The Early Years, Salisbury Plain + Fancy meeting you here! ( MUM 2001)
Re-issue - See individual Albums for original recordings.
1 Meet you there (55Kb)
2 Natural Life
3 The Dowie dens'o Yarrow
4 Salisbury Plain
5 Francis Road Rag
6 The sisters of Saint Mildred
7 Will the ploughman ever return?
8 Six years or more
9 A little Dutch toon
10 I won't stand up
11 Lewis
(455Kb)
12 Passion for a child
13 Taurus
14 Eleanor Rigby
15 September
16 Fancy meeting you here
17 Touching
18 Pictures in a frame
Extract from the sleeve...
When I look back on those early, crazy days of singer-songwriter
- endlessly- gigging madness I am engulfed by a sea of emotions which
leave me breathless. I mean, is it really 25 years ago when, fired by
my own imagination and self conviction, I walked into Curly Clayton's
Highbury Studios and told him I wanted to record my own album?! I had
written all these songs I was bursting to record. Recording wasn't new
to me, I had had several brushes with famous record companies including
recording a single at EMI's Abbey Road Studios and half an album with
Trader Horne at Pye Records.
Alas, none of these recordings saw the light of day. However, the 70's
was the beginning of the end of record companies monopolising the market.
So, recording your own albums wasn't such a big deal. It was still, however,
a male dominated area. In fact, I think I was the first British woman
to produce and release her own album. But I have to say I enjoyed every
minute of it!
...if you want to read the whole story you will have to buy the CD!'
Saffron Summerfield London 2000.