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Originally Posted by snoot
This did catch my attention though:
1969 De Lane Lea recording
April 18 :: May 6 :: May 15 :: May 18 :: May 31 :: June 6:: June 8 :: July 2-4:: Aug 3
Could a chunk of the above be the dates of the TPO sessions?
And of course 1968 Oct 30
"CBS w Mike Vernon & Mike Ross" ... not sure if there was any leftover material carried from here to TPO to boot. Don't think Albatross was recorded this late however -- though it was released late in '68 and charted in early '69. Hmmm...
Finally 1970 De Lane Lea recording
April 14 - 20 :: April 28 - 30 ...
What does the good book Hjort have to say on this sharkman?  Possibly the Manalishi farewell? |
Hjort has something to say about almost everything
Just to make clear what the focus of his book is - he's following John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor in great detail from the beginning of 1965 to the end of 1970. That's why he has almost nothing to say about Fleetwood Mac after Green departed. Hjort has this to say about those particular recording dates:
30 October 1968: The band (minus Kirwan) recorded Spencer's mock radio show "The Milton Schlitz Show" that was supposed to be for an upcoming EP, but went unreleased until
The Vaudeville Years discs in 1998. Hjort lists "Albatross" being recorded at CBS Studios on 6 October, and possibly further work being done on it there during the week of 14-18 October.
Those various spring & summer 1969 dates: of those, Hjort lists 18 April, 15 May, 31 May, 8 June, and 2-4 July for recording tracks for
Then Play On. He adds mixing
TPO at the studio on 12 July, and recording tracks for Spencer's solo LP on 25 July (and also 30 August and either 22 or 23 September). Hjort notes the 3 August date was for recording both parts of "Oh Well". Also, he lists 18 September as the date for recording Green's "Fast Talkin' Woman Blues" (an update of his earlier "Drifting") and Kirwan's "Tell Me From the Start", both of which showed up on
The Vaudeville Years.
14-20 April / 28-30 April 1970: Snoot, you're correct about "The Green Manalishi" being recording at this time. Hjort writes that it was recorded on the 14th (28 takes!). "World In Harmony" was recorded on the 16th-17th (a take from the 16th was used for the master), and on the 17th Kirwan also recorded two new instrumentals. More work was done on these two instrumental tracks on the 20th - one of these was later released on
The Vaudeville Years as "Farewell" (the predecessor to "Earl Grey" from
Kiln House), while it seems the second one has never been released. Hjort does not mention any De Lane Lea recordings later in April, only a BBC session on the 27th, where "Sandy Mary", "World In Harmony", "Only You", "Tiger", and "Leaving Town Blues" were recorded. Hjort does mention Green recording for a solo album with Martin Birch at De Lane Lea in early May, but that these recordings were never finished and never released.
There certainly could have been more recording dates than Hjort lists...and possibly Dawson includes some dates that were postponed or cancelled? I don't know the sources for all the info, but presumably Dawson was using his notes or journals and Hjort was using studio logs...but there are bound to be inaccuracies in all of this.