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Thread #42843   Message #627848
Posted By: alanabit
14-Jan-02 - 03:39 PM
Thread Name: Works of Miles Wootton
Subject: RE: Works of Miles Wootton ?sp
You are right Bald Eagle. In fact, I think Wedlock credited it correctly on his album "Frolics", which I owned back in the seventies. Isn't "The Oldest Swinger in Town" an Ed Pickford song? Fred Wedlock also did the brilliant Keith Christmas (wonder what his real name was) song called "Robin Head". I can't recall many of FW's own creations, although the update of the "Wraggle Taggle Gypsies" as "The Hippies and The Hairies" was a hoot. He may have written that one himself, although if he did not, we can be sure that some other Mudcatter will soon put me right! In Fred's defence, I will say that I thought he was a mesmeric performer on the two occasions when I saw him play live. Many brilliant writers don't have that gift for putting it over. I still live in hope of seeing Miles Wootton play live one day.