I FEEL A SONG GOING OFF

Vocals: Marty Feldman

Recorded Decca Studios, London 1969; Produced by Ray Richardson; Musical Direction Denis King; Engineers Bill Price and Roy Baker

Re-released 2007 Decca Music Group Ltd, a Universal Music Company

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• WALTZING WITH YOU
• DISTRICT NURSE HARGREAVES
• THE WORLD'S IN RHYME
• THE ELEPHANT SONG
• EUROVISION SONG
• ILFORD TOWN HALL
• KENSINGTON HIGH STREET
• LA SAUCE
• THERE'S A LITTLE PART OF ME
• PSYCHEDELIC RUBBISH
• THE FIVE TO ELEVEN WALTZ
• MAVIS WAVERTREE
• YOU WITHOUT ME
• THE GREAT BELL
• DEATH
• THE BACK OF YOUR NECK
• MY FATHER'S SHIRT
• PLEASE LET ME LOVE YOU
• BAYSWATER ROAD
• CAUTIOUS LOVE SONG
• FRENCH FOLK SING
• NO NUTS
• LOO
• ETERNITY

Bonus Tracks:

• A JOYOUS TIME OF THE YEAR
• THE B SIDE

All tracks written by Denis King and John Junkin, except tracks 3, 7, 15, 22, 23 by Bill Solly, track 5 by Denis King, John Junkin & Bill Solly; track 6 by John Junkin; track 24 by Denis King & Bill Solly, All tracks published by Essex Music International.

KINGS’ COMMENTS:

These are mostly a collection of random nonsense songs that John Junkin and I wrote on dark, wet, depressing afternoons in SW10 for our own amusement. Marty Feldman, a good friend of both of ours, heard us perform some of them at drunken soirees and fancied recording an album of them. One or two of the songs still make me laugh but my clear favourite is one written neither by Junkin or myself, but by our talented friend Bill Solly, and called “The World’s In Rhyme”. Bill has written a clever lyric that contains a succession of rhymes that aren’t quite right. In other words, rhymes that any proper lyricist would be ashamed to be associated with. And, being somewhat of a stickler for proper rhymes myself, I’ve been known to use Bill’s song as a sort of song-writing litmus test to see if people “get it” or not. If they don’t, if it needs to be explained, well...
Here are the first four lines:

“I’M IN LOVE AND THE WORLD’S IN RHYME
 IT’S AMAZING THE RHYMES I FIND
 FOR EXAMPLE, I’M SEVENTEEN
 AND MY LIFE IS LIKE A LOVELY DREAM!”

(D’ye get it? If not, please skip this section)

Denis King