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"Babbacombe" Lee
Catalogue information
LastDodo number
9926943
Area
Vinyl records and CDs
Title
"Babbacombe" Lee
Main artist / band
(Guest) Artist
Carrier
Label
Release number
ILPS 9176
Barcode / EAN / UPC
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Number in collection
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Country
Rights organisation
Year
1971
Producer
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Details
Recorded at Sound Techniques Studio
Produced by John Wood and Simon Nicol
Engineered by John Wood
Design: Roberta Nicol
Musicians
Simon Nicol, guitar, dulcimer;
Dave Mattacks, drums, electric piano;
Dave Swarbrick, fiddle, mandolin;
Dave Pegg, bass, mandolin
with
Philip Sterling-Wall, A.L. Lloyd, reading
The LP and the first CD reissue have only five tracks with narrative description instead of titles:
Side 1 Side 2
[1-5] John's reflection on his boyhood, his introduction to Miss Keyes and The Glen, his restlessness, and his struggles with his family, finally successful, to join the navy. (6.19)
[6-8] This was the happiest period in his life. All locked set fair for a career until he was stricken with sickness and invalided out of his chosen niche in life. Reluctantly and unhappily he turned to a number of menial occupations and finally returned to the services of Miss Keyes. (10.12)
[9-10] Tragedy now strikes hard. The world's imagination is caught by the brutal senseless of the apparent criminal who slays his kind old mistress. (3.57)
[11-12] John was hardly more than a bewildered observer at his own trial, not being allowed to say more than a few words. The tides of fate wash him to the condemned cell where he waits three sad weeks for his last night on earth. (7.32)
[13-15] When it comes, he cannot sleep, but when he does, a strange, prophetic dream comes to him, and helps him to bear the strain of his next day's ordeal as scaffold and its crew try in vain three times to take his life. (13.20)
All compositions by Fairport Convention except
The Sailor's Alphabet for which, thanks to Bert Lloyd
Composer / Arranger
Lyricist
13
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Track
A 01: The Verdict (0:28)
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A 04: Instrumental (1:14)
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