Hull, Alan: Singing A Song In The Morning Light: The Legendary Demo Tapes 1967-1970
Hull, Alan: Singing A Song In The Morning Light: The Legendary Demo Tapes 1967-1970
Format: CD
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Artist: Hull, Alan
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929194106
Genre: Rock
First-ever release of legendary late 60s demos from one of the finest British songwriters of all time. Includes early versions of classic Lindisfarne songs 'Lady Eleanor', 'Winter Song' and 'Clear White Light - Part 2' Lindisfarne were the hottest new band around in 1972, with a couple of huge hit singles and three albums reaching the Top Five that year - including chart-topping second LP 'Fog On The Tyne', a sales phenomenon that stayed in the listings for more than 12 months. Many of their finest songs had been written by band member Alan Hull while he was working as a trainee psychiatric nurse from late 1966 to early 1969. After ending the decade as a solo act in regional folk clubs, he'd linked up with local band Brethren to form Lindisfarne in mid-1970. Lindisfarne consolidated their success with constant touring, but Alan struggled to write on the road, and he would regularly dip into his late 60s cache of songs that had been recorded for publishing purposes at Impulse Sound, a Wallsend studio owned by Hull's manager and enabler David Wood. Those late 60s demos would become legendary amongst fans and pop media alike, but very few tracks have ever surfaced - until now. A remarkable 4CD, 90-track anthology, the painstakingly-assembled 'Singing A Song In The Morning Light' includes no less than 77 hitherto-unreleased tracks, with several dozen titles previously undocumented. It features revelatory early demos of 'Lady Eleanor', 'Winter Song', 'Scarecrow Song', 'Clear White Light - Part 2' and other Lindisfarne classics, the original, semi-mythical 'Clear White Light - Part 1', recordings with backing from Brethren and psychedelic band Skip Bifferty as well as other collaborations alongside many solo performances. Almost 30 years after Alan's tragically early passing, 'Singing A Song In The Morning Light' is a thrilling addition to the body of work left behind by one of the all-time great British songwriters.
Tracks:
1.1 Here I Am
1.2 Click Clock Tick Tock
1.3 Bang It On The Big Bass Drum
1.4 Better Town
1.5 I Don't Want To Listen
1.6 Look In My Face
1.7 Barney Swayne
1.8 Arthur Mclean Morrison Jones
1.9 Conversation With A Chinese Cat
1.10 Song For A Sleeping Princess
1.11 Where Is The Little Girl
1.12 Like I Always Do
1.13 So Hard Doing It Every Day
1.14 Sometimes I Wonder
1.15 Some Other Time
1.16 I Could Not Believe All The Good Things
1.17 The Village Idiot
1.18 This Land Is Cold
1.19 You Put The Laff On Me
1.20 Scotch Egg
1.21 Lady Eleanor (Alan Hull With Brethren)
2.1 Winter Song
2.2 Windy Miller
2.3 How Come You Know Me
2.4 Overstrung At 3 A.M.
2.5 Stay With You
2.6 River
2.7 Opposites
2.8 Somewhere Out There
2.9 Love Lasts Forever
2.10 Justanothersadsong
2.11 Never Be The Same From Today
2.12 Strange World
2.13 Spain – 67
2.14 The Long Wait
3.1 Schizoid Revolution (With Skip Bifferty)
3.2 This We Shall Explore (With Skip Bifferty)
3.3 Tomorrow – If I'm Hungry
3.4 Where Is My Sixpence
3.5 Alright On The Night
3.6 Dingly Dell
3.7 Doctor Of Love
3.8 Do Not Be Afraid
3.9 Smile
3.10 Picture A Little Girl
3.11 Don't Try To Tell Me
3.12 For No Apparent Reason
3.13 Go Throw Your Life Away
3.14 If I Owned
3.15 First Day Of Spring
3.16 Like A Leaf
3.17 I Will Remember (For The Rest Of My Life)
3.18 Personal History Book
3.19 Find My Time
3.20 Why Was I Born At All
3.21 Go To Sleep
4.1 We Can Swing Together
4.2 Obidiah's Grave
4.3 She
4.4 Wild Flower
4.5 I Am And So Are You
4.6 297 Words
4.7 It's Much Easier
4.8 Dream Your Life Away
4.9 Berenice Patricia
4.10 Little Things
4.11 Take Your Time
4.12 Scotch Egg Bluebird Pie
4.13 Pub With No Taste
4.14 Butterfly
4.15 Scarecrow Song
4.16 The Universe Is
4.17 There Is Nothing Between You And This Song
4.18 We Can Swing Together (Alan Hull With Brethren
4.19 We Can Swing Together
4.20 Obidiah's Grave
4.21 She
4.22 Wild Flower
4.23 I Am And So Are You
4.24 297 Words
4.25 It's Much Easier
4.26 Dream Your Life Away
4.27 Berenice Patricia
4.28 Golden Apples
4.29 All The Way Home
4.30 Mary Mcghee At Laws Stores
4.31 Storybook Of Man
4.32 Be With Me
4.33 Swinging Along
4.34 We All Get Drunk Now Huh?
4.35 Never Miss The Water
4.36 Accidental Time
4.37 What You're Doing
4.38 Working
4.39 Scarecrow Song (Alternative Version)
