Like an Old Fashioned Waltz Lyrics
| Similar an Old Fashioned Waltz | ||||
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| Studio album by Sandy Denny | ||||
| Released | June 1974 (UK)[1] | |||
| Recorded | May and August 1973 | |||
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| Genre | Folk stone | |||
| Length | 42:55 | |||
| Label | Isle ILPS 9258 (United kingdom) | |||
| Producer | Trevor Lucas, John Wood | |||
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| Singles from Similar an Old Fashioned Flit | ||||
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Similar an Old Fashioned Flit is the third solo album by English language folk rock singer Sandy Denny, released in June 1974.[ane]
Although Denny originally hoped to tour in support of the anthology, difficulties with Island Records delayed its release from autumn 1973 to June 1974, by which fourth dimension she had rejoined Fairport Convention.
Background [edit]
The 1972 album Sandy failed to cantankerous over to mass market success, a fact which profoundly disappointed Denny; she had recently decided that she desired to be received as a notable music deed along the ranks of Led Zeppelin or The Who, two bands with which Denny had performed as a guest vocaliser. Denny decided that in order to establish her solo career, a record appealing to a new audience was required.[2]
Composition [edit]
The songs on Like an Quondam Fashioned Waltz saw Denny refining her songwriting craft, on a cornball panoramic vocal-cycle detailing many of her personal preoccupations: loss, loneliness, fear of the dark, the passing of time and the irresolute seasons.[3]
Like an Old Fashioned Waltz features covers of two jazz songs remembered from her father's record collection: The Inkspots' "Whispering Grass" and Fats Waller's "Until The Real Thing Comes Forth". Around this time, it was rumored that Denny was considering recording an album solely consisting of jazz standards (or possibly an entire cover album of songs written by The Inkspots), just the tape never materialized.[iv]
Product [edit]
Recording [edit]
Work began on the album whilst Denny was still promoting her previous LP Sandy. The first rail recorded was "No Cease" at Walthamstow Assembly Hall on 3 December 1972 in a solo version accompanying herself on the pianoforte (later abased in favour of a new recording with a band and strings).[5] Denny embarked on a month-long tour of the Us in April 1973, stopping at A&M Records' studios to tape iv songs; "Friends, Solo, At the End of the Mean solar day" and the new version of "No End" prior to a week-long residency at The Troubador in Los Angeles.
After a bout of Europe throughout June and July, sessions for the album resumed at Sound Techniques in London in August where the remaining tracks were recorded; "Funfair, Like an Old Fashioned Flit, Dark the Night" and the two jazz standards "Whispering Grass" and "Until the Real Thing Comes Along". Harry Robinson added string arrangements to many of the tracks.
In addition to singing, Denny played acoustic guitar, piano and electric piano on "Similar an Old Fashioned Flit". Denny's Fairport Convention bandmate Richard Thompson performed lead guitar on "Solo" and "At The End Of The Twenty-four hours".
Album cover [edit]
The album was originally issued in an embossed gatefold sleeve styled in the colours described in the album's title track (primrose, xanthous and velvet greenish) and designed to look like an antique plate, with a floral motif drawn by Denny herself. The cover photo past Gered Mankowitz depicts Denny in an old style image in the Edwardian style. The album'south lyrics were reproduced in the gatefold.
A single of "Whispering Grass / Friends" was released in a sepia pic sleeve in the way of the anthology cover.
