Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs

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Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs
Studio album by The Beautiful South
Released	October 25, 2004
Recorded	2004
Genre	Pop music
Length	43:41
Label	Sony International
Producer(s)	Paul Heaton, Jon Kelly
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The Beautiful South chronology
Gaze (2003)	Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs (2004)	Superbi (2006)

Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs is a covers album by The Beautiful South released in 2004. "Livin' Thing", "This Old Skin", and "This Will Be Our Year" were all released as singles.

In a bit of Beautiful South trickery, the track "This Old Skin" purports to be by an obscure band called The Heppelbaums and was believed by many fans to be in fact the one original track on the album. In 2006 these suspicions were confirmed by frontman, Paul Heaton during a Question and Answer session entitled "Ask the Band".^[1]

A website for the hoax band (The Heppelbaums) was created in which many more clues to the real identity of the band were revealed. The domain was created on August 5, 2004, and is registered to Sony, the band's record label. The site however now simply redirects to Sony's main website.

[edit] Track listing

1. "You're The One That I Want" (originally recorded by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John)
2. "Livin' Thing" (Electric Light Orchestra)
3. "This Will Be Our Year" (The Zombies)
4. "Ciao!" (Lush)
5. "Valentine" (Willie Nelson)
6. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Blue Öyster Cult)
7. "This Old Skin" (see above)
8. "Don't Stop Moving" (S Club 7)
9. "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (Ben E. King)
10. "Rebel Prince" (Rufus Wainwright)
11. "Blitzkrieg Bop" (The Ramones)
12. "I'm Stone In Love With You" (The Stylistics)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Heaton, PD: http://www.beautifulsouth.co.uk/news5.html, 07 May 2006