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Plimpy The Belkinsop
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An instrumental with a vague connection to a railway journey, the invention of steam locomotion and Pliny the Younger. You'll have to read the full story on the song page. lol.
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Original songs from the mid to late 1970's. My first adventures in songwriting and performing. Good times
It exists therefore it am. They came from inner space and left no turn unstoned. The journey began and nothing was ever the same again (or during). Are you ready to cruise with the Spaceship Vicar?
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Genre
Rock • Instrumental Rock
Charts
#292 in subgenre Peak #7
Charts
Peak #69
Author
Adrian J Pratt
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Adrian J Pratt 1973
Uploaded
March 28, 2022
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MP3 13.0 MB • 320 kbps • 5:40
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FLAC 61.6 MB
Story behind the song
This tune began (and survives) as a piece I liked to play on the piano as a kid. Not sure where exactly the tune came from. A mixture of Neil Inne's 'Twyfords Vitromont" and a forgotten track on a Stackridge album! I recall performing a version of it "live" with Mr Grumbold. The name came from a train journey from Liverpool's Lime Street Station. I recall looking out the window and passing a factory called "Blenkinsop's"... that I misread as "Belkinsop." I have no idea if the factory was in any way related to the Blenkinsop who invented one of the first ever commercial steam railway trains, succesfully used in Northern Colliery's before Stevenson ever invented the Rocket. But I was on a train at the time. The name "Plimpy" came fronm a school history class on "Pliny the Younger," who in AD62, witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried Pompei in molten lava. The tune could have been called "Pliny the Blenkinsop" but to my young mind "Plimpy the Belkinsop" sounded far more amusing.
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