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As a special treat we've found a great video of Sandy Denny and Fotheringay for you to download. Download Now. fotheringay.mpg Recorded I believe in 1974.

Fotheringay, Sandy Denny, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned for 21 years in the castle of Fotheringhay by Queen Elizabeth I for conspiring to overthrow Elizabeth and was executed in 1587. Sandy's song concentrates more on the long imprisonment rather than the sensational execution. There are several versions of this song available: The first version is a home demo, released on The Attic Tracks Vol. 3. It was recorded in 1967 and Sandy plays guitar. This version was played to Fairport when they were planning their What We Did on Our Holidays LP. The second version subsequently appeared in 1969 as the opening song of this LP and later on The History of Fairport Convention, on the double CD album Meet on the Ledge: The Classic Years 1967-1975, on Ashley Hutchings' The Guv'nor Vol. 4, on the 2CD Sandy Denny anthology No More Sad Refrains, and in 2004 on the 5CD Fledg'ling anthology A Boxful of Treasures. On this version, Sandy plays acoustic guitar with Richard Thompson; Simon Nicol plays autoharp and Martin Lamble bells. Fotheringay, Ashley Hutchings plays bass. It is interesting to note how much the band adds to the song. A third version was broadcast on August 26, 1968 on the BBC Top Gear session. It was for a long time available on the bootleg A Chronicle of Sorts only but was finally released in 2002 on the Fairport unConventioNal 4CD set (The sleeve notes incorrectly claim this to be the next version). The fourth known version was recorded on February 4, 1969 in BBC Studio 1, 201 Piccadilly, for “Symonds on Sunday” and broadcast on February 9, 1969. It was produced by Keith Stewart. This track was released in 2002 on the Island re-release of Heyday.

Known by a few for some months, now it's official. Jerry Donahue, of FOTHERINGAY, FAIRPORTS and HELLECASTERS fame, informed DME that he's "been given the go ahead to finish the "Fotheringay 2" album and got access to all those wonderful recordings". The work's afoot already and, if things go according to plan, it will come out on Fledgling Records in October. Tracks to be included are original versions of "Eppie Moray", "Gypsy Davey", "Late November", "Lowlands Of Holland", "John the Gun", "Wild Mountain Thyme", "Knights Of The Road", "Silver Threads And Golden Needles", "Two Weeks Last Summer", "Bold Jack Donahue" and as yet unnamed instrumental written by Trevor Lucas and Jerry Donahue. Many of those are well-known in Sandy Denny's solo versions, some found their way into the connoisseurs' hands on bootlegs. Fortunately, the great band's heritage is in the caring hands now and the previously unfinished masterpiece will eventually see the light of day.

An arts student at Kingston, Sandy was a regular round the London folk scene in the mod 60s, where she met such luminaries as Paul Simon and Jackson C. Frank, who she later went out with. 1967 was a busy Fotheringay year for her: legend has it that she met Dave Cousins at a folk club who asked her there and then to join the Strawbs. She did so, and though she didn't perform live very many times, they immediately set off to Copenhagen to record what became the All Our Own Work album. Cousins had difficulty getting the Copenhagen tapes placed with a record company, and by the time anyone was showing interest, Sandy had moved on. Round about the same time she recorded some material which emerged as Sandy And Johnny (with Johnny Silvo) and Alex Campbell And Friends. Her tracks from these albums were re-issued as a compilation album, which was re-issued on CD as The Original Sandy Denny. After Sandy Denny left the Strawbs, she joined Fairport Convention, reputedly auditioning them!! She recorded three albums with Fairport, which coincided with their movement away from being a "covers" band towards electric folk music. She stayed with them until 1969, after the recording of "Liege and Lief", when, owing to her dislike of touring, she left the band and decided to form her own band Fotheringay. Fotheringay included her husband to be Trevor Lucas, guitarist Jerry Donahue and stalwarts Gerry Conway and Pat Donaldson. Fotheringay's first and only released album is pictured. Sandy recorded the Dave Cousins song "Two Weeks Last Summer" for Fotheringay's second album, but before that album was completed, the band split and the track was not released. She had asked Cousins to write an additional verse for the song, which he obligingly did. This version appears on the 4LP or 3CD retrospective "Who Knows Where The Time Goes". The set also includes "Sail Away To The Sea" from the Sandy and the Strawbs "All Our Own Work" album. Sandy moved on to a solo career, releasing three excellent solo albums in three years and was repeatedly voted the UK's top female vocalist, though commercial success eluded her. She briefly rejoined Fairport again, for their Live album and the superb Rising For The Moon, but left again after a while. She had resumed her solo career, releasing the critically acclaimed Rendezvous, but died in an accident at a friend's home on 21 April 1978. Also of interest to Strawbs fans, the inner tray of the bootleg Dark The Night features a very rare shot of Sandy and the Strawbs performing live. The first two tracks "Green Grow The Laurels" and "Fhir A Bhata" come from a BBC Transcription disc "Cellarful of Folk" produced for the World Service, which also features an unusual line-up of the Strawberry Hill Boys, though it's not certain they performed in the same place and session. Borrowed Thyme has a number of early demos, and a number of songs lifted from radio performances in 1967/1968, all tracks of the sort that Sandy would have been performing in the folk clubs, some of which she then recorded with Johnny Silvo and Alex Campbell. Of Strawbs interest is the early demo - maybe even the one Dave Cousins recalls recording in his living room in Hounslow - of "Who Knows Where The Time Goes". Fotheringay 2005. Try looking at www.fotheringays.co.uk or www.fotheringays.com for some special pricing on fotheringays items.

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