Babacombe Lee
Material type: MusicPublisher number: ILPS 9176 | Island RecordsPublication details: Island Records, 1971.Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpmItem type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Class number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Sound Recordings | VWML | Gift | Storage | SAD 4527 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Reference only | J.G. Hutchinson collection | SR07135 |
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SAD 4524 What we did on our holidays | SAD 4525 Angel delight | SAD 4526 Fairport live convention | SAD 4527 Babacombe Lee | SAD 4528 Rising for the moon | SAD 4529 Rocket cottage | SAD 4530 Rise up like the sun |
Sound disc, analog.
Musical instruments: Guitar, bass, drums, fiddle, mandolin, piano, dulcimer.
Side 1: 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 -- Side 2: 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.