Captain & The Kings

[Alex]

You have to check out this gem by our man Mr C!
It took me almost a year to find it on CD on ebay. (VA - From Hell To Obscurity - Demon Records). It first appeared on a single in 1983, I think Costello was the producer. This CD is out of press, so I thought it's only right to post it on the ftp (Upload folder).
By the way does anybody know who wrote the music? Was it also Behan?

[philipchevron]

You have to check out this gem by our man Mr C!
It took me almost a year to find it on CD on ebay. (VA - From Hell To Obscurity - Demon Records). It first appeared on a single in 1983, I think Costello was the producer. This CD is out of press, so I thought it's only right to post it on the ftp (Upload folder).
By the way does anybody know who wrote the music? Was it also Behan?

I think Behan wrote the music or adapted it from a folk source. This, at least, is the assumption myself and Elvis made at the time, though I confess I do not actually know the tune from anywhere else. My version has a small string orchestra under the baton of David Bedford, who wrote the new orchestration especially for me.

Behan claimed to have written the song in 5 minutes at the barrel of his publisher's gun! It is sung by the character Monsewer in the play THE HOSTAGE.

This track and its B side Faithful Departed are also available individually on the CDS Life In The Folk Lane Vols 1 & 2 though I couldn't say if these are still in catalogue or not.

Elvis and I recorded these tracks in London in July 1983, so they pre-date his involvement with The Pogues as a band by some months.

[Alex]

This track and its B side Faithful Departed are also available individually on the CDS Life In The Folk Lane Vols 1 & 2 though I couldn't say if these are still in catalogue or not.

Seems like both Life In The Folk Lane are out of print, too. Didn't know that Captain & Kings is also on Vol.1, I guess it's easier to find that that From Hell To Obscuritiy.

Have any tracks from your EP "Songs from Bills Dancehall" ever appeared on CD?

[philipchevron]

Have any tracks from your EP "Songs from Bills Dancehall" ever appeared on CD?

not so far

[johnfoyle]

`Captains is on

Amazon.com

Life in the Folk Lane
Audio CD (May 24, 1995)

Label: Demon Records
Catalog: #722
ASIN: B000001187

and

'Faithful is on

Amazon.com

Life In The Folk Lane, Vol. 2

Audio CD (December 15, 1995)

Original Release Date: December 15, 1995

Number of Discs: 1
Label: Diablo Records
Catalog: #808

see also -

ElvisCostelloFans.com

[philipchevron]

Declanologists may want to know that as well as producing (with Colin Fairley) Elvis plays Hammond Organ, Spanish Guitar, Piano and Bass on "Faithful Departed". That is, he plays everything except rhythm acoustic and tambourine (both me). The Rainfall ("by Big G" as Elvis's sleeve credits claim) was real: I sang the song in one take under the studio's conservatory roof as a July rainstorm pounded down.

The nature of the summer rain meant that there was only a small window of opportunity to get the take - that is, it had to be done in a single take, vocal repairs were not possible. This is very evident to me on at least one of the choruses when I slip into the key of Z Minor momentarily. But hey! I suffered for my art, why shouldn't you??

[Rich]

Z minor: the zaddest of all keys.

[soulfinger]

Z minor: the zaddest of all keys.

Oh no, I'm mortified! I've been inadvertantly playing my new(ish) accordion in z minor and hadn't realised it was a sad key. I thought I was just rubbish..............

[aitor]

i saw this record recently by Philip Chevron. I did not know nothing about it, can anyone iluminate me???

[philipchevron]

i saw this record recently by Philip Chevron. I did not kno nothing about it, can anyone iluminate me???

http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2498

[aitor]

Mr Chevron,thanks very much for the info, i bought it in vinyl 7" for my collection

[DzM]

i saw this record recently by Philip Chevron. I did not kno nothing about it, can anyone iluminate me???

http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2498

An answer that terse? Nothing but a link? You should be a moderator! You'd fit right in.

[philipchevron]

i saw this record recently by Philip Chevron. I did not kno nothing about it, can anyone iluminate me???

http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2498

An answer that terse? Nothing but a link? You should be a moderator? You'd fit right in.

Pogues Press officers always alert interviewers - "Don't ask Chevron to tell you how the Pogues got together, he'll just get annoyed at you for not doing your homework". I try to avoid needless repetition. I said I try to avoid needless repetition.

[aitor]

i mean i did not know nothing about the "capitains and king", not about philip chevron, or how pogues were form, i know it for the last 21 years.

Think that i live in the canary islands, where to find a Pogues record in 1987 was impossible or very difficult, i remember going to my record shop, ask for hells ditch, and nobody knew nothing, and wait 3 months or more to receive it as a special order. it has been very hard for me to make my collection, that i think is a good one.

i didn´t want to annoy Mr Chevron with subjects that were discussed before.


thanks

[Michaelo]

I regret not buying The Captains and the Kings 7" when I saw it in the Record and Tape Exchange back in the late 1980's. I didn't realise how rare it was back then and it cost a bit more than I could really afford. I have never seen it again since.