Ltd 300only GLAD TO BE GAY Tom Robinson 1975

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BTRADFORD GAY LIBERATION FRONT E.P. 1975

This EP is very rare and was Ltd only to around 2-300 copies &

published in 1975 on the CHEBEL RECORDS label

ex /ex - full gloss - light bagging - heavy pressing - nice and flat

A-side matrix - SRT CUS + 015 A     B-side matrix - SRT CUS + 015 + B

Tom Robinson sings on this E.P. but the song 'GLAD TO BE GAY' is NOT the 1977

hit record 'Sing if you're glad to be gay" it is and entirely different and earlier song

side 1)

[i] Glad to be Gay (by Tom*, Rose & Annie) [ Tom* is Tom Robinson.]

[ii] The Gay Switchboard Jingle  (Tom Robinson)

side 2)  

[i] Schizophrenia ( Acoustic guitar Rose ? / Annie ?)  [ii]  Stand Together  (Tom, Rose & Annie*)

Chebel Records SRI /CUS 015  (45 rpm E.P. ) ~ Published by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, Manchester.

- C.H.E. Entertainments.   [1975]
 

I have managed to find lyrics for 3 of the songs on this EP inc. the Gay Switchboard Jingle lyrics,

but have been unable to find the lyrics for the song 'Shizophrenia' so I have written them out here myself #.... 

Glad to be gay

It's the same old story all over the world
When a boy meets a boy and a girl meets a girl
We all come together cos we're happy to say
It's a natural fact that it's good to be gay

We've been analysed, ridiculed and driven away
By our elders and betters just for growing up gay
They trampled on our feelings
Till we hid them for shame
Well now 'Glad to be Gay' is the name of the game

Cos it's the same old story all over the world
When a boy meets a boy and a girl meets a girl
We all come together cos we're happy to say
It's a natural fact that it's good to be gay

Don't feel guilty if you're passing for straight
If you wanna be yourself, well it's never too late
People won't mind if you're honest and gay
You might even find they prefer you that way

Cos it's the same old story all over the world
When a boy meets a boy and a girl meets a girl
We all come together cos we're happy to say
It's a natural fact that it's good to be gay

Tom Robinson

Written for Campaign for Homosexual Equality in 1975 -

who pressed up a few hundred copies on their

CHEBEL label under title 'Glad To Be Gay'.

Later this track was renamed to avoid confusion

with the better-known sequel

'Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay'

Gay Switchboard Jingle

If you're down in London town
And happen to be gay
There's a great information service
Open every day
They'll tell you who and where and when
And how and why and more
On 8-3-double-7, 3-2-4
8-3-double-7, 3-2-4

Tom Robinson

Schizophrenia

They call it growing up

But I call it schizophrenia

They call it  being alive

But I call it schizophrenia

They say you’re acting strange

You’ve been acting all you life

In a play that you havn’t written

In a script that’s based on lies

They call it growing up

But I call it schizophrenia

They call it  being alive

But I call it schizophrenia

They drive a wedge between

Your body and your mind

They’ve got you caught up

in the original double blind

They say it isn’t right

For a man to love a man

And a woman in a womans arms

Is upsetting nature’s plan

They sold confusion and they

Make you hate yourself

When they’ve filled you full of madness

They say they want to help

They call it growing up

But I call it schizophrenia

They call it growing up

But I call it schizophrenia

[uncredited]

Stand Together

All you gay women, all you gay men
Come together, stand together
And each others' rights defend

There are ghettoes in our cities
Some are black and some are white
Some you see and some are hidden
In the shadows of the night
To be gay is to be fighting
All the prejudice and lies
That condemn us to be running
Scared and lonely all our lives

All you gay women, all you gay men
Come together, stand together
And each others' rights defend

There are people in the cities
And the towns throughout the land
Who are saying to themselves
This is the time to make a stand
Workers, women, gays and black and white
Now opening our eyes
To the need to take control
Of both our bodies and our lives

All you gay women, all you gay men
Come together, stand together
And each others' rights defend

Noel Greig

Record graded ex / ex full gloss with light bagging

this is very rare piece of UK Gay Activist history.

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