Herbert Floog is "a pseudonym which conceals 7 of Britain's top comedians, 6 of whom are not Peter Sellers (The seventh is not Peter Sellers either)".
Participants on the record are Liane Aukin, Ralph Trainer, Sam Hutt, Leon Rosselson, Stephen Sedley, Chris Hilton, James E Butchart.
Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, 1964.
Tracks A4, A5, B1, B2, B3, B5 and B6 are wholly or partly spoken (parodies of political speeches, comedy sketches and so on). The others are conventional songs.
I've just put up the Sydney Carter and Sheila Hancock LP on Transatlantic that preceded this by a few months. Stephen Sedley and Ralph Trainer appear on that LP too. It seems they were moving in the same circles of the CND, WMA, and London political community.
A development. This LP was released in New Zealand too (see linked release below), and the sleeve notes add a good deal of info. I think we should wait for a UK copy to confirm what it says on the sleeve, before amending the details above - although it's probably going to be the same.
Well, a copy has turned up on Ebay. A snip at £200! The label scans show nothing, just a list of song titles. The associated info must be on the back of the sleeve, which doesn't help since the copy for sale has a plain sleeve only, marked "Studio copy".
I agree label scans would be good. We could do with having a chat with Leon about the album and who did what. It would be typical of him to have written the MacMillan, Maudling & Macleod tracks himself and then given them credit. He did similar political songs on the "Songs For City Squares" ep on Topic.
Leon's presence looms largest, but there are others on it, not least Sydney Carter. Also, Ralph Trainer, who was in the Three City Four with Leon. It's difficult to know how to credit the album and individual tracks, given that it's a collaboration. Some good label scans would possibly help. I also wonder about the true origins of the songs (if that's what they are) supposedly written by the politicians.
Leon Rosselson performs all of his own songs on this LP. Each of the other tracks needs individual corrections but it should be considered as more or less a Leon Rosselson LP. I think that he is the only one in the world with a copy though...