4. Heriot’s Ford (1891) (2.08)
  5. The Anvil (1911) (1.02)
  6. The Wet Litany (1904) (2.41)
  7. Thorkild’s Song (1906) (2.05)
  8. Recessional (1897) (2.42)

All tracks words Rudyard Kipling, music Peter Bellamy

Tracks 1 and 14 were included in 1999 on Wake the Vaulted Echoes

Notes

Michael Grosvenor Myer noted on Mudcat in 2013:

It should be pointed out for such abroad etc. who might not get the reference, that the title of that album was a play on a well-known UK advertising slogan of the time for Mr Kipling’s Cakes, “Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes”: a slogan obviously expressed in faux-simple terms to give a period feel back to the great days of Empire, of which the brand name itself was presumably supposed also to be redolent.