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• The Jazz Butcher - Rebecca Wants Her Bike Back

• Rag Dolls - Sparrows
• Nikki Sudden - Missionary Boy
• The Jazz Butcher - The Chinese Envoy (John Cale)
Sad Go Round - Elephant Flowers

The Jazz Butcher cover version is unavailable elsewhere. Interestingly enough, the same must be said about the other contributions ... The Rag Dolls were an early and short-living band of Dave Kusworth (Jacobites), Missionary Boy features Nikki Sudden himself on vocals (and is therefore better than the version that appears on The Bible Belt LP with Lizard on vocals) while Sad Go Round was The Swell Maps (!) in disguise. Obviously essential, this highly sought after split single came with a fanzine.

• The Jazz Butcher & Max Eider - Olof Palme

The Jazz Butcher contribution coincided with the release of The Gift of Music. Here again, this compilation-tape came with a fanzine and was also available as a limited package with the "Uncle Arthur's Pop Parlour" compilation-tape in addition.

(UK/Situation Two SITU 17/'86)

• The Jazz Butcher - Lost In France

The Jazz Butcher contribution subsequently appeared as an additional track on The Gift of Music(only).

(UK/Glass GLALP 019/'86)
Note: Limited edition on clear vinyl.

• The Jazz Butcher - City Of Night

The Jazz Butcher contribution subsequently appeared on the Big Questions LP/CD. Having said that, this album also includes an early studio version of "Leaving It Up To You (Cale)" by Max Eider with Pat Fish on guitar as well as "Fear (Is A Man's Best Friend)" by David J. and a different version of "2:35" by Spacemen 3 amongst others.

• The Jazz Butcher - Affection (Richman)

A lovely interpretation of the Jonathan Richman classic which was originally released in 1979 on the Back In Your Life LP by Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers. The cover version can also be found on the Affection 12".

• The Jazz Butcher - Lot 49

Previously available on the Fishcotheque LP/CD.

• The Jazz Butcher - Girl-Go (L.A.)

"Another track from that L.A. babe, Deirdre O'Donahue's radio show."

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What a nice way to turn seventeen sleeve pol.dodu... Pol Dodu, France 20Sep2009 6:30 AM (2 years 136 days ago) Hi there, There was indeed a sleeve for the What a nice way to turn seventeen 2 single...! Yes, the single was housed in a plain white paper bag, but inside the fanzine there was a page you had to pull out, cut and paste to make the sleeve. You can see it here : http://vivonzeureux.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-nice-way-to-turn-seventeen-2.html Also on this page are pics from a Jazz Butcher gig at The Living Room in London in July 1984.