All Around My Hat (album)

All Around My Hat

Studio album by Steeleye Span

Released

October 1975

Recorded

July 1975
Air Studios, London

Genre

Electric folk

Length

38:33

Steeleye Span chronology

Commoners Crown
(1975)

All Around My Hat
(1975)

Rocket Cottage
(1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

All Around My Hat is a 1975 album by Steeleye Span, their eighth and highest-charting, reaching number 7 on the UK charts, and staying on the charts for 6 months. It briefly made the band a household name in the UK. In the United States it became the band's first album to chart, reaching number 143.

The title track was Steeleye Span's highest-charting single, reaching number 5 in the UK charts, with "Black Jack Davy" as a B-side.

The song "Dance with Me" is a version of a Scandinavian ballad Herr Olof och Älvorna.

The album cover and back was designed by John 'Connor, a friend of Hart's, using an anamorphic projection that distorted the facial features of the band members but which looks correct when viewed from the side through special pinholes in the lyric sheet.

Versions

The record label Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued this LP in a half-speed mastered, Japan-pressed, limited-edition audiophile vinyl edition that was released in 1980, as catalog number MFSL 1-027.^[2]

Track listing

"Black Jack Davy"
"Hard Times of Old England"
"Cadwith Anthem"
"Sum Waves"
"The Wife of Ushers Well"
"Gamble Gold (Robin Hood)"
"All Around My Hat"
"Dance With Me"
"Batchelors Hall"

Personnel

Maddy Prior - vocals
Tim Hart - guitar, vocals, dulcimer
Bob Johnson - guitar, vocals
Rick Kemp - bass guitar, vocals
Peter Knight - violin, vocals, mandolin
Nigel Pegrum - drums, flute

References

↑ All Around My Hat (album) at AllMusic
↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20060211073820/http://www.aurealm.com/blue.htm Retrieved 3/23/2015

Steeleye Span

Maddy Prior Peter Knight Rick Kemp Liam Genockey Pete Zorn Julian Litman Tim Hart Ashley Hutchings Gay Woods Terry Woods Martin Carthy Bob Johnson Nigel Pegrum John Kirkpatrick Mark Williamson Chris Staines Tim Harries Michael Gregory Terl Bryant Ken Nicol

Studio albums	Hark! The Village Wait (1970) Please to See the King (1971) Ten Man Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again (1971) Below the Salt (1972) Parcel of Rogues (1973) Now We Are Six (1974) Commoners Crown (1975) All Around My Hat (1975) Rocket Cottage (1976) Storm Force Ten (1977) Sails of Silver (1980) Back in Line (1986) Tempted and Tried (1989) Time (1996) Horkstow Grange (1998) Bedlam Born (2000) Present--The Very Best of Steeleye Span (2002) They Called Her Babylon (2004) Winter (2004) Bloody Men (2006) Cogs, Wheels & Lovers (2009) Wintersmith (2013)

Live albums	Live at Last (1978) Tonight's the Night...Live (1992) The Collection: Steeleye Span in Concert (1994) The Journey (1999) Folk Rock Pioneers in Concert (2006) Live at a Distance (2009) Now We Are Six Again (2012)

Singles	"Rave On"/"Reels"/"Female Drummer" (1971) "Jigs and Reels" (1972) "John Barleycorn"/"Bride's Favourite"/"Tansey's Fancy" (1972) "Gaudete"/"The Holly and The Ivy" (1972) "The Mooncoin Jig" (1974) "New York Girls"/"Two Magicians" (1975) "All Around My Hat"/"Black Jack Davy" (1975) "Rave On"/"False Knight On The Road" (1976) "Hard Times of England"/"Cadgwith Anthem" (1976) "London"/"Sligo Maid" (1976) "Fighting For Strangers"/"The Mooncoin Jig" (1976) "The Boar's Head Carol"/"Gaudete"/"Some Rival" (1977) "Rag Doll"/"Saucy Sailor" (1978) "Sails of Silver"/"Senior Service" (1980) "Gone To America"/"Let Her Go Down" (1981) "Somewhere In London"/"Lanercost" (1985) "Padstow"/"First House in Connaught"/"Sailor's Bonnet" (1989) "Following Me"/"Two Butchers" (1989) "The Fox"/"Jack Hall" (1990) "Lord Elgin"/"Lord Elgin (live)" (2006)

DVDs	Classic Rock Legends (2002) A Twentieth Anniversary Celebration (2003) The 35th Anniversary World Tour 2004 (2005)

Related articles	The King of Elfland's Daughter (1977)

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