''Crocodile Shoes'' is an album by

Jimmy Nail James Michael Aloysius Bradford (born 16 March 1954), known as Jimmy Nail, is an English singer-songwriter, actor, film producer, and television writer. He played the role of Leonard "Oz" Osborne in the television show ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'' a ...

consisting of "original songs from the BBC Television serial" of the same name. It was released in 1994 by East West Records and peaked at number two on the

UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...

. It was the Christmas number two album that year.

Track listing

Crocodile Shoes ''Crocodile Shoes'' is a British 13-part television drama set across two series and was made by the BBC. It was screened on BBC1 BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the ...

" – written by Tony McAnaney #"Calling Out Your Name" – written by

#"Cowboy Dreams" – written by

Paddy McAloon Patrick Joseph McAloon (born 7 June 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and a founder of the band Prefab Sprout. Early life McAloon was born and grew up in Witton Gilbert in County Durham, England. He was trained to be a Catholic priest bef ...

#"Once Upon a Time" – written by Jimmy Nail #"Only One Heart" – written by Croker and Nail #"Bitter and Twisted" – written by Jimmy Nail #"Love Will Find Someone for You" – written by Paddy McAloon #"Angel" – written by Nail #"Between a Woman and a Man" – written by Nail #"Don't Wanna Go Home" – written by Nail #"Dragons" – written by Paddy McAloon

Chart performance

Personnel

*Jimmy Nail – vocals, harmonica, Hammond organ *Tony McAnaney – guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, bouzouki *Trevor Brewis – drums (tracks: 1,3,8) *Paul Smith – drums, percussion *

Geoff Dugmore Geoff Dugmore (born 12 April 1960) is a Scottish drummer, musical director and producer. He was a member of the bands The Europeans, and Wildlife. Career Educated at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow, Scotland, Dugmore started his musical career ...

– drums *

Phil Palmer Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952) is a rock sideman and session guitarist who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous artists. He is best known for his work with Eric Clapton and Dire Straits. Biography Palmer grew up in nort ...

– guitar *

John Giblin John Giblin, is an active session musician, contributing mainly as an acoustic and electric bass player, and spanning genres of jazz, classical, rock, folk and avant-garde music. Best known as a studio musician, recording film scores and contem ...

– bass *

Paul Wickens Paul Wickens (born 27 March 1956) is an English musician, composer, and record producer, professionally known as Wix. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Wickens has worked with artists including Nik Kershaw, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bon J ...

– keyboards (tracks: 7, 10) * B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar *Marcus Brown – keyboards, accordion, programming *Steve Robson – fiddle, ocarina *Danny Cummings – tambourine *Dave Taggart, Margo Buchanan, Monica Reed-Price, Shirley Lewis – backing vocals *Mixed by Jimmy Nail,

Jon Kelly Jon Kelly is a British audio engineer and record producer, who began his career as an engineer at Air London Studios. He has produced albums and singles for Chris Rea, the Damned, Kate Bush (where he co-produced with Bush on her third album '' ...

References

1994 albums Jimmy Nail albums Albums produced by Jon Kelly East West Records albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub