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Spiral Staircase - Classic Songs is a double CD 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...

of tracks from 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....

's early Transatlantic

Transatlantic Records

Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label. It was established in 1961. It started began primarily as an importer of American folk, blues and jazz records - by many of the artists who influenced the burgeoning British folk and blues boom. Within a couple of years, the company had...

LP album

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

s Eight Frames a Second
Eight Frames a Second
Eight Frames a Second is the debut album by British folk musician Ralph McTell. Released in the UK in 1968, it is notable for being the first record produced by Gus Dudgeon, and the first arranged by Tony Visconti.-Track listing:...

, Spiral Staircase
Spiral Staircase (Ralph McTell album)
Spiral Staircase is British folk musician Ralph McTell's second album. Produced by Gus Dudgeon and released in the UK in 1969, its opening track, "Streets of London", has become McTell's signature tune.-Track listing:...

, My Side of Your Window
My Side of Your Window
My Side of Your Window is the third album released in the UK by British folk musician Ralph McTell, and the first produced by the artist himself.-Track listing:All titles by Ralph McTell except where stated...

and 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...

. It was released in 1997.

Track listing

All titles by Ralph McTell except where stated.

Disc 1

"Summer Come Along"
"Terminus"
"Michael in the Garden" [Version 2]
"Nanna's Song"
"Last Train and Ride"
"Wino and the Mouse"
"Clown"
"Willoughby's Farm"
"The Mermaid and the Seagull"
"Eight Frames a Second"
"Wait Until the Snow"
"Hesitation Blues" (Trad. arr. Ralph McTell)
"England 1914"
"Girl on a Bicycle" (Ralph McTell/Gary Petersen)
"Mrs. Adlam's Angels"
"Granny Takes a Trip" (Boyer/Beard)
"Blind Blake's Rag" (Trad. arr. Ralph McTell)
"Spiral Staircase"
"Father Forgive Them" [Version 1]
"All Things Change"
"Streets of London"

Disc 2

"Factory Girl" [Version 2]
"Bright and Beautiful Things"
"Father Forgive Them" [Version 2]
"Michael in the Garden" [Version 1]
"I've Thought About It"
"Blues in More Than 12 Bars"
"Rizraklaru (Anag)"
"Factory Girl" [Version 1]
"Silver Birch and Weeping Willow"
"Louise"
"Too Tight Drag" (Blind Blake
Blind Blake
"Blind" Blake was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.-Biography:...

)
"Kew Gardens"
"Fairground"
"Sleepy Time Blues"
"Daddy's Here"
"Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson
Bonnie Dobson
Bonnie Dobson is a Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist, most known in the 1960s for composing the songs "I'm Your Woman" and "Morning Dew"...

arr. Fred Neil)
"I'm Sorry - I Must Leave"

Note. Titles marked '[Version 1]' are from the original albums; those marked '[Version 2]' are re-mixes

Remix album

A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.One of the earliest remix albums was 1971's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet by Harry Nilsson, which was released by Nilsson after the successes of Everybody's Talkin and The Point!...

from Revisited.

Musical credits

Ralph McTell - guitar, vocals
For other musicians see Eight Frames a Second
Eight Frames a Second
Eight Frames a Second is the debut album by British folk musician Ralph McTell. Released in the UK in 1968, it is notable for being the first record produced by Gus Dudgeon, and the first arranged by Tony Visconti.-Track listing:...

, Spiral Staircase
Spiral Staircase (Ralph McTell album)
Spiral Staircase is British folk musician Ralph McTell's second album. Produced by Gus Dudgeon and released in the UK in 1969, its opening track, "Streets of London", has become McTell's signature tune.-Track listing:...

and My Side of Your Window
My Side of Your Window
My Side of Your Window is the third album released in the UK by British folk musician Ralph McTell, and the first produced by the artist himself.-Track listing:All titles by Ralph McTell except where stated...

.

Production credits

See the articles on the contributing albums Eight Frames a Second
Eight Frames a Second
Eight Frames a Second is the debut album by British folk musician Ralph McTell. Released in the UK in 1968, it is notable for being the first record produced by Gus Dudgeon, and the first arranged by Tony Visconti.-Track listing:...

, Spiral Staircase
Spiral Staircase (Ralph McTell album)
Spiral Staircase is British folk musician Ralph McTell's second album. Produced by Gus Dudgeon and released in the UK in 1969, its opening track, "Streets of London", has become McTell's signature tune.-Track listing:...

, My Side of Your Window
My Side of Your Window
My Side of Your Window is the third album released in the UK by British folk musician Ralph McTell, and the first produced by the artist himself.-Track listing:All titles by Ralph McTell except where stated...

and 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...

.

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