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The World Beaters Sing The World Beaters is an album by the 1970 England World Cup squad created as a spin-off to the success of the song Back Home. The album featuring songs such as a recording of "Sugar Sugar" by Bobby Moore and Francis Lee.[1] The album was issued by Pye with a football shaped sleeve,[2] and reached the UK top 5.[3] The album was arranged by Phil Coulter and produced by Coulter and Bill Martin.[4] Aside from the single "Back Home" and B-side "Cinnamon Stick", the album featured a third original Martin-Coulter composition "Glory-O", which was re-recorded two years later by a marching band directed by Martin and Coulter as the B-side of the songwriter's Philips single of the Munich 1972 Summer Olympics fanfare composed by Herbert Rehbein.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)VocalsLength
1."Back Home"Martin, Coulter 2.07
2."Sugar, Sugar"Kim, BarryMoore, Lee2:33
3."Lovey-Dovey"Martin, CoulterBanks2:25
4."Lily the Pink"Gorman, McGear, McGoughHurst, Astle, Bonetti4:14
5."You're in my Arms"Martin, CoulterAstle2:42
6."Puppet on a String"Martin, Coulter 2:10
7."Congratulations"Martin, Coulter 2:32
8."Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"Lennon, McCartneyPeters, Hunter, Cooper, Wright, Moore2:52
9."Glory-O"Martin, CoulterBall, Hughes2:29
10."Make Me an Island"Hammond, Hazlewood 2:53
11."Cinnamon Stick"Martin, CoulterLabone, Lee2:08
12."There'll Always Be An England"Charles, ParkerBall, Moore, Charlton2:50

Reissues

Moore's contributions were reissued on Forever Blowing Bubbles a 1997 compilation album by West Ham United FC and supporters. The track listing includes:

  1. West Ham United — Boleyn Boys with the 1975 FA Cup Final West Ham United squad
  2. Oh Sweet England — Moore, Hurst & Peters with the 1975 FA Cup Final West Ham United squad
  3. Sugar Sugar - Bobby Moore & Friends
  4. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Cockney Rejects
  5. West Side Boys — Cockney Rejects
  6. Viva Bobby Moore - The Business
  7. Bobby Moore Was Innocent - Serious Drinking
  8. Leroys Boots - Barmy Army
  9. Devo - Barmy Army
  10. Blunted Irons — United Nations
  11. Billy Bonds MBE — Barmy Army
  12. Come on You Irons - Rainbow's Quest
  13. Bobby Moore's legs — Barmy Army
  14. Up the Hammers — Alf's Army
  15. Over Land & Sea - Chicken Iron
  16. Terminator - Flat Back Four

References

  1. ^ The Rough Guide to Cult Football "the Back Home album contained such treasures as Bobby Moore and Francis Lee singing "Sugar Sugar":
  2. ^ Gramophone 1970 p.230 "you may enjoy the singalong .. more than I did, but I must congratulate Pye on the cleverly designed and shaped sleeve in the shape of a football"
  3. ^ Dave McAleer The All Music Book of Hit Albums 1995 p.98
  4. ^ "1970 England Football Squad, The* – The World Beaters Sing The World Beaters". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 25 November 2014.


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