Savoy Records: The Mugwump Dance

The Mugwump Dance

PJ Proby

1987

Savoy Niggertron Records

PJS4

12"

A 45rpm

The Mugwump Dance
(Smith)

B 33.3rpm

Pools Of Thought
(Smith)

I Was Born A Poor
White Boy In Niggertown
(Smith)

Recorded in the UK at Suite 16, Rochdale, and The Pink Studio, Liverpool. Mixed at The Pink Studio.

The Mugwump Dance and Pools Of Thought available on the Savoy Sessions CD

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Record sleeve text:

Savoy + Def-Jam + Rock'n'Roll = ART

"Be uncomfortable, be sand, not oil, in the machinery of the world."

Günter Eich

Record label text:

"Sleepin' on his mugwump, playing on his Jew's harp, music crawlin' into your skin,
"Daddy in his Zoot suit, mammy playin' skin flute, sister makes a swine-hair grin,

"Doin' that crazy Cajun cakewalk dance!"

"Savoy + Def-Jam + Rock'n'Roll = ART. The Mugwump Dance is a crazed electronic slab of sci-fi—a potential dancefloor killer. PJ Proby has made a Swamp Rock Def Jam distorted feedback ju-ju nightmare of a disc that'll have us all crawling the walls with him, and naturally it's brilliant. The man's a genius."

KRIS KIRK, Melody Maker

"The most commercial track is Proby's own composition The Mugwump Dance, with its vicious dancefloor beat."

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