Tiggy Off Ground

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

Revisiting another selection of songs recorded on various 4 Track Portastudios.

White Hope this is first cousin to ‘God’s Gift to Rock n Roll’ thematically, and I had been watching some boxing. Alan Snowdon plays guitar. Recorded on 4 Track at Durham Street Studios (DSS).

Monkey sometimes it’s hard to describe what a song is about! Recorded and mostly performed by Michael Dixon on his 4 Track Portastudio

Baby I Fall For You another music Hall type song with a nice key change for the solo. Recorded on 4 Track at DSS

Come Out to Play this is from c1980, begun on on home 4 Track.

I Don’t Want Another Girl begun on home 4 Track and completed at DSS.

All About the World This is a DisGuise song idea from 1978 recorded at 4 Track at DSS.

What Am I Gonna Do? begun on home 4 Track as part of the 1981 Portastudio weekend with Peter Scott on guitar.

The Point of Dreaming another DisGuise song idea from 1978 Recorded on 4 Track at DSS.

If I Loved You one of the great songs from the musical Carousel by Rodgers and Hart. Recorded on 4 Track at DSS

Cart Me Away recorded at home on 4 Track

It’s Christmas Again a maudlin piece this! begun at home on 4 Track and completed at DSS

Nice Boy without a drum machine I had to improvise with an empty biscuit tin (in one take and I hurt my hand) I have to admit this is err a silly little song.

Boogie Woogie Blues thinking in swing tiem again recorded at

Walls that pessimistic song which later received the Gavin and Jason treatment on the Boys will be Boys album

Polite Conversation another Peter Scott song begun on home 4 Track and completed at DSS.