PICADILLY LINE Huge World of Emily Small Rare Orig UK 1967 Mono CBS Psych Pop LP
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Description
Picadilly Line
The Huge World Of Emily Small
Very Rare original UK LP released on CBS Records in 1967. 1st UK Mono pressing on the Orange CBS label, the sleeve is laminated on the front and has the CBS inner sleeve.
Matrix No's
Side One - 63129 A1
Side Two - 63129 B1
The British group might be more famed for evolving into Edwards Hand, who had a couple albums produced by George Martin. Before that, however, Picadilly Line put out an obscure album on CBS, 1967's The Huge World of Emily Small, in the lightest and poppiest side of the British pop-psychedelic style. They also did a couple non-LP singles, one of which, "Yellow Rainbow," was written by then-Hollie Graham Nash.
The Picadilly Line's sole album is one of the recordings that most epitomizes what has been retrospectively dubbed the "toytown" school of British psychedelia by collectors. That is, the songs bounce along daintily; the vocal emphasis is on high harmonies; the lyrics are sometimes populated with observations of British everyday life and characters, sprinkled with a coat of whimsy; and the arrangements benefit from touches of baroque orchestration. It's executed here, however, with a fey, twee touch that makes the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, for instance, sound rough 'n' ready by comparison. It's thus going to be too light even for some British psychedelic pop enthusiasts, but it's not quite the most saccharine entry in the genre, though it's undeniably precious. There's a folky lightness that keeps this from being too wide-eyed and childish, sometimes sounding a bit like Simon & Garfunkel gone toytown, though with some similarities to both the 1967-era Beatles and '60s California pop in the vocals and arrangements. The covers of Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" and the Everly Brothers' "Gone, Gone, Gone," however, seem misplaced in these surroundings. The CD reissue adds ten bonus cuts of a similar nature (though they're sometimes marginally gutsier) and the same level of professionalism, including all three of their non-LP cuts that appeared on singles in 1968. Of these, the one of most interest is "Yellow Rainbow," as it was written by Graham Nash, then of the Hollies.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 Emily Small (The Huge World Thereof) 2:28
2 Silver Paper Dress 2:42
3 At The Third Stroke 2:56
4 Can You See Me? 2:08
5 Your Dog Won't Bark 2:55
6 How Could You Say You're Leaving Me? 2:37
7 Gone, Gone, Gone 2:17
Side Two
1 Twiggs 3:44
2 Tumble Down World 2:50
3 Visions Of Johanna 6:08
4 Come And Sing A Song 2:57
5 Her Name Is Easy 3:25
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Released on CBS Records in 1967
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Catalogue Number 63129
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Record is in Vg + condition (few light surface marks and light scratches, plays with some background noise in places as expected)
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Sleeve is in Ex condition (the laminate is really nice but as you can see in the photos the front has a slight ripple at the opening edge)
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