Lieutenant Pigeon Decca Years CD

2CD 48-track set rounding up all of the releases on Decca Records by Lieutenant Pigeon. Featuring, for the first time on CD, the three studio albums they released which are now expensive 70's collectors items. Includes the multi-million selling 1972 smash hit single 'Mouldy Old Dough': It reached No. 1 in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand as well as the Top 10 in Canada and Australia and across most of mainland Europe. The Top 20 follow up 'Desperate Dan' is also featured as are singles like 'I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen' (No. 3 in Australia), 'And The Fun Goes On', 'Oxford Bags' and 'You Are My Heart's Delight'. 'Mouldy Old Dough' has since been adopted as the unofficial anthem of banger racing, played at raceway meetings across the country at the start of the races. It has also been used in New Zealand to promote the National Lottery!Liner notes are provided by long time Pigeon fan, Times journalist, and Record Collector columnist and St. Etienne member Bob Stanley. The booklet is illustrated with numerous picture sleeves from across Europe. Band mainstays Rob Woodward and Nigel Fletcher have also provided a brand new previously unreleased track as a bonus to show that there is life in the Pigeon yet!

1. Mouldy Old Dough 2. Jumping Jack 3. Opus 300 4. The Monkey Song 5. Pigeon Rendezvous 6. Red River Rock 7. Scarecrow 8. Know Now I Was Better Off When I Was at School 9. Desperate Dan 10. I'm a Window Cleaner 11. Yellow Submarine 12. If Julia Sees Here 13. Dirty Old Man 14. Auntie May 15. Happy Days Are Here Again 16. Hurdy Gurdy 17. Meet Me Off the Royal Scot 18. ... And the Fun Goes on 19. The Bed 20. You're Getting Too Old for Toys 21. Yu Da Nu Nayba 22. Hilda's Tonic 23. Aggravation 24. Creativity 25. Opus 302 26. Oxford Bags 27. Pigeon Party 28. Brahms' Lullaby 29. You Are My Heart's Delight 30. Love Inflation (Interlude Gap) 31. So Deep Is the Night 32. The Midnight Swim 33. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen 34. After the Discotheque Is Over 35. In the Mood 36. (Interlude Gap) 37. Those Were the Days 38. Great Balls of Fire 39. Goodnight to You All 40. The Villain 41. Big Butch Baby 42. The Blue Danube 43. Rockabilly Hot Pot 44. Gosford Street Ra 45. Good-Bye (From the White Horse Inn) 46. I'll Sail My Ship Alone 47. The Grand Father Clock 48. Lazy Day 49. Home on the Rage