Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs

Infobox Album | Name = Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Beautiful South


Released = October 25, 2004
Recorded = 2004
Genre = Pop music
Length = 43:41
Label = Sony International
Producer = Paul Heaton, Jon Kelly
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4wdqoawaeijm link]
Last album = "Gaze"
(2003)
This album = "Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs"
(2004)
Next album = "Superbi"
(2006)|

"Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs" is a covers album by The Beautiful South released in 2004. "Livin' Thing", "This Old Skin", and "This Will Be Our Year" were all released as singles.

In a bit of Beautiful South trickery, the track "This Old Skin" purports to be by an obscure band called "The Heppelbaums" and was believed by many fans to be in fact the one original track on the album. In 2006 these suspicions were confirmed by frontman, Paul Heaton during a Question and Answer session entitled "Ask the Band". [Heaton, PD: http://www.beautifulsouth.co.uk/news5.html, 7 May 2006]

A website for the hoax band was created in which many more clues to the real identity of the band were revealed. The domain was created on August 5, 2004, and was registered to Sony, the band's record label.

Track listing

# "You're The One That I Want" (originally recorded by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John)
# "Livin' Thing" (Electric Light Orchestra)
# "This Will Be Our Year" (The Zombies)
# "Ciao!" (Lush)
# "Valentine" (Willie Nelson)
# "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Blue Öyster Cult)
# "This Old Skin" (an original Beautiful South song)
# "Don't Stop Moving" (S Club 7)
# "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (Ben E. King)
# "Rebel Prince" (Rufus Wainwright)
# "Blitzkrieg Bop" (The Ramones)
# "I'm Stone In Love With You" (The Stylistics)

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