Help: Winchester Cathedral you're bringin' me

Subject: Winchester Cathedral you're bringin' me
From: GUEST,Mike Bunce
Date: 19 May 00 - 06:34 AM

Any ideas who recorded Winchester Cathedral, you're bringing me down - was it the Bonzo Dog Do Da Band? Thanks

Subject: RE: Help: Winchester Cathedral you're bringin' me
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 19 May 00 - 06:43 AM

New Vaudeville Band ( I suspect a studio line-up of session men, fronted by a personable singer for tv appearances)
RtS

Subject: RE: Help: Winchester Cathedral you're bringin' me
From: AndyG
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:16 AM

Close ;)

Here's the quote from the Bonzo Dog Web Site
(webmaster = my boss!)

In late 1966 Geoff Stephens offered them [the BDB] the job of being the New Vaudeville Band following the success of Winchester Cathedral, recorded by session musicians. Only Bob Kerr wanted to do it and he left the Bonzos, later forming Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band which still [1994] carries on the early Bonzo tradition. Subsequent comments such as "you're just like the New Vaudeville Band" pushed the Bonzos towards rock music.

AndyG

Subject: RE: Help: Winchester Cathedral you're bringin' me
From: Homeless
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:27 AM

I don't know who originally recorded it (it appears that question has been answered anyway) but it has been recorded by a number of artists since. If you go here allmusic you'll find a list of albums it has appeared on.