Fairport Convention "The Accountancy Shanty" (Live - 1989)
Music & lyrics by Neil Innes. Originally recorded by Eric Idle & Neil Innes for the BBC television programme "Rutland Weekend Television", and later included on "The Rutland Weekend Television Songbook" 1976 soundtrack LP (UK BBC REB 223 / US Passport PPSD 98108). Fairport Convention performed "The Accountancy Shanty" live at their concert at City Hall, Hull, England on 12 February 1989. it was included on their four-disc compilation "Fairport unConventional" (Free Reed FRQCD 35) issued on May 2002. Dave Pegg: Lead vocal Simon Nicol, Maart Allcock, Ric Sanders & Dave Mattacks: Vocals INDUCT FAIRPORT CONVENTION INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
About Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater. They started out influenced by American folk rock, with a set list dominated by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell songs and a sound that earned them the nickname "the British Jefferson Airplane". Vocalists Judy Dyble and Iain Matthews joined them before the recording of their self-titled debut in 1968; afterwards, Dyble was replaced by San...
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