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Steeleye Span: Please to See the King

Please to See the King (Big Tree BTS 2004)

Please to See the King
Steeleye Span

B&C CAS 1029 (LP, UK, March 1971)
Big Tree BTS 2004 (LP, USA, 1971)
United Artists UAS 29244 (LP, 1971)
Interfusion SITFL 934599 (LP, Australia, 1972)
Chrysalis/Festival L 36141 (LP, Australia)

 Please to See the King (United Artists UAS 29244)
Please to See the King (Mooncrest CREST 8, 1974)

Mooncrest CREST 8 (LP, UK, 1974/76)
Chrysalis CHR 1119 (LP, USA, 1976)

 Please to See the King (Mooncrest CREST 8, 1976)
Please to See the King (Shanachie 79075)

Shanachie 79075 (CD, USA, 1990)
Mooncrest CREST(CD) 005 (LP / CD, UK, March 1991)
Castle Music CMQDD 1253 (2 CD, UK, January 16, 2006)

 Please to See the King (Mooncrest CRESTCD 005)
Please to See the King (Castle CMQDD 1253)

Castle Music CMQDD 1253 (2 CD, UK, January 16, 2006)

Engineers: Vic Gamm, Jerry Boys, Roger Mayer, Bob Potter, Roger Quested
Produced by Sandy Roberton, September Production Ltd.

Musicians

Maddy Prior, vocals, spoon, tabor, tambourine, bells;
Martin Carthy, vocals, guitar, banjo, organ, bells;
Tim Hart, vocals, guitar, dulcimer, bells;
Ashley Hutchings, vocals, bass guitar, bells;
Peter Knight, vocals, fiddle, mandolin, organ, bass guitar, bells

 Steeleye Span Mk 2

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. The Blacksmith (4:49)
  2. Cold, Haily, Windy Night (4:37)
  3. Jigs: Bryan O'Lynn / The Hag with the Money (3:21)
  4. Prince Charlie Stuart (4:17)
  5. Boys of Bedlam (4:22)
  1. False Knight on the Road (2:45)
  2. The Lark in the Morning (4:33)
  3. Female Drummer (4:05)
  4. The King (1:31)
  5. Lovely on the Water (5:20)
Bonus Track on the 1991 Mooncrest LP/CD reissue
  1. Rave On (1:24)
    Unfortunately this is not the original single version but a shortened “cleaned-up” version without the mock scratches. The original is available on CD 3 of The Carthy Choronicles.
Bonus Tracks on the 2006 CD reissue: BBC Sessions

“Top Gear” BBC radio session; recorded June 23, 1970, Maida Vale 4; broadcast June 27, 1970

  1. The Blacksmith
  2. Female Drummer
  3. Rave On
  4. I Was a Young Man
  5. The Lark in the Morning

“Stuart Henry Show” BBC radio session, July 23, 1970

  1. The King
  2. Prince Charlie Stuart
  3. The Bold Poachers
Bonus CD on the 2006 CD reissue: BBC Sessions

“Folk on 1” BBC radio session, October 17, 1970

  1. College Grove / Silver Spear
  2. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  3. False Knight on the Road
  4. Jigs: Hitler's Downfall / The Hag with the Money
  5. Female Drummer (Mk I)
  6. Wee Weaver
  7. Reel

“Stuart Henry Show” BBC radio session, February 4, 1971

  1. Female Drummer (Mk II)
  2. General Taylor
  3. Farther Along
  4. Two Reels

“Top Gear” BBC radio session, March 27, 1971

  1. Let's Dance
  2. Bring 'em Down / A Hundred Years Ago
  3. The Lark in the Morning

BBC TV performance (date unknown)

  1. The King
  2. Jigs: Bryan O'Lynn / The Hag with the Money
  3. The Blacksmith

LP Sleeve Notes

Thanks to: Steeleye Span Mk. 1 and the Folk Song Journals for The Blacksmith; Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould and Stephen Sedley for Cold, Haily, Windy Night; Martin Byrnes and Sean O'Shea for Bryan O'Lynn and The Hag with the Money respectively; Brigid Tunney for Prince Charlie Stuart; Tom Walsh of the Combine Harvester via Tommy Gilfellon for Boys of Bedlam; Willie Whyte and Francis James Child for False Knight on the Road; Mr Kent via Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Folk Song Journals for The Lark in the Morning; A Yorkshire girl via Percy Grainger, Bert Lloyd and the Watersons for Female Drummer; Two old ladies in Pembrokeshire via Andy Nisbet for The King and Mr Hilton via Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Folk Song Journals for Lovely on the Water.

Please to See the King (Shanachie 79075)