Name: Frabjous Days – The Secret World of Godley and Creme 1967-1969
Brand: Godley and Creme

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRSEG110

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5013929191020

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Artist

Godley and Creme

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

Grapefruit

First-ever issue of stillborn 1969 studio album from pre- Hotlegs / 10cc duo Godley And Creme during their days as Frabjoy And Runcible Spoon. Classic UK late 60s psychedelic / folk sound recorded at Advision Studios with support from future 10cc colleagues Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart.

In mid-1969, legendary British R&amp;B/psychedelic enabler Giorgio Gomelsky signed two Manchester-based art students, renaming them Frabjoy And Runcible Spoon.

Envisaging the pair as a British Simon And Garfunkel, Gomelsky recorded an LP with them for release on his Marmalade label. A pre-LP single appeared, but sadly the album’s release was cancelled after Giorgio spent the rent and staged a disappearing act.

53 years later, Grapefruit Records is thrilled to host this tantalising missing piece of the pre-10cc jigsaw puzzle.

A hugely accomplished set, it incorporates impossibly fragile ballads like ‘Chaplin House’ and ‘Today’ alongside US West Coast-style rocker ‘Cowboys And Indians’ and the Beatles-ish ‘It’s The Best Seaside In The World’.

<i>Frabjous Days</i> adds Gouldman’s sole Marmalade cut plus further late 60s material, including their early 1968 single as The Yellow Bellow Room Boom.

Housed in a stylish, previously unpublished 1969 Marmalade promo photo of the pair, the fabulous <i>Frabjous Days</i> is a digipack release with a 28-page booklet containing a new 6000 word essay and some extremely rare photos and memorabilia.