Скачать или смотреть Jimmy Edwards - In the City (Jam cover) ultra-rare single produced by Godley & Creme, 1981

Many thanks to my good chum Hamilton for this curio! Jimmy Edwards - In the City (Jam cover), the ultra-rare single produced by Godley & Creme for Polydor Records in 1981.

This was digitised from the 7" vinyl. We believe this is the only audio available anywhere. It's interesting, but it's not 'This Sporting Life', that's for sure!

The late Jimmy Edwards had an interesting career, having fronted Sham 69 and worked with The Pretenders. Following the break-up of The Jam, he formed a band with Rick Buckler, Time UK. In the '70s, he was the A&R man who signed Carl Douglas's 'Kung Fu Fighting'!

Here's some fascinating info on Jimmy Edwards from Wikipedia:

'During the period of 1975 to 1977,[3][5] he formed the band Masterswitch,[5] which he fronted,[3] and which subsequently signed to Epic Records. In 1978, the band released the single "Action Replay" which suffered from poor promotion and publicity.[3] After a million pounds advance from Epic Records, the band were even asked to split and reform over a record company row over who owned rights to the band's name in the UK or internationally.[3] Edwards became disillusioned as a result and split the band in 1978.[3] After the dissolution of Masterswitch, Edwards recorded several solo singles (as Jimmy and the Profile), which he released through Warner Brothers and Polydor, including "Nora's Diary", which was produced by Jimmy Pursey.[5]

In 1979 Jimmy Pursey left his band "Sham 69" briefly and Edwards was drafted in as the new singer and a single was recorded but never released as Pursey rejoined after his supergroup with Sex Pistols members - "The Sham Pistols" fell through.

Edwards recorded unreleased demos with The Pretenders after the band expressed themselves as admirers. This led to members of The Pretenders recording as "The Profile" on Edwards solo work. The single "Twentieth Century Time" was engineered by Pete Wilson who went on to produce The Jam and The Style Council. Edwards recorded a version of The Jam song In the City which included a lyric change which was approved by Paul Weller. It was produced by Godley and Creme of 10CC. Despite being released on Polydor Records it failed to chart.

After the dissolution of The Jam in 1982, drummer and writer Rick Buckler contacted Edwards and formed Time UK in 1983.[5][7] From 1983 to 1985 Edwards then wrote songs for Time UK. Time UK had a minor UK hit with "The Cabaret/Remember Days" (which sold 60,000 copies and reached number 63 in the British charts - the original version of "The Cabaret" was recorded by Edwards three years earlier and released as a single with the Profile) in 1983 after Edwards collaborated with drummer Rick Buckler of The Jam. The band narrowly missed a "Top of the Pops" performance at the BBC due to "Gallup" investigating chart sales/Rigging and as a result it was maintained by the singer that sales were not fairly took into account - and so an appearance was denied. The release was the first after The Jam's breakup, beating Weller and Foxton's subsequent releases. They released another single "Playground of Privilege"/"Puppets don't Bleed" (produced by legendary producer Tony Visconti) which was followed by "You won't stop" on Arista Records (which failed to chart). BBC TV appearances also included Saturday Superstore.'

These recordings finally saw the light of day on "One More Time" - a 2002 CD release which included "Entertain Me" and two other tracks "Sunday Mood" and "So say Hurrah" which were recorded under the moniker -"Sharp".[8] The Sharp sessions were recorded in 1986 on the Unicorn label - with Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton - the only time the bassist and drummer from the Jam have been captured reunited on record since The Jam. "Entertain Me" was Sharp's only single. All songs were written by Edwards. Influences musically came from Bowie, The Jam, XTC, Psychedelic Furs and early Pink Floyd.

In 2011 Edwards recorded with Sham 69 once again and he performed live as a solo artist in 2014, planning to record in 2015 with Dave Davies of The Kinks.

Over a 40-year career Edwards also recorded with Godley and Creme, Flintlock, and Mean Streets. Throughout his career he came close to success but A+R difficulties, timing, luck or problems with record companies always made recognition and success elusive. Edwards died of cancer in January 2015 following a short illness aged 65.[9]