Ivor Cutler "Ludo" LP Mono Orig Nr Mint Parlopnone
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Description
This album of songs (plus a couple of stories) was first released in 1967. That was the year Cutler appeared in the Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour as a dismal old Scot called Buster Bloodvessel. Ludo's producer was George Martin and the original record company EMI, indicating that the Beatles were trying to bring Cutler to a wider audience.
Some hope. This is connoisseur's stuff: nursery rhymes for sophisticated adults. The music is redolent of folk tunes and vaudeville ditties, and there is a hint of Weimar jazz when double-bassist Gill Lyons and percussionist Trevor Tomkins get going. Some of the words, and their delivery, are surprisingly jolly: "I'm preoccupied with the state of my face / I'm preoccupied with my nose / I'm preoccupied with my flim flam flim / Why, goodness knows"; "Who wants a suck of my thumb? / Me! Me! Me! / Who wants a suck of my thumb when I'm sailing on the sea."
The more characteristically mournful I'm Going in a Field ("I'm going in a field / To lie down") is all the more spinetingling for following a number called I'm Happy. This welcome reissue comes from Rev-Ola, a branch of the Creation Records comapny to which Oasis are signed. (Oasis will be delighted to be stablemates of a man who, like so much of theie music, has associans with the Beatles.)
Vinyl is Near Mint on the yellow parlophone label XEX 657 2 in run out Cat # PMC 7040 Mono pressing. Only very light sleeve wear no spindle trace on label. Outer is again n mint with only a little lifting to bottom flip back. Over all superb copy
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On 11-Feb-08 at 23:30:27 GMT, seller added the following information:Apologies this is the original Parlaphone issue not a re-issue as mistakenly stated in description. A Little confusing in the listing but it is genuine 1st press Parlaphone vinyl.
