Workers Playtime is a 1988 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on the Go! Discs label, it is his fourth release but third full length album. It was reissued on compact disc in September 1996 on the Cooking Vinyl label before being remastered, expanded and reissued in 2006 on the Cooking Vinyl label in the UK and on the Yep Roc label in the United States.
The original album cover has the subtitle "Capitalism Is Killing Music".
The album is referenced in the TV series John Safran's Music Jamboree stating that the album originally appeared with text that the album should not be sold for more than $15 - the label was later removed.
Track listing
All tracks written by Billy Bragg except where noted.
Disc one
"She's Got a New Spell" – 3:26
"Must I Paint You a Picture?" (Extended Version 7:08 Minutes) – 5:32
Workers' Playtime was a British radio variety programme transmitted by the BBC between 1941 and 1964. Originally intended as a morale-booster for industrial workers in Britain during World War II, the programme was broadcast at lunchtime, three times a week, live from a factory canteen "somewhere in Britain", initially on the BBC Home Service (now Radio 4) and, from 1957, on the Light Programme (now Radio 2). For all its 23 years each show concluded with the words from the show's producer, Bill Gates: "Good luck, all workers!"
The programme had the support of the government because the shows were seen as supporting the war effort on the home front. Workers' Playtime was a touring show, with the Ministry of Labour choosing which factory canteens it would visit.
Throughout World War II, Ernest Bevin, the Minister of Labour and National Service, would appear on these shows from time to time to congratulate the workers and exhort them to greater efforts. When the war ended it was realised that the show had worked, which meant that Ernest Bevin wanted Workers' Playtime to continue to raise the morale of the workers, whilst the government rebuilt Britain and the British economy. The BBC, for its part, was very happy to continue with a show which had proved a national success even if it did mean transporting crew, cable, microphones, two pianos, a producer, two pianists and a group of variety artists up and down the country three times a week.
Track name: Workers Playtime
Album: Light Music Light Activity
Composers: Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin
Library: CPM
Uses: SpongeBob SquarePants
published: 04 Apr 2022
Landscape - Workers Playtime 1978 EP
Landscape - From 1978 EP
John Walters - Electric Soprano Sax & Alto Flute
Andy Pask - Fretless & Fretted Basses
Peter Thoms - Electric Trombone
Christopher Heaton - Electric Piano
Richard Burgess - Drums
published: 10 Oct 2020
Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (Official Video)
A heartfelt call to join the struggle for a better world - `You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers’. The classic video features some early photo bombing as Billy joins political figures from Kennedy to Castro onstage.
The Million Things That Never Happened' is out now on CD and Digitally. Buy on CD, stream now and pre-order the 12" vinyl LP to get it at the earliest available date https://BBragg.lnk.to/TMTTNH
Follow Billy Bragg:
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Lyrics:
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady ...
published: 03 Dec 2021
Billy Bragg "Workers Playtime" (1988) Full Album | Vinyl Rip
Original US pressing on Elektra Records
Tracklist
A1 She's Got A New Spell
A2 Must I Paint You A Picture
A3 Tender Comrade
A4 The Price I Pay
A5 Little Time Bomb
A6 Rotting On Remand
B1 Valentine's Day Is Over
B2 Life With The Lions
B3 The Only One
B4 The Short Answer
B5 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
published: 26 Jul 2019
Billy Bragg - The Only One
Del album Workers Playtime (1988)
published: 17 Jan 2012
worker's playtime
working hard on the line
published: 01 Nov 2007
Billy Bragg performs "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards"
Billy Bragg performs "Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards" and also gives an interview on Dave's show in 1988.
published: 19 Jan 2013
Workers' Playtime 8 October 1982
The last programme from a week featuring a revival of the old BBC radio show to mark the 60th anniversary of the BBC.
Introduced by Ray Moore from a record factory in Hayes (the EMI plant) featuring Arthur English, Colin Compton and the Max Harris Trio.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Friday 8 October 1982
published: 12 Jan 2018
Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (1988)
Rare official video from Worker's Playtime album (1988)
published: 21 Apr 2012
Workers Playtime Goes Electric!
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We're back for the November edition of songs, spirits and solidarity! This month, for the first time, we're going electric! The show will still include acoustic gems, but be prepared to rock!
Songs from Billy Bragg; Nirvana (as requested by Diamond Don Ryan); Crowded House and more! Come one, come all!
