Spiral Staircase – Classic Songs is a double CD compilation of tracks from Ralph McTell's early Transatlantic LPs Eight Frames a Second, Spiral Staircase, My Side of Your Window and Revisited. It was released in 1997."Spiral Staircase - Classic Songs" CD inlay, 1997.
Track listing
All titles by Ralph McTell except where stated.
Disc 1 "Summer Come Along" "Terminus" "Michael in the Garden" [Version 2] "Nanna's Song" "Last Train and Ride" "Wino and the Mouse" "Clown" "Willoughby's Farm" "The Mermaid and the Seagull" "Eight Frames a Second" "Wait Until the Snow" "Hesitation Blues" (Trad. arr. Ralph McTell) "England 1914" "Girl on a Bicycle" (Ralph McTell/Gary Petersen) "Mrs. Adlam's Angels" "Granny Takes a Trip" (Boyer/Beard) "Blind Blake's Rag" (Trad. arr. Ralph McTell) "Spiral Staircase" "Father Forgive Them" [Version 1] "All Things Change" "Streets of London"
Disc 2 "Factory Girl" [Version 2] "Bright and Beautiful Things" "Father Forgive Them" [Version 2] "Michael in the Garden" [Version 1] "I've Thought About It" "Blues in More Than 12 Bars" "Rizraklaru (Anag)" "Factory Girl" [Version 1] "Silver Birch and Weeping Willow" "Louise" "Too Tight Drag" (Blind Blake) "Kew Gardens" "Fairground" "Sleepy Time Blues" "Daddy's Here" "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson arr. Fred Neil) "I'm Sorry - I Must Leave"
Note. Titles marked '[Version 1]' are from the original albums; those marked '[Version 2]' are re-mixes from Revisited.
Musical credits Ralph McTell - guitar, vocals For other musicians see Eight Frames a Second, Spiral Staircase and My Side of Your Window.
Production credits See the articles on the contributing albums Eight Frames a Second, Spiral Staircase, My Side of Your Window and Revisited.
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