Listen, Listen: An Introduction to Sandy Denny (Island) {1999}. Late November. Blackwaterside. Next Time Around. Wretched Wilbur. The North Star Grassman & The Ravens. It’ll Take A Long Time. Listen, Listen. The Lady. The Music Weaver. Solo. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz. Dark The Night. No End. One Way Donkey Ride. I’m A Dreamer. All Our Days. No More Sad Refrains. [Note: All tracks have been remastered anew.]
‘AUTHORIZED’ BOOTLEG CASSETTES
Heyday – Fairport Convention (Hutchings cassette version) {1976}. Gone, Gone, Gone [Top Gear 26/8/68]. You Never Wanted Me [Top Gear 28/5/68]. Some Sweet Day [Top Gear 28/5/68]. Bird On A Wire [Stuart Henry 2/12/68]. I Still Miss Someone [David Symonds 27/12/68]. You’re Gonna Need My Help [Symonds on Sunday 4/2/69]. Suzanne [Top Gear 26/8/68]. Reno Nevada [David Symonds 27/12/68]. I Don’t Know Where I Stand [Top Gear 28/5/68]. Close The Door Lightly When You Go [Top Gear 28/5/68]. Shattering Live Experience [Symonds on Sunday 4/2/69]. If It Feels Good [Top Gear 26/8/68]. Tried So Hard [David Symonds 27/12/68]. Meet On The Ledge [Stuart Henry 2/12/68]. [Note: This cassette was privately circulated by Ashley Hutchings and could be purchased at Fairport Convention gigs.]
The Airing Cupboard Tapes. That’ll Be The Day [Kingston Poly 12/72]. Who Knows Where The Time Goes. It’ll Take A Long Time. [L.A. Troubador 2/74].
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Vol. 1. Eastern Rain [Top Gear 26/8/68]. Book Song [David Symonds 27/12/68].
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Vol. 2. Autopsy [Top Gear 18/3/69]. Who Knows Where The Time Goes [Symonds on Sunday 4/2/69].
The Attic Trax Vol. 1. Moments. All Our Days (choral version) [Rendezvous outtake]. Still Waters Run Deep. King & Queen of England. No End. Easy To Slip. Losing Game. Full Moon (Swarb solo) [Rendezvous outtake]. All Our Days (orchestral intro.) [Rendezvous outtake]. Here In Silence. Man of Iron.
The Attic Tracks Vol. 3. Blues Run The Game [demo, 1966]. Milk & Honey [demo, 1966]. Soho [demo, 1966]. In Memory (The Tender Years) [demo, 1966]. It Ain’t Me Babe [demo, 1966]. East Virginia [demo, 1966]. Geordie [demo, 1966]. Fotheringay [demo, 1967]. A Little Bit of Rain [demo, 1967]. Go Your Own Way My Love [demo, 1968]. Hold On To Me Babe [Cellar Full of Folk 6/3/67]. Green Grow The Laurels [‘The Johnny Silvo Folk Four’, BBC World Service 7/11/66]. The Boatman [‘The Johnny Silvo Folk Four’, BBC World Service 7/11/66]. Who Knows Where The Time Goes [undubbed Strawbs version]. Solo. North Star Grassman. Gold Dust. The Sea. Tomorrow Is A Long Time. Stranger To Himself. For Shame of Doing Wrong. One More Chance. Who Knows Where The Time Goes [pre-overdub versions from the Royalty Theatre 27/11/77].
The Attic Tracks Vol. 4. I Love My True Love [demo, 1967?]. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme [demo, 1967?]. Carnival [demo, 1967?]. Makes Me Think of You [demo, 1972]. Ecoute, Ecoute. One More Chance. Rising For The Moon. Until The Real Thing Comes Along. Whispering Grass. Dark The Night. Solo. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz. At The End of the Day [studio version minus overdubs].
‘AUTHORIZED’ BOOTLEG CDS
From Past Archives – Fairport Convention {1992}. Nottamun Town [Top Gear 28/5/68]. Meet On The Ledge [Stuart Henry 2/12/68]. You’re Gonna Need My Help [Symonds on Sunday 4/2/69]. Sir Patrick Spens [Top Gear 23/9/69]. Tam Lin [Top Gear 23/9/69]. Reynardine [Top Gear 23/9/69]. She Moves Through The Fair [Troubador, L.A. 2/74]. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz [Troubador, L.A. 2/74]. Rising For The Moon [Top Gear 16/7/74]. Down In The Flood {Dylan} [Top Gear 16/7/74]. No More Sad Refrains [Royal Albert Hall, London 10/6/75]. [Note: ‘Fairport’-approved copy of the original bootleg CD.]
