''The Incredible Shrinking Dickies'' is the debut studio album by the California punk band

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. It peaked at #18 on the UK album charts. The album includes the group's cover of

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," which reached No. 45 in the UK charts in July 1979. It was pressed on four different colors of vinyl (blue, yellow, orange, black). The album was produced by John Hewlett, who in the late 1960s was a member of the UK garagepunk quartet

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Track listing

Personnel

* Leonard Graves Phillips – Lead Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer, Organ *

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– Guitars, Vocals *

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– Keyboards, Guitar, Saxophone, Vocals * Billy Club – Bass, Vocals * Karlos Kaballero – Drums, No Vocals Production: * Produced by John Hewlett * Engineered by Cisco de Luna, Earle Mankey & Gerry Kitchenham * Mastered by Frank de Luna

References

1979 debut albums The Dickies albums A&M Records albums {{punk-album-stub