Like an Old Fashioned Waltz Lyrics
| Like an Old Fashioned Waltz | ||||
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| Studio album by Sandy Denny | ||||
| Released | June 1974 (UK)[1] | |||
| Recorded | May and August 1973 | |||
| Studio | Sound Techniques, London; A&M Studios, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 42:55 | |||
| Label | Isle ILPS 9258 (UK) | |||
| Producer | Trevor Lucas, John Wood | |||
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| Singles from Like an Old Fashioned Waltz | ||||
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Like an Onetime Fashioned Flit is the third solo album past English folk stone vocalizer Sandy Denny, released in June 1974.[1]
Although Denny originally hoped to tour in support of the album, difficulties with Island Records delayed its release from fall 1973 to June 1974, by which time she had rejoined Fairport Convention.
Groundwork [edit]
The 1972 album Sandy failed to cross over to mass market success, a fact which profoundly disappointed Denny; she had recently decided that she desired to be received equally a notable music act along the ranks of Led Zeppelin or The Who, two bands with which Denny had performed equally a guest vocaliser. Denny decided that in society to establish her solo career, a record appealing to a new audience was required.[two]
Composition [edit]
The songs on Like an Old Fashioned Waltz saw Denny refining her songwriting arts and crafts, on a nostalgic panoramic song-cycle detailing many of her personal preoccupations: loss, loneliness, fright of the nighttime, the passing of time and the changing seasons.[3]
Like an Old Fashioned Waltz features covers of two jazz songs remembered from her father's tape collection: The Inkspots' "Whispering Grass" and Fats Waller'southward "Until The Real Thing Comes Along". Around this time, it was rumored that Denny was considering recording an anthology solely consisting of jazz standards (or possibly an entire comprehend album of songs written by The Inkspots), simply the record never materialized.[4]
Production [edit]
Recording [edit]
Work began on the album whilst Denny was still promoting her previous LP Sandy. The offset track recorded was "No End" at Walthamstow Associates Hall on 3 Dec 1972 in a solo version accompanying herself on the pianoforte (later abandoned in favour of a new recording with a band and strings).[five] Denny embarked on a month-long tour of the US in April 1973, stopping at A&K Records' studios to record iv songs; "Friends, Solo, At the End of the Day" and the new version of "No End" prior to a week-long residency at The Troubador in Los Angeles.
After a tour of Europe throughout June and July, sessions for the album resumed at Sound Techniques in London in August where the remaining tracks were recorded; "Carnival, Like an Onetime Fashioned Waltz, Dark the Night" and the 2 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 pianoforte on "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz". Denny's Fairport Convention bandmate Richard Thompson performed pb guitar on "Solo" and "At The End Of The Day".
Anthology cover [edit]
The album was originally issued in an embossed gatefold sleeve styled in the colours described in the album'due south championship track (primrose, yellow and velvet green) and designed to look like an antique plate, with a floral motif drawn by Denny herself. The embrace photograph by Gered Mankowitz depicts Denny in an old style image in the Edwardian style. The album's lyrics were reproduced in the gatefold.
A single of "Whispering Grass / Friends" was released in a sepia film sleeve in the manner of the album cover.
Release [edit]
Reception and reviews [edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Christgau'south Tape Guide | C+[6] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |   [7] |
The album did non chart in the UK or elsewhere. In a gimmicky review for The Hamlet Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave Like an Old Fashioned Waltz a "C+" and said that, apart from the "masterpiece" in "Solo", it is a "sluggish anthology".[8]
In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Brett Hartenbach gave the anthology three-and-a-one-half out of five stars, saying "Denny expands on the more than polished moments that her previous work, Sandy, had suggested.[4] The tone throughout most of the record is melancholy and personal, with gentle piano, rich strings, and barely a trace of her British folk roots."[iv] Hartenbach went on to call the album's opening runway, "Solo", 1 of Denny's "all-time songs."[4]
Live ring and abandoned bout [edit]
Several weeks after Like an Old Fashioned Waltz had been recorded, Sandy Denny married longtime boyfriend and bandmate Trevor Lucas on 20 September 1973 at Fulham Annals Role. Shortly afterward, she put together a ring comprising Pat Donaldson, Hughie Burns and Willie Murray, with intent to do an extensive tour in support of the album. The grouping recorded a session for BBC Radio on 14 Nov 1973 and also played a brief iv-date bout around that time.[9]
However, the release of Like an One-time 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 Old Fashioned Waltz take been covered past a number of notable artists. Post-obit Denny'due south death, Fairport Convention has sporadically performed the songs "Solo" and "Information technology'll Take a Long Time". "Similar an Sometime Fashioned Waltz" was recorded past Emmylou Harris on her 1983 album White Shoes. Eric Johnson and Susan Cowsill covered "At the Stop of the Twenty-four hour period" for the 1995 compilation True Voices. Fish covered "Solo" on his 1993 album Songs from the Mirror.
Track list [edit]
All tracks credited to Sandy Denny unless otherwise stated
- Side one
- "Solo"
- "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz"
- "Whispering Grass" (Doris Fisher, Fred Fisher)
- "Friends"
- "Carnival"
- Side ii
- "Nighttime the Dark"
- "At the Cease of the Day"
- "Until the Existent Thing Comes Along" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Fifty.Eastward. Freeman)
- "No End"
The remastered CD version included iv bonus tracks:
- "At the Terminate of the Day" (Alternating take without strings)
- "King and Queen of England" (Demo recorded at Denny's domicile in Byfield 1974)
- "Like An Old Fashioned Flit" (Live at the LA Troubadour 01/02/1975)
- "No End" (solo piano version recorded 03/12/1972)
Personnel [edit]
- Sandy Denny - lead vocals, piano (1/ii/4), acoustic guitar (v/6), electric pianoforte (9)
- Richard Thompson - electric guitar (1/9)
- Trevor Lucas - audio-visual guitar (1/7)
- Diz Disley - acoustic guitar (3/viii)
- Jerry Donahue - electric guitar (4/vii), acoustic guitar (5)
- Jean Roussel - organ (1)
- Ian Armit - piano (3/eight)
- John (Rabbit) Bundrick - piano (five/9), electrical pianoforte (6), clavinet (6)
- Dave Pegg - bass (one-2/iv-5/9)
- Danny Thompson - double bass (3/8)
- Pat Donaldson - bass (vi/7)
- Dave Mattacks - drums (i-5/eight-nine)
- Gerry Conway - drums (half-dozen/7)
- Alan Skidmore - saxophone (viii)
- Harry Robinson - string arrangements (1/2/4-seven/ix)
- Bob Leaper - brass arrangements (three/8)
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Heylin, Clinton. Tape Collector (109): 66.
- ^ Clinton Heylin. No More Sad Refrains - The Life and Times of Sandy Denny. London, Helter Skelter, 2002. ISBN ane-900924-35-8 p159.
- ^ Sandy Denny: Like an One-time Fashioned Waltz Data
- ^ a b c d Hartbenbach, Brett. "Like an Onetime Fashioned Waltz - Sandy Denny". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ^ This version was subsequently issued and is currently bachelor every bit 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 (fourth ed.). Oxford University Printing. ISBN978-0195313734.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (12 September 1974). "Consumer Guide (48)". The Village Vocalisation. New York. Retrieved vi February 2014.
- ^ This session is commercially available on the Live at the BBC boxset where the band perform Solo and Dark the Night.
External links [edit]
- Sandy Denny: Similar an Old Fashioned Waltz Information
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