"My two biggest successes would have to be the Rolling Stones and the Small Faces; equally satisfying, but not as commercially successful, was Duncan Browne. Duncan was amazing...so talented. It may have said on the records 'Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham', but all I did was book the studio and watch the lad do his magic. And magic it was." Thus spake former Stones manager Andrew Oldham, who signed the late Duncan Browne to his record label, Immediate, in 1967. Oldham duly oversaw the recording of Duncan's 1968 debut album Give Me Take You, which, as with several other Oldham projects of the time (notably the Billy Nicholls album Would You Believe), only received limited distribution due to Immediate's crippling financial problems. Now widely acknowledged as a genuine UK baroque pop/psychedelic folk classic, Give Me Take You has long been a heavily sought-after album on the collectors' circuit, with original copies selling for several hundred pounds. It has also attracted significant critical acclaim, being described by one monthly music magazine as "an English Astral Weeks", and regularly compared to such Spirit of the Age masterpieces as The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, the Zombies' Odessey & Oracle and Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left.
01 Give me take you 02 Ninepence worth of walking 03 Dwarf in a tree (a cautionary tale) 04 The ghost walks 05 Waking you (part 1) 06 Chloe in the garden 07 Waking you (part 2) 08 On the bombsite 09 I was you weren't 10 Gabilan 11 Alfred bell 12 The death of neil
13 On the bombsite (bonus) 14 The cherry blossom fool (bonus) 15 Give me take you (rehearsal bonus) 16 Ninepence worth of walking (rehe bonus) 17 On the bombsite (rehearsal bonus) 18 I was you weren't (rehearsal bonus) 19 The death of neil (rehearsal bonus) 20 On the bombsite (mono single vers bonus) 21 Alfred bell (mono single version bonus) 22 Here and now (recorded as lorel bonus)