Climb Aboard My Roundabout: British Toytown Sound Climb Aboard My Roundabout: British Toytown Sound CD

Three CD set. First-ever legitimate anthology of British toytown pop, a much-loved sub-genre among collectors. Four-hour compilation with 87 tracks including hits, misses, rarities, and previously unreleased material. Issued at the start of 1967, Beatles' single 'Penny Lane' coupled a widescreen production (bolstered by a phalanx of session musicians on brass and woodwind) with a mildly hallucinogenic lyric populated by mundane characters going about their unremarkable suburban lives. It proved to be an enormously influential record. For the next year or two, British pop was awash with records that married quasi-classical arrangements with newly-minted fairy tales and character vignettes based around the grey everyday lives of ordinary small-town folk. Many years later, this burst of English eccentricity came to be known in collector circles as toytown pop - a pseudo-genre that took in everything from Jeff Lynne's early band The Idle Race and Deram-era David Bowie to backroom auteurs like Mark Wirtz, who provided similarly over-the-top arrangements for CBS hopefuls Cardboard Orchestra.

1. The Skeleton and the Roundabout (Mono Single Mix) - the Idle Race 2. Jenny Artichoke - Kaleidoscope 3. Cuddly Toy - Fruit Machine 4. Phenomenal Cat - the Kinks 5. Little Lesley - the Alan Bown! 6. Emily Small (The Huge World Thereof) - the Picadilly Line 7. Man in the Teapot - Fire 8. Mr. Light - John Carter and Mickey Keen 9. The Dubious Circus Company - Clifford T. Ward 10. Ice Cream Man (Alternative Version) - Kidrock 11. Lollipop Minds - Wimple Winch 12. Peter's Birthday (Black and White Rainbows) - World of Oz 13. Ha! Ha! Said the Clown - Tony Hazzard 14. Sad Simon Lives Again - Tim Andrews 15. Uncle Joe, the Ice Cream Man - the Mindbenders 16. Phoebe's Flower Shop - the Cortinas 17. Coplington - Persimmon's Peculiar Shades 18. Colour Sergeant Lillywhite - West Coast Consortium 19. Our Fairy Tale - the Herd 20. Teenage Love Song - Hetherington 21. Ebaneezer Beaver (Demo Version) - the Mirage 22. Fairy Tale (Demo Version) - the Next Collection 23. Brother Jack - Barry Wigley 24. Trafalgar Square - the Good Time Losers 25. Sadie and Her Magic Mr. Galahad - the New Generation 26. Marjory Daw - Morning Glory 27. The Last Performance of the Royal Regimental Very Victorious and Valiant Band - the Syn 28. Rainbow Rocking Chair - Majority One 29. Excerpt from "A Teenage Opera" - Keith West 30. Lavender Popcorn - Scrugg 31. Knocking Nails Into My House - Ambrose Slade 32. Mr. Job - Jigsaw 33. Uncle Arthur - David Bowie 34. The Bitter Thoughts of Little Jane - Timon 35. Cellophane Mary Jane - Astronaut Alan and the Planets 36. Mr. Kipling - Tuesday's Children 37. It's the Best Seaside in the World - Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon 38. And Now for a Little Train Number - Kenny Everett 39. Glorious House of Arthur - Fairfield Parlour 40. Laughing Boy from Nowhere - Simon Dupree and the Big Sound 41. Auntie Mary's Dress Shop - Tomorrow 42. The Equestrian Statue - the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band 43. James in the Basement - Denis Couldry 44. Tales of Flossie Fillett - Turquoise 45. My Best Friend - the Picadilly Line 46. Happiness Is Toy-Shaped - Harmony Grass 47. Birmingham Brass Band - the Bullring 48. Watchmaker - Persimmon's Peculiar Shades 49. Room at the Top of the Stairs - Timothy Blue 50. After Tea - Spencer Davis Group 51. Dream Dream Dream - Kidrock 52. Lemon Pie Fair - Complex 53. Uncle Henry's Magic Garden - David Matthews 54. Bric-A-Brac Man - Bill Niles 55. What's Good for the Goose* (Full Version) - Chas Mills and Mark Wirtz 56. Everybody Loves the Clown - Nirvana 57. Sharkey - Christopher 58. Poor Johnny - the Secrets 59. Fairground - Pure Gold 60. Toy Soldier - the Riot Squad 61. (He's Our Dear Old) Weatherman - Mark Wirtz 62. Zebedy Zak - Cardboard Orchestra 63. Florence - Tapestry 64. Mr. Moody's Garden - Gilbert O'Sullivan 65. Mutiny - the Alan Bown! 66. Uptight Basil - Magic Valley 67. Bang Bang - Kidrock 68. Toymaker - Wild Silk 69. Lanternlight - Peter and the Wolves 70. Love and the Big Brass Band - Dave Christie 71. Piccolo Man - Friends 72. Uwe Aus Duisberg - the Hi-Fis 73. Einer Kleiner Miser Musik - Tony Rivers and the Castaways 74. The Happy King - Music Box 75. Mrs Daisy - Tintern Abbey 76. Mrs Murphy's Budgerigar - Blossom Toes 77. Annie's Place - Gene Latter 78. Glasshouse Green, Splinter Red - John Pantry 79. Henry Everyday - Timothy Blue 80. Dear Old Mrs. Bell - the Shadows 81. Mr. Nice Guy - Dragonmilk 82. Mister White's White Flying Machine (Album Version) - Ayshea 83. Magic Shoes (Demo) - Fire 84. King of the Castle - Jason Crest 85. Through My Telescope - Marty Wilde 86. Time to Go Home - the Tots 87. The Sad Story of Simon and His Bugle (Correct Version) - Mark Wirtz