HONEYBUS - Recital & More: The Pete Dello Years (2LP)

HONEYBUS - "Recital & More: The Pete Dello Years" (2LP) (HPR-079//MAPA0025LP)

Format: 2LP only.
Release date: September 26, 2025

** *Pre-orders start September 3 // La preventa comienza el 3 de septiembre **

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-- Back in print, "Recital" and “For Where Have You Been: The Lost Tracks”, on double LP as part of “The Honeybus Reappraisal Series”. A Hanky Panky/Mapache Records release.

-- With beautifully reproduced original artwork and newly commissioned work (gatefold cover, printed inner sleeves and notes by Thomas Walsh).

In 2018, the Hanky Panky/Mapache Records joint-venture released “The Honeybus Vinyl Series”, four vinyl only LP releases that encompassed the complete studio recordings of 60’s UK baroque pop legends the Honeybus. Now, seven years later, Hanky Panky/Mapache Records are happy to bring those long sold out and out print albums back to vinyl life.

“The Honeybus Reappraisal Series” compromises two vinyl-only releases: “Story”, a direct re-issue of the highly collectable one and only album release by the band from 1970, and “Recital And More: The Pete Dello Years”, a double LP set that gathers together “Recital” -the Holy Grail for Honeybus fans: the unreleased 1973 Warner Bros. Records album- and “For Where Have You Been: The Lost Tracks”, a collection of 13 pop beauties from the lost and found section of the bands career.

RECITAL & MORE: THE PETE DELLO YEARS -- The classic Honeybus line-up of Pete Dello, Colin Hare, Ray Cane and Pete Kirchner got back together again in 1971 to record new material, and although a new album entitlted “Recital” was scheduled to be released, only two singles finally emerged. This double LP set gathers together all those long unavailable recordings: “Recital”, the Holy Grail for Honeybus fans: the band’s long lost and originally shelved album recorded after they signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1972, beautifully remastered from Pete Dello's very own surviving test pressing, and “For Where Have You Been: The Lost Tracks”, a collection of lost and rare tracks.

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RECITAL & MORE: THE PETE DELLO YEARS - Tracklisting:

Record 1: Recital

Side One
1.- For You
2.- Be Thou By My Side
3.- With Julie In My Heart
4.- Big Ship
5.- Cross Channel Ferry
6.- The Lady's Not For Burning

Side Two
1.- She's a Lady
2.- Little Lovely One
3.- Lute Girl
4.- The Writing On The Wall
5.- Baroque' n' Roll Star
6.- Lovely Vanessa
7.- I Can't Say It But I Can Sing It

Record 2: For Where Have You Been: The Lost Tracks

Side One
1.- Texas Gold
2.- Hear Me Only
3.- Madam Chairman Of The Committee
4.- Jug Of Water
5.- Slow Rock
6.- Proof Enough

Side Two
1.- Lovely Ladies'N'Things
2.- Music
3.- Caterina
4.- Like Me Like You Used To Do
5.- In My End Is My Beginning
6.- She Is The Female To My Soul
7.- For Where Have You Been