A Splendid Selection!

Unreliable Recollections from Jimmy McKenna (subject to amendment should better facts come to light)

As grown-up responsibilities began to assert themselves I sought to take maximum advantage of any availability of Gavin and Jason (in a polite way).

The Way of the World a rockin’ good rant

Set Me Free the Ray Davies song slowed down a touch

Doing My Head In an acquaintance was forever discovering ways for self-improvement.

Who Goes There sooner or later my enormous talent will be discovered he says

People Talking I came up with this song when I was 15 years or so. At that time one of the groups I enjoyed were agit rockers The Edgar Broughton Band. Only after we recorded this did I realise that I had inadvertently incorporated not only the Broughton spirit but an actual riff into it (from their 1969 EGB song ‘Death of an Electric Citizen’). Full of contrition I managed to contact Edgar to explain (and to offer an appropriate share of the multi-million royalties which were imminent). He replied that he was cool with it, complimented the song, the use of the riff, and said it was nice that his music was part of someone else’s story.

Mission Statement a friend challenged me to come up a song based that the title he gave me (for some reason it was written on a scrap of paper in his wallet), so I did.

Imaginary Friends if only x x x

Have a Good Life none of us know what awaits us around the corner, so let us lead our best lives.

Laurence of Seaton another instrumental, a bit more local than to Arabia

My Kind of Woman not exactly lustful more soppy

Be a Man Man yeah oh yeah oh yeah etc

A Proper Seeing To sometimes lyrics can get a bit silly!

Hypnotized not quite disco then.

The Crying Game – a live performance of the Geoff Stevens song which had been a 1964 hit for Dave Berry, with Bryn Collinson’s sax to the fore.