The Idle Race - The Birthday Party (full album) 1968 HQ

00:00 - “Skeleton and the Roundabout“ 02:26 - “Happy Birthday“ 02:50 - “Birthday“ 05:50 - “I Like My Toys“ 08:03 - “Morning Sunshine“ 09:52 - “Follow Me, Follow“ 12:40 - “Sitting in My Tree“ 14:40 - “On With the Show“ 17:02 - “Lucky Man“ 19:41 - “(Don’t Put Your Boys In The Army) Mrs. Ward“ 21:56 - “Pie in the Sky“ (Dave Pritchard) 24:23 - “The Lady Who Said She Could Fly“ 26:46 - “End of the Road“ The Birthday Party was the first album by The Idle Race, a psychedelic pop band, released in 1968. This quasi-concept album was the first to be composed almost entirely of songs by a young Birmingham guitarist/singer named Jeff Lynne. The LP came in a gatefold sleeve, the first of its kind since the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album. The inside sleeve art included a mock birthday feast attended by many British Celebrities. In the U.S.