Editing This Old Skin

{{Infobox song
| name       = This Old Skin
| cover      = This Old Skin The Beautiful South (Single) (2004).jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[The Beautiful South]]
| album      = [[Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs]]
| released   = December 2004<small> ([[United Kingdom|UK]])</small>
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Pop rock]]
| length     =
| label      =
| writer     = [[Paul Heaton]] and [[Dave Rotheray]]
| producer   =
| prev_title = [[Livin' Thing#Covers|Livin' Thing]]
| prev_year  = 2004
| next_title = [[This Will Be Our Year]]
| next_year  = 2005
}}

"'''This Old Skin'''" is a song by [[The Beautiful South]] which appeared on their 2004 [[Cover version|covers]] album,  ''[[Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs]]'', and was the second single released from the album.<ref name="2nd">(27 November 2004). [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3494615/The-Beautiful-South-This-Old.html The Beautiful South: This Old Skin], ''Music Week''</ref>   It was purportedly written by Bobby Cristiansand and Barry Klein of the band ''The Heppelbaums'', supposedly appearing on their album ''Hunt For The White Nightingale''.<ref name="hepp1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060507154556/http://www.theheppelbaums.com/ The Heppelbaums], thehepplebaums.com (website created by The Beautiful South), Retrieved August 19, 2011</ref>  In fact, it was written by [[Paul Heaton]] and [[Dave Rotheray]] of the Beautiful South.  When performed live, the song was accompanied by a pastiche of a 1970s music documentary, with The Beautiful South appearing as ''The Heppelbaums''.

The song appeared on the UK charts for 2 weeks, entering at #63 on 18 December 2004 and peaked at #43 the following week.<ref name="charting">[https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/This%20Old%20Skin This Old Skins], OfficialCharts.com (Retrieved 19 August 2011)</ref>

The Beautiful South single comprised two CDs with the following tracks:

==CD1==
# "This Old Skin" (3:55)
# "Lipstick Traces" (3:18)

==CD2==
# "This Old Skin" (3:55)
# "[[Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now]]" (4:03)
# "[[Livin' Thing]]" (Video) (3:13)

==References==
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{{The Beautiful South}}
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[[Category:2004 singles]]
[[Category:The Beautiful South songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Paul Heaton]]
[[Category:Songs written by David Rotheray]]
[[Category:2004 songs]]


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