The History of Fairport Convention

This double album sort of brings to a close the first stage in Fairport Convention's long and illustrious career, a sort of summing up. At the time though, that this album appeared, it seemed that Fairport were no more, fortunately we were all very very wrong.

Tracks 1-10 are from the albums What We Did on Our Holidays,

Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief, on which Sandy Denny appears, and are all studio versions which had previously been released. The rest of the album is taken from Full House, Angel Delight and Babbacombe Lee , with one instrumental track, The Hen's March Through The Midden/The Four Poster Bed, that would appear later, on Rosie

Crazy Man Michael and the Medley appear on the double LP but not on the later CD. version of this album, also the CD version is a single disc only.

Track 1 Richard Thompson
Tracks 2, 7 Sandy Denny
Track 3 Ashley Hutchings
Track 4 Ian Matthews, Richard Thompson
Tracks 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 20 Trad. arr. Fairport Convention
Track 6 Bob Dylan
Tracks 9, 13 Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick
Tracks 11, 12 Dave Swarbrick, Richard Thompson
Track 15 Fairport Convention
Track 17 Dave Swarbrick
Track 18 Simon Nicol
Track 19 Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg

#1-4 are from What We Did on Our Holidays
#5-7 are from Unhalfbricking
#8-10 are from Liege and Lief
#11 originally released as a single
#12-13 are from Full House
#14-16 are from Angel Delight
#17-19 are from “Babbacombe” Lee
#20 is from Rosie

Island ICD 4 (2LP /w booklet, UK, November 1972)

side 1

Meet on the Ledge (2:49)

Fotheringay (3:03)

Mr Lacey (2:52)

Book Song (3:08)

A Sailor's Life (11:07)

side 2

Si Tu Dois Partir (2:18)

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (5:06)

Matty Groves (8:07)

Crazy Man Michael (4:35)

side 3

Medley: The Lark in the Morning / Rakish Paddy / Foxhunter's Jig / Toss the Feathers (4:00)

Now Be Thankful (2:22)

Walk Awhile (3:59)

Sloth (9:13)

The Bonny Black Hare (3:03)

side 4

Angel Delight (4:05)

Bridge Over the River Ash (2:12)

John Lee (3:12)

Breakfast in Mayfair (3:06)

Hanging Song (5:21)

The Hen's March / The Four Poster Bed (1:57)