SPRIGUNS Revel Weird And Wild LP DECCA 1976 UK orig+insert SLK 5262 MANDY MORTON
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SPRIGUNS
MANDY MORTON, TOM LING, DICK POWELL, MIKE MORTON, CHRIS WOODCOCK
plus B.J. COLE
Mike and Mandy Morton formed Spriguns Of Tolgus at their own folk club in Cambridge, England.
On their first two, self-financed albums, the Mortons were joined by Rick Thomas (fiddle)
and Chris Russon (electric guitar). Playing soft focus electric folk, the band signed with Decca,
and were encouraged by Steeleye Span’s Tim Hart, who produced Revel, Weird & Wild in 1976.
By then known as the Spriguns, the group enlisted Dick Powell (keyboards),
Tom Ling (fiddle), and Chris Woodcock (drums). Mandy Morton’s songs reworked traditional ballads,
making them difficult to distinguish from the original folk material.
Powell was retained for Time Will Pass, and Australians Wayne Morrison (guitar)
and Dennis Dunstan (drums) were recruited. Mandy Morton became the group’s focus,
and later releases were credited to her
"REVEL WEIRD AND WILD"
Produced by Tim Hart
1976 LP DECCA RECORDS STEREO SLK 5262
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
LAMINATED (on front) SINGLE SLEEVE
WITH FOLD-OUT LYRICS INSERT
WITH DECCA COMPANY INNER SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: DECCA - BLUE LABEL & BOXED LOGO - SILVER TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) S SLK 5262 (rear) SLK 5262
Catalog on labels: SLK 5262 (ZAL 14743 P / ZAL 14744 PP)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): ZAL-14743.P-1W
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): ZAL-14744.P-2W
On labels: rim text reads "Made in England ? The Decca Record Co. Ltd.'"
Spriguns Music ?1976 The Decca Record Co. Ltd.
Produced by Tim Hart
On Insert: Printed in England by Senol Printing Limited
On Back Sleeve: Recorded at Decca Studios, Tollington Park, London
Produced and Mixed by Tim Hart
All titles copyright Spriguns Music Ltd
Also available on Cassette
Sleeve printed in England by Robert Stace
? 1976, The Decca Record Company Limited, London
The Decca Record Company Limited, Decca House, 9 Albert Embankment, London S.E.1 7SW
Made in England
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: TRYSTING TREE - OUTLANDISH KNIGHT
SIR COLVIN - PISCIE SONG
Side B: NOTHING ELSE TO DO - HASBERRY HOWARD
LORD LOVELL - LAILY WORM - WHEN SPRING COMES IN
grading
RECORD NEAR EX (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
1976 must have been a tough year for a British folk-rock group to get respect. Just ask Steeleye Span,
whose Rocket Cottage was roundly blasted by the music press, and Fairport Convention, whose
Gottle o' Geer was essentially ignored. Albion Country Band's Battle of the Field was belatedly
released to an indifferent press who improperly regarded them as a grade-B rendition of Steeleye and Fairport.
The growing buzz concerning the onslaught of punk rock didn't bode well even for the established
folk-rock acts, much less those just getting started. So despite Spriguns' unfortunate timing
(who released Jack With a Feather in 1975 as Spriguns of Tolgus) they held true to the style popularized
by their more successful predecessors, particularly Steeleye Span, as songs like "Outlandish Knight"
and "Sir Colvin" will reveal. That was due in part to producer Tim Hart's belief in the band and also
to vocalist Mandy Morton, whose resemblance to Maddy Prior is noteworthy.
Spriguns included more piano in their music than Steeleye ever did, but the work of fiddler
Tom Ling and electric guitarist Dick Powell paralleled that of their elder counterparts to a tee...(AllMusic)
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