Heyday (Fairport Convention album)
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Heyday: the BBC Radio Sessions 1968–69 is an album by English
folk rock
band Fairport Convention
first released in 1987. As its title suggests, it consists of live versions of songs recorded for John Peel
's Top Gear
radio programmes.
Additional personal:
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
folk rock
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
band Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...
first released in 1987. As its title suggests, it consists of live versions of songs recorded for John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
's Top Gear
Top Gear (radio show)
Top Gear was originally a short-lived pop music show on the BBC Light Programme in the mid-1960s.- Origin and format :It was one of the Corporation's few attempts to compete with the pirate radio stations and Radio Luxembourg, who had attracted large audiences of young British pop music listeners...
radio programmes.
Side one
- "Close the Door Lightly When You Go" (Andersen) – 2:56
- "I Don't Know Where I Stand" (Mitchell) – 3:40
- "Some Sweet Day" (Bryant, Bryant) – 2:18
- "Reno, Nevada" (Farina) – 2:18
- "Suzanne" (Leonard CohenLeonard CohenLeonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
) – 5:27 - "If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong" (Hutchings, Thompson) – 3:12
Side two
- "I Still Miss SomeoneI Still Miss Someone"I Still Miss Someone" is the title of a song written and originally recorded by American country music singer Johnny Cash. He first recorded it in 1958 as the b-side to "Don't Take Your Guns to Town".-History:...
" (Johnny CashJohnny CashJohn R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
, Cash) – 2:37 - "Bird on a WireBird on the Wire"Bird on the Wire" is one of Leonard Cohen's signature songs. It was recorded 26 September 1968 in Nashville and included on his 1969 album Songs from a Room. A May 1968 recording produced by David Crosby, entitled "Like a Bird", was added to the 2007 remastered CD...
" (Cohen) – 2:36 - "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Everly, Everly) – 2:10
- "Tried So Hard" (Clark) – 2:48
- "Shattering Live Experience" (Nicol) – 3:19
- "Percy's SongPercy's Song"Percy's Song" is a song written by Bob Dylan. It was an outtake from the 1963 sessions for Dylan's third album, The Times They Are A-Changin. It was not officially released until 1985, on the compilation Biograph...
" (Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) – 5:34
Bonus tracks on 2002 edition
- "You Never Wanted Me" – 3:18
- "Nottamun Town" – 3:37
- "Fotheringay" – 3:01
- "Si tu dois partir" – 2:28
- "Cajun Woman" – 2:47
- "Autopsy" (Sandy DennySandy DennySandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...
) – 4:26 - "Reynardine" – 4:24
- "Tam Lin" – 7:49
Personnel
Musicians:- Ashley HutchingsAshley HutchingsAshley Stephen Hutchings is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer. He was a founder member of three of the most noteworthy English folk-rock bands in the history of the genre; Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band...
– bass - Martin LambleMartin LambleMartin Francis Lamble was the drummer for British electric folk band, Fairport Convention, from just after their formation in 1967, until his death in the Fairport Convention van crash in 1969...
– drums - Richard Thompson – guitar
- Simon NicolSimon NicolSimon John Breckenridge Nicol is a guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founder member of British folk rock, or electric folk group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band...
– guitar - Ian MatthewsIain MatthewsIain Matthews is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, then as the 1960s progressed, as Ian Matthews...
, Richard Thompson , Sandy DennySandy DennySandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...
– vocals
Additional personal:
- Joe Boyd – liner notes
- Bernie AndrewsBernie AndrewsBernard Oliver "Bernie" Andrews was a British BBC radio producer, who was instrumental in the careers of many emerging rock and pop bands from the 1960s onwards, and responsible for producing such programmes as Saturday Club and John Peel's shows.He was raised in Eltham, a suburb of London, and...
– producer (tracks side 1: 1 to 3, 5, 6, side 2: 3, 6) - Johnny BeerlingJohnny BeerlingJohn William Beerling is a veteran radio producer and station controller.-National Service:He began his radio career during his national service from 1955-7 when he ran a radio station for the Royal Air Force station British Forces Aden in the Aden Protectorate, acting as its station manager,...
– producer (tracks side 2: 2) - Keith Stewart – producer (tracks side 1: 4, side 2: 1, 4, 5)
- Ashley Hutchings , Frank Kornelussen , Joe Boyd – compilation