Fairport Convention – "Babbacombe" Lee Label: A&M Records – SP-4333, A&M Records – SP 4333 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1971 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk Rock A [1-5] 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. 6:19 A [6-8] This Was The Happiest Period In His Life. All Locked 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. 10:12 A [9-10] Tragedy Now Strikes Hard. The World's Imagination Is Caught By The Brutal Senseless Of The Apparent Criminal Who Slays His Kind Old Mistress. 3:57 B [11-12] 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. 7:32 B [13-15] 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. 13:20 Recorded At – Sound Techniques, London Published By – UFO Music, Inc. Licensed From – Island Records Ltd. Record Company – A&M Records, Inc. Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute Bass, Mandolin – Dave Pegg Composed By – Fairport Convention Composed By [Thanks To] – Bert Lloyd* Design [Album] – Roberta Nicol Drums, Electric Piano – Dave Mattacks Engineer – John "Mildenhall" Wood* Fiddle, Mandolin – Dave Swarbrick Guitar, Dulcimer – Simon Nicol Producer – John M Wood*, Simon Nicol Album Inner C.C.S.FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPH: John Lee and His Old MotherGatefold cover, printed lyric inner plus 8 page booklet (inserts into l/h inner gatefold) Rights Society: BMI Pressing Plant ID: T1 Matrix / Runout (A-Side label): SP-4565 Matrix / Runout (B-Side label): SP-4566 Matrix / Runout (A-Side runout, variant 1): A&M SP 4565 TI 1 Matrix / Runout (B-Side runout, variant 1): A&M SP 4566 PI 1 Matrix / Runout (A-Side runout, variant 2): A&M SP 4565 T1 1 A Matrix / Runout (B-Side runout, variant 2): A&M SP 4566 T1 1 1A