The Guvenor Vol. 1 {1994}. You’re Gonna Need My Help [Symonds on Sunday 4/2/69]. Dear Landlord [Unhalfbricking outtake].
The Guvenor Vol. 2 {1995}. You Never Wanted Me [Top Gear 28/5/68]. Sir Patrick Spens [Liege & Lief outtake].
The Guvenor Vol. 3 {1995}. Night in the City. Marcie [David Symonds Show 18/6/68].
The Guvenor Vol. 4 {1996}. Fotheringay [Top Gear 26/8/68].
[Note: These four Ashley Hutchings retrospective collections were later issued as a set.]
‘UNAUTHORIZED’ BOOTLEG CDS
Dark The Night (Nixed 006). Green Grow The Laurels. Fhir A Bhata. Blues Run The Game. Milk and Honey. Soho. The Tender Years. It Ain’t Me Babe. East Virginia. Geordie. Until The Real Thing Comes Along. Whispering Grass. Dark The Night. Solo. It Suits Me Well. The Music Weaver. Bushes & Briars. It’ll Take a Long, Long Time. Man of Iron. Here In Silence. [Note: A combination of home demos, BBC sessions and rare single tracks.]
One Last Sad Refrain – The Final Concert (NIX 002). Solo. The North Star Grassman & The Ravens. Nothing More. Gold Dust. The Sea. Tomorrow Is A Long Time. The Lady. Wretched Wilbur. Stranger To Himself. For Shame of Doing Wrong. One More Chance. Who Knows Where The Time Goes. Water Mother. What Will I Do With Tomorrow?. Are The Judges Sane?. I Need You. [Note: The pre-overdub Royalty Theatre ‘77 tape plus the Swedish Fly Girls soundtrack.]
Sandy at the BBC (Nightlife N–071). Autopsy [Top Gear 18/3/69]. Fotheringay [Symonds on Sunday 4/2/69]. Cajun Woman [Top Gear 18/3/69]. Sandy Denny interview [Top Gear 18/3/69]. Si Tu Dois Partir [Top Gear 18/3/69]. The Way I Feel [Top Gear 13/4/70]. Interview [‘Fotheringay’, BBC 2/4/70]. The Sea [‘Fotheringay’, BBC 2/4/70]. Eppy Moray [Folk On One 12/11/70].
Lowlands of Holland [Folk On One 12/11/70]. Interview/Gyspy Davey [Folk On One 12/11/70]. Wild Mountain Thyme [Sounds of the Seventies 15/11/70]. John The Gunn [Sounds of the Seventies 15/11/70]. Bold Jack Donahue [Sounds of the Seventies 15/11/70]. Dark The Night [Sounds of the Seventies 14/11/73]. Whispering Grass [Sounds of the Seventies 14/11/73]. Solo [Sounds of the Seventies 14/11/73]. [Note: CD also features two songs by the 1970 Fairport Convention. From previously unknown BBC transcription discs.]
Wild Mountain Thyme (Handmade Productions). Too Much of Nothing [Beat Club, 1970]. The Way I Feel*. Interview*. The Sea*. Eppy Moray*. Lowlands of Holland*. Interview/Gypsy Davey*. Wild Mountain Thyme*. John The Gunn*. Bold Jack Donahue*. Ballad of Ned Kelly [Top Gear 13/4/70]. Intro/Banks of The Nile [Top Gear 13/4/70]. Late November [from boxed-set]. Nothing More [from boxed-set]. Memphis Tennessee [from boxed-set]. Silver Threads & Golden Needles [Sounds of the Seventies 5/5/70]. Asterisked tracks copied from Sandy at the BBC.
Poems from Alexandra (Goldtone GT-004). Eppy Moray. Gypsy Davey. Bold Jack Donahue. Lowlands of Holland. Ballad of Ned Kelly. Banks of the Nile. Too Much of Nothing. John The Gun. Silver Threads & Golden Needles. The Way I Feel. Nothing More. The Sea. Two Weeks Last Summer [from boxed-set]. Gypsy Davey [from boxed-set]. Late November [from boxed-set]. [Note: All songs save last three from misc. 1970 BBC radio sessions. Vastly inferior to the two titles above.]
