Bebop Moptop

Bebop Moptop
Studio album by Danny Wilson
Released	17 July 1989
Recorded	July 1988 – April 1989
Studio	Inner City Sound (Dundee, Scotland) The Manor (Oxfordshire) The Church (London)
Genre	Pop
Length	50:29
Label	Virgin
Producer	Danny Wilson, Allan McGlone, Fred De Faye
Danny Wilson chronology
Meet Danny Wilson (1987) Bebop Moptop (1989) Sweet Danny Wilson (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Hi-Fi News & Record Review	B:2 [2]

Bebop Moptop is the second and final album by Scottish pop group Danny Wilson.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Gary Clark; except where indicated.

1. "Imaginary Girl"
2. "The Second Summer of Love"
3. "I Can't Wait" (Ged Grimes, Kit Clark)
4. "If You Really Love Me (Let Me Go)"
5. "If Everything You Said Was True"
6. "Loneliness"
7. "I Was Wrong"
8. "Charlie Boy"
9. "Never Gonna Be the Same"
10. "Desert Hearts" (Gary Clark, Ali Thomson)
11. "N.Y.C. Shanty" (Kit Clark)
12. "Goodbye Shanty Town"
13. "The Ballad of Me and Shirley Maclaine"

Singles

Four songs from the album were released as singles: "The Second Summer of Love" reached number 23 in the UK music charts; "Never Gonna Be the Same" reached number 69; "I Can't Wait" reached number 92; and "If Everything You Said Was True" failed to chart. ^[3]

Personnel

• Gary Clark
• Ged Grimes
• Kit Clark
• Christopher Marra - rhythm guitar, pedal steel, harmonica, tuba
• Brian McDermott, David Palmer - drums
• Frank Rossiter, Gary Thomson - horns on "The Ballad of Me and Shirley Maclaine"
• Ali Thomson - background vocals on "Desert Hearts"

References

1. Bebop Moptop at AllMusic
2. Clark, Pete (September 1989). "Review: Danny Wilson — Bebop Moptop" (PDF). Hi-Fi News & Record Review (magazine). Vol. 34, no. 9. Croydon: Link House Magazines Ltd. p. 103. ISSN   0142-6230. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021– via World Radio History.
3. "Chart History - Danny Wilson: HOT 100". Billboard . Retrieved 29 July 2025.