Roobarb by Sandy Davis and Paul Travis

“Roobarb and Custard was an animation that my manager Johnny Sterling heard and got wind of, they needed an LP. It was like the Wombles if you like from… ‘the Wombles of Wimbledon’, that was the song and the Wombles would do about 15-20 minutes or something before the news, that is how it was then and Roobarb was the ITV version of that, Roobarb and Custard. The animations were really sweet, and Johnny managed to get them to commit to an LP to sell our record, but it didn’t have any songs and it didn’t have much of a budget. Just Paul and I, and also the recording engineer Trevor Vallis, he engineered the whole lot, not ‘Inside Every Fat Man’ but ‘Back On My Feet Again’. Yeah, he played bass, Trevor played bass and we just wrote the songs, you know ‘Roobarb’, obviously Roobarb and Custard, ‘Monsieur Roobarb’ because he was in Paris, you know that kind of stuff. ‘Roobarbs A Star’, ‘Hey Miss Moonlight’, ‘Going To The Seaside’, ‘Doo Dah Roobarb’, ‘Cowardly Cowardly Custard’ , that one is quite funny. ‘Custard’s Last Stand’, ‘Roobarb’s Party’ ; and ‘Go to Sleep My Teddy Bear’ ,That was another song that was put in there because we ran out of tunes. It was that simple. We just made it all ourselves, we just played the instruments ourselves and wrote it all ourselves and that is how that came to be, but it didn’t take off unfortunately.” - Sandy Davis
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*Includes Travis and Davis singles "If I were In Paradise"and "Good Times"

Singer-songwriter Sandy Davis started his career with progressive rock band 'Gracious'. After Gracious, Sandy embarked on a solo career releasing 2 LPs. From the mid 70s Sandy collaborated with singer-songwriter Paul Travis, they released "Roobarb" together, and worked as session singers. In 1980 Sandy moved to Germany where he found work as a live musician, continuing to write and record today.

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