It's Sandy Denny
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It's Sandy Denny is a collection of songs Sandy Denny
recorded for Saga Records in 1967, released in 1970.
Sandy Denny contributed to two Saga albums: Alex Campbell and his Friends
(Saga EROS8021), that features Alex Campbell
with Sandy Denny, Johnny Silvo, Paul McNeill and Cliff Aungier, recorded March 1967 and Sandy and Johnny
(Saga EROS8041) with separate tracks from Sandy and Johnny Silvo, recorded a month later.
SIDE 2
label with the title The Original Sandy Denny. The songs have most recently (2005) been re-released as Where the Time Goes - Sandy '67 (Castle Music CMRCD1181) including additional alternate takes of "3.10 To Yuma", "Pretty Polly", "Milk and Honey", "The Last Thing On My Mind" and "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor". The album is also known as simply Sandy Denny.
Sandy Denny
Sandy 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...
recorded for Saga Records in 1967, released in 1970.
Sandy Denny contributed to two Saga albums: Alex Campbell and his Friends
Alex Campbell and his Friends
Alex Campbell and his Friends is an album by Alex Campbell with: Sandy Denny, Johnny Silvo and the Johnny Silvo Folk Group featuring Roger Evans and David Moses, Paul McNeill and Cliff Aungier....
(Saga EROS8021), that features Alex Campbell
Alex Campbell (singer)
Alex Campbell was a Scottish folk singer. Described by Colin Harper as a "melancholic, hard-travelling Glaswegian", he was influential in the British folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s and was one of the first folk singers to tour the UK and Europe...
with Sandy Denny, Johnny Silvo, Paul McNeill and Cliff Aungier, recorded March 1967 and Sandy and Johnny
Sandy and Johnny
Sandy and Johnny is a split album featuring early recordings by Sandy Denny and Johnny Silvo, recorded for Saga Records in 1967. Despite being credited to both singers, the album consists of solo songs by each.-Background:...
(Saga EROS8041) with separate tracks from Sandy and Johnny Silvo, recorded a month later.
Tracks
SIDE 1- "This Train" (Trad. arr. A. Johnson)
- "The 3.10 to YumaThe 3:10 to Yuma (song)"The 3:10 to Yuma" is a folk song written by George Duning and Ned Washington and sung by Frankie Laine as the theme song to the 1957 film 3:10 to Yuma....
" (George DuningGeorge DuningGeorge Duning was an American musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco....
, Ned WashingtonNed WashingtonNed Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
) - "Pretty PollyPretty Polly (ballad)"Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy" or "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" is a traditional English-language folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places....
" (Trad. arr. A. Johnson) - "You Never Wanted Me" (Jackson C. FrankJackson C. FrankJackson Carey Frank was an American folk musician.-Early life:When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York...
) - "Milk and Honey" (Jackson C. Frank)
SIDE 2
- "My Ramblin' Boy"(Tom PaxtonTom PaxtonThomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
) - The Last Thing on My MindThe Last Thing on My Mind"The Last Thing on My Mind" is a song written by American musician and singer-songwriter Tom Paxton in the early 1960s, which Paxton first recorded in 1964...
" (Tom PaxtonTom PaxtonThomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
) - "Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor" (Trad. arr. A. Johnson)
- "The False Bride" (Trad. arr. A. Johnson)
- "Been on the Road So Long" (Alex Campbell: lead vocals, Denny: backing vocals)
Reissues
The album was reissued in 1978± on the MooncrestMooncrest Records
Mooncrest Records is a British record label that was formed in 1973 as a subsidiary of Charisma Records.They issued albums by Shirley Collins , Iain Matthews , Shakin' Stevens and Alan Hull . More recently they have handled Fairport Convention and Michael Chapman...
label with the title The Original Sandy Denny. The songs have most recently (2005) been re-released as Where the Time Goes - Sandy '67 (Castle Music CMRCD1181) including additional alternate takes of "3.10 To Yuma", "Pretty Polly", "Milk and Honey", "The Last Thing On My Mind" and "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor". The album is also known as simply Sandy Denny.