Fairport Convention ‎– "Babbacombe" Lee
Label:
Island Records ‎– ILPS 9176
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
1971
Genre:
Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Folk Rock
Tracklist
A    John's Reflection On His Boyhood, His Introduction To Miss Keyes And The Glen, His Restlessness, And His Struggles With His Family, Finally Successful, To Join The Navy. This Was The Happiest Period In His Life. All Looked Set Fair For A Career Until He Was Stricken With Sickness And Invalided Out Of His Chosen Niche In Life. Reluctantly And Unhappily He Turned To A Number Of Menial Occupations And Finally Returned To The Services Of Miss Keyes. Tragedy Now Strikes Hard. The World's Imagination Is Caught By The Brutal Senselessness Of The Apparent Criminal Who Slays His Kind Old Mistress.    
B    John Was Hardly More Than A Bewildered Observer At His Own Trial, Not Being Allowed To Say More Than A Few Words. The Tides Of Fate Wash Him To The Condemned Cell Where He Waits Three Sad Weeks For His Last Night On Earth. When It Comes, He Cannot Sleep, But When He Does, A Strange, Prophetic Dream Comes To Him, And Helps Him To Bear The Strain Of His Next Day's Ordeal As Scaffold And Its Crew Try In Vain Three Times To Take His Life.    
Companies, etc.
Printed By – E.J. Day Group
Made By – E.J. Day Group
Published By – Warlock Music Ltd.
Recorded At – Sound Techniques, London
Pressed By – EMI Records
Credits
Bass, Mandolin – Dave Pegg
Composed By [All Compositions By] – Fairport Convention
Design [Album] – Roberta Nicol
Drums, Electric Piano – Dave Mattacks
Engineer – John "Mildenhall" Wood*
Fiddle, Mandolin – Dave Swarbrick
Guitar, Dulcimer – Simon Nicol
Lacquer Cut By – Pecko* (tracks: B), Porky (5) (tracks: A)
Producer – John M Wood*, Simon Nicol
Written-By [The Sailor's Alphabet] – Bert Lloyd*
Notes
Released on a "pink rim" palm Island label.
Issued in a gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve with lyrics, an 8-page booklet, and a "Don't Hang Babbacombe Lee" circular sticker.
On the label the release is called "John Babbacombe Lee".
[Sleeve]
Recorded at: Sound Techniques, Ltd.
All compositions by Fairport Convention except "The Sailor's Alphabet', for which, thanks to Bert Lloyd. Thanks to Swarb from the rest of the group for his enthusiasm which kept the ship afloat. All copyrights Warlock Music Limited.
Album inner: C.C.S.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped and etched): ILPS 9176 A-1U PORKY