''Dingly Dell'' is a 1972 album by English

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band Lindisfarne.

Production

The album was produced by and mixed by

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, who had also worked on the earlier No. 1 album ''

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Release and chart performance

Dingly Dell was released in September 1972. It spent ten weeks in the UK album charts, entering at No. 5 and never going above this position. Two songs from the album were released as singles, "All Fall Down" and "Court in the Act". The former was a minor success, charting at No. 34 in the UK, while the latter failed to chart. On its original British release, it appeared in a matt pale sepia cardboard sleeve, blank apart from the name of the album and the band, with all the information contained on the inner sleeve and a sepia poster of the band inside. This was at their insistence, on the grounds that it was the music which mattered.

Reception

The album was in general not as well received as previous Lindisfarne releases. The band's official website describes it as "a disappointment", although it praises the single "All Fall Down". Some contemporary reviews were relatively positive, including one from the

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in 2004, gave the album a rating of four stars. He described the band's playing as "spirited" and the songs as "enjoyable", and suggested that the rock press "savaged the album unfairly". Live Music Magazine considered that the album "had a very crisp sound, very upfront, and more of a mainstream hard rock sound", but felt that "this was not the move that the critics had wanted or expected of the band", and that "the songwriting didn't match the prior two albums".

Track listing

:All tracks credited to Alan Hull except where indicated # "All Fall Down" - 3:47 # "Plankton's Lament" (Cowe) - 1:55 # "Bring Down The Government" - 1:30 # "Poor Old Ireland" - 3:02 # "Don't Ask Me" (Clements) - 3:37 # "O No Not Again" - 3:24 # "Dingle Regatta" (Traditional; arranged by Lindisfarne) - 1:04 # "Wake Up Little Sister" - 2:53 # "Go Back" (Cowe) - 3:02 # "Court in the Act" - 3:17 # "Mandolin King" - 2:37 # "Dingly Dell" - 6:19 Bonus track on CD reissue: # "We Can Swing Together" (Live) - 17:58

Charts

Personnel

; Lindisfarne *

Alan Hull James Alan Hull (20 February 1945 – 17 November 1995) was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band Lindisfarne. Career Hull was born at 68 Sutton's Dwellings, Adelaide Terrace, Benwell, Newcastle upon ...

- vocals, acoustic, electric and 12-string guitars, keyboards, bass * Ray Jackson - vocals, mandolin, harmonica *

Rod Clements Roderick Parry Clements (born 17 November 1947 in North Shields, Northumberland) is a British guitarist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He formed the folk-rock band Lindisfarne with Alan Hull in 1970, and wrote "Meet Me on the Co ...

- electric bass, acoustic, electric and 12-string guitars, violin *

Simon Cowe Simon Cowe (1 April 1948 – 30 September 2015) was an English guitarist and multi-instrumentalist most noted as a member of the folk-rock group Lindisfarne from their original formation in 1970 until 1973, and then again from 1978 to his depar ...

- lead, acoustic and 12-string guitars, mandolin, harmonium, vocals *Ray Laidlaw - drums with: *Paul Laidlaw - orchestral arrangements, conductor *Bob Potter - engineer

References

External links

* ''Dingly Dell''at

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