Keep On Wombling was the third album released by The Wombles

The Wombles (band)

The Wombles are a British novelty pop group, featuring musicians dressed as the characters from children's TV show The Wombles, which in turn was based on the children's book series by Elisabeth Beresford. Songwriter and record producer, Mike Batt, wrote the series' theme tune, and went on to...

. The songs were recorded by Mike Batt

Mike Batt

Michael Philip "Mike" Batt is a British songwriter, musician, producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry...

 (vocals/keyboards) with session musicians Chris Spedding

Chris Spedding

Chris Spedding is an English rock and roll and jazz guitarist, best known for his session work. Allmusic states - "Spedding is one of the UK's most versatile session guitarists, and has had a long career on two continents that saw him tackle nearly every style of rock and roll, as well as...

 (guitars), Les Hurdle (bass), Clem Cattini

Clem Cattini

Clem Cattini , is an English rock and roll drummer who was a member of The Tornados before becoming well known for his work as a session musician...

 (drums), Ray Cooper

Ray Cooper

Ray Cooper is an English musician. He is a session and road-tour percussionist, and occasional actor, who has worked with several musically diverse bands and artists including George Harrison, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, and Elton John. Cooper is commonly regarded by music fans, critics and fellow...

 (percussion), Rex Morris (sax), Eddie Mordue

Eddie Mordue

Edwin "Eddie" Mordue was a British jazz saxophonist whose career spanned 70 years.Born in South Shields in January 1928, Edwin Mordue moved to London in 1941 aged 13 and toured with 'Archie's Juvenile Band'. During the Second World War he player tenor saxophone with the Eric Winstone Band where he...

 (sax) and Jack Rothstein

Jack Rothstein

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 (violin).

This was a marked departure from the first two albums, being concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 with the entire first side following singer Orinoco Womble through a series of dreams. The styles included pop, rock and classical (Hall Of The Mountain Womble is an arrangement of In the Hall of the Mountain King

In the Hall of the Mountain King

In the Hall of the Mountain King is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg for the sixth scene of Act II in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, which premiered in Christiania on February 24, 1876....

by Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

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The album spent 6 weeks in the UK album charts, peaking at number 17.

Track listing

Side 1

Orinoco's Dream (Fantasies of a sleeping Womble)

Womble Of The Universe (in which Orinoco dreams he is an astronaut)

The Orinoco Kid (in which Orinoco dreams he is a cowboy)

The Jungle Is Jumping (in which Orinoco dreams he is a jungle explorer)

Underground Overture (in which Orinoco dreams he is the conductor)

Hall Of The Mountain Womble (in which Orinoco's imaginary orchestra does a little turn)

Look Out For The Giant (in which Orinoco imagines a litter-crunching giant, Giant Polu)

Side 2

The Wombling Twist

Tobermory's Music Machine

Wipe Those Womble Tears From Your Eyes

Invitation To The Ping-Pong Ball

Wombling Merry Christmas

Singles

Wombling Merry Christmas was released as single. The Orinoco Kid was later released on the B side of Superwomble.

Womble Of The Universe was used in the soundtrack of the 1977 film Wombling Free

Wombling Free

Wombling Free was a 1977 film adaption of the children's television series The Wombles.-Humans:*David Tomlinson: Roland Frogmorton*Frances de la Tour: Julia Frogmorton*Bonnie Langford: Felicity 'Kim' Frogmorton*Bernard Spear: Arnold Takahashi...

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