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Kevin Rowland Hand Signed Dexys Midnight Runners Too-Rye-Ay LP
Too-Rye-Ay is the second album by Dexys Midnight Runners, released in July 1982. This is a genuine Kevin Rowland Hand Signed Dexys Midnight Runners Too-Rye-Ay LP complete with a market leading unconditional 90 day money back guarantee and lifetime COA.
The album is best known for the hit single “Come On Eileen”, which included the lyrics “too-rye-ay” that inspired the album’s title.
Shortly before recording this album, Dexys’ bandleader Kevin Rowland had decided to add a violin section to the band’s existing horn section, which had contributed strings (viola and cello) to the band’s latest single, “Liars A to E”.
However, after violinists Helen O’Hara and Steve Brennan joined the band, the three members of the horn section, including Dexys’ co-leader and album co-composer “Big” Jim Paterson, decided to leave Dexys and become an independent horn band (ultimately known as The TKO Horns).
Rowland was able to convince them to stay with the band long enough to record the album and to do a kick-off concert debuting the album on BBC Radio One in June 1982.
All the songs on the album were rearranged to add strings, which caused Dexys to re-record the 1981 singles “Plan B”, “Liars A to E”, and “Soon”. During the rearrangement process, “Soon” was revised into the opening section of “Plan B”; since both songs were written by Rowland and Paterson, the merged songs are just credited on the album as “Plan B”.