John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett – Way & Bar



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Label: Polydor – 2383 581
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Orange Lettering

Country: Scandinavia
Released: lug 1980

Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Pop Rock


A1 Birthday Boy 2:35
A2 DK 50/80 2:35
A3 Cry, Cry 2:47
A4 21 Days 2:58
A5 Medieval Dance 2:57
B1 Body Talk 2:58
B2 Baby's In The Club 2:20
B3 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 3:02
B4 When Love's In Bloom 2:27
B5 Day After Day 2:56
B6 Come Back Darling 3:04



Producer – Wild Willy Barrett
Other (Price Code): Super

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Way & Bar


Studio album by John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
Released August 1980
Recorded Early 1980, Barrett's Place
Genre Rock, Folk, Electronic
Length 30:35
Label Polydor

Producer Wild Willy Barrett



Way & Bar is the 1980 album by John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett. Their last on Polydor, it also proved to be the 2nd split of the duo lasting until The Wimp and The Wild. The name Way & Bar is derived from the billboard on the back of the DK 50/80 single being cropped for the front cover. In this case, the words 'Otway & Barrett' wrap around the sleeve and the rest of the text appears on the back cover.


As with Barrett's solo album Call of the Wild and single "A Shot of Red Eye", the album was recorded at Barrett's Place; a farm at Gawcott, just off Aylesbury.

The intro of DK 50/80 is a sample of two girls from a band called Sausage singing "K.D. 80/50 / You’re so nifty / K.D. 80/50 / You’re so nifty / Tie her up / Tie her down / Turn her over / Turn her ‘round." reversed.[3] Sausage was headed by Ken Liversausage, a collaborator of Barrett's; both of them appeared on the Aylesbury Goes Flaccid compilation. "DK 50/80" was created in the studio in such a way that it cannot be performed live easily. Otway sang into a microphone wired up to a delay unit synced up to the bass-drum synth, thus when he sang "Did you...", the unit would output that line directly after. However, during the 'Tent Tour' Barrett would sing the lyrics backwards.

The Chinese text which appears on the front cover of the DK 50/80 single reads "界色" or roughly translated in English as "Boundary Colour".

Way & Hal demos
During April 1979 Otway and guitarist Ollie Halsall (guitar, bass, drums and vocals) recorded some of the songs featured on the album. Halsall's original version of "Traveling Show" was released on his posthumous album Caves. Halsall also played guitar on Otway's previous solo album Where Did I Go Right? and was a collaborator with its producer, Neil Innes, in The Rutles.

Songs recorded:

Cry Cry
Body Talk
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
When Love's In Bloom
Day After Day / 21 Days
Traveling Show
Natasha
The Tent Tour

Otway & Barrett's record buying public was considerably smaller than the crowds at their gigs so Polydor came up with a marketing strategy tailored to the tour. To attend any of the dates the punter would have to purchase the DK 50/80 single, thus increasing record sales and spreading awareness of the tour. The lack of paid entrance meant that Otway & Barrett got no money from the Tour and thus had to camp around the country when the idea of a large caravan was scuppered by Otway's manager Maurice Bacon.

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