Steeleye Span: Please to See the King

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	Please to See the King Steeleye Span B&C CAS 1029 (LP, UK, March 1971) Big Tree BTS 2004 (LP, USA, 1971) United Artists UAS 29244 (LP, 1971) Liberty LLP 80462 (LP, Japan)
	Interfusion SITFL 934599 (LP, Australia, 1972) Chrysalis/Festival L 36141 (LP, Australia) Mooncrest CREST 8 (LP, UK, 1974/76) Chrysalis CHR 1119 (LP, USA, 1976) Mooncrest CREST(CD) 005 (LP / CD, UK, March 1991)
	Shanachie 79075 (CD, USA, 1990) Castle Music CMQDD 1253 (2 CD w/ bonus tracks, UK, 16 January 2006) Talking Elephant TECD317 (CD, UK, 26 February 2016)

Engineers: Vic Gamm, Jerry Boys, Roger Mayer, Bob Potter, Roger Quested;
Produced by Sandy Roberton, September Production Ltd.

Musicians

Maddy Prior: vocals, spoon, tabor, tambourine, bells;
Martin Carthy: vocals, guitar, banjo, organ, bells;
Tim Hart: vocals, guitar, dulcimer, bells;
Ashley Hutchings: vocals, bass guitar, bells;
Peter Knight: vocals, fiddle, mandolin, organ, bass guitar, bells

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Blacksmith (4.49)
2. Cold, Haily, Windy Night (4.37)
3. Jigs: Bryan O’Lynn / The Hag with the Money (3.21)
4. Prince Charlie Stuart (4.17)
5. Boys of Bedlam (4.22)

Side 2

1. False Knight on the Road (2.45)
2. The Lark in the Morning (4.33)
3. Female Drummer (4.05)
4. The King (1.31)
5. Lovely on the Water (5.20)

Bonus Track on the 1991 Mooncrest LP/CD reissue

1. Rave On (1.24)
   

Bonus Tracks on the 2006 CD reissue: BBC Sessions

“Top Gear” BBC radio session; recorded 23 June 1970, Maida Vale 4; broadcast 27 June 1970

1. The Blacksmith (4.23)
2. Female Drummer (3.15)
3. Rave On [Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, Norman Petty] (1.22)
4. I Was a Young Man (3.51)
5. The Lark in the Morning (3.41)

“Stuart Henry Show” BBC radio session, 23 July 1970

1. The King (1.26)
2. Prince Charlie Stuart (4.10)
3. The Bold Poachers (5.27)

Bonus CD on the 2006 CD reissue: BBC Sessions

“Folk on 1” BBC radio session, 17 October 1970

1. College Grove / Silver Spear (2.51)
2. Lay Down Your Weary Tune [Bob Dylan] (4.20)
3. False Knight on the Road (3.22)
4. Jigs: Hitler’s Downfall / The Hag with the Money (1.58)
5. Female Drummer (Mk I) (3.50)
6. Wee Weaver (4.23)
7. Reel (2.36)

“Stuart Henry Show” BBC radio session, 4 February 1971

1. Female Drummer (Mk II) (4.12)
2. General Taylor (3.36)
3. Farther Along (3.10)
4. Two Reels (2.32)

“Top Gear” BBC radio session, 27 March 1971

1. Let’s Dance [Jim Lee] (1.45)
2. Bring ’em Down / A Hundred Years Ago (2.40)
3. The Lark in the Morning (3.52)

BBC TV performance (date unknown)

1. The King (1.24)
2. Jigs: Bryan O’Lynn / The Hag with the Money (2.13)
3. The Blacksmith (3.49)

LP Sleeve Notes

Thanks to: Steeleye Span Mk. 1 and the Folk Song Journals for The Blacksmith; Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould and Stephen Sedley for Cold, Haily, Windy Night; Martin Byrnes and Sean O’Shea for Bryan O’Lynn and The Hag with the Money respectively; Brigid Tunney for Prince Charlie Stuart; Tom Walsh of the Combine Harvester via Tommy Gilfellon for Boys of Bedlam; Willie Whyte and Francis James Child for False Knight on the Road; Mr Kent via Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Folk Song Journals for The Lark in the Morning; A Yorkshire girl via Percy Grainger, Bert Lloyd and the Watersons for Female Drummer; Two old ladies in Pembrokeshire via Andy Nisbet for The King and Mr Hilton via Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Folk Song Journals for Lovely on the Water.