From Past Archives (Scorpio 92-FC-12-01). Nottamun Town (BBC, 28/5/68) {trad}. Meet On The Ledge (BBC, 12/68) {Thompson}. You’re Gonna Need My Help (BBC, 6/1/69) {Muddy Waters}. Sir Patrick Spens (BBC, 23/9/69) {trad}. Tam Lin (BBC, 23/9/69) {trad}. Reynardine (BBC, 23/9/69) {trad}. She Moves Through The Fair (live-Troubador, LA, 2-74). Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (live-Troubador, LA, 2-74). Rising For The Moon (BBC, 16/7/74). Down In The Flood (BBC, 16/7/74) {Dylan}. No More Sad Refrains (live – Royal Albert Hall, 10/6/75). [Note: Five further tracks from the Full House line-up are included on this title. Later copied by Fairport themselves.]
A Chronicle of Sorts 1967–1969 (Nixed Records NIX 003). Marcie [David Symonds 18/6/68]. Night in the City [David Symonds 18/6/68]. You Never Wanted Me [Top Gear 28/5/68]. Eastern Rain [Top Gear 26/8/68]. Fotheringay [Top Gear 26/8/68]. Book Song [David Symonds 27/12/68]. Dear Landlord [Unhalfbricking outtake]. Si Tu Dois Partir [Top Gear 18/3/69]. Cajun Woman [Top Gear 18/3/69]. Autopsy [Top Gear 18/3/69]. The Lady is a Tramp [Top Gear 23/9/69]. Light My Fire [Top Gear 9/12/68]. [Note: The first ten tracks on CD predate Sandy joining Fairport Convention.] Doom & Gloom (Silver Rarities SIRA 147/8). Eastern Rain. Book Song. Autopsy. Who Knows Where The Time Goes. [Note: A copy of the fan-club only cassettes.]
Sandy’s Lament (Head). Rising For The Moon. Solo. Dirty Linen. One More Chance. Sloth. It’ll Take A Long Time. Matty Groves. Who Knows Whe
re The Time Goes. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz. Down in the Flood. John the Gun [Note: All tracks allegedly from Denver 5/74 but evidently from one of the U.S. fall shows; quality horrific – to be avoided at all costs.]
Borrowed Thyme (SDCD 03). Setting of the Sun. Box Full of Treasure. They Don’t Seem To Know You. Soho. Fotheringay. She Moves Through The Fair. The Time Has Come. Seven Virgins. A Little Bit of Rain. Go Your Own Way My Love. Cradle Song. Blue Tattoo. The Quiet Land of Erin. I Love My True Love. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme. Carnival. Who Knows Where The Time Goes [home demos 1967–68]. This Train. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor. Last Thing On My Mind. You Never Wanted Me [BBC World Service June 1967]. Hold On To Me Babe. Blues Run The Game [BBC World Service 6/3/67]. Been On The Road So Long [My Kind of Folk 26/6/68].
Updated, Annotated Discography to Sandy Denny CD Releases 2000–2010.
THE ALBUMS:
Every one of Sandy’s original albums, even her pre-Fairport recordings, has been reissued on CD with bonus material since the original 2000 edition of this book. Also released has been a bastardized so-called second Fotheringay album (at least one track of which is actually from the Fairport Convention Nine sessions!). The Saga sessions CD, the one title compiled by me, the recent Sandy and the Strawbs CD and the Fotheringay 2 CD are all fully track-listed below. Otherwise, only bonus material is given below:
{Where The Time Goes} (2005) 1. Who Knows Where The Time Goes (solo) 2. This Train 3. 3.10 To Yuma 4. Pretty Polly 5. You Never Wanted Me 6. Milk And Honey 7. My Ramblin’ Boy 8. Last Thing On My Mind 9. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor 10. False Bride 11. Been On The Road So Long 12. Two Weeks Last Summer – Denny, Sandy & The Strawbs 13. 3 10 To Yuma 14. Pretty Polly 15. Milk And Honey 16. Last Thing On My Mind 17. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor 18. Been On The Road So Long (with Alex Campbell).
{All Our Own Work} (2010) 1. On Our Way 2. Who Knows Where The Time Goes 3. Tell Me What You See In Me 4. Always On My Mind 5. Stay Awhile With Me 6. Wild Strawberries 7. All I Need Is You Babe 8. How Everyone But Sam Was A Hypocrite 9. Sail Away To The Sea 10. Sweetling 11. Nothing Else Will Do Babe 12. And You Need Me 13. Two Weeks Last Summer 14. Nothing Else Will Do Babe (Sandy vocal) 15. And You Need Me 16. Two Weeks Last Summer 17. Nothing Else Will Do Babe (Sandy lead vocal) 18. Tell Me What You See In Me 19. Who Knows Where The Time Goes (w/strings) 20. Stay Awhile With Me 21. Strawberry Picking 22. Pieces of 79 and 15 23. The Falling Leaves 24. Indian Summer.
