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Fivepenny Piece
Finest Collection
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Hang The Flag Out Mrs. Jones
2. Ashton Mashers
3. Passing Of To-Day
4. Hear All See All Say Nowt
5. Mi Gronny (Including Brown Photographs) (Medley)
6. Spanish Holiday
7. King Cotton
8. Paddle Your Own Canoe
9. Miss Nightingale
10. Diddlers Three
11. Mountain Climber
12. Wish You Were Here
13. Look Into My Eyes
14. Fred FAnnakapan
15. Brown Photographs
16. Big Jim
17. Winter Sun
18. Old Tom The Weaver
19. Saturday Cowboys Interpolating The Magnificent Seven
20. Ee By Gum
21. Watercolour Morning
22. Weight Watchers
23. Old England (Including Brown Photographs) (Medley)

CD Details

All Artists: Fivepenny Piece
Title: Finest Collection
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Gold Imports
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 5/21/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 094636292922, 094636292953

Synopsis

Album Description

The Fivepenny Piece became one of the best known groups in the country during the 1970s, with records in the charts, their own BBC TV series, and an appeal far wider than their native north-west.The group won the national TV talent show New Faces. As well as their own series, they guested on many other prime-time shows, including a residency on Esther Rantzen's That's Life. Their second LP Makin' Tracks made the Top 40 album charts - a remarkable achievement for a group of part-timers - and the album King Cotton reached the Top 10 in 1976.Their knack for original lyrics and strong melodies is evident throughout this collection, which only scratches the surface of the band's huge output for EMI during the 1970s - thirteen albums in all. This collection features 23 track of the bands favorites and hit classics. EMI. 2006.

CD Reviews

A Welcome Addition

Stuart Williamson | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 04/27/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It is heart warming that EMI have chosen to issue another Fivepenny Piece CD. On the downside, and no criticism of the group, eight of the 23 tracks are repeats from the earlier "Very Best of..." CD, while the title Brown Photographs, in one form or another, appears 3 times in this Collection. Still, it's all great. Buy both releases. You will certainly enjoy them but, for those who know, this is only a taste, a tease as it were, of the material that should be available. It is high time EMI offered the entire collected works of The Fivepenny Piece on CD as an anthology boxed set - everything from the early LP's, the two "On Stage" performances from the Broadoak, onto the later classic King Cotton and more. Through song and poem, these recordings not only entertain but recall the habits, the happiness, the hardships and importantly the humour of life throughout the industrial North, especially Lancashire, while Britain transformed from ruling an Empire to more modern times. Far too good to be left gathering dust in the recording vaults of EMI."