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Post subject: [2024-02-23] Alan Hull "Singing A Song In The Morning Light: The Legendary Demo Tapes 1967-1970" 4CD box (Grapefruit UK)
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:18 pm
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Amazon USA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPJNYDDJ/?tag=imwan-20 Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPJNYDDJ/?tag=imwan-21 Description • First-ever release of legendary late 60s demos from one of the finest British songwriters of all time. • Includes early versions of classic Lindisfarne songs ‘Lady Eleanor’, ‘Winter Song’ and ‘Clear White Light – Part 2’. Lindisfarne were the hottest new band around in 1972, with a couple of huge hit singles and three albums reaching the Top Five that year – including chart-topping second LP ‘Fog On The Tyne’, a sales phenomenon that stayed in the listings for more than 12 months. Many of their finest songs had been written by band member Alan Hull while he was working as a trainee psychiatric nurse from late 1966 to early 1969. After ending the decade as a solo act in regional folk clubs, he’d linked up with local band Brethren to form Lindisfarne in mid-1970. Lindisfarne consolidated their success with constant touring, but Alan struggled to write on the road, and he would regularly dip into his late 60s cache of songs that had been recorded for publishing purposes at Impulse Sound, a Wallsend studio owned by Hull’s manager and enabler David Wood. Those late 60s demos would become legendary amongst fans and pop media alike, but very few tracks have ever surfaced – until now. A remarkable 4CD, 90-track anthology, the painstakingly-assembled ‘Singing A Song In The Morning Light’ includes no less than 77 hitherto-unreleased tracks, with several dozen titles previously undocumented. It features revelatory early demos of ‘Lady Eleanor’, ‘Winter Song’, ‘Scarecrow Song’, ‘Clear White Light – Part 2’ and other Lindisfarne classics, the original, semi-mythical ‘Clear White Light – Part 1’, recordings with backing from Brethren and psychedelic band Skip Bifferty as well as other collaborations alongside many solo performances. Almost 30 years after Alan’s tragically early passing, ‘Singing A Song In The Morning Light’ is a thrilling addition to the body of work left behind by one of the all-time great British songwriters.Tracklist [CD1] 1. Here I Am 2. Click Clock Tick Tock 3. Bang It On The Big Bass Drum 4. Better Town 5. I Don’t Want To Listen 6. Look In My Face 7. Barney Swayne 8. Arthur McLean Morrison Jones 9. Conversation With A Chinese Cat 10. Song For A Sleeping Princess 11. Where Is The Little Girl 12. Like I Always Do 13. So Hard Doing It Every Day 14. Sometimes I Wonder 15. Some Other Time 16. I Could Not Believe All The Good Things 17. The Village Idiot 18. This Land Is Cold 19. You Put The Laff On Me 20. Scotch Egg 21. Lady Eleanor (Alan Hull with Brethren) All tracks recorded 1967-1970, previously unreleased [CD2] 1. Winter Song 2. Windy Miller 3. How Come You Know Me 4. Overstrung At 3 A.M. 5. Stay With You 6. River 7. Opposites 8. Somewhere Out There 9. Love Lasts Forever 10. Justanothersadsong 11. Never Be The Same From Today 12. Strange World 13. Spain – 67 14. The Long Wait 15. Little Things 16. Take Your Time 17. Scotch Egg Bluebird Pie 18. Pub With No Taste 19. Butterfly 20. Scarecrow Song 21. The Universe Is 22. There Is Nothing Between You And This Song 23. We Can Swing Together (Alan Hull with Brethren) All tracks recorded 1967-1970, previously unreleased except for 23, from the vinyl album Take Off Your Head And Listen, Rubber LP 001, released 1971 [CD3] 1. Schizoid Revolution (with Skip Bifferty) 2. This We Shall Explore (with Skip Bifferty) 3. Tomorrow – If I’m Hungry 4. Where Is My Sixpence 5. Alright On The Night 6. Dingly Dell 7. Doctor Of Love 8. Do Not Be Afraid 9. Smile 10. Picture A Little Girl 11. Don’t Try To Tell Me 12. For No Apparent Reason 13. Go Throw Your Life Away 14. If I Owned 15. First Day Of Spring 16. Like A Leaf 17. I Will Remember (For The Rest Of My Life) 18. Personal History Book 19. Find My Time 20. Why Was I Born At All 21. Go To Sleep All tracks recorded 1967-1970, previously unreleased except for 1, 2 From the 2-CD set The Story of Skip Bifferty, Castle CMEDD 518, released 2003; 3 From the Lindisfarne CD Buried Treasures Volume 2, Virgin CDVM 9012, released 1992; 4 From the vinyl album Take Off Your Head And Listen, Rubber LP 001, released 1971; 5-10 Bonus tracks from the CD reissue of Lindisfarne album Happy Daze, Market Square MSMCD 148, released 2009 [CD4] 1. We Can Swing Together 2. Obidiah’s Grave 3. She 4. Wild Flower 5. I Am And So Are You 6. 297 Words 7. It’s Much Easier 8. Dream Your Life Away 9. Berenice Patricia 10. Golden Apples 11. All The Way Home 12. Mary McGhee At Laws Stores 13. Storybook Of Man 14. Be With Me 15. Swinging Along 16. We All Get Drunk Now Huh? 17. Never Miss The Water 18. Accidental Time 19. What You’re Doing 20. Working 21. Scarecrow Song (Alternative Version) 22. It’s All Over Town 23. Wheel Of Fortune 24. Clear White Light 25. Clear White Light – Part 2 All tracks recorded 1967-1970, previously unreleasedPackshot (click for full size):
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Post subject: [2024-02-23] Alan Hull "Singing A Song In The Morning Light: The Legendary Demo Tapes 1967-1970" 4CD box (Grapefruit UK)
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