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Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album)

Live at the BBC is a 2007 compilation album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It consists of tracks recorded for the BBC for various radio programmes between 1968 and 1974 and comprises four CDs in a fold-out package with a fifty-page booklet including song lyrics and numerous contemporary photographs.

Live at the BBC
Compilation album by
Fairport Convention
Released2007
Recorded1968–1974
GenreBritish folk rock
LabelIsland

Track listing

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Disc one
  1. "Close the Door Lightly When You Go" (Eric Andersen) – 2:57[1]
  2. "I Don't Know Where I Stand" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:36
  3. "Some Sweet Day" (Felice & Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:16
  4. "You Never Wanted Me" (Jackson C. Frank) – 3:15
  5. "Nottamun Town" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3:35
  6. "Marcie" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:34[2]
  7. "Night in the City" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:05
  8. "Jack O'Diamonds" (Bob Dylan, Ben Carruthers) – 3:12
  9. "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Phil & Don Everly) – 1:59[3]
  10. "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:25
  11. "If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong" (Richard Thompson & Ashley Hutchings) – 3:12
  12. "Eastern Rain" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:10
  13. "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) – 3:09
  14. "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash & Roy Cash) – 2:23[4]
  15. "Bird on a Wire" (Leonard Cohen) – 3:27
  16. "Tried So Hard" (Gene Clark) – 2:54[5]
  17. "Reno, Nevada" (Richard Fariña) – 2:23
  18. "Book Song" (Ian Matthews & Richard Thompson) – 3:05
  19. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" (Sandy Denny) – 4:14[6]
Disc two
  1. "You're Gonna Need My Help" (Muddy Waters) – 3:56[7]
  2. "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) – 2:59
  3. "Shattering Live Experience" (Simon Nicol) – 3:23
  4. "Cajun Woman" (Richard Thompson) – 2:44[8]
  5. "Autopsy" (Sandy Denny) – 4:24
  6. "Si Tu Dois Partir" (Bob Dylan) – 2:25
  7. "Percy's Song" (Bob Dylan) – 5:25
  8. "Reynardine" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4:19[9]
  9. "Tam Lin" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 7:46
  10. "Sir Patrick Spens" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3:44
  11. "Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunter's Jig/Toss the Feathers" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4:12
  12. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers and Hart) – 2:11
  13. "Walk Awhile" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 4:00[10]
  14. "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 5:33
  15. "Doctor of Physick" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3:37[11]
Disc three
  1. "Sir Patrick Spens" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3:32[12]
  2. "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson) – 10:53[13]
  3. "Dirty Linen" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 4:15
  4. "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 2:24
  5. "The Journeyman's Grace" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3:56[14]
  6. "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) – 3:23
  7. "Tokyo" (Jerry Donahue) – 2:37[15]
  8. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John" (Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 5:29
  9. "Possibly Parsons Green" (Trevor Lucas, Pete Roche) – 4:27
  10. "Rosie" (Dave Swarbrick) – 4:02
  11. "John the Gun" (Sandy Denny) – 5:03[16]
  12. "Fiddlestix" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Jerry Donahue, Trevor Lucas) – 2:47
  13. "Rising for the Moon" (Sandy Denny) – 4:16
  14. "Down in the Flood" (Bob Dylan) – 3:27
Disc four
  1. "Let's Get Together" (Chet Powers) – 2:48[17]
  2. "One Sure Thing" (Harvey Brooks, Jim Glover) – 3:35
  3. "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" (Bob Dylan) – 3:37
  4. "Chelsea Morning" (Joni Mitchell) – 3:01
  5. "Violets of Dawn" (Eric Andersen) – 3:53[18]
  6. "If (Stomp)" (Ian MacDonald, Richard Thompson) – 2:35
  7. "Time Will Show the Wiser" (Emitt Rhodes) – 2:59
  8. "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (Hughie Prince, Louis Singer) – 2:34
  9. "Meet on the Ledge" (Richard Thompson) – 2:48[19]
  10. "Light My Fire" (Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robert Krieger, Ray Manzarek) – 1:20[20]
  11. "Flatback Caper" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks, Richard Thompson) – 6:23[21]
  12. "Open the Door, Richard" (Bob Dylan)[22] – 3:04
  13. "The Deserter" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3:54[23]
  14. "The Hangman's Reel" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 3:23
  15. "Tam Lin" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick) – 8:03
  16. "Sir William Gower" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4:47[24]
  17. "Banks of the Sweet Primroses" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 4:09
  18. "Sickness and Diseases" (Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson) – 3:41
  19. "Bridge over the River Ash" (trad. arr. Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol) – 2:09
  20. "Lord Marlborough" (trad. arr. Fairport Convention) – 3:21
  21. "Angel Delight" (Dave Mattacks, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick) – 4:04

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Tracks 1 – 5 recorded 28 May 1968 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 2 June 1968
  2. ^ Tracks 6 – 8 recorded 18 June 1968 for David Symonds show & broadcast c. 24 June 1968
  3. ^ Tracks 9 – 13 recorded 26 August 1968 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 1 September 1968
  4. ^ Tracks 14 – 15 recorded 2 December 1968 for Stuart Henry's show and broadcast 8 December 1968
  5. ^ Tracks 16 – 18 recorded 27 December 1968 for David Symonds and 6 January 1969
  6. ^ Track 19 recorded on 4 February 1969 for Symonds on Sunday and broadcast 9 February 1969
  7. ^ Tracks 1 – 3 recorded 4 February 1969 for Symonds on Sunday and broadcast 9 February 1969
  8. ^ Tracks 4 – 7 recorded 18 March 1969 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 6 April 1969
  9. ^ Tracks 8 – 12 recorded 23 September 1969 for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 27 September 1969
  10. ^ Tracks 13 – 14 recorded for John Peel's Top Gear and broadcast 2 May 1970
  11. ^ Recorded for John Peel's Top Gear, broadcast 1 August 1970
  12. ^ Broadcast by David Symonds, on 27 April 1970
  13. ^ Tracks 2 – 4 Broadcast by Folk on One on 26 July 1970
  14. ^ Tracks 5 – 6 Broadcast by Stuart Henry on 19 November 1970
  15. ^ Tracks 7 – 10 recorded on 5 February 1973 for John Peel and 20 February 1973
  16. ^ Tracks 11 – 14 recorded on 16 July 1974 for John Peel and broadcast on 6 August 1974
  17. ^ Tracks 1 – 4 John Peel's Top Gear, rec. 24 November 1967, bc. 10 December 1967
  18. ^ Tracks 5 – 8 John Peel's Top Gear, rec. 6 February 1968, bc. 3 March 1968
  19. ^ Stuart Henry, rec. 2 December 1968, bc. 8 December 1968
  20. ^ John Peel's Top Gear, rec. 9 December 1968, bc. 22 December 1968
  21. ^ Tracks 11 – 12 Sound of the Seventies, host David Symonds, rec. 21 April 1970, bc. 27 April 1970
  22. ^ as credited on the album
  23. ^ Tracks 13 – 15 Folk on One, bc. 26 July 1970
  24. ^ Tracks 16 – 21 Folk on One, bc. 27 March 1971
  • "Fairport Convention: Live at the BBC". Reinhard Zierke. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
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