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• 5CD box set bringing together their two albums as well as all their B-Sides, mixes and a complete live show (some of which has never been heard before).
• The band have been involved in all aspects of the release and have been interviewed extensively for the booklet providing an insight into the band’s history.
Formed in Dundee in 1984 Danny Wilson was best known for its 1988 UK number three hit single ‘Mary's Prayer’.
• For a FREE Danny Wilson postcard enter code DWPOST at checkout!
The band's debut album ‘Meet Danny Wilson’, was released in 1987. The lead single, ‘Mary's Prayer’ reached number three in the UK charts as well as the top 40 in America
The band released its second album, ‘Bebop Moptop’ the following year and produced the hit single ‘The Second Summer of Love’, which reached number 23 in the UK charts.
Tracklist
DISC ONE
Meet Danny Wilson
1 Davy
2 Aberdeen
3 Mary's Prayer
4 Lorraine Parade
5 Nothing Ever Goes to Plan
6 Broken China
7 Steamtrains to the Milky Way
8 Spencer Tracey
9 You Remain an Angel
10 Ruby's Golden Wedding
11 A Girl I Used to Know
12 Five Friendly Aliens
13 I Won't Be Here When You Get Home
DISC TWO
Bebop Moptop
1 Imaginary Girl
2 The Second Summer of Love
3 I Can't Wait
4 If You Really Love Me (Let Me, Go)
5 If Everything You Said Was True
6 Loneliness
7 I Was Wrong
8 Charlie Boy
9 Never Gonna Be the Same
10 Desert Hearts
11 N.Y.C. Shanty
12 Goodbye Shanty Town
13 The Ballad of Me and Shirley Maclaine
DISC THREE
B-Sides / Edits / Mixes
1 I Won't Forget - B-Side Davy
2 Pleasure To Pleasure - B- Side Davy
3 Monkey's Shiny Day - B-Side Marys Prayer
4 Mary's Prairie - B-Side Marys Prayer
5 Kathleen (House Mix) - B- Side Davy
6 Living To Learn - B-Side Davy
7 Kooks - B-Side Marys Prayer
8 Get Happy - B-Side If Everything You Said
9 Growing Emotional - B-Side Second Summer of Love
10 I'll Be Waiting - B-Side Second Summer of Love 11 The Lonesome Road - B- Side If Everything You Said 12 A Girl I Used to Know - Single Mix
13 If Everything You Said Was True - Radio Edit
DISC FOUR
B-Sides / Edits / Mixes
1 A Girl I Used to Know - US Remix with Guitar Solo
2 Mary's Prayer - Paul Staveley O'Duffy Remix
3 Nothing Ever Goes to Plan - Blix Mix '86
4 Aberdeen (The Way it Should Have Been) -
The Strepzil Logic Twelve Inch
5 I Can't Wait - Remix
6 If You Really Love Me (Let Me, Go) - New York Mix
7 From A Boy to A Man - Sweet Danny Wilson Comp
8 Monkey's Shiny Day - Original Demo Version
9 Steam Trains to The Milky Way - Original Demo
10 Broken China - Original Demo
11 A Fragile World - Portastudio
12 St. Jude - Portastudio
13 The Second Summer of Love - The Dundee Demo
DISC FIVE
Live @ London Town & Country Club, 1 October 1990
1 Never Gonna Be the Same
2 Broken China
3 Davy
4 I Was Wrong
5 Lorraine Parade
6 Steamtrains To the Milky Way
7 Charlie Boy
8 Knowing Me Knowing You
9 Imaginary Girl - Everything You Said
10 Aberdeen
11 I Can't Wait
12 Mary's Prayer
13 Loneliness
BONUS TRACKS
14 The Second Summer of Love - Caird Hall, Dundee, 16th September 1989
15 Don't Know Who I Am - live, Studio 5, Tyne Tees Television