The Man in the Bowler Hat (album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Man In The Bowler Hat
Type = Album
Artist = Stackridge

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Released = February 1974 (UK)
Recorded = July - September 1973
Genre = Rock
Length = 35:20
Label = MCA Records,
Demon Records,
(CD re-issue)
Angel Air,
(CD re-issue)
Producer = George Martin
Chronology = Stackridge
Last album = "Friendliness"
(1972)
This album = "The Man In The Bowler Hat"
(1974)
Next album = "Extravaganza"
(1975)

"The Man In The Bowler Hat" is the third album by the British rock group Stackridge. The album was produced by George Martin at AIR Studios, London and released in the UK by MCA Records. This was their highest charting album, peaking at number 23 in the UK Albums Chart.

A different version of the album was released by Sire Records in the U.S. and Canada under the title "Pinafore Days". The U.S album removed 2 songs and replaced them with 2 others (produced by Tony Ashton) from the UK version of the next Stackridge album "Extravaganza". "Pinafore Days" was the only U.S. chart entry for Stackridge, reaching number 191 on the Billboard albums chart.

Track listing

All songs credited to Davis-Smegmakovitch [a collective name for Crun Walter, James Warren and Mutter Slater [http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R10R7SLNYNWX8W?ASIN=B000KN99G8] ] except where noted.

ide one

#Fundamentally Yours
#Pinafore Days
#The Last Plimsoul
#To The Sun And The Moon (Slater - Denman)
#The Road To Venezuela

ide two

#The Galloping Gaucho
#Humiliation (Warren)
#Dangerous Bacon (Warren - Smegmakovitch)
#The Indifferent Hedgehog (Davis)
#God Speed The Plough (Wabadaw Sleeve) [a pseudonym for the whole group [http://www.stackridge.net/press.htm] , being an anagram of the first two letters of the members' surnames]

Track Listing: U.S. version "Pinafore Days", Sire Records SASD-7053

#Fundamentally Yours
#Pinafore Days
#The Last Plimsoul
#Spin 'Round The Room
#The Road To Venezuela
#The Galloping Gaucho
#Humiliation
#Dangerous Bacon
#One Rainy July Morning (original title: "Highbury Incident (Rainy July Morning)")
#God Speed The Plough

Bonus tracks on the 1996 CD re-issue on Demon Records

#Do The Stanley (single)
#C'est La Vie (b-side)
#Let There Be Lids (first released in the UK compilation album Do The Stanley)

Personnel

*Andy Cresswell-Davis - guitars, keyboards, percussion, singing
*Mike "Mutter" Slater - flute, keyboards, percussion, singing
*Mike Evans - violin, singing
*Billy Bent (aka Billy Sparkle) - drums
*James Warren - guitars, singing
*Jim "Crun" Walter - bass guitar
*George Martin - Production, orchestration and piano on "Humiliation" & "The Indifferent Hedgehog"
*Reg Leopold - violinstring quartet on "Humiliation"]
*William Reid - violin
*Graeme Scott - viola
*Vivian Joseph - cello
*Jack Emblow - Accordianon "Galloping Gaucho"]
*Ray Davies - Trumpet/Cornet
*Derek Taylor - French Horn and solo on "To the Sun and the Moon"
*B. Lamb - Trombone
*M. Fry - Tuba
*R. Chamberlain - Clarinet/saxes

Other credits

*Bill Price - Engineering
*John Kosh - Cover Design
*John Swannell - Cover photography
*AIR London - Studios
*Big Ben Music/Christchurch Music - Publishing

References