Fairport Convention - Chelsea Morning Lyrics

They were never the same after Judy Dyble left. She added a very special quality to their total sound.

' ... and the light poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses ... ' brilliant

Judy's Birthday is on the 13th so we should all think of tunes with Fairport, other bands and solo. Thanks!

The Ramones meet Joni Mitchell. Great stuff.

Love Fairport Convention! Thirty years ago, discovered Liege and Lief. It was my introduction to FC! This bis a beautifully unique version of this song

They arrangement in this version is rather busy, but Judy Dyble had a great voice! In my Joni playlist with a live version by her from ENgland, 2 years before she recorded it herself. Thanks for the upload!

Hambuns Hope I dont have to say this very often - just put a donation to DEC for the African situation - but hope this money goes to giving Rupert Murdoch an assisted passage to Somalia where he and his CEO can experience directly the same shit his companies have generated elsewhere... and if you like SKY television, just think what this lowlife gets with 100% ownership........

@hambuns Thanks for the correction. I edited my iTunes to straighten that out.
I like to keep it accurate in my iTunes collection. :-)

@mikekadas - The singer on this album is Judy Dyble. She left the band after its release, and still records now -see Jazzbirds.

Chelsea Morning - Fairport Convention [England] - 1967 - "Good first impression. One of my favorites and their BEST. Sandy Denny's vocals are hauntingly beautiful and the back-up vocals have a psych feeling." - Meet On The Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-1975) [A&M Records] (Disc 1)-1999.

Judy Dyble's hauntingly beautiful vocals and in the photo ;-)

@posthumanhero My understanding is that Ashley Hutchings left Fairport Convention after Leige and Lief and started Steeleye Span. So I think that would mean that Fairport was first by one album.

I've heard about that too. There's no doubt that these nations had/ have sepereate identities, but it seems debatable as to whether they were celtic or not. Anyway I'm not a big fan of the over-hey-diddle-diddley tone of albums like "Full House", I think they got the mix of folk/ rock/ original writting right before then.

LOL. The "Celtic Invention" was started by a Scot in the 18th Century as a reaction to English supremacy. Before then, no Scots, Welsh or Irish referred to themselves as Celts.

Oh I see, sorry, I wasn't aware of that musical element, and as you suggest there is some celtic/ Irish/ Scottish influence in lyrics too, I just think that the whole cetic bag has been blown out of proportion and as far as Britain is concerned there has been such long mutual contact between the respective cultures it's not possible to divide them up so clearly. Anyway I can't answer your original question! Peace, love, music!

I'm not sure how much the term "celtic" fits the music done by these bands, they drew largely from the old english tradition, maybe Anglo- Saxon folk rock would be more appropriate! ;0)

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Yeah, the ending sounds almost like it belongs to some other song.

Nothing else like this. A folk rock band playing a galloping rock and roll arrangement with dramatic tempo changes...of a folk song. This may have suited Sandy Denny just fine, but Judy Dyble nails it here. She harmonized marvelously with the others here as well. She sounds overwhelmed with joy. It probably gets me out of bed and ready to leap out my window to a brand new day before I can get to the door a bit quicker than Joni's version. Still credit to Joni for writing a great song.

Hard to imagine these days, that Fairport convention actually were pretty hip at one stage ! Only one of this line up in the present band, ( Simon Nicol) but to be fair the others still seem to be friends and do turn up regularly at Cropredy so I have seen all this band with the exception of the late drummer Martin Lamble. Good stuff.

I thought I once read somewhere that Neil Diamond did a version of this gorgeous song, but I'm not so sure. One of my fave songs on that album.

...so many memories came flooding back to this... fantastic!

If you weren't familiar with Joni Mitchell's version, would you have objected to the ending then. This track was taken from what was the first rather experimental album from Fairport.

sorry to disappoint you: this is Judy Dyble singing, not Sandy Denny.... still a good song though.