The Fruitsmelling Shop

"The Fruitsmelling Shop" is a song by Irish musician Sonny Condell with band Scullion. It was released in 1979 as a single by Mulligan Music and distributed by Polygram Records, with "Down in the City" as its B-side. Although single is introduced as a solo work on its front sleeve, "The Fruitsmelling Shop" comes actually from the eponymous first Scullion album, while "Down in the City" is taken from the first Condell's solo album, Camouflage, published in 1977.
The lyrics are excerpted from the 10th episode, "The Wandering Rocks", of the James Joyce's Ulysses novel.^[1]

Format and track listing

All tracks written by Sonny Condell.

Ireland stereo 7" single (LUNS 753)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Fruitsmelling Shop"	3:02
2.	"Down in the City"	4:37

Personnel

"The Fruitsmelling Shop"

Scullion

Sonny Condell – vocals, piano, saxophone
Greg Boland – backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Philip King – backing vocals

Additional musicians

Peter Browne – uilleann pipes
Rita Connolly – vocals

Production

P.J. Curtis – production
Philip Begley – engineering
Paul Thomas, Steve Morris – engineering assistants

"Down in the City"

Sonny Condell – acoustic guitar, vocals
Jolyon Jackson – cello
Greg Boland – acoustic guitar
Fran Breen – percussion
Ciarán Brennan – double bass

Production

Shaun Davey – production
Brian Materson – engineering

References

1 2 Scullion LP notes
↑ Album: Camouflage, Release Date: 1977, Recording Date: January 1977, allmusic.com, retrieved 1 May 2011
↑ Camouflage LP notes

Sonny Condell

Studio albums	Camouflage (1977) Someone to Dance With (1994) French Windows (1999) Backwater Awhile (2001) Swallows and Farms (2013)

Extended plays	Sonny Condell (1990)

Singles	"Skiddy Who" / "Sail On" "Down in the City" / "Roll On Forever" "The Fruitsmelling Shop" / "Down on the City" "Down in the City" (with Micha Marah) / "Down to Land" (Micha Marah) "They Don't Say" / "Long Dark Evenings" / "Ocean Floor" "You in Yellow" "Falling Apple Sound"

Related articles	Tramcarr 88 Tír na nÓg Scullion

Scullion

Sonny Condell Philip King Robbie Overson Greg Boland Freddie White Jimmy O'Brien-Moran Robbie Brennan

Studio albums	Scullion (1979) Balance and Control (1980) White Side of Night (1983) Spin (1985)

Extended plays	Cooler at the Edge (1989)

Singles	"The Fruitsmelling Shop"

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