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Turning Silence Into Song

15 Apr 2004, Fuse Records


This latest CD is part-way between a new album and a compilation, pulling together several recent stragglers alongside a number of remakes. More than half of its contents are taken from Leon’s catalogue of songs stretching back into the 1960s, but of the oldies (by which we mean pre-2000 compositions), only “The Enemy's Poised to Attack” is the original recording; the rest are new versions.

“I Don't Want Your Red Red Roses”, originally known from Leon’s old songbook, That’s Not The Way It’s Got To Be, had since been recorded and released by Frankie Armstrong on her album, I Heard A Woman Singing (1984), and it is that (American-made) version which makes the cut here, on which Leon does not perform.

All songs bar “The Enemy's Poised to Attack” and Frankie Armstrong’s recording were made at Running Frog Studios, presumably across a span of some time, since a few had already sneaked out on CDs by the time this new album was presented. The album title is a quote from the song "Harry's Gone Fishing", which is not included. Although it shares a name with Leon's recent songbook, really the two are unrelated.


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Song list

1. Jumbo the Elephant   Third version

2. Song of the Free Press   Second version

3. The Wall That Stands Between  

4. Remembrance Day  
Second version

5. General Lockjaw Briefs the Troops  

6. Monsters  

7. Dead Men Never Die 
  Fourth version

8. The Enemy's Poised to Attack   1983

9. I Don't Want Your Red Red Roses  
1984 (cover version)

10. Strange the Things We Don't Remember   2002

11. Brass Band Music   Fourth version

12. Song of the Olive Tree  

13. They Said...  
2001

14. My Father's Jewish World  
2002

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