Baby Lemonade

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"Baby Lemonade"
Song by Syd Barrett
from the album Barrett
Released14 November 1970
Recorded26 February 1970
Length4:10
Label
Songwriter(s) Syd Barrett
Producer(s) David Gilmour
Official audio
"Baby Lemonade" (1994 remaster) on YouTube

"Baby Lemonade" is the opening track to Syd Barrett's second studio album, Barrett . "Baby Lemonade", and another song, "Gigolo Aunt", [1] were recorded by Barrett playing and singing over a prerecorded backing track. [2] The solo was performed by Barrett, not David Gilmour as is often noted. [3] The intro was actually Barrett simply warming-up on guitar, that Gilmour had managed to record and placed it at the start of the album, making it seem like an intro to the song. [3] It was included on the multi-artist Harvest compilation, A Breath of Fresh Air – A Harvest Records Anthology 1969–1974 in 2007. [4]

Contents

Lyrics

A "baby" is archaic public-house slang for a half-size bottle of mixer. "Baby lemonade" would be understood by Victorian barmaids to mean a small bottle of lemonade. [5]

Live

The song was performed along with four other songs (three songs that would later be recorded for Barrett, and one that was originally from The Madcap Laughs ) and recorded for BBC Radio on 24 February 1970. [6] [7] These five tracks were later released on The Peel Session , [6] and even later with three added songs (one being another version of "Baby Lemonade") from another BBC Radio show, as The Radio One Sessions . [8]

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Syd Barrett (2010). Barrett (booklet). Harvest, EMI. p. 1.
  2. ↑ Manning, Toby (2006). "Set the Controls". The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (1st ed.). London: Rough Guides. p. 72. ISBN   1-84353-575-0.
  3. 1 2 Palacios, Julian (2010). "Within the Dark Globe". Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe (Rev. ed.). London: Plexus. p. 365. ISBN   978-0859654319.
  4. ↑ "A Breath of Fresh Air: A Harvest Records Anthology, 1969-1974 - Various Artists : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  5. ↑ Redding Ware, J. (1909). "A Dictionary of Victorian Slang". p. 13. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  6. 1 2 Unterberger, Richie. "Peel Sessions - Syd Barrett : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  7. ↑ Chapman, Rob (2010). "We Awful, Awful Crawl". Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head (Paperback ed.). London: Faber. pp.  268–269. ISBN   978-0-571-23855-2.
  8. ↑ "Music - Review of Syd Barrett - The Radio One Sessions". BBC. 20 November 2002. Retrieved 21 September 2012.[ permanent dead link ]
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