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Steeleye Span: Please to See the King

	Please to See the King Steeleye Span B&C CAS 1029 (LP, UK, March 1971) Big Tree BTS 2004 (LP, USA, 1971) United Artists UAS 29244 (LP, 1971) Liberty LLP 80462 (LP, Japan)
	Interfusion SITFL 934599 (LP, Australia, 1972) Chrysalis/Festival L 36141 (LP, Australia) Mooncrest CREST 8 (LP, UK, 1974/76) Chrysalis CHR 1119 (LP, USA, 1976) Mooncrest CREST(CD) 005 (LP / CD, UK, March 1991)
	Shanachie 79075 (CD, USA, 1990) Castle Music CMQDD 1253 (2 CD w/ bonus tracks, UK, 16 January 2006) Talking Elephant TECD317 (CD, UK, 26 February 2016)

Engineers: Vic Gamm, Jerry Boys, Roger Mayer, Bob Potter, Roger Quested;
Produced by Sandy Roberton, September Production Ltd.

Musicians

Maddy Prior: vocals, spoon, tabor, tambourine, bells;
Martin Carthy: vocals, guitar, banjo, organ, bells;
Tim Hart: vocals, guitar, dulcimer, bells;
Ashley Hutchings: vocals, bass guitar, bells;
Peter Knight: vocals, fiddle, mandolin, organ, bass guitar, bells

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Blacksmith (Roud 816) (4.49)
2. Cold, Haily, Windy Night (Roud 135; G/D 4:778) (4.37)
3. Jigs: Bryan O’Lynn / The Hag With the Money (3.21)
4. Prince Charlie Stuart (Roud 3099; Henry H533) (4.17)
5. Boys of Bedlam (Roud V53999) (4.22)

Side 2

6. False Knight on the Road (Roud 20; Child 3) (2.45)
7. The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151) (4.33)
8. Female Drummer (Roud 226; G/D 1:182; Henry H497) (4.05)
9. The King (Roud 32955) (1.31)
10. Lovely on the Water (Roud 1539) (5.20)

Bonus Track on the 1991 Mooncrest LP/CD reissue

11. Rave On [Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, Norman Petty] (1.24)
    Unfortunately this is not the original single version but a shortened “cleaned-up” version without the mock scratches. The original is available on CD 3 of The Carthy Choronicles.

Bonus Tracks on the 2006 CD reissue: BBC Sessions

“Top Gear” BBC radio session; recorded 23 June 1970, Maida Vale 4; broadcast 27 June 1970

11. The Blacksmith (Roud 816) (4.23)
12. Female Drummer (Roud 226; G/D 1:182; Henry H497) (3.15)
13. Rave On [Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, Norman Petty] (1.22)
14. I Was a Young Man (Roud 1572; G/D 7:1291) (3.51)
15. The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151) (3.41)

“Stuart Henry Show” BBC radio session, recorded 16 July 1970, broadcast 23 July 1970

16. The King (Roud 32955) (1.26)
17. Prince Charlie Stuart (Roud 3099; Henry H533) (4.10)
18. The Bold Poachers (Roud 1686) (5.27)

Bonus CD on the 2006 CD reissue: BBC Sessions

“Folk on 1” BBC radio session, 17 October 1970

1. College Grove / Silver Spear (2.51)
2. Lay Down Your Weary Tune [Bob Dylan] (4.20)
3. False Knight on the Road (Roud 20; Child 3) (3.22)
4. Jigs: Hitler’s Downfall / The Hag With the Money (1.58)
5. Female Drummer (Mk I) (Roud 226; G/D 1:182; Henry H497) (3.50)
6. Wee Weaver (Roud 3378) (4.23)
7. Reel (2.36)

“Stuart Henry Show” BBC radio session, 4 February 1971

8. Female Drummer (Mk II) (Roud 226; G/D 1:182; Henry H497) (4.12)
9. General Taylor (Roud 216) (3.36)
10. Farther Along (Roud 18084) (3.10)
11. Two Reels (2.32)

“Top Gear” BBC radio session, 27 March 1971

12. Let’s Dance [Jim Lee] (1.45)
13. Bring ’em Down / A Hundred Years Ago (Roud 926) (2.40)
14. The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151) (3.52)

BBC TV performance (date unknown)

15. The King (Roud 32955) (1.24)
16. Jigs: Bryan O’Lynn / The Hag With the Money (2.13)
17. The Blacksmith (Roud 816) (3.49)

LP Sleeve Notes

Thanks to: Steeleye Span Mk. 1 and the Folk Song Journals for The Blacksmith; Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould and Stephen Sedley for Cold, Haily, Windy Night; Martin Byrnes and Sean O’Shea for Bryan O’Lynn and The Hag With the Money respectively; Brigid Tunney for Prince Charlie Stuart; Tom Walsh of the Combine Harvester via Tommy Gilfellon for Boys of Bedlam; Willie Whyte and Francis James Child for False Knight on the Road; Mr Kent via Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Folk Song Journals for The Lark in the Morning; A Yorkshire girl via Percy Grainger, Bert Lloyd and the Watersons for Female Drummer; Two old ladies in Pembrokeshire via Andy Nisbet for The King and Mr Hilton via Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Folk Song Journals for Lovely on the Water.