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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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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
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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