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NUMBER NINE BREAD STREET
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title performers recorded
Number Nine Bread Street Chris Coombs, Bob Hart, Dave Nuttall, Piff Parfitt and others 1967

matrix no. release format information / description
release
date
number of copies
2006 value
HG 1109 vinyl LP original vinyl release
1967
250
 £400
KSG 001 CD Kissing Spell re-release 1995 unknown -
KSG 015 CD Holyground the Works series : volume 1 2006 unlimited -

TRACK LISTINGS

initial release 1967     HG 1109

side one

  • The Travelling People
    (traditional) Kev Slater
  • Girl For All Seasons
    (Parfitt) Dave Nuttall
  • Yes, You Gotta Walk
    (traditional) Jane Westlake
  • Love Minus Zero
    (Dylan) Ivor Lloyd-Morgan
  • Painting A Lady
    (Levon-Hart) Bob Hart
  • North Country Cinderella
    (Coombs) Chris Coombs

NOTES

Sold mainly in Wakefield Yorkshire, England. Copies pressed   250

    Re-release : Volume 2 of Holyground the Works series.


    recorded & produced by Mike Levon
    © 2006 Holyground & writers

    Number Nine Bread Street was a sales success - all copies were sold. However, in keeping with the label's usual failure to be business-like, it still made a loss!

    Moodies Bar disappeared for a while, and became a pizza parlour. It is back now - named 'Moodies', but not like the sawdust on the floor, bitter drinking pub of the late 1960's.

    In 1968 Holyground started to branch out into psych-rock with the recording of A to Austr.


side two

  • No Lions, No Trumpets
    (Levon-Hart) Bob Hart
  • Stroke Two (Aside)
    (Coombs) Chris Coombs
  • Doing The Rounds
    (Parfitt) Richard Parfitt
  • Summertime
    (Gershwin) Ivor Lloyd-Morgan
  • Beautiful Strangers
    (Levon-Hart) Jane Westlake
  • College Girl
    (Levon-Hart) Piers Johnson


Additional tracks on the Works issue are:

from the 'Motley Crew' EP

  • The Holyground (traditional)

from the 'Motley Crew' EP

  • The Cobbler (traditional) Kev Slater
  • Alexis Korner’s Blues (Korner) John Williams

from the ''Where It's At' EP

  • Stewball (Seeger) Newsham-Flexman
  • Remembrance (Coombs) Chris Coombs
  • Kirkgate Blues (Levon) Chris Coombs
  • Sartre (Pete Taylor) Chris Coombs
  • Top Cat (Coombs) Chris Coombs
  • A Stone Will Shine (Levon) Chris Coombs
Other Releases

Kissing Spell CD release 1995

This contained all the original tracks plus "Song Of Black Glass" (Levon-Hart), and Corrina Corrina, sung by Chris Coombs. These tracks had been on the 'Where It's At' EP, and have now been released on the Works reissue "Loose Routes, Volume One".

The cover on the first Kissing Spell version was poorly executed - the photo was the wrong size. Also the front cover was missing - it was in fact the back cover (inlay) repeated. The cartoon row of houses on the original, and on the Works reissue, was missing.

"Holyground The Works" CD reissue 2006   KSG 002

full track by track details including words, musicians and recollections are on:
www.holyground.co.uk/austr/austrtrack

RECOGNISING AN ORIGINAL


2006 reissue cover

How to tell if you have one of the original releases from 1967

The original cover was a standard glossy laminated white sleeve. The cover design was all in black, and was the only printing on the front, (take 'HOLYGROUND' and all the colour off the image above and this is what it was like.

The back cover was printed in black and white. The BREAD STREET lettering from the front appeared at the top. The songs are listed below a piece of writing setting the scene, written by Moira Jenkins and Alan Dak. Then follows a list of performers.

The original release number was HG 1109. The label was plain black and white. No other vinyl copies were made.