One Hundred Thousand Smiles Out

Album: Barclay James Harvest (1972)
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Songfacts®:

  • The fifth track on the band's debut album, "One Hundred Thousand Smiles Out" was written by bass player Les Holroyd; according to the fanzine Nova Lepidoptera, it is "about the isolation of an astronaut lost in space". It is a song in a similar vein to the Mel Pritchard composition "Negative Earth" which appears on their second album. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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