More About Workers Playtime: WP is a space of music, community, and fun. It's also the name under which the dynamic duo of Matt Gladue on guitar, hollerin', and pontificating and Anna George Meek on violin, vocals, and immense patience make music for the masses.
We started playing weekly shows online when Pandemic started. Now we've moved to monthly shows!
Landscape - From 1978 EP
John Walters - Electric Soprano Sax & Alto Flute
Andy Pask - Fretless & Fretted Basses
Peter Thoms - Electric Trombone
Christopher Heat...
Landscape - From 1978 EP
John Walters - Electric Soprano Sax & Alto Flute
Andy Pask - Fretless & Fretted Basses
Peter Thoms - Electric Trombone
Christopher Heaton - Electric Piano
Richard Burgess - Drums
Landscape - From 1978 EP
John Walters - Electric Soprano Sax & Alto Flute
Andy Pask - Fretless & Fretted Basses
Peter Thoms - Electric Trombone
Christopher Heaton - Electric Piano
Richard Burgess - Drums
A heartfelt call to join the struggle for a better world - `You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers’. The classic video features some...
A heartfelt call to join the struggle for a better world - `You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers’. The classic video features some early photo bombing as Billy joins political figures from Kennedy to Castro onstage.
The Million Things That Never Happened' is out now on CD and Digitally. Buy on CD, stream now and pre-order the 12" vinyl LP to get it at the earliest available date https://BBragg.lnk.to/TMTTNH
Follow Billy Bragg:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billybraggofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/billybragg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billybraggofficial
https://www.billybragg.co.uk/
Lyrics:
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner.
In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle.
In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of someone stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame-filled minutes of the fanzine writer.
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards.
Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
One leap forward, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it.
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole.
If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room.
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a T-shirt away.
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
#BillyBragg #WaitingForTheGreatLeapForwards #TheMillionThingsThatNeverHappened
A heartfelt call to join the struggle for a better world - `You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers’. The classic video features some early photo bombing as Billy joins political figures from Kennedy to Castro onstage.
The Million Things That Never Happened' is out now on CD and Digitally. Buy on CD, stream now and pre-order the 12" vinyl LP to get it at the earliest available date https://BBragg.lnk.to/TMTTNH
Follow Billy Bragg:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billybraggofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/billybragg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billybraggofficial
https://www.billybragg.co.uk/
Lyrics:
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner.
In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle.
In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of someone stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame-filled minutes of the fanzine writer.
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards.
Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
One leap forward, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it.
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole.
If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room.
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a T-shirt away.
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
#BillyBragg #WaitingForTheGreatLeapForwards #TheMillionThingsThatNeverHappened
Original US pressing on Elektra Records
Tracklist
A1 She's Got A New Spell
A2 Must I Paint You A Picture
A3 Tender Comrade
A4 The Price I Pay
A5 Little Tim...
Original US pressing on Elektra Records
Tracklist
A1 She's Got A New Spell
A2 Must I Paint You A Picture
A3 Tender Comrade
A4 The Price I Pay
A5 Little Time Bomb
A6 Rotting On Remand
B1 Valentine's Day Is Over
B2 Life With The Lions
B3 The Only One
B4 The Short Answer
B5 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
Original US pressing on Elektra Records
Tracklist
A1 She's Got A New Spell
A2 Must I Paint You A Picture
A3 Tender Comrade
A4 The Price I Pay
A5 Little Time Bomb
A6 Rotting On Remand
B1 Valentine's Day Is Over
B2 Life With The Lions
B3 The Only One
B4 The Short Answer
B5 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
The last programme from a week featuring a revival of the old BBC radio show to mark the 60th anniversary of the BBC.
Introduced by Ray Moore from a record fact...
The last programme from a week featuring a revival of the old BBC radio show to mark the 60th anniversary of the BBC.
Introduced by Ray Moore from a record factory in Hayes (the EMI plant) featuring Arthur English, Colin Compton and the Max Harris Trio.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Friday 8 October 1982
The last programme from a week featuring a revival of the old BBC radio show to mark the 60th anniversary of the BBC.
Introduced by Ray Moore from a record factory in Hayes (the EMI plant) featuring Arthur English, Colin Compton and the Max Harris Trio.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Friday 8 October 1982
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OMG! It's our YOUTUBE LIVE DEBUT!
We're back for the November edition of songs, spirits and solidarity! This mont...
