''Magical Flight'' is the 1977 album by the pioneer
British folk
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musician
Wizz Jones
Raymond Ronald Jones (born 25 April 1939), better-known as Wizz Jones, is an English acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England and has been performing since the late 1950s and sound recording an ...
. In addition to composing some of the songs,
Alan Tunbridge
Alan Tunbridge is an English artist, book dust-jacket illustrator and songwriter.
Life and work
Normally painting in oils, Alan Tunbridge has also designed a great number of book dust-jacket illustrations, mainly in Scraperboard.
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produced the U.K. cover artwork.
Track listing
#"Pictures" (
Alan Tunbridge
Alan Tunbridge is an English artist, book dust-jacket illustrator and songwriter.
Life and work
Normally painting in oils, Alan Tunbridge has also designed a great number of book dust-jacket illustrations, mainly in Scraperboard.
Many of his ...
) - 4:25
#"Mississippi John" (Wizz Jones) - 2:01
#"Old Fashioned Shotgun Wedding" (Tucker Zimmerman) - 4:30
#"Song to Woody" (
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
) - 3:32
#"Topolino Song" (Wizz Jones) - 2:50
#"Magical Flight" (Alan Tunbridge) - 5:14
#"The Valley" (Wizz Jones) - 5:14
#"See How the Time is Flying" (Alan Tunbridge) - 5:19
#"Canned Music" (
Dan Hicks) - 3:37
Issue details
Issued in Germany, 1978, with alternative cover art/remixed.
Exact reissue on CD, 1999, with both English and German covers (but title text on UK cover moved and enlarged, see
illustration
An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in print and digital published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vid ...
).
Catalogue numbers
Plant Life PLR009
Folk Freak FF4003(Germany)
Scenescof SCOFCD 1006 (US)
Personnel
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Wizz Jones
Raymond Ronald Jones (born 25 April 1939), better-known as Wizz Jones, is an English acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England and has been performing since the late 1950s and sound recording an ...
- guitar, vocals
*
Sandy Spencer - cello, banjo
*
Peter Berryman - guitar
*
Rick Kemp - bass
*
Nigel Pegrum - drums
*
Maddy Prior
Madelaine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. She was born in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior, was co-creator of the police dr ...
- background vocals
*
Bob Kerr Robert Kerr may refer to:
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* Robert Kerr (athlete) (1882–1963), Canadian athlete & Olympic medalist
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- trumpet
References
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Wizz Jones albums
1977 albums
