760137521624

The World Turned Upside Down

Leon Rosselson

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: CFCD077

Release Date:  03 October 2011

Label:  Fuse

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  760137521624

Genres:  Folk  English Folk  

  • Description

    72 songs, 5 hours of music, covering 5 decades of high-powered songwriting from one of Britain's finest songwriters. Plus an 80 page booklet.

    Leon Rosselson has been at the forefront of songwriting in Britain for over 50 years. No other British songwriter has written so many finely-crafted songs over so many years, covering such diverse subjects and using such a variety of forms.

    The songs on this box set - from early sixties' songs like 'Tim McGuire' to the 2010 'Where Are the Barricades?' - range from the lyrical to the satirical, from the personal to the political, from the humorous to the poignant; from children's songs to love songs to pungent political comment.

    And because they have something to say about the times in which they were written, there are copious notes on the political and personal environments that formed them along with some pointed observations on the craft of songwriting.

    Among the host of accompanying musicians are Frankie Armstrong, Roy Bailey, Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy, Liz Mansfield, Fiz Shapur, Dave Swarbrick and the Oyster Band.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Conversation on a Mobile
      • 2. H-A-N-G-O
      • 3. Across the Hills
      • 4. Battle Hymn of the New Socialist Party
      • 5. Tim McGuire
      • 6. Stand Firm
      • 7. I Dreamed I Was Walking Alone
      • 8. Do You Remember?
      • 9. Coming Home to You
      • 10. Dead Men Never Die
      • 11. Flower Power = Bread
      • 12. Palaces of Gold
      • 13. Invisible Married Breakfast Blues
      • 14. She Was Crazy, He was Mad
      • 15. The Ugly Ones
      • 16. Why Does It Have To Be Me?
      • 17. Kangaroos Like to Hop
      • 18. Jumbo the Elephant
      • 19. Brass Band Music
      • 20. Topside Down Party

      Side 2

      • 1. The Ant & the Grasshopper
      • 2. One Two Three
      • 3. The Word Market
      • 4. Song of the Mother Xmas Union
      • 5. They're Going to Build a Motorway
      • 6. Plan
      • 7. The Man Who Puffs the Big Cigar
      • 8. Don't Get Married, Girls
      • 9. In the Park
      • 10. It Goes On
      • 11. We Sell Everything
      • 12. Let Your Hair Hang Down
      • 13. The World's Police
      • 14. On Her Silver Jubilee
      • 15. Perspectives
      • 16. Stand Up for Judas
      • 17. Whoever Invented the Fishfinger
      • 18. Abiezer Coppe
      • 19. The World Turned Upside Down Parts 1 & 2.

      Side 3

      • 1. Not Quite But Nearly
      • 2. Story Line
      • 3. Jackboot Democrats
      • 4. Who Reaps the Profits? Who Pays the Price?
      • 5. Flying High Flying Free
      • 6. It Wasn't Me I Didn't Do It
      • 7. Bringing the News from Nowhere
      • 8. Ballad of a Spycatcher
      • 9. Skin
      • 10. Susie
      • 11. I Heard It On the Radio
      • 12. Wo Sind Die Elefanten?
      • 13. Song of the Old Communist
      • 14. Whatever Happened to Nannerl?
      • 15. General Lockjaw Briefs the British Media
      • 16. Out of the Fire and Smoke of History
      • 17. The Voice that Lives Inside You

      Side 4

      • 1. Sing a Song to Please Us
      • 2. The Song of Martin Fontasch
      • 3. A Very Busy Man
      • 4. Harry's Gone Fishing
      • 5. It's Just the Song
      • 6. Money Matters
      • 7. The Ghost of Georges Brassens
      • 8. The Wall that Stands Between
      • 9. Like Love
      • 10. General Lockjaw Briefs the Troops (As Reported By a Sceptical Soldier)
      • 11. Postcards from Cuba
      • 12. Song of the Olive Tree
      • 13. My Father's Jewish World
      • 14. Where Are the Barricades?
      • 15. Talking Democracy Blues
      • 16. The Power of Song