Lindisfarne-Dingly Dell

Original

This is their third album from 1972. It sold poorly and three members left forming the band Jack The Lad that played more traditional Folk music. This is my favorite of the three I have. The first three songs all run together including a short instrumental between and are followed by “Poor Old Ireland”,”Don’t Ask Me”,the most Rock oriented song they do with electric guitar”,and “Oh No Not Again” all songs I like. Side two starts with another short traditional instrumental “Dingle Regatta”.After two more OK songs the next three are all good. “Court In The Act” was released as a single and one I head on the radio back then,”Mandolin King” features three mandolins, and the title track “Dingly Dell” a different song for them with only Alan Hull’s voice and acoustic guitar and Rod Clements bass. All four voices are used in the chorus. It’s a quiet song before breaking into the louder chorus and rather somber sounding. This is a song I taped off the radio around “72 or ’73 and never knew who performed it until I bought these three albums a couple years later. Upon hearing the song the first time I played it I was happy to have solved the mystery. There are still a couple of songs on my tapes I made back then I have never heard again,still hoping to find out who did them sometime.

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