- poetry, spoken word
- 47 min
- 31 tracks
- Virgin
Velvet Donkey is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1975 on Virgin Records. Cutler is joined on the record by Fred Frith who plays viola on several tracks, and by Phyllis King who reads six of her own poems and short stories and is also credited with designing the album cover.
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Tracks
- 1If Your Breasts0:09
- 2I Got No Common Sense0:34
- 3Useful Cat0:27
- 4Oho My Eyes1:30
- 5The Dirty Dinner3:34
- 6Yellow Fly1:37
- 7Mother's Love0:25
- 8The Meadows Go1:12
- 9Phonic Poem0:47
- 10Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume 2: EP. 23:40
- 11Birdswing0:49
- 12Nobody Knows1:54
- 13Uneventful Day0:31
- 14Little Black Buzzer1:53
- 15Bread and Butter0:43
- 16A Nuance0:35
- 17Go and Sit Upon the Grass2:09
- 18The Even Keel0:37
- 19Pearly Gleam1:54
- 20The Best Thing0:22
- 21Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Volume 2: EP. 73:34
- 22Once Upon a Time0:49
- 23There's Got to Be Something2:01
- 24The Purposeful Culinary Implements1:10
- 25Gee Amn't I Lucky1:34
- 26The Curse2:07
- 27I Think Very Deeply0:54
- 28I, Slowly0:24
- 29Sleepy Old Snake2:33
- 30Titchy Digits0:32
- 31The Stranger6:00
31 tracks, 47 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Ivor Cutler
- Label
- Virgin
- Released
- 1975
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Cassette
- Country
- GB
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