My Side of Your Window
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My Side of Your Window is the third album released in the UK by British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 musician Ralph McTell
Ralph McTell
Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s....

, and the first produced by the artist himself.

Track listing

All titles by Ralph McTell except where stated.
  1. "Michael in the Garden"
  2. "Clown"
  3. "Girl on a Bicycle" (Ralph McTell, Gary Petersen)
  4. "Father Forgive Them"
  5. "All Things Change"
  6. "I've Thought About It"
  7. "Factory Girl"
  8. "Blues in More Than 12 Bars"
  9. "Kew Gardens"
  10. "Wait Until the Snow"
  11. "Silver Birch and Weeping Willow"

Musical credits

  • Ralph McTell - guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals
  • Bruce Barthol
    Bruce Barthol
    Bruce Barthol, , is an American bass player.Born at Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California, he was the original bass player with Country Joe and the Fish through to November 1968...

     - bass
  • "Neil" - flute
  • Brian "Brock" Brocklehurst - bass
  • Gary Petersen - guitar, piano, organ
  • Phil Greenberg - lead guitar
  • John Marshall - drums
  • Clive Palmer
    Clive Palmer
    Clive Palmer is a British folk musician and banjoist best known as a founding member of the Incredible String Band.Born in Edmonton, North London, he first went on stage at the age of 8, and took banjo lessons from the age of 10. Around 1957 he began playing with jazz bands in Soho...

     - banjo, fiddle
  • Mick Bennett - percussion
  • Folk Weavers - vocal accompaniment (track 9)
  • Tony Visconti
    Tony Visconti
    Anthony Edward Visconti is an American record producer and sometimes a musician or singer.Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers; his lengthiest involvement with any artist is with David Bowie: intermittently from Bowie's 1969 album Space Oddity to 2003's Reality, Visconti...

     - string arrangements
  • Brian Brittain - vocal arrangement (track 9)

Production credits

  • Producer: Ralph McTell (except track 3, Gus Dudgeon
    Gus Dudgeon
    Angus Boyd Dudgeon , most commonly known as Gus Dudgeon was an English record producer, most notable for production of many of Elton John's recordings.-Early career:...

    )
  • Engineers: Tom Allom
    Tom Allom
    Tom Allom is an English sound engineer and record producer, mainly active in the 1970s and 1980s. Allom is known for his work on seminal albums by Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, KIX, and Rough Cutt...

     and "Adrian" at Regent Sound
  • Model used on sleeve design: Peter Thaine
  • Liner notes: Robin Denselow

Awards and accolades

  • Upon its release, "My Side of Your Window" was Melody Maker
    Melody Maker
    Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...

    's 'Folk LP of the Month'.
  • During his 60th birthday concert at the Royal Festival Hall in November, 2004, McTell was presented with a Gold Disc of "My Side of Your Window".

Release history

Country Date Label Format Catalogue Notes
United Kingdom 1969 Transatlantic LP TRA209
Australia 1980 Transatlantic/
7 Records
LP MLM402
France Transatlantic LP 2933126
United Kingdom 2007 Transatlantic CD TRRCD402 'Expanded Edition' with four bonus tracks - a 1969 single and three taken from "Revisited
Revisited (Ralph McTell album)
Revisited is an album of remixed or re-recorded tracks from British folk musician Ralph McTell's albums Spiral Staircase and My Side of Your Window...

".


Many of the tracks on this album also feature in the "Spiral Staircase - Classic Songs
Spiral Staircase - Classic Songs
Spiral Staircase - Classic Songs is a double CD compilation of tracks from Ralph McTell's early Transatlantic LPs Eight Frames a Second, Spiral Staircase, My Side of Your Window and Revisited. It was released in 1997...

" compilation
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

.

Track variations

The UK 2007 CD release includes four bonus tracks:
12. "Summer Come Along" (1)
13. "Michael in the Garden" (2)
14. "Clown" (2)
15. "Factory Girl" (2)


(1) A single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

released in the UK in 1969


(2) Re-mixed or re-recorded in 1970 for "Revisited"
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