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Thread #47017   Message #1089128
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
08-Jan-04 - 09:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Major General Worthington (Ted Waite)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Major General Worthington
The CD that Countess Richard refers to is "Barry Dransfield" on Spinney Records No Y003CD and the contact advertised on the back cover is 7 Sandra Court, Spencer Road, Chiswick, London W4 3SU (at least as of 2002), run by (I think) Paul Lambden. It really is a brilliant album, criminally under-promoted at the time of release because Polydor had decided folk was finished. And now of course the masters have been lost.

Re Worthington, liner note sez: "General Worthington is a song learned from Barry's father and was an old music hall advert. In the days before electronic recording was widely available, adverts were performed live in the theatre and this song dates from that time."