Sandy and Johnny
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Sandy and Johnny is a split album
featuring early recordings by Sandy Denny
and Johnny Silvo, recorded for Saga Records in 1967. Despite being credited to both singers, the album consists of solo songs by each.
has stated that the "simple folk arrangements ... are often old-fashioned and outmoded".
Split album
A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...
featuring early recordings by Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...
and Johnny Silvo, recorded for Saga Records in 1967. Despite being credited to both singers, the album consists of solo songs by each.
Background
For a time in 1967, Denny was a member of the "Johnny Silvo Folk Four", and this album arose from that; however, Allmusic's Richie UnterbergerRichie Unterberger
Richie Unterberger is a US author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.-Life and writing:Having worked as a DJ at WXPN in Philadelphia, he started reviewing records for Op magazine in 1983...
has stated that the "simple folk arrangements ... are often old-fashioned and outmoded".
Side one
- Sandy Denny: "Milk and Honey" (Jackson C. FrankJackson C. FrankJackson Carey Frank was an American folk musician.-Early life:When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York...
) - Johnny Silvo: "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate"
- Sandy Denny: "The Last Thing on My MindThe Last Thing on My Mind"The Last Thing on My Mind" is a song written by American musician and singer-songwriter Tom Paxton in the early 1960s, which Paxton first recorded in 1964...
" (Tom PaxtonTom PaxtonThomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years...
) - Johnny Silvo: "Ol' Man Moose"
- Sandy Denny: "The 3:10 to Yuma" (George DuningGeorge DuningGeorge Duning was an American musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco....
/ Ned WashingtonNed WashingtonNed Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
) - Johnny Silvo: "Black Girl"
Side two
- Sandy Denny: "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" (Trad. arr. A. Johnson)
- Johnny Silvo: "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"
- Sandy Denny: "Pretty PollyPretty Polly (ballad)"Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy" or "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" is a traditional English-language folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places....
" (Trad. arr. A. Johnson) - Johnny Silvo: "Take This Hammer"
- Sandy Denny: "Been on the Road So Long" (Alex CampbellAlex Campbell (singer)Alex Campbell was a Scottish folk singer. Described by Colin Harper as a "melancholic, hard-travelling Glaswegian", he was influential in the British folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s and was one of the first folk singers to tour the UK and Europe...
) - Johnny Silvo: "To Hear My Mother Pray"
Personnel
- Sandy Denny - guitar, vocals
- Johnny Silvo - guitar, vocals
- David Moses -double bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...