[2022-05-27] Steeleye Span "Good Times Of Old England: Steeleye Span 1972-1983" 12CD box set (Chrysalis UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:48 am

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V3HVRFW/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09V3HVRFW/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09V3HVRFW/?tag=imwan-21

Description
Steeleye Span are amongst the biggest and most commercially successful folk rock bands. Their career, spanning over 50 years, has seen them achieve 4 Top 40 albums and 2 Top 20 singles as well as countless sold out live shows. Through an ever changing line up, their popularity has continued to this day. This remastered collection brings together their recordings over an 11 year tenure with Chrysalis Records covering the years 1972-1983. Housed in a clamshell box with a 56 page perfect bound book, there are 145 tracks, (46 unreleased) over 12 CDs include a number of unreleased studio tracks including an expanded version of New York Girls (featuring Peter Sellers), a studio take of The Devil’s Dream, 3 previously unavailable additional live tracks from the Live At Last” album, an Australian only live album, as well as 2 completely new live concerts from The Rainbow Theatre in London from 1974 and the Boston Berklee Performance Centre from 1976. The Rainbow show in particular has been the subject of much speculation with a small selection of tracks appearing on various low quality bootlegs over the years. The band are undertaking a (delayed) 50 year celebratory UK tour with 17 dates in May and a further 7 dates in October.

Tracklist
[CD1: Below The Salt]
1. Spotted Cow
2. Rosebud In June
3. Jigs (Medley
4. Sheepcrook And Black Dog
5. Royal Forester
6. King Henry
7. Gaudete
8. John Barleycorn
9. Saucy Sailor
10. Gaudete (Single Version)
11. The Holly And The Ivy
12. Gaudete Take 1 (Previously unreleased)
13. Singing The Travels (Previously unreleased)

[CD2: Parcel Of Rogues]
1. One Misty Moisty Morning
2. Alison Gross
3. The Bold Poachers
4. The Ups And Downs
5. Robbery With Violins
6. The Wee Wee Man
7. The Weaver And The Factory Maid
8. Rogues In A Nation
9. Cam Ye O’er Frae
10. Hares On The Mountain
11. Bonny Moorhen
12. Rag Doll - Alternate Take (Previously Unreleased)
13. Ups & Downs - Instrumental (Previously Unreleased)

[CD3: Now We Are Six]
1. Seven Hundred Elves
2. Drink Down The Moon
3. Now We Are Six
4. Thomas The Rhymer
5. The Mooncoin Jig
6. Edwin
7. Long-A-Growing
8. Two Magicians
9. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
10. To Know Him Is To Love Him
11. Thomas The Rhymer - Single Version

[CD4: Commoners Crown]
1. Little Sir Hugh
2. Bach Goes To Limerick
3. Long Lankin
4. Dogs And Ferrets
5. Galtee Farmer
6. Demon Lover
7. Elf Call
8. Weary Cutters
9. New York Girls
10. Bach Goes To Limerick/ Devil’s Dream - Alternate Take (Previously unreleased)
11. Galtee Farmer - Alternate Take (Previously unreleased)
12. New York Girls - Alternate Take 1 (Previously unreleased)
13. New York Girls - More Sellers Version (Previously unreleased)

[CD5: All Around My Hat]
1. Black Jack Davy
2. Hard Times Of Old England
3. Cadgwith Anthem
4. Sum Waves
5. The Wife Of Ushers Well
6. Gamble Gold/Robin Hood
7. All Around My Hat
8. Dance With Me
9. Sum Waves/Devil’s Dream (Previously unreleased)
10. Batchelor’s Hall - Instrumental (Previously unreleased)

[CD6: Rocket Cottage]
1. London
2. The Bosnian Hornpipes
3. Orfeo / Nathan’s Reel
4. The Twelve Witches
5. The Brown Girl
6. Fighting For Strangers 7 Sligo Maid
7. Sir James The Rose
8. The Drunkard (including Camptown Races)
9. The Drunkard - Alternate Take (Previously unreleased)