Release [edit]
Reception and reviews [edit]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C+[vi] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |   [vii] |
The album did not nautical chart in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland or elsewhere. In a gimmicky review for The Village Vocalisation, music critic Robert Christgau gave Like an Sometime Fashioned Waltz a "C+" and said that, apart from the "masterpiece" in "Solo", information technology is a "sluggish album".[viii]
In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Brett Hartenbach gave the album three-and-a-half out of five stars, saying "Denny expands on the more than polished moments that her previous piece of work, Sandy, had suggested.[4] The tone throughout most of the tape is melancholy and personal, with gentle pianoforte, rich strings, and barely a trace of her British folk roots."[4] Hartenbach went on to call the album's opening track, "Solo", one of Denny's "best songs."[4]
Alive band and abandoned tour [edit]
Several weeks afterward Like an Former Fashioned Waltz had been recorded, Sandy Denny married longtime boyfriend and bandmate Trevor Lucas on twenty September 1973 at Fulham Register Role. Soon afterward, she put together a band comprising Pat Donaldson, Hughie Burns and Willie Murray, with intent to practice an extensive tour in support of the album. The group recorded a session for BBC Radio on 14 Nov 1973 and also played a brief four-date tour around that time.[9]
All the same, the release of Like an Quondam Fashioned Waltz was delayed from Fall 1973 to June 1974, by which time Denny had rejoined Fairport Convention. Several songs from the album were regularly played during the Fairport tour that year.
Legacy [edit]
Songs from Similar an One-time Fashioned Waltz have been covered by a number of notable artists. Post-obit Denny's death, Fairport Convention has sporadically performed the songs "Solo" and "It'll Take a Long Time". "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz" was recorded by Emmylou Harris on her 1983 album White Shoes. Eric Johnson and Susan Cowsill covered "At the End of the Day" for the 1995 compilation True Voices. Fish covered "Solo" on his 1993 album Songs from the Mirror.
Track listing [edit]
All tracks credited to Sandy Denny unless otherwise stated
- Side one
- "Solo"
- "Similar an Quondam Fashioned Waltz"
- "Whispering Grass" (Doris Fisher, Fred Fisher)
- "Friends"
- "Carnival"
- Side two
- "Night the Night"
- "At the End of the Day"
- "Until the Existent Matter Comes Along" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L.E. Freeman)
- "No Finish"
The remastered CD version included iv bonus tracks:
- "At the End of the Mean solar day" (Alternate have without strings)
- "King and Queen of England" (Demo recorded at Denny'southward domicile in Byfield 1974)
- "Like An Old Fashioned Waltz" (Alive at the LA Troubadour 01/02/1975)
- "No End" (solo pianoforte version recorded 03/12/1972)
Personnel [edit]
- Sandy Denny - atomic number 82 vocals, piano (1/ii/4), acoustic guitar (v/half-dozen), electric piano (9)
- Richard Thompson - electric guitar (1/9)
- Trevor Lucas - acoustic guitar (1/seven)
- Diz Disley - acoustic guitar (3/8)
- Jerry Donahue - electric guitar (4/seven), acoustic guitar (five)
- Jean Roussel - organ (1)
- Ian Armit - piano (iii/viii)
- John (Rabbit) Bundrick - piano (v/9), electric piano (6), clavinet (half-dozen)
- Dave Pegg - bass (1-two/iv-v/nine)
- Danny Thompson - double bass (3/8)
- Pat Donaldson - bass (6/7)
- Dave Mattacks - drums (one-v/viii-9)
- Gerry Conway - drums (6/seven)
- Alan Skidmore - saxophone (8)
- Harry Robinson - string arrangements (i/2/4-seven/nine)
- Bob Leaper - brass arrangements (3/viii)
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Heylin, Clinton. Record Collector (109): 66.
- ^ Clinton Heylin. No More Sad Refrains - The Life and Times of Sandy Denny. London, Helter Skelter, 2002. ISBN one-900924-35-8 p159.
- ^ Sandy Denny: Similar an Old Fashioned Waltz Information
- ^ a b c d Hartbenbach, Brett. "Like an Erstwhile Fashioned Waltz - Sandy Denny". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ^ This version was after issued and is currently available as a bonus track on the Similar an One-time Fashioned Flit re-mastered edition
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: D". Christgau'southward Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X . Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (quaternary ed.). Oxford University Printing. ISBN978-0195313734.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (12 September 1974). "Consumer Guide (48)". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved six February 2014.
- ^ This session is commercially available on the Alive at the BBC boxset where the ring perform Solo and Dark the Night.
External links [edit]
- Sandy Denny: Like an Erstwhile Fashioned Waltz Information
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