Give
Me England!
The Wurzels
EMI
Note NTS 138
Release
Date: December 1977
An
album of studio recordings issued in late 1977 containing
some interesting tracks including The Wurzels' last
big hit single Farmer Bill's Cowman and Tommy
Banner's autobiographical Haggis Farewell.
The title track was the Original Theme from the Columbia
Film Confessions from a Holiday Camp. Sadly
the film (which was part of a series of Confessions
films all starring Robin Askwith) was so much of a flop
that the follow-up was cancelled - no reflection on
The Wurzels input, of course!
Band
line-up: Tommy
Banner
(piano, organ, accordion, vocals),
Tony
Baylis (bass, bass guitar, sousaphone
and vocals) and Pete Budd (banjo,
guitar and vocals).
Producer:
Bob Barrett
Recording Engineers: David B. Charles (Rockfield), David
Hamilton Smith (Olympic) and Dick Plant
(The Music Centre)
Mastered at
EMI's Abbey Road Studios
Side
1
- Give Me England! (Welsh, Barratt)
- Willie Friese-Greene (Christie)
- Sally-Army Teacher (Taylor)
- Tremble On (Cook)
- The Mixer Man's Lament (Cutler)
- Speedy Gonzales (Kaye, Hill, Lee; new lyrics The Wurzels)
Side
2
- Farmer Jonesie's Travellin' Disco Show (Moody)
- Sousaphone Sam (Bentley, Orchard, Shaw)
- The Jubilee Day (Banner, Baylis, Budd, De Sylva)
- Hey, Come With Me (Baylis)
- Nellie The Bionic Cow (Baylis, Budd)
- Haggis Farewell (Banner)
- Farmer Bill's Cowman [I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman]
(Greenaway, Cook; special lyrics: Banner, Baylis,
Budd, Barratt)
Singles
One
For The Bristol City was released
not long after the Give Me England! single,
but was not included on the album. The b-side Cheddar
Cheese was originally on the 1975 The Wurzels
Are Scrumptious! album.

Album
sleeve artwork
for the cassette release |

Album
sleeve artwork

Reverse
of album sleeve artwork

Side 1 of the album

Side
2 of the album
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