The Fruitsmelling Shop

"The Fruitsmelling Shop"
Single by Sonny Condell & Scullion
from the album Scullion
B-side"Down in the City"
Released1979 (1979)
Recorded
  • "The Fruitsmelling Shop": Windmill Studios, Dublin[1]
  • "Down in the City": January 1977 (1977-01),[2] Lombard Sound, Dublin[3]
GenreFolk
Length3:02
LabelMulligan
Songwriter(s)Sonny Condell
Producer(s)
Sonny Condell singles chronology
"Down in the City"
(1977)
"The Fruitsmelling Shop"
(1979)
"Down in the City"
(1997)
Scullion singles chronology
"The Cat She Went a Hunting"
(1979)
"The Fruitsmelling Shop"
(1979)
"Tension"
(1980)
Audio sample
The Fruitsmelling Shop

"The Fruitsmelling Shop" is a song by Irish musician Sonny Condell with band Scullion. It was released in 1979 as a single by Mulligan Music and distributed by Polygram Records, with "Down in the City" as its B-side. Although single is introduced as a solo work on its front sleeve, "The Fruitsmelling Shop" comes actually from the eponymous first Scullion album, while "Down in the City" is taken from the first Condell's solo album, Camouflage, published in 1977.
The lyrics are excerpted from the 10th episode, "The Wandering Rocks", of the James Joyce's Ulysses novel.[1]

Format and track listing

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All tracks are written by Sonny Condell

Ireland stereo 7" single (LUNS 753)
No.TitleLength
1."The Fruitsmelling Shop"3:02
2."Down in the City"4:37

Personnel

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"The Fruitsmelling Shop"

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Scullion
Additional musicians
Production

"Down in the City"

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Production

References

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  1. ^ a b Scullion LP notes
  2. ^ Album: Camouflage, Release Date: 1977, Recording Date: January 1977, allmusic.com, retrieved 1 May 2011
  3. ^ Camouflage LP notes