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Children of the Sun (The Sallyangie album)

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Released
  
1969 (1969)

Length
  
42:59

Children of the Sun (1969)
  
Water Bearer (1978)

Release date
  
1969

Label
  
Sanctuary Records

Recorded
  
August 1968

Children of the Sun (1969)
  
Tubular Bells (1973)

Artist
  
The Sallyangie

Producer
  
Nathan Joseph

Genre
  
Folk music

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Similar
  
Heaven's Open, Boxed, The Orchestral Tubular B, The Killing Fields, Tubular Bells 2003

Sallyangie children of the sun


Children of the Sun is the 1969 album by British folk duo The Sallyangie; siblings Mike and Sally Oldfield. The album was produced by Nathan Joseph, founder of the record label Transatlantic Records. The album was reissued in 2002, with bonus tracks and a second disc, and again reissued on 26 September 2011 by Esoteric Recordings.

Contents

The album pre-dates Mike Oldfield's debut solo album, Tubular Bells, by 4 years and Sally Oldfield's Water Bearer by 9 years.

Children of the sun


Track listing

All songs written by Mike and Sally Oldfield

Original release

  1. "Strangers" – 1:32
  2. "Lady Mary" – 3:41
  3. "Children of the Sun" – 4:56
  4. "A Lover for All Seasons" – 3:42
  5. "River Song" – 3:40
  6. "Banquet on the Water" – 4:28
  7. "Balloons" – 5:28
  8. "Midsummer Night's Happening" – 4:08
  9. "Love in Ice Crystals" – 3:00
  10. "Changing Colours" – 0:21
  11. "Chameleon" – 2:20
  12. "Milk Bottle" – 0:31
  13. "Murder of the Children of San Francisco" – 4:00
  14. "Strangers (reprise)" – 1:12

Re-issue

Disc 1
  1. "Strangers" (1:17)
  2. "Lady Mary" (3:43)
  3. "Children of the Sun" (5:06)
  4. "A Lover for All Seasons" (3:43)
  5. "River Song" (3:41)
  6. "Banquet on the Water" (4:44)
  7. "Balloons" (5:29)
  8. "Midsummer Night's Happening" (4:12)
  9. "Love in Ice Crystals" (3:06)
  10. "Changing Colours" (0:25)
  11. "Chameleon" (2:26)
  12. "Milk Bottle" (0:35)
  13. "The Murder of the Children of San Francisco" (4:00)
  14. "Twilight Song" (2:35)
  15. "The Song of the Healer" (3:03)
  16. "Strangers" (1:13)
Disc 2
  1. "Children of the Sun" (minus intro) (4:11)
  2. "Mrs Moon and the Thatched Shop" (6:18)
  3. "Branches" (6:54)
  4. "A Sad Song for Rosie" (2:14)
  5. "Colours of the World" (2:30)
  6. "Two Ships" (3:17)
  7. "Child of Allah" (Only on the 2011 reissue) (2:55)
  8. "Lady Go Lightly" (Only on the 2011 reissue) (3:03)

Personnel

  • Sally Oldfield: vocals
  • Mike Oldfield: acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Terry Cox: percussion
  • David Palmer: arrangement
  • Ray Warleigh: flute

    • Songs

    1Strangers1:17
    2Lady Mary
    3Children of the Sun

    References

    Children of the Sun (The Sallyangie album) Wikipedia
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