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Guess What They’re Selling at the Happiness Counter

Leon Rosselson: Guess What They’re Selling at the Happiness Counter (Fuse CFCD003)

Guess What They’re Selling at the Happiness Counter
Leon Rosselson

Fuse Records CFCD003 (Compilation CD, UK, 1992)

Musicians

Leon Rosselson: vocals [1-10, 13-19], guitar [1, 3-4, 7-8, 11, 13-14, 16, 18];
Howard Evans: trumpet [2];
Fiz Shapur: French horn [2, 7, 17], keyboards [6, 9, 16], piano [10, 12, 17];
Roger Williams: trombone [2];
Steve King: synthesiser [2, 5];
Roy Bailey: vocals [3, 7, 12, 17, 19];
Martin Carthy: backing vocals [3, 7], chorus [14], guitar [1, 4-5, 7, 11, 13-15], jew’s harp [3];
Sue Harris: hammered dulcimer [3];
John Kirkpatrick: button accordion [3, 8, 19];
Sandra Kerr: concertina [14], whistle [14], chorus [14];
Liz Mansfield: vocals [15];
Frankie Armstrong: vocals [19]

Tracks

  1. Hugga Mugga Chugga Lugga Humbugga Boom Chit (2.47)
  2. Story Line (4.20)
  3. Barney’s Epic Homer (6.18)
  4. Boys Will Be Boys (2.29)
  5. My Daughter, My Son (2.42)
  6. Do You Remember? (2.35)
  7. Abiezer Coppe (5.24)
  8. On Her Silver Jubilee (6.09)
  9. The Ugly Ones (3.45)
  10. Susie (7.41)
  11. Invisible Married Breakfast Blues (2.00)
  12. The Years Grow Tall (3.24)
  13. The Invisible Man (3.21)
  14. Pills (3.12)
  15. Across the Hills (2.08)
  16. Battle Hymn of the New Socialist Party (3.05)
  17. The World’s Police (4.25)
  18. Voices (3.20)
  19. The Voice That Lives Inside You (3.33)

All words by Leon Rosselson
#1*, 6, 13* first released on The Word is Hugga Mugga Chugga Lugga Humbugga Boom Chit, Trailer LER 3015
#9, 16* first released on Palaces of Gold, Acorn CF 249
#7, 11* first released on Love, Loneliness, Laundry, Fuse CF 271
#3, 8, 15*, 17 first released on If I Knew Who the Enemy Was …, Fuse CF 284
#4 first released on For the Good of the Nation, Fuse CF 381
#2, 5, 14 first released on Temporary Loss of Vision, Fuse CF 384
#18 first released on Bringing the News From Nowhere, Fuse CF 390
#10, 12, 19 first released on I Didn’t Mean It, Fuse CF 392
Tracks marked * are re-recordings.