[CD7: Storm Force Ten]
1. Awake, Awake
2. Sweep, Chimney Sweep
3. The Wife Of The Soldier
4. The Victory
5. The Black Freighter
6. Some Rival
7. Treadmill Song
8. Seventeen Come Sunday
9. The Boar’s Head Carol

[CD8: Live At Last]
1. The Atholl Highlanders/ Walter Bulwer’s Polka
2. Saucy Sailor / Black Freighter
3. The Maid And The Palmer
4. Hunting The Wren
5. Montrose
6. Bonnets So Blue
7. The False Knight On The Road
8. The Victory (Previously unreleased)
9. Cam Ye O’er Frae France (Previously unreleased)
10. Seventeen Come Sunday (Previously unreleased)

[CD9: Sails Of Silver]
1. Sails Of Silver
2. My Love
3. Barnet Fair
4. Senior Service
5. Gone To America
6. Where Are They Now
7. Let Her Go Down
8. Longbone
9. Marigold / Harvest Home
10. Tell Me Why

[CD10: On Tour (Previously Australian Only Vinyl Release)]
1. The King
2. Black Jack Davy
3. Sails Of Silver
4. Little Sir Hugh
5. Let Her Go Down
6. Alison Gross
7. Bach Goes To Limerick
8. Thomas The Rhymer
9. I Have A Wish
10. Longbone
11. I Live Not Where I Love
12. Gone To America
13. Gaudete
14. All Around My Hat

[CD11: Live At The Rainbow Theatre 1974 (Unreleased)]
1. Bach Goes To Limerick
2. Ups & Downs
3. Demon Lover
4. Two Magicians
5. The Wife Of Usher’s Well
6. One Misty Moisty Morning
7. Long Lankin
8. Jig Jam
9. The Musical Priest / The Silver Spear
10. Little Sir Hugh
11. Thomas The Rhymer
12. Cam Ye Oe’r Frae France
13. Oh You Beautiful Doll
14. Gaudete
15. Irish Jigs (Including Paddy Clancy’s)
16. The Mason’s Apron

[CD12: Live At The Boston Berklee Performance Centre 1976 (Unreleased)]
1. London
2. Orfeo / Nathan’s Reel
3. Hard Times Of Old England
4. Cam Ye O’er Frae France
5. Twelve Witches
6. Black Jack Davy
7. Gaudete
8. Brown Girl
9. I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
10. The Wife Of Usher’s Well
11. Sir James The Rose
12. Devil’s Dream / Royal Forester
13. Eins, Zwei, Drei
14. The Black Joke/Sligo Maid
15. All Around My Hat / The Mason’s Apron

Packshot (click for full size):

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

I'm a big fan of Steeleye Span but I have most of this apart from the live shows. I don't understand why they didn't include the debut album

PeterJ · 16 May 2007

I like them a lot as well. This is tempting.

There is another set of their three albums with Ashley Hutchings called All Things Are Quite Silent: Complete Recordings 1970-1971. It has Hark! The Village Wait, Please to See the King, and Ten Man Mop.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:44 am

Here's the 3CD box set that Peter is referring to:

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NRH6PX4/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07NRH6PX4/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NRH6PX4/?tag=imwan-21

Adrian, these albums aren't included in the new 12CD set because they weren't originally released on the Chrysalis label.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:46 am

I've added the cover image and description to the first post. The new 12CD box includes plenty of studio bonus tracks in addition to the live stuff.

(The two box sets together would make for a nice "instant collection" of Steeleye Span's classic years.)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:55 pm

Chrysalis has posted a cleaned-up version of the original "All Around My Hat" video to promote the new box set:

Ocean Doot · 25 Oct 2007

So what are the contents of the "56 page perfect bound book," I wonder?

[2022-05-27] Steeleye Span "Good Times Of Old England: Steeleye Span 1972-1983" 12CD box set (Chrysalis UK)

Who is WANline