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Simply Thrilled Honey

A Postcard single with a label joke that the pressing plant got the wrong way round.
Orange Juice (1980)

Written by
Edwyn Collins
Released
November 1980

Simply Thrilled Honey was released in November 1980 as Postcard 80-6, with Breakfast Time on the other side. Collins wrote it. Malcolm Ross and Orange Juice produced it, Calum Malcolm engineered it, and Ross played synthesizer and piano.

The labels were meant to make Simply Thrilled Honey the lower-case a side and Breakfast Time the handwritten capital A side. The pressing plant paired the labels the other way. An alternate version of the song is on The Glasgow School. Orange Juice are logged playing it 19 times.

More songs by Orange Juice

Falling and Laughing, Rip It Up, Blue Boy, Poor Old Soul, Felicity, I Can't Help Myself

Sources

  1. Simply Thrilled Honey (Postcard 80-6), Discogs
  2. Orange Juice: setlist statistics, setlist.fm
  3. The Glasgow School, Wikipedia