''Remember You're a Womble'' was the second album released by

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. The songs were recorded by

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(vocals/keyboards) with session musicians

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(guitars), Les Hurdle (bass),

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(drums), Ray Cooper (percussion), Rex Morris (saxophone), Eddie Mordue (saxophone) and Jack Rothstein (violin). After the success of the first album, '' Wombling Songs'', Batt experimented with more character-based songs in a variety of musical styles. He described it as "really the first proper album for The Wombles as a group". The styles included pop, rock, calypso, classical (the music of "Minuetto Allegretto" was based on Mozart's Symphony No.41) and surf rock in the style of the

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. The songs also developed the Womble characters further, for example "Wellington Goes To Waterloo" described Wellington Womble taking a rare day off and visiting

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for a bit of trainspotting. This was the first album with a cover showing the full-size Womble costumes, worn by Batt and the session musicians. The album spent 31 weeks in the

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, peaking at number 18 on 13 July 1974. It was released in the US with a different tracklist, which added four songs from the previous album, '' Wombling Songs''.

Original album track listing

All tracks credited to Mike Batt on the LP label. However, other credits do exist as detailed below (source unknown).

Side One

# Remember You're a Womble (

) - 3:07 # Minuetto Allegretto (Batt, Spedding) - 3:33 # Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party (Batt, Spedding, Felicity White) - 4:00 # Wombling in the Rain (Batt, Spedding, Paul Peterson) - 3:54 # Womble Burrow Boogie (Batt, Spedding, Ian Hawkins) - 2:58

Side Two

# Wellington Goes to Waterloo (Batt, Spedding, Edward Seymour) - 3:30 # The Return of Cousin Yellowstone (Batt, Spedding, Richard Kelly) - 3:06 # The Womble Square Dance (Batt, Spedding, Hawkins) - 3:12 # Wimbledon Sunset (Interlude) (Batt) - 1:48 # Banana Rock (Batt, Spedding, Seymour) - 3:16

Cassette track listing

Side One

# Remember You're a Womble (3:08) # Minuetto Allegretto (3:38) # Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party (4:02) # Wombling in the Rain (3:58) # Wimbledon Sunset (1:50)

Side Two

# Wellington Goes to Waterloo (3:36) # The Return of Cousin Yellowstone (3:12) # The Womble Square Dance (3:14) # Banana Rock (3:05) # Womble Burrow Boogie (2:57)

US track listing

# Wombling Summer Party (3:18) # Wimbledon Sunset (1:50) # The Wombling Song (2:26) # Remember You're a Womble (3:07) # Exercise is Good for You (2:32) # Dreaming In the Sun (Orinoco's Song) (4:10) # Banana Rock (3:05) # Wellington Womble (3:54) # Minuetto Allegretto (3:33) # The Womble Square Dance (3:12) # The Return of Cousin Yellowstone (3:08)

Singles

Four tracks were released as singles: * "Remember You're a Womble"- peaked at No. 3 in UK * "Banana Rock" - peaked at No. 9 in UK * "Wombling Summer Party" (US single release only), peaked at No. 55 in US * "Minuetto Allegretto" - peaked at No. 16 in UK

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recorded a version of the title track as a single in 1976 for Reprise Records as a duet between his ''

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'' characters Eccles and Bluebottle. "Minuetto Allegretto" was used in the 1977 film ''

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''.

References

{{Authority control The Wombles albums 1974 albums Albums produced by Mike Batt