Get Lucky is a folk/rock album by Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled Folk Roots which he has produced and presented every...

 released in 1982, his third solo album.

The album was produced by Mark Tibenham and Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled Folk Roots which he has produced and presented every...

 and engineered by Mark Tibenham. It was recorded and mixed at Zella Studios, Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, except 'Everybody Knows', which was recorded and mixed at Old Smithy Studios, Worcestershire

Worcestershire

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Get Lucky was originally released by Starward Records as a vinyl LP, catalogue number SWL 2003 with sleeve artwork by Tony Price Studios and photography by Pete Seaward. The mastering for the original album was by George "Porky" Peckham

George Peckham

George "Porky" Peckham is an English record cutting engineer, widely recognised as among the most accomplished in the business. He has been responsible for producing the master discs from which countless vinyl records have been pressed over the last 40 years....

, and the runout bears the distinctive "A Porky Prime Cut" inscription, as well as an additional annotation "Tuggin' at the heartstrings..." . It has never been released on CD, though some tracks have appeared on subsequent Coppin compilations.

Track listing

(All composed by Johnny Coppin unless otherwise noted)

1. "New Day"
2. "Get Lucky" (Johnny Coppin / Matt Clifford)
3. "First Time Love"
4. "Contrary" (Clifford T. Ward
   Clifford T. Ward
   Clifford Thomas Ward was a popular English singer-songwriter, best known for his career as a solo artist.-Early life:...
   
   )
5. "Celebrate My Life"
6. "Heaven Knows"
7. "Never Fly Your Way"
8. "Catherine"
9. "For You" (Matt Clifford)
10. "Everybody Knows"

Personnel

• Johnny Coppin
  Johnny Coppin
  Johnny Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled Folk Roots which he has produced and presented every...
  
   - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
• Mick Dolan - guitar
• Matt Clifford - keyboards
• Steve Dolan - bass guitar
• Mick Candler - drums

with

• Phil Beer
  Phil Beer
  Phil Beer is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and one half of English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Biography:...
  
  - violin on 'New Day' and 'Celebrate My Life'