Cellophane (The Troggs album)

Cellophane
The Troggs photographed with fissures over the photo and the tracks listed to the side
Studio album by
Released8 December 1967 (1967-12-08)[1]
Genre
Length30:57
LanguageEnglish
LabelPage One
The Troggs chronology
Trogglodynamite
(1967)
Cellophane
(1967)
Mixed Bag
(1968)

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

Reception[edit]

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[edit]

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

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

Personnel[edit]

The Troggs

Additional personnel

  • Keith Altham – liner notes
  • Eroc – remastering at Eroc's Mastering Ranch (CD re-release)
  • Mainartery – design (CD re-release)
  • Chris Welch – liner notes (CD re-release)
  • Barry Wentzell – cover photography

References[edit]

  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. ^ a b 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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