{What We Did On Our Holidays} (2003)
Bonus tracks: 13. Throwaway Street Puzzle 14. You’re Gonna Need My Help (BBC) 15. Some Sweet Day.
{Heyday} (2002)
Bonus tracks: 13. You Never Wanted Me 14. Nottamun Town 15. Fotheringay 16. Si Tu Dois Partir 17. Cajun Woman 18. Autopsy 19. Reynardine 20. Tam Lin.
{Unhalfbricking} (2003)
Bonus Tracks: 9. Dear Landlord 10. Ballad of Easy Rider (Liege & Lief outtake).
{Liege & Lief} (2002) Bonus Tracks: 9. Sir Patrick Spens 10. Quiet Joys of Brotherhood.
Note: A 2007 ‘Deluxe’ 2-CD set also includes ‘Ballad of Easy Rider’ (see Unhalfbricking remaster), BBC versions of ‘Tam Lin’, ‘Medley’, ‘Reynardine’ and ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ (see Heyday remaster), yet another alternate take of ‘Quiet Joys of Brotherhood’ and the BBC session versions of ‘The Lady Is A Tramp’ and ‘Fly Me To The Moon’. A right royal rip-off, and no way to treat such an important LP. They don’t even bother to source a good ‘off air’ copy of the Danish TV performance to provide a little more value for money.
{Fotheringay} (2004)
Bonus Tracks: 10. Two Weeks Last Summer 11. Nothing More 12. Banks of the Nile 13. Memphis Tennessee [all bonus tracks live from Rotterdam 1970].
{Fotheringay 2} (2008)
1. John the Gunn 2. Eppie Moray 3. Wild Mountain Thyme 4. Knights On The Road 5. Late November 6. Restless 7. Gypsy Davey 8. I Don’t Believe You 9. Silver Threads & Golden Needles 10. Bold Jack Donahue 11. Two Weeks Last Summer.
{The North Star Grassman and The Ravens} (2005)
Bonus Tracks: 12. Late November (El Pea version) 13. Walking The Floor Over You 14. Losing Game 15. Next Time Around.
{The Bunch} (2003)
Bonus Tracks: 14. Twenty Flight Rock 15. High School Confidential 16. La Bamba.
{Sandy} (2005)
Bonus Tracks: 11. Here In Silence 12. Man of Iron 13. Sweet Rosemary (demo) 14. Ecoute Ecoute 15. It’ll Take A Long Time (live 1974 w/Fairport Convention).
{Like An Old Fashioned Waltz} (2005)
Bonus Tracks: 10. At The End of The Day (w/out strings) 11. King & Queen of England (demo) 12. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (live 1974 w/Fairport Convention) 13. No End (solo).
{Fairport Live} (2005)
Bonus Tracks: 14. That’ll Be The Day. [The other bonus tracks do not feature Sandy].
{Rising For The Moon} (2005)
Bonus Tracks: 12. Tears (b-side) 13. Rising For The Moon (demo) 14. Stranger To Himself (demo) 15. One More Chance (demo).
{Rendezvous} (2005)
Bonus Tracks: 10. Still Waters Run Deep 11. Full Moon 12. I’m A Dreamer (demo) 13. Easy To Slip 14. Moments.
THE ENDLESS BOXED-SETS:
Though there have been three substantial (one gargantuan) boxed-sets of Sandy’s work in the past decade, one from the David Suff Fledgling stable, the other two from the Sue Armstrong Universal stable (presided over by the eminently unqualified ‘super fan’ Andrew Batt), in every case these outlandishly expensive products have provided more gruel than hearty fare. As such, all three are better sampled before purchased. The (subsequent) single CD ‘Best of the BBC Recordings’ and the fifth CD of demos in Suff’s Boxful of Treasures are the only really essential volumes from what would, at list price, be a £250 investment!
{A Boxful of Treasures} (2004) A real hodge-podge and badly sequenced, t’boot. Slim pickings for the price.
5-CD set with the following ‘unreleased’ material new to official CD:
Disc 1: 2. She Moves Through the Fair (home recording) 3. Boxful of Treasure (home recording) 4. They Don’t Seem to Know You (home recording) 5. Go Your Way My Love (home recording) 6. Geordie (home recording) 13. Autopsy (demo).
Disc 2: 12. Silver Threads and Golden Needles (Fotheringay 1st LP outtake).
Disc 3: 2. Next Time Around (alternate take without strings) 9. Sweet Rosemary (demo) 11. The Lady (demo) 18. Walking the Floor Over You.
