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Guess What They're Selling at the Happiness Counter

15 Sep 1992, Fuse Records


This second career compilation follows Rosselsongs of two years previous, and is assembled along the same lines. The contents are pulled from almost every LP Leon released from the start of the 1970s onwards. Leon described it as a “collection of recycled songs”.

There are eight re-recordings here, including a studio version of “Boys Will Be Boys”, previously only available as a live recording on For The Good Of The Nation. Some of the other re-makes are notable too: “Battle Hymn” has updated lyrics, and “Invisible Married Breakfast Blues” a very different lead vocal, from Liz Mansfield. “Do You Remember”, meantime, is recorded in a different time signature to the earlier versions.

This CD was provisionally called Unsaleable Products, but apparently Leon “wasn’t allowed” to use the title, employing instead a line from the song, “Hugga Mugga Chugga Lugga Humbugga Boom Chit”.

Also released in the UK on cassette.

"Another collection of recycled songs from the department of fading vinyl."  -  LR (sleevenotes)


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Song list

1. Hugga Mugga Chugga Lugga Humbugga Boom Chit   Second version

2. Story Line   1983

3. Barney's Epic Homer   1979

4. Boys Will Be Boys   Third version

5. My Daughter, My Son   1983

6. Do You Remember?   Fifth version

7. Abiezer Coppe   1977

8. On Her Silver Jubilee   1979

9. The Ugly Ones   Fifth version

10. Susie   1988

11. Invisible Married Breakfast Blues   Second version

12. The Years Grow Tall   1988

13. The Invisible Man   Second version

14. Pills   1981

15. Across the Hills   Third version

16. Battle Hymn of the New Socialist Party   Fourth version

17. The World's Police   1979

18. Voices   1986

19. The Voice That Lives Inside You   1988
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