Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson - Hokey Pokey
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Artist: Linda Thompson, Richard ThompsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Music Label: Ume Imports
Soundtracks:
- Hokey Pokey Song (The Ice Cream Song)
- I'll Regret It All In The Morning
- Smiffy's Glass Eye
- Egypt Room
- Never Again
- Georgie On A Spree
- Old Man Inside A Young Man
- Sun Never Shines On The Poor
- Heart Needs A Home
- Mole In A Hole
- Wishing (Bbc Session) (Bonus Track)
- I'm Turning Off A Memory (Bbc Session) (Bonus Track)
- Heart Needs A Home (Bbc Session) (Bonus Track)
- Hokey Pokey (Live) (Bonus Track)
- It'll Be Me (Live) (Bonus Track)
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Free Music Review: This is *really* what it's all about...
Hit: 5 Stars
...not sticking your leg in and shaking it all about, thank you. A little historical perspective: "Hokey Pokey" here, subtitled "The Ice Cream Song," refers to a bastardised version of the Italian for "Ice cream--I have some," a frequent cry of ice cream sellers on the streets of New York City and elsewhere early in the 20th Century. Trust Richard Thompson to come up with the most double entendre-laden song to ever come from something so innocent!
This, the second album Richard and Linda made together (from a total of six), tends to get rather short shrift in Thompson's catalogue--more's the pity, as this is quite a fine album. Linda's vocals are as good as ever, and she sings lead on more than half of the tracks here. Aly Bain's fiddle drives the title cut along with some searing leads from RT, and Richard's darkly humourous (and sometimes just plain dark) lyrics take quite the twist here--note the punning "turn a blind eye" lyric in "Smiffy's Glass Eye," which is about a young boy who is the perennial school bully's victim for having a prosthetic orb; or his rather backhanded paean to whiskey in "I'll Regret it All in the Morning." And how about his ode to the many kinds of poverty in "The Sun Never Shines on the Poor"?
Of the original 10 tracks, there is but one cover, the wryly humourous closer "Mole in a Hole," written by Mike Waterson. Then we come to the five bonus tracks included on the remaster; of these, three are covers, the best being Merle Haggard's "I'm Turning Off a Memory" (to whose drinking-to-forget lyrics Linda does full justice--one might be tempted to say she missed her calling by not making a career singing country music, but then when was the last time you heard of a British C&W singer?) and the rollicking "It'll Be Me." This is unquestionably a must-have.
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2004 remastered reissue of 1975 album features 15 tracks including 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks, 'Wishing' (BBC John Peel Session), 'I'm Turning Off A Memory' (BBC John Peel Session), 'A Heart Needs A Home' (BBC John Peel Session), 'Hokey Pokey' (Live at The Roundhouse), & 'It'll Be Me' (Live at Oxford). Enhanced packaging includes full lyrics & sleeve notes in a slipcase. Universal.Classic Rock Music CDs
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