AL STEWART – BED SITTER IMAGES LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK 1967 MONO FOLK

Al Stewart – Bed Sitter Images
(CBS Records  1967  BPG63087  Mono)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

EJ Day Front Laminated Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some discolouration on the back cover

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are a few light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a Scottish-born singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs with tales of characters and events from history.

Bed Sitter Images is the debut studio album of folk artist Al Stewart, released in 1967, and again in a revised edition with a new cover picture in 1970. The songs were orchestrated by Alexander Faris. The cover of the first 1967 edition spells “Bed Sitter” without a hyphen, as do many reviews and Al Stewart’s official website. The album and its title track are both named on the record label as Bedsitter Images, with neither hyphen nor space between ‘Bed’ and ‘sitter’.

Side 1

1. “Bedsitter Images” – 3:20
2. “Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres” – 3:59
3. “The Carmichaels” – 2:52
4. “Scandinavian Girl” – 2:35
5. “Pretty Golden Hair” – 3:39
6. “Denise at 16” – 3:18

Side 2

1. “Samuel, Oh How You’ve Changed” – 4:00
2. “Cleave to Me” – 2:53
3. “A Long Way Down from Stephanie” – 3:27
4. “Ivich” – 4:24
5. “Beleeka Doodle Day” – 6:57

• Al Stewart – guitar, vocals
• Alexander Faris – conductor, orchestral arrangements

• Mike Claydon – engineer
• Sophie Litchfield – photography