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The Fivepenny Piece | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Gold Imports
• ASIN: B000F2C8BW
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,015 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Welcome Addition, April 27, 2007

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Stuart Williamson (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finest Collection (Audio CD)

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.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Folk music from Lancashire, May 31, 2011

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finest Collection (Audio CD)

I was surprised to learn that the Fivepenny Piece never became full time professionals, all of them maintaining their day jobs. This makes their success all the more remarkable. While their music was rooted in folk, specifically in the area of Lancashire from which they came, they did not stick rigidly within that genre and dedicated folk fans didn't always appreciate their music, especially as they recorded plenty of comedic material.

At the serious end of their repertoire, King Cotton reminds us of how the Lancashire cotton weaving industry grew, flourished and declined. However, many of their songs are more light-hearted, as exemplified in such songs as Hear all say all say nowt, Paddle your own canoe, Fred Fanackapan, Big Jim, Ee by gum and Weight watchers.

This compilation contains several tracks that were also included on what I think is the only previous CD release of their music, but those were among their mo0st popular tracks. One day, maybe we'll get a lot more of their music on CD, but I won't hold my breath.