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Boys, Toys, Electric Irons & TVs

by The Toy Shop

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La Bamba 02:42
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Give It Up 04:32
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Popcorn 02:38
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'Well, stuff your streets on the beach we'll be found'
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Crylon Super 03:24
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'Showers were better with 2 to get wetter and I like to get wet with you'
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Big City 03:24
'We all have feelings, come on, come up & feel me sometime'
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Sorry 03:52
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'That's why I am the Sheriff, the lawman of the land, Bringing peace to one & all with weapon in my hands'
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Digital download version of original 80's Toy Shop demos & recordings. Please note album cover may change in near future (temporary design).

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released September 29, 2020

Album credits -

Paul Klein - Vocals, guitars, bass guitar, synth, keyboards & drum programming

Philip Walsh - Synth/keyboards/b.vocals on Maze, Fi-Fi, Give It Up, Boys Go, Crylon & Christmas. Synth/keyboards on Absence & La Bamba

Steve Lear - keyboards on Big City

All songs written by Paul Klein except Crylon, Fi-Fi & Give It Up (written by Paul Klein & Philip Walsh), Popcorn (written by Gershon Kingsley), La Bamba (traditional, arranged by Klein) and You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (written by Phil Spector, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil). All songs recorded between 1981 & 1989 on Teac M144 4 track cassette portastudio except both versions of The Maze & La Bamba (studio recordings)

Produced & mastered by Paul Klein except La Bamba (produced by Ron Magness) & The Maze V2.0 (produced by Steve Lynsey)

Sleeve design by the ever excellent Steve Lippert

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The Toy Shop Noosaville, Australia

The Toy Shop was initially Dewsbury vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Paul Klein. ‘The Maze/Live Wiresl’ 7” came out 1981. Together with keyboardist Phil Walsh in '82 they won Battle of the Bands and got attention from major labels. With Towerbell they released ‘Attack Decade/Never Trust’ (1984). They split in ‘85 and Paul made 7" ‘Give Me Lip-Lock’.
A Toy Shop LP ‘Synth Pop Art’ came out in 2015.
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