Powered by Restream https://restream.io/
OMG! It's our YOUTUBE LIVE DEBUT!
We're back for the November edition of songs, spirits and solidarity! This month, for the first time, we're going electric! The show will still include acoustic gems, but be prepared to rock!
Songs from Billy Bragg; Nirvana (as requested by Diamond Don Ryan); Crowded House and more! Come one, come all!
More About Workers Playtime: WP is a space of music, community, and fun. It's also the name under which the dynamic duo of Matt Gladue on guitar, hollerin', and pontificating and Anna George Meek on violin, vocals, and immense patience make music for the masses.
We started playing weekly shows online when Pandemic started. Now we've moved to monthly shows!
Powered by Restream https://restream.io/
OMG! It's our YOUTUBE LIVE DEBUT!
We're back for the November edition of songs, spirits and solidarity! This month, for the first time, we're going electric! The show will still include acoustic gems, but be prepared to rock!
Songs from Billy Bragg; Nirvana (as requested by Diamond Don Ryan); Crowded House and more! Come one, come all!
More About Workers Playtime: WP is a space of music, community, and fun. It's also the name under which the dynamic duo of Matt Gladue on guitar, hollerin', and pontificating and Anna George Meek on violin, vocals, and immense patience make music for the masses.
We started playing weekly shows online when Pandemic started. Now we've moved to monthly shows!
Landscape - From 1978 EP
John Walters - Electric Soprano Sax & Alto Flute
Andy Pask - Fretless & Fretted Basses
Peter Thoms - Electric Trombone
Christopher Heaton - Electric Piano
Richard Burgess - Drums
A heartfelt call to join the struggle for a better world - `You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers’. The classic video features some early photo bombing as Billy joins political figures from Kennedy to Castro onstage.
The Million Things That Never Happened' is out now on CD and Digitally. Buy on CD, stream now and pre-order the 12" vinyl LP to get it at the earliest available date https://BBragg.lnk.to/TMTTNH
Follow Billy Bragg:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billybraggofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/billybragg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billybraggofficial
https://www.billybragg.co.uk/
Lyrics:
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner.
In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle.
In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of someone stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame-filled minutes of the fanzine writer.
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards.
Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
One leap forward, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it.
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole.
If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room.
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a T-shirt away.
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
#BillyBragg #WaitingForTheGreatLeapForwards #TheMillionThingsThatNeverHappened
Original US pressing on Elektra Records
Tracklist
A1 She's Got A New Spell
A2 Must I Paint You A Picture
A3 Tender Comrade
A4 The Price I Pay
A5 Little Time Bomb
A6 Rotting On Remand
B1 Valentine's Day Is Over
B2 Life With The Lions
B3 The Only One
B4 The Short Answer
B5 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
The last programme from a week featuring a revival of the old BBC radio show to mark the 60th anniversary of the BBC.
Introduced by Ray Moore from a record factory in Hayes (the EMI plant) featuring Arthur English, Colin Compton and the Max Harris Trio.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Friday 8 October 1982
Powered by Restream https://restream.io/
OMG! It's our YOUTUBE LIVE DEBUT!
We're back for the November edition of songs, spirits and solidarity! This month, for the first time, we're going electric! The show will still include acoustic gems, but be prepared to rock!
Songs from Billy Bragg; Nirvana (as requested by Diamond Don Ryan); Crowded House and more! Come one, come all!
More About Workers Playtime: WP is a space of music, community, and fun. It's also the name under which the dynamic duo of Matt Gladue on guitar, hollerin', and pontificating and Anna George Meek on violin, vocals, and immense patience make music for the masses.
We started playing weekly shows online when Pandemic started. Now we've moved to monthly shows!
Workers Playtime is a 1988 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on the Go! Discs label, it is his fourth release but third full length album. It was reissued on compact disc in September 1996 on the Cooking Vinyl label before being remastered, expanded and reissued in 2006 on the Cooking Vinyl label in the UK and on the Yep Roc label in the United States.
The original album cover has the subtitle "Capitalism Is Killing Music".
The album is referenced in the TV series John Safran's Music Jamboree stating that the album originally appeared with text that the album should not be sold for more than $15 - the label was later removed.
Track listing
All tracks written by Billy Bragg except where noted.
Disc one
"She's Got a New Spell" – 3:26
"Must I Paint You a Picture?" (Extended Version 7:08 Minutes) – 5:32