DESCRIPTION:
The 1973 book of art and verse, The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshoppers Feast, was inspired by an 18th Century poem and in turn inspired two different musical interpretations.

The better known version by Roger Glover and an all star cast overshadowed the album by Rod Edwards and Roger Hand of which this track was originally intended to be a part. But it's the latter which stands up better today, helped to a large degree by the narration by Sir Michael Hordern and Dame Judi Dench.

It has now been reissued by Wizard Presents but a chance to right a terrible wrong has been missed as the song which to my mind was by far the best on the album but was replaced on the original release by an inferior alternative hasn't been included on the re-release either.

That song was of course Old Blind Mole. Now admittedly I was seven at the time and some of the other songs have grown on me but I still contend the original Mole was the better version.

So to give the great unwashed an opportunity to decide here from a forty year old cassette is the cruelly discarded original of Old Blind Mole.

http://wizardpresents.co.uk for the CD.

http://lowredmoon.ch for me.