| Product Code: | 12MUTE 100 |
| Artist: | Frank Tovey |
| Origin: | England |
| Label: | Mute (1989) |
| Format: | 12 inch |
| Availability: | Enquire Now |
| Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
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| Genre: | Pop U |
A nice clean package both vinyl and cover.
Francis John "Frank" Tovey, known also by his stage name Fad Gadget (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002), was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both new wave and early industrial music, fusing together a unique blend of pop structured songs mixed with mechanised experimentation.
Sam Hall” is an old English folk song about a bitterly unrepentant criminal condemned to death (Roud #369). Prior to the mid-19th century it was called “Jack Hall”, after an infamous English thief, who was hanged in 1707 at Tyburn. Jack Hall’s parents sold him as a climbing boy for one guinea, which is why most versions of the song identify Sam or Jack Hall as a chimney sweep.[1]
