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The
Fivepenny Piece Discography
The Fivepenny Piece Collection
The Fivepenny Piece
EMI
Gold 3629292
Release
Date: 1st May 2006
This
was the first truly new The Fivepenny Piece CD
released by EMI since the early 1990s.
The Fivepenny Piece Collection
is a compilation album, and contains many favourite tracks as well as a
few rarities not previously issued on CD. Old
familiar favourites like Ee By Gum and
Big Jim are there, but so are the bouncy
Hang The Flag Out Mrs Jones, which the
group sang on and won Granada TV's New Faces
back in 1969; the beautiful love song Look
Into My Eyes; and the old Lancashire music
hall song The Ashton Mashers - all on
CD for the very first time. For more information,
see the EMI press release.
Fans will recognise
the sleeve as the same as the 1973 album Songs
We Like To Sing.
- Hang The Flag Out Mrs Jones
- The Ashton Mashers
- The Passing Of Today
- Hear All, See All, Say Nowt
- Mi Gronny / Brown Photographs
- Spanish Holidays
- King Cotton
- Paddle Your Own Canoe
- Miss Nightingale
- The Diddlers Three
- Mountain Climber
- Wish You Were Here
- Look Into My Eyes
- Fred Fannakapan
- Brown Photographs
- Big Jim
- Winter Sun
- Old Tom The Weaver
- Saturday Cowboys (interpolating The Magnificent
Seven)
- Ee By Gum
- Watercolour Morning
- Weight Watchers
- Old England / Brown Photographs
The
Fivepenny Piece Collection is
no longer available direct from the band - however Amazon do have limited stock of the The Fivepenny Piece Collection on CD for sale, and it is also available as MP3 Download from Amazon and iTunes. |
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EMI
Press Release (2006)
"Lancashire’s
legendary band The Fivepenny Piece have a new
album out, featuring many of their best loved songs
from their 1970s EMI albums, including many previously
unissued on CD.
One of the best known groups in the country during
the 1970s, they had their own BBC TV series, made
13 albums and several singles for EMI, and reached
the Top 10 with their album King Cotton.
The group was formed in the late 1960s by brother
and sister John Meeks (guitar and vocals) and
Lynda Meeks (vocals); brothers George Radcliffe
(bass) and Colin Radcliffe (guitar); and Eddie
Crotty (guitar and vocals). They all hailed from
the Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne area of south-east
Lancashire, and many of their songs reflected their
roots, with its hardships and humour in equal measure.
But their music wasn’t all about Lancashire by any
means, as this collection shows.
The group’s repertoire was mostly self-penned, with
John and Colin forming one of the great unsung songwriting
partnerships of all time. Eddie Crotty’s contribution
- mainly in the Lancashire idiom - shouldn’t be overlooked,
and Colin’s superb bass-playing and Lynda’s fabulous
voice all take credit for the group’s appeal, which
spread far outside their native county: in the USA,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand - even in Yorkshire!"
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