Percy
The Kinks - CD
- Artist: The Kinks
- Format: CD
- Year: 1992, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007
- UPC: 4988017650363
- Item Number: MSI765036
- Release date: 12/16/2009
- 1. God's Children
- 2. Lola [Instrumental]
- 3. Way Love Used to Be
- 4. Completely
- 5. Running Round Town
- 6. Moments
- 7. Animals in the Zoo
- 8. Just Friends
- 9. Whip Lady
- 10. Dreams
- 11. Helga
- 12. Willesden Green
- 13. God's Children - End
List Price:
$47.98
Price: $39.34
You Save: $8.64 (18%)
You Save: $8.64 (18%)
Free Shipping
Unavailable
Percy by The Kinks on CD
Ray Davies and company had already participated in one failed television musical when the movie Percy came along -- it wasn't as original as Arthur, nor did Davies have nearly as much to do with its creation, but he still outdid himself given the material at hand. Directed and co-produced by Ralph Thomas, who had been responsible for some brilliant thrillers (The Clouded Yellow, Above Us the Waves) and very popular comedies (Doctor in the House) in past decades, Percy was the story of the world's first penis transplant (it was probably inspired, or at least justified, by big-budget efforts of the period like Myra Breckinridge). Although virtually unseen in the United States, it was still popular enough to yield a sequel (Percy's Progress), but its real impact came from its soundtrack. Davies wrote some hauntingly beautiful ballads and some solid blues and country as well -- "God's Children" and "Animals in the Zoo" have turned up on some career anthologies, but there's a lot more to Percy than those two tracks. "Completely" is as fine a slow blues as the band ever recorded, with a sizzling performance by Dave Davies, and "Dreams" is a pretty solid rocker, even up alongside "Animals in the Zoo." To this day the album has never appeared in the U.S. catalog -- recorded at the tail end of their contract with Pye Records in England and Warner/Reprise in America, and connected with a movie that was never going to see much exposure in the U.S.A., Reprise passed on it at the time. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
- Artist: The Kinks
- Format: CD
- Year: 1992, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007
- UPC: 4988017650363
- Item Number: MSI765036
- Release date: 12/16/2009
- Label: Castle Communications, Castle Music Ltd., Essential Records, Pye, Sanctuary
- Genre: Rock
- Style: Album Rock, British Invasion, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Film Music, Original Score, Soundtracks
- Album Type: Soundtrack
-
Cast:
- Hywel Bennett - Edwin Anthony
- Denise Coffey - 1st Operator
- Graham Crowden - Alfred Spaulton
- Tracey Crisp - Miss Elder
- Pauline Delaney - Sister Flanagan
- Antonia Ellis - Rita La Rousse
- Arthur English - M.C.
- Britt Ekland - Dorothy Chiltern-Barlow
- Denholm Elliott - Emmanuel Whitbread
- Julia Foster - Marilyn
- Charles Hodgson - TV Interviewer
- Cyd Hayman - Moira Warrington
- Janet Key - Hazel
- Sue Lloyd - Bernice
- Angus MacKay - TV Producer
- Eddie Malin - Elderly Patient
- Patrick Mower - James Vaile
- T.P. McKenna - Meet the People Compere
- Adrienne Posta - Maggie Hyde
- Tracy Reed - Mrs. Penney
- Elke Sommer - Helga
- Margaretta Scott - Rita's Mother
- Sheila Steafel - Mrs. Gold
- Rita Webb - Mrs. Hedges
-
Credits:
- Ralph Thomas - Director
- Betty E. Box - Producer
- Hugh Leonard - Screenwriter
- Raymond Hitchcock - Book Author
- Terence Feely - Screenwriter
- Ernest W. Steward - Cinematographer
- Raymond Douglas Davies - Composer (Music Score)
- Roy Watts - Editor
- Robert Jones - Art Director
- Chris Cook - Set Designer
- Emma Porteous - Costume Designer
- Paul LeMare - Sound/Sound Designer
- Eddie Knight - Makeup
- Derek Whitehurst - First Assistant Director
