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All Around My Hat (album)

All Around My Hat is a 1975 album by Steeleye Span, their eighth and highest-charting; it reached number 7 on the UK Albums Chart, and stayed on the chart for six months. It was produced by Mike Batt, who also produced their follow-up album Rocket Cottage. It briefly made the band a household name in the UK.[citation needed] In the United States it became the band's first album to chart, reaching number 143.

All Around My Hat
Studio album by
Steeleye Span
ReleasedOctober 1975
RecordedJuly 1975
StudioAir Studios, London
GenreBritish folk rock
Length38:33
LabelChrysalis
ProducerMike Batt
Steeleye Span chronology
Commoners Crown
(1975) 		All Around My Hat
(1975) 		Rocket Cottage
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The title track was edited to just over three minutes long for single release and became their highest-charting single, reaching No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart, with "Black Jack Davy" as its B-side.

In 1976 an edited version of a second track from the album, "Hard Times of Old England", was issued as a single, but did not chart.

The song "Dance with Me" is a version of a Scandinavian ballad, "Herr Olof och Älvorna".

The album cover and back was designed by John O'Connor, a friend of the band's guitarist Tim Hart, using an anamorphic projection that distorted the facial features of the band members but which looks correct when viewed from the side through special pinholes in the lyric sheet.

Versions edit

The record label Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued this LP in 1980 in a half-speed-mastered, Japan-pressed, limited-edition audiophile vinyl edition, as catalog number MFSL 1-027.[2]

Track listing edit

All tracks Traditional, arranged by Hart/Prior/Knight/Johnson/Kemp.

  1. "Black Jack Davy"
  2. "Hard Times of Old England"
  3. "Cadgwith Anthem"
  4. "Sum Waves"
  5. "The Wife of Ushers Well"
  6. "Gamble Gold (Robin Hood)"
  7. "All Around My Hat"
  8. "Dance With Me"
  9. "Batchelors Hall"

Personnel edit

Steeleye Span

Certifications edit

Certifications for All Around My Hat
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[3] Gold 100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Cover version edit

In 1996, one of the group's lead vocalists, Maddy Prior, contributed guest vocals to a Status Quo recording of the song "All Around My Hat", and when that band toured England that year with Steeleye Span as support, she joined them on stage to sing it as an encore. Released as a single, it reached No. 47.

References edit

  1. ^ All Around My Hat at AllMusic
  2. ^ "Mobile Fidelity Vinyl Discography". Archived from the original on 11 February 2006. Retrieved 4 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "British album certifications – Steeleye Span – All Around My Hat". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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