Format Details:
Release Date: 12 January 2024
Label: Hanky Panky Records (Code 7)
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8435725601805
Format Details:
Release Date: 12 January 2024
Label: Hanky Panky Records (Code 7)
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8435725601805
Description
The first and only solo outing from Honeybus founder member Pete Dello is a highly regarded album by not only Honeybus fans and '60's-'70's collectors, but by anyone who has been lucky enough to fall into its magic spell. Though reissued several times, this is the first ever reissue to feature the original album's mix, on CD and as Thomas Walsh states in the liner notes, "it's a different musical animal altogether. Some of the songs feature alternate vocals, different instrumentation, different lead and harmony vocal melody lines, extra brass, no brass...all in all a revelation."
This special double CD edition contains a second disc with Hanky Panky's 2005 edition, that features the "reissues mix" of the album and 10 bonus tracks (rare singles sides and three originally unreleased recordings). The 20-page booklet includes two sets of liner notes: one based on a new interview with Pete Dello by Ivor Novello nominated songwriter Thomas Walsh (Pugwash) and another set by Andy Morten (Shindig!).
"A beautifully refreshing little album, if you like soft songs composed with a sense of humour, feeling for romance and old-fashioned charm... The tunes are almost all painfully simple; that's their beauty. An outstanding album that's been too long in coming" - Ray Coleman - Melody Maker, 1971
"It's a well-produced, arranged and thought-out album, and just about the direction everyone imagined McCartney would have gone as a solo artist" - Disc & Music Echo, 1971
Tracklisting
Alan Tyler
The Rockingbirds
Jack Nitzsche
The Beau Brummels
The Holy Mackerel
Haeffner, Nick
David Blue
The Dave Rave Group
The Chartists
John Martyn
Michael Chapman
Gryphon
Tim Heidecker
The Ukrainians
David Carrol
Alan Hull