All Around My Hat (album)

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Released October 1975 All Around My Hat(1975) Rocket Cottage(1976) Release date October 1975 Label Chrysalis Records		Length 38:33 Artist Steeleye Span Producer Mike Batt Genre Electric folk

Recorded July 1975Air Studios, London Similar Steeleye Span albums, Electric folk albums

Steeleye span all around my hat

All Around My Hat is a 1975 album by Steeleye Span, their eighth and highest-charting, reaching number 7 on the UK Albums Chart, and staying on the charts for six months. It briefly made the band a household name in the UK. In the United States it became the band's first album to chart, reaching number 143.

The title track was Steeleye Span's highest-charting single, reaching number 5 in the UK Singles Chart, with "Black Jack Davy" as a B-side. In 1976 the single "Hard Times of Old England" was issued as a single.

The song "Dance with Me" is a version of a Scandinavian ballad Herr Olof och Älvorna.

The album cover and back was designed by John 'Connor, a friend of Hart's, using an anamorphic projection that distorted the facial features of the band members but which looks correct when viewed from the side through special pinholes in the lyric sheet.

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Versions

The record label Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs reissued this LP in a half-speed mastered, Japan-pressed, limited-edition audiophile vinyl edition that was released in 1980, as catalog number MFSL 1-027.