Disc 4: 3. At the End of the Day (alternate take without strings) 6. Fairport Convention – John the Gun (live) 7. Fairport Convention – She Moves Through the Fair (live) 8. One More Chance (demo) 13. By the Time It Gets Dark 15. Losing Game.
Disc 5: 1. One Way Donkey Ride (demo) 2. I’m a Dreamer (demo) 3. Take Me Away (demo) 4. Rising For the Moon (demo) 5. Still Waters Run Deep (demo) 6. All Our Days (demo) 7. No More Sad Refrains (demo) 8. By the Time It Gets Dark (demo) 9. The Music Weaver (demo) 10. What Is True? (demo) 11. Stranger to Himself (demo) 12. Take Away the Load (demo) 13. By the Time It Gets Dark (alternate take) 14. Full Moon (home recording).
{Sandy Denny Live At The BBC} (2007) Beware! Disc 4 has been largely sourced from existing commercial bootleg CDs (and not this fabulous private archive of a certain Mr. Batt!), and consists of poor, generational ‘off-air’ copies of BBC broadcasts. Disc 3 is a ten-minute DVD of Sandy’s one surviving BBC TV appearance:
Disc 1: 1. Fhir ir Bhata 2. Green Grow The Laurels 3. Hold On To Me Babe 4. Blues Run The Game 5. Late November 6. The Optimist 7. Crazy Lady Blues 8. The Lowlands of Holland 9. It Suits Me Well 10. The Music Weaver 11. Bushes And Briars 12. It’ll Take A Long Time 13. Solo 14. Like An Old-Fashioned Waltz 15. Who Knows Where The Time Goes? 16. Until The Real Thing Comes Along 17. Whispering Grass 18. Dark Of The Night 19. Solo.
Disc 2: 1. Northstar Grassman And The Ravens 2. Sweet Rosemary 3. The Lady 4. Bruton town 5. Next Time Around 6. Blackwaterside 7. John The Gun 8. The Lady 9. Bushes And Briars 10. It Suits Me Well 11. Blackwaterside 12. The Music Weaver 13. The Sea Captain 14. John The Gun 15. Inte
rview With Sandy Denny.
Disc 3: [DVD] 1. The North Star Grassman And The Ravens 2. Crazy Lady Blues 3. Late November – all tracks One In Ten, BBC-2, 15 Sept. 1971.
Disc 4: 1. This Train 2. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor 3. The Last Thing On My Mind 4. You Never Wanted Me 5. Been On The Road So Long 6. The Quiet Land Of Erin 7. The Nightingale (duet with Mick Groves) 8. Black Water Side (Richard Thompson guitar) 9. North Star Grassman & The Ravens 10. The Lady 11. It’ll Take A Long Time.
{Sandy Denny} (2010) An eight CD set of Sandy rarities disguised as, and priced at that of, a 19-CD set, the first eleven CDs of which duplicate the recent Universal remastered CDs, making for a truly shameful rip-off. Universal should be ashamed! The remaining CDs do feature a great deal of unreleased material, though disappointingly much of it has been sourced from bootleg sources. Track listings of discs 12 to 19 as follows:
Disc 12: 1. Blues Run The Game 2. Milk and Honey 3. Soho 4. It Ain’t Me Babe 5. East Virginia 6. Geordie 7. In Memory (The Tender Years) 8. I Love My True Love 9. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme 10. Ethusel 11. Carnival 12. Setting Of The Sun 13. Boxful Of Treasures 14. They Don’t Seem to Know You 15. Gerrard Street 16. Fotheringay 17. She Moves Through The Fair 18. The Time Has Come 19. Seven Virgins 20. A Little Bit Of Rain 21. Go Your Own Way My Love 22. Cradle Song 23. Blue Tattoo 24. The Quiet Land of Erin 25. Who Knows Where The Time Goes.
Disc 13: 1. Who Knows Where The Time Goes 2. Motherless Children 3. Milk And Honey – Fairport Convention 4. Been On The Road So Long – Fairport Convention 5. The Quiet Land Of Erin – Fairport Convention 6. Autopsy 7. Now and Then 8. Fotheringay 9. She Moved Through The Fair 10. Mr. Lacey – Fairport Convention 11. Throwaway Street Puzzle – Fairport Convention 12. The Ballad Of Easy Rider – Fairport Convention 13. Dear Landlord – Fairport Convention 14. A Sailor’s Life – Fairport Convention 15. Sir Patrick Spens – Fairport Convention 16. Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood – Fairport Convention 17. Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood – Fairport Convention.
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