Ever Been Ad!
This is one of a clutch of Leon's songs to appear on the 1964 LP, Vote For Us, where it is billed as a joint composition with Nathan Joseph and Alan Twelftree. The track consists of about 80 seconds of conventional song, followed by two and a half minutes of spoken comedy, performed mostly by Liane Aukin. Since the opening song is so obviously one of Leon's, we treat it here as a stand-alone work rather than a co-composition (the credited co-writers therefore being the authors of the comedy sketch).
Accompanying himself on guitar, Leon delivers the song up-tempo, sending up the political elite and ruling ideologies. Musically it resembles the song, "Ballad of the Gentleman and the Docker", which came a little later and may even have grown out of "Ever Been Ad!".
Accompanying himself on guitar, Leon delivers the song up-tempo, sending up the political elite and ruling ideologies. Musically it resembles the song, "Ballad of the Gentleman and the Docker", which came a little later and may even have grown out of "Ever Been Ad!".