When ad hoc studio group Plastic Penny scored a surprise Top Ten hit in early 1968 with an orch-pop cover of Box Tops B-side 'Everything I Am', a band of that name was quickly put together by session singer Brian Keith. Although Keith quickly dropped out to pursue a solo career, Plastic Penny stayed together for around eighteen months, with future Chicken Shack/Savoy Brown/UFO stalwart Paul Raymond sharing lead vocal duties with subsequent Elton John Band drummer Nigel Olsson. Completed by future Procol Harum guitarist Mick Grabham and Troggs-bound bassist Tony Murray, Plastic Penny recorded two fine albums - including such bona fide UK psych-pop masterpieces as 'Mrs Grundy' and 'Your Way To Tell Me Go' - before the final line-up morphed into country-rockers Cochise in the second half of 1969. Everything I Am: The Complete Plastic Penny does exactly what it says on the tin, assembling everything the band recorded during their brief lifespan under one roof: mono and stereo versions of debut album "Two Sides Of A Penny", the stereo-only follow-up "Currency", non-album singles, alternative versions and mixes, foreign language recordings, the studio outtake 'Celebrity Ball' and, most intriguingly of all, forty-five minutes of BBC recordings in pristine sound quality.
13 No Pleasure Without Pain My Love (Single Version)
14 Nobody Knows It
15 Happy Just to Be with You
16 Guarda Nel Cielo (Nobody Knows It)
17 Tutto Quel Che Ho (Everything I Am)
- Disc 2 -
1 Everything I Am
2 Wake Me Up
3 Never My Love
4 Genevieve
5 No Pleasure Without Pain My Love
6 So Much Older Now
7 Mrs. Grundy
8 Take Me Back
9 I Want You
10 It's a Good Thing
11 Strawberry Fields Forever
12 Turning Night Into Day
13 Everything I Am
14 Take Me Back
15 Everything I Am
16 No Pleasure Without Pain My Love
17 It's a Good Thing
18 It's a Good Thing
19 Nobody Knows It
20 So Much Older Now
- Disc 3 -
1 Your Way to Tell Me Go
2 The Shelter of Your Arms
3 Give Me Money
4 Killing Floor
5 Strawberry Fields Forever
6 Your Way to Tell Me Go
7 Hound Dog
8 Currency
9 Caledonian Mission
10 MacArthur Park
11 Turn to Me
12 Baby You're Not to Blame
13 Give Me Money
14 Sour Suite
15 Your Way to Tell Me Go (Single Version)
16 Baby You're Not to Blame (Single Version)
17 Hound Dog (Single Version)
18 Currency (Single Version)
19 Celebrity Ball
20 She Does
21 Genevieve (Single Version)
When ad hoc studio group Plastic Penny scored a surprise Top Ten hit in early 1968 with an orch-pop cover of Box Tops B-side 'Everything I Am', a band of that name was quickly put together by session singer Brian Keith. Although Keith quickly dropped out to pursue a solo career, Plastic Penny stayed together for around eighteen months, with future Chicken Shack/Savoy Brown/UFO stalwart Paul Raymond sharing lead vocal duties with subsequent Elton John Band drummer Nigel Olsson. Completed by future Procol Harum guitarist Mick Grabham and Troggs-bound bassist Tony Murray, Plastic Penny recorded two fine albums - including such bona fide UK psych-pop masterpieces as 'Mrs Grundy' and 'Your Way To Tell Me Go' - before the final line-up morphed into country-rockers Cochise in the second half of 1969. Everything I Am: The Complete Plastic Penny does exactly what it says on the tin, assembling everything the band recorded during their brief lifespan under one roof: mono and stereo versions of debut album "Two Sides Of A Penny", the stereo-only follow-up "Currency", non-album singles, alternative versions and mixes, foreign language recordings, the studio outtake 'Celebrity Ball' and, most intriguingly of all, forty-five minutes of BBC recordings in pristine sound quality.