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Picadilly Line

The Huge World Of Emily Small

Very Rare original French LP released on Pink Elephant Records in 1973. 1st UK Mono pressing on the Orange CBS label, the  sleeve is laminated on the front and has the CBS inner sleeve.

Matrix No's

Side One - 63129 A1

Side Two - 63129 B1

The British group might be more  famed for evolving into Edwards Hand, who had a couple albums produced by George  Martin. Before that, however, Picadilly Line put out an obscure album on CBS,  1967's The Huge World of Emily Small, in the lightest and poppiest side of the  British pop-psychedelic style. They also did a couple non-LP singles, one of  which, "Yellow Rainbow," was written by then-Hollie Graham Nash.

The Picadilly Line's sole album is  one of the recordings that most epitomizes what has been retrospectively dubbed  the "toytown" school of British psychedelia by collectors. That is, the songs  bounce along daintily; the vocal emphasis is on high harmonies; the lyrics are  sometimes populated with observations of British everyday life and characters,  sprinkled with a coat of whimsy; and the arrangements benefit from touches of  baroque orchestration. It's executed here, however, with a fey, twee touch that  makes the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, for instance, sound rough 'n' ready by  comparison. It's thus going to be too light even for some British psychedelic  pop enthusiasts, but it's not quite the most saccharine entry in the genre,  though it's undeniably precious. There's a folky lightness that keeps this from  being too wide-eyed and childish, sometimes sounding a bit like Simon &  Garfunkel gone toytown, though with some similarities to both the 1967-era  Beatles and '60s California pop in the vocals and arrangements. The covers of  Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" and the Everly Brothers' "Gone, Gone, Gone,"  however, seem misplaced in these surroundings. The CD reissue adds ten bonus  cuts of a similar nature (though they're sometimes marginally gutsier) and the  same level of professionalism, including all three of their non-LP cuts that  appeared on singles in 1968. Of these, the one of most interest is "Yellow  Rainbow," as it was written by Graham Nash, then of the Hollies.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

1 Emily Small (The Huge World  Thereof) 2:28
2 Silver Paper Dress 2:42
3 At The Third Stroke 2:56
4 Can You See Me? 2:08
5 Your Dog Won't Bark 2:55
6 How Could You Say You're Leaving Me? 2:37
7 Gone, Gone, Gone 2:17

Side Two

1 Twiggs 3:44
2 Tumble Down World 2:50
3 Visions Of Johanna 6:08
4 Come And Sing A Song 2:57
5 Her Name Is Easy 3:25

 

Released on CBS Records in 1967

Catalogue Number 63129

Record is in Ex condition (few light surface marks)

Sleeve is in Ex condition (the  laminate is really nice but as you can see in the photos the front has a slight  ripple at the opening edge)

 

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