The Sounds Of London

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Album Info

Release Date: 1967

Label: Sonologue

A souvenir record ready to post, basically sounds from out and about in London, 1967.

Side One
Changing the Horse Guard at Whitehall / Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace / Wallace Collection - period clocks / A Taxi Ride / Waterloo Station / The Bells of St. Clements' "Oranges and Lemons" / Fleet Street - presses and typewriters / news sellers / Speakers' Corner at Marble Arch / Trafalgar Square - the great fountains / House of Commons - the division bell which summons members to vote / A Bus Ride / St. Paul's Cathedral - a service and the whispering gallery / Lloyd's of London - a "watiter" in the underwriting room pages insurange brokers; the Lutine Bell.

Side Two
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese wine cellar / Westminster Abbey bells / the Underground - wheels screech, doors open and close, etc / The Tower of London - a Beefeater conducts a tour; the Ceremony of the Keys / Crockford's - famous old gambling club / Big Ben / singing at The Prospect of Whitby, an East End pub / a Thames riverboat / A Fog Horn / A Bobby on Patrol / Soho / Billingsgate Market - gulls squeal as fish carts clatter on cobblestones / Bow Bells / Carnaby Street / Piccadilly Circus - harmonica player, traffic, accordionist, emergency vehicles / street hawkers - a flower girl and a vendor of topy spiders / Sotheby's Auction ROoms / Petticoat Lane - Sunday street market / The Elizabethan Room - Gore Hotel's version of 16th century tavern.