Talking Sir Alec
"Talking Sir Alec" has not been recorded, but the words were published in Tribune on 27 March, 1964. It would later appear in Leon's rare 1966 songbook, Songs For City Squares and Sceptical Circles, where it was again presented as a text without accompanying score.
On balance, we have decided to treat it as a song, assuming there to have been never-published music for it. If it isn't, it's the only non-song in the songbook, and we would also point to the publishing credit on the relevant page: "Words and music by Leon Rosselson". We can only wonder how it might have sounded.
The song is about Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1964, before being squeezed out of office by a narrow Labour victory in that year's general election. Of course, Leon had little sympathy...
On balance, we have decided to treat it as a song, assuming there to have been never-published music for it. If it isn't, it's the only non-song in the songbook, and we would also point to the publishing credit on the relevant page: "Words and music by Leon Rosselson". We can only wonder how it might have sounded.
The song is about Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1964, before being squeezed out of office by a narrow Labour victory in that year's general election. Of course, Leon had little sympathy...
"The life story of the man advertised on TV as the hole wth the hole in the middle, and a nostalgic reminder of the old pre-Wilson-Heath days when politics was pure farce and politicians farceurs. Now politics are grim and politicians merely faceless. Bring back Sir Alec!" - LR (Songs For City Squares and Sceptical Circles (songbook), 1966)