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The Black Swan
Format: LP
Label: White Hot Records (L 30057), Island Records (UK) (ILPS9928), later re-issued on CD Mushroom (MUSH32422.2)
Tracks: Too Hot To Move, Too Hot To Think / American Sailors / Falling Ovr You / Goodbye Little Boy / Bottle Of Love / The Spinning Top Song /Butterflies Into Worms / New Year’s Greetings / Good Fortune Rose / One Mechanic Town / Blackeyed Susan / The Clown Prince / Fairytale Love
Line-Up: Jill Birt (keyboards, organ, programming & vocals), David McComb (lead vocals, guitar, piano, organ, glock, & happy whistler), Alsy MacDonald (drums, tambourine, programming & claves), Graham Lee (lap steel, guitar, vocals & banjo), Martyn Casey (bass & vocals), Rob McComb (guitar, mandolin & harmonica) with guests Adam Peters (cello, organ & loops), Phil Kakalus (double bass, bazouki, percussion, guiro & guitar), Jack Embow (accordian), Rita Menendez (vocals), Stephen Street (drum machine & shaker), John Metcaife (viola), Helen Cummings (viola), Kathy Shave (violin), Louise Fuller (violin), Robert Wolard (cello), Richael Maguire (cello), Andrew Davies (double bass)
Release Date: April 1989
Production Credits: All songs recorded The Justice Room, Cathanger, Somerset, September-October 1988, mixed at The Fallout Shelter, London, November 1988, produced and engineered by Stephen Street, assistant engineer Giles Adam, assistants Ingmar King and Ed Buller
Notes: A film clip was made for the song Goodbye Little Boy. At the time of making this album Stephen Street declared it better than any of The Smiths records he worked on. This was after we had managed to get the notoriously clean living Street roaring drunk, however.
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