Hokey Pokey | 
 enlarge | Artists: Richard Thompson, Linda Thompson
Label: Ume Imports
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 89818
Format: Enhanced, Extra Tracks, Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766487383943
EAN: 0602498179062
ASIN: B0001N9ZWA
Release Date: November 23, 2004
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Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail direct to 5 airports in the United States. Delivery takes approximately 5 working days from posting - we're frequently faster than a lot of US based sellers.
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| Tracks:
| • | Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song) | | • | I'll Regret It All in the Morning | | • | Smiffy's Glass Eye | | • | The Egypt Room | | • | Never Again | | • | Georgie on a Spree | | • | Old Man Inside a Young Man | | • | The Sun Never Shines on the Poor | | • | A Heart Needs a Home | | • | Mole in a Hole - Richard Thompson, Waterson, Mike | | • | Wishing - Richard Thompson, Holly | | • | I'm Turning Off a Memory - Richard Thompson, Haggard, Merle | | • | A Heart Needs a Home | | • | Hokey Pokey | | • | It'll Be Me - Richard Thompson, Clement, Jack |
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Album Description
2004 remastered reissue of 1975 album features 15 tracks including 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks, 'Wishing' (BBC John Peel Session), 'I'm Turning Off A Memory' (BBC John Peel Session), 'A Heart Needs A Home' (BBC John Peel Session), 'Hokey Pokey' (Live at The Roundhouse), & 'It'll Be Me' (Live at Oxford). Enhanced packaging includes full lyrics & sleeve notes in a slipcase. Universal.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered, "Hokey Pokey" was Originally Released in March 1975 on Island. This Album, Along with "i Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" and "Pour Down Like Silver" Form a Trio of Definitive English Folk-rock Classics of Incredible Beauty and Stellar Musicianship. This Edition also Includes a Pair of Previously Unreleased Live Performances Captured at the Roundhouse, London on September 7, 1975 and a BBC Radio One Session Recorded in London on February 11, 1975 for the John Peel Show.
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 Re-Mastered my Arse! February 18, 2008
Steve Sea (Germantown, MD USA)
I agree with the previous reviewer-the remastering is pitiful! It is muddy, not bright, no high end clarity. Shame on Island/Universal for botching this! (note: I also purchased "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" from the same 2004 re-master releases and it sounds muddy as well. I would guess the whole remaster series is bunk!)
 5 stars for the music, 2 stars for re-mastering November 30, 2007
greyhoundude (Corvallis, OR)
This is my favorite of the R&L Thompson albums and I was looking forward to the bonus tracks (good) and the newly re-mastered recordings. Anyone else think this album now sounds worse than ever? My LP sounds better, the bonus tracks I have from other sources and the original Ryko issue of this CD sounds at LEAST as good as this so-called "re-mastered" issue. Disappointing, to say the least.
Another gem from the first Thompson Twins February 17, 2006
Wayne Klein (My Little Blue Window, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
OK, so they weren't really twins but Linda often said they sounded like siblings when they harmonized. Don't dwell on it too much it could get creepy if you do. Anyhow, another great album from the duo, "Hokey Pokey" features Thompson's brilliant double entendre comparing ice cream to sex. According to Thompson, "A little poke is all you'll need" although you'll get greedy after hearing this song and want to hear every single track. AMG rates this as four stars stating that it doesn't reach the "lofty heights" of "Lights". I disagree. It remains a stunning album that might be a bit sunnier than "Lights" but every bit as captivating.
The reissue has 5 bonus tracks four of them from John Peel BBC sessions that have never been released. Linda's beautiful vocal on the remake of "Wishing" and the remake of Merle Haggard's "I'm Turning Off a Memory" both only enrich an already great album. "A Heart Needs A Home" sounds terrific here as well with We also get the title track from the album played live at the Roundhouse. The sonics on the BBC sessions aren't quite as stellar as those on the album but that's not a surprise. The album is rounded out by "It'll Be Me" recorded live (and previously released) live at Oxford is taken from "Guitar, Vocal".
Featuring the lyrics to the songs and some brief liner notes this is worthwhile picking up if you have the previous edition primarily for the previously unreleased tracks although the sound is extremely good as well.
This is *really* what it's all about... December 13, 2005
William M. Feagin (Upstate New York, USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
...not sticking your leg in and shaking it all about, thank you. A little historical perspective: "Hokey Pokey" here, subtitled "The Ice Cream Song," refers to a bastardised version of the Italian for "Ice cream--I have some," a frequent cry of ice cream sellers on the streets of New York City and elsewhere early in the 20th Century. Trust Richard Thompson to come up with the most double entendre-laden song to ever come from something so innocent!
This, the second album Richard and Linda made together (from a total of six), tends to get rather short shrift in Thompson's catalogue--more's the pity, as this is quite a fine album. Linda's vocals are as good as ever, and she sings lead on more than half of the tracks here. Aly Bain's fiddle drives the title cut along with some searing leads from RT, and Richard's darkly humourous (and sometimes just plain dark) lyrics take quite the twist here--note the punning "turn a blind eye" lyric in "Smiffy's Glass Eye," which is about a young boy who is the perennial school bully's victim for having a prosthetic orb; or his rather backhanded paean to whiskey in "I'll Regret it All in the Morning." And how about his ode to the many kinds of poverty in "The Sun Never Shines on the Poor"?
Of the original 10 tracks, there is but one cover, the wryly humourous closer "Mole in a Hole," written by Mike Waterson. Then we come to the five bonus tracks included on the remaster; of these, three are covers, the best being Merle Haggard's "I'm Turning Off a Memory" (to whose drinking-to-forget lyrics Linda does full justice--one might be tempted to say she missed her calling by not making a career singing country music, but then when was the last time you heard of a British C&W singer?) and the rollicking "It'll Be Me." This is unquestionably a must-have.
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