The Thief of Baghdad Sessions 

The Recordings (Wellesbourne, 1983)

Outlined some sketches of material here on an 8-track. Attempted to play live on a couple of tracks at 9 in the morning! Daft idea. Never intended as 'keepers.'

Nevertheless the engineer, Paul Hunt, fancied doing some dub mixing. Suddenly, ‘Jung ‘O Billy’morphed into a grander concept.

Here’s a clip of the later dub version which was made:

The original vocal was used even at the later rerecording. It was never redone. The poor drummer, Robbo, had to guess where the beats were when he made his debut on the 16-track session. Crazy.

Here’s part of the intended b-side, which never made the cut:

It may have been because these were the ‘guide track’ vocals & never meant for keeping!

Walter Paul Foulkes Roberts drums
Tone H bass & guitars
Woody guitars & vocal

‘The Thief of Baghdad sessions‘
Engineered by Paul Hunt at Wellesbourne, near Leamington & Frank Dwyer at Newport.

Mixed by Tone H for The Lenny Abott Musical Corporation.

Laquered by Porky Primecut on Woody's Waxworks.

The label became mistaken for the name of the band. Hilarious.

Here’s a bit of that b-side:

South Wales Argus loved us.

We were the fairground freaks!