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Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 box set by sixties band The Idle Race. the box set contains all three official studio albums and non album singles and b-sides, released in 1996 on EMI's short-lived "Premier" series and the original CD featured the earliest known tracks featuring Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne

Jeffrey "Jeff" Lynne is an English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys together with George Harrison, Bob...

 in The Nightriders it quickly went out of print. In 2007 the 2 CD set was re-released on EMI's newly reconstituted "Zonophone" label minus the Nightriders tracks.

Tracks

• CD One

(The Birthday Party)

1. The Skeleton And The Roundabout
2. Happy Birthday
3. The Birthday
4. I Like My Toys
5. Morning Sunshine
6. Follow Me Follow
7. Sitting In My Tree (mono)
8. On With The Show
9. Lucky Man
10. (Don't Put Your Boys In The Army) Mrs. Ward
11. Pie In The Sky
12. The Lady who Said She Could Fly
13. End Of The Road

(Idle Race

Idle Race (album)

Idle Race is the self-titled follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed debut LP, "The Birthday Party".Released in November 1969, this record was the first to bear the famous Produced By Jeff Lynne tag. While the album was more straightforward and poppy than its predecessor, like the first Idle...

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1. Come With Me (rechanneled to simulate stereo)
2. Sea Of Dreams
3. Going Home
4. Reminds Me Of You
5. Mr. Crow and Sir Norman
6. Please No More Sad Songs
7. Girl At The Window
8. Big Chief Woolley Bosher
9. Someone Knocking
10. A Better Life (The Weather Man Knows)
11. Hurry Up John

Alternative Versions

1. Lucky Man (mono)
2. Follow Me Follow (mono)
3. Days Of Broken Arrows (mono)

• CD Two

(Non-album Tracks)

1. (Here We Go 'Round) The Lemon Tree (mono)
2. My Father's Son (mono)
3. Imposters Of Life's Magazine (mono)
4. Knocking Nails Into My House (mono)
5. Days Of The Broken Arrows (mono)
6. Worn Red Carpet (mono)
7. In The Summertime
8. Told You Twice
9. Neanderthal Man (rechanneled to simulate stereo)
10. Victim Of Circumstance ((rechanneled to simulate stereo)

(Time Is

Time Is

Time Is is the final studio album recorded by The Idle Race. It was recorded in 1970 after Jeff Lynne had left the band. He was replaced by vocalist Dave Walker and guitarist Mike Hopkins.-Track listing:#"Dancing Flower" – 2:14...

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1. Dancing Flower
2. Sad O'Sad
3. The Clock
4. I Will See You
5. By The Sun
6. Alcatraz
7. And The Rain
8. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune
9. Bitter Green
10. We Want It All

• 21. It's Only the Dog (mono)
• 22. Your Friend (mono)
• These last two tracks by The Nightriders appear only on the original 1996 release