Cellophane (The Troggs album)

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Cellophane
The Troggs - Cellophane.jpg
Studio album by
The Troggs
Released8 December 1967 (1967-12-08) [1]
Genre
Length30:57
LanguageEnglish
Label Page One
The Troggs chronology
Trogglodynamite
(1967)		Cellophane
(1967)		 Mixed Bag
(1968)

Cellophane is a 1967 studio album by British garage rock band The Troggs.

Contents

Reception

Editors of AllMusic Guide scored Cellophane three out of five stars, with reviewer Richie Unterberger, noting that the shift to psychedelia was a good choice, but the songwriting is weak. [3] In Colin Larkin's The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, he scores this release four out of five stars. [4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Little Red Donkey" (Chris Britton, Pete Staples, Reg Presley, and Ronnie Bond) – 2:13
  2. "Too Much of a Good Thing" (John Gillard, Terry Fogg) – 2:47
  3. "Butterflies and Bees" (Britton) – 1:54
  4. "All of the Time" (Presley) – 2:08
  5. "Seventeen" (Presley) – 2:38
  6. "Somewhere My Girl Is Waiting" (Art Wayne) – 2:49

Side two

  1. "It's Showing" (Presley) – 2:54
  2. "Her Emotion" (Presley) – 2:28
  3. "When Will the Rain Come" (Bond) – 2:40
  4. "My Lady" (Presley) – 2:57
  5. "Come the Day" (Bond) – 1:52
  6. "Love Is All Around" (Presley) – 2:58

2004 CD bonus tracks

  2. "That's What You Get Girl" (Dave Wright, Reginald Ball) – 1:59
  3. "I Don't Know Why" (Wright, Ball) – 2:50
  4. "Easy Loving" (Harold Spiro, Valerie Avon) – 2:58
  5. "Give Me Something" (Staples) – 3:25
  6. "Lover" (Britton" – 2:24
  7. "Come Now" (Bond, Britton, Tony Murray, Presley) – 2:18
  8. "The Raver" (Presley) – 2:46
  9. "You" (Bond, Britton, Murray, Presley) – 2:32
  10. Ronnie Bond – "Carolyn" (Jule Styne, Sammy Fay) – 2:31
  11. Ronnie Bond – "Anything for You" (Ben Findon) – 2:35
  12. Reg Presely – "Lucinda Lee" (Presley) – 3:05
  13. Reg Presley – "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:05

Personnel

The Troggs

Additional personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Pop Talk" (PDF). Record Mirror . 11 November 1967. p. 4. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  2. ↑ Chapman, Rob (September 2015). Psychedelia and Other Colours. Faber & Faber. ISBN   9780571282753.
  3. 1 2 Unterberger, Richie. "The Troggs – Cellophane". AllMusic Guide . Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1919. ISBN   9780857125958.
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