Alan Hull Singing A Song In The Morning Light Legendary Demo Tapes 1967 1970 CD

Alan Hull Singing A Song In The Morning Light Legendary Demo Tapes 1967 1970 CD

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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.

- Disc 1 - 1 Here I Am 2 Click Clock Tick Tock 3 Bang It on the Big Bass Drum 4 Better Town 5 I Don't Want to Listen 6 Look in My Face 7 Barney Swayne 8 Arthur McLean Morrison Jones 9 Conversation with a Chinese Cat 10 Song for a Sleeping Princess 11 Where Is the Little Girl 12 Like I Always Do 13 So Hard Doing It Every Day 14 Sometimes I Wonder 15 Some Other Time 16 I Could Not Believe All the Good Things 17 The Village Idiot 18 This Land Is Cold 19 You Put the Laff on Me 20 Scotch Egg 21 Lady Eleanor (Alan Hull with Brethren) - Disc 2 - 1 Winter Song 2 Windy Miller 3 How Come You Know Me 4 Overstrung at 3 A.M 5 Stay with You 6 River 7 Opposites 8 Somewhere Out There 9 Love Lasts Forever 10 Justanothersadsong 11 Never Be the Same from Today 12 Strange World 13 Spain - 67 14 The Long Wait - Disc 3 - 1 Schizoid Revolution (With Skip Bifferty) 2 This We Shall Explore (With Skip Bifferty) 3 Tomorrow - If I'm Hungry 4 Where Is My Sixpence 5 Alright on the Night 6 Dingly Dell 7 Doctor of Love 8 Do Not Be Afraid 9 Smile 10 Picture a Little Girl 11 Don't Try to Tell Me 12 For No Apparent Reason 13 Go Throw Your Life Away 14 If I Owned 15 First Day of Spring 16 Like a Leaf 17 I Will Remember (For the Rest of My Life) 18 Personal History Book 19 Find My Time 20 Why Was I Born at All 21 Go to Sleep - Disc 4 - 1 We Can Swing Together 2 Obidiah's Grave 3 She 4 Wild Flower 5 I Am and So Are You 6 297 Words 7 It's Much Easier 8 Dream Your Life Away 9 Berenice Patricia 10 Little Things 11 Take Your Time 12 Scotch Egg Bluebird Pie 13 Pub with No Taste 14 Butterfly 15 Scarecrow Song 16 The Universe Is 17 There Is Nothing Between You and This Song 18 We Can Swing Together (Alan Hull with Brethren 19 We Can Swing Together 20 Obidiah's Grave 21 She 22 Wild Flower 23 I Am and So Are You 24 297 Words 25 It's Much Easier 26 Dream Your Life Away 27 Berenice Patricia 28 Golden Apples 29 All the Way Home 30 Mary McGhee at Laws Stores 31 Storybook of Man 32 Be with Me 33 Swinging Along 34 We All Get Drunk Now Huh? 35 Never Miss the Water 36 Accidental Time 37 What You're Doing 38 Working 39 Scarecrow Song (Alternative Version)