''The Man In The Bowler Hat'' is the third album by the British rock group

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. The album was produced by

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and released in the UK by

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. This was their highest charting album, peaking at number 23 in the

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. A different version of the album was released by

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in the US and Canada under the title ''Pinafore Days''. The US album removed two songs and replaced them with two others (produced by

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) from the UK version of the next Stackridge album ''

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''. Although the front cover was the same, the jacket photos were changed to show the ''Extravaganza'' lineup. ''Pinafore Days'' was the only US chart entry for Stackridge, reaching number 191 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart.

Track listing

All songs credited to Andy Davis, Smegmakovitch except where noted.

Side one

#"Fundamentally Yours" #"Pinafore Days" #"The Last Plimsoll" #"To the Sun and the Moon" (Mutter Slater, Peter Denman) #"The Road to Venezuela"

Side two

#"The Galloping Gaucho" #"Humiliation" (James Warren) #"Dangerous Bacon" (Warren, Smegmakovitch) #"The Indifferent Hedgehog" (Davis, Graham Smith) #"God Speed the Plough" (Wabadaw Sleeve)a pseudonym for the whole grou

being an anagram of the first two letters of the members' surnames

Track listing: U.S. version "Pinafore Days", Sire Records SASD-7503

All songs credited to Andy Davis, Smegmakovitch except where noted. #"Fundamentally Yours" #"Pinafore Days" #"The Last Plimsoll" #"Spin 'Round The Room" (Rod Bowkett, Lucy Vernon) #"The Road To Venezuela" #"The Galloping Gaucho" #"Humiliation" (Warren) #"Dangerous Bacon" (Warren, Smegmakovitch) #"One Rainy July Morning" (original title: "Highbury Incident (Rainy July Morning)") (Davis, Slater, Bowkett) #"God Speed The Plough" (Sleeve)

Bonus tracks on the 1996 CD re-issue on Demon Records

#"Do the Stanley" (single) (Davis, Warren, Slater, Crun Walter) #"C'est la Vie" (b-side) (Davis, Warren) #"Let There Be Lids" (first released in the UK compilation album '' Do The Stanley'') (

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)

Personnel

*Andy Cresswell-Davis -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

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*James Warren - guitars, vocals *Michael 'Mutter' Slater -

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, vocals, keyboards, percussion *Mike Evans -

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, vocals *Jim "Crun" Walter -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Billy Bent (aka Billy Sparkle) -

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;Additional personnel *Reg Leopold - violinstring quartet on "Humiliation" *William Reid - violin *Graeme Scott -

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*Vivian Joseph -

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

*Jack Emblow -

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

on "Galloping Gaucho" *Ray Davies -

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cornet The cornet (, ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B, though there is also a sopr ...

*Derek Taylor -

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and solo on "To the Sun and the Moon" *B. Lamb -

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*M. Fry -

tuba The tuba (; ) is the lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the ne ...

*R. Chamberlain -

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/ saxes *

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- sax on "Dangerous Bacon" ;Production *

- production, orchestration and piano on "Humiliation" and "The Indifferent Hedgehog"

Other credits

*Bill Price - engineering *

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- cover design * John Swannell - cover photography *AIR London - studios *Big Ben Music/Christchurch Music - publishing

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Man in the Bowler Hat, The Stackridge albums 1974 albums Albums produced by George Martin Albums recorded at AIR Studios