''Not till Tomorrow'' is the 1972 album by

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. Produced by

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, it was McTell's fifth album to be released (aside from the remixed compilation ''Revisited'') – and first album to chart – in the UK; and his third album to be released in the

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Ralph had been phoned and asked if he had decided on a title for the album and, wishing to give himself another day to come up with a title, responded "Not till tomorrow" which was misunderstood to be the name he had given to the album. By the time the mistake was found it was too late. "Sylvia" was a tribute to

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and was recorded in a single take. "When I Was a Cowboy" used, in homage, the opening lines of Lead Belly's "Out on the Western Plains". "First Song" was the first song that McTell wrote the words first and "Barges" was the first tune that he could trace to another composer,

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in this instance.

Commercial performance

''Not till Tomorrow'' reached number 36 in the

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soon after its release in November 1972.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ralph McTell."Not till Tomorrow " LP sleeve, 1972. ;Side One # "Zimmerman Blues" – 3:50 # "First Song" – 2:39 # "When I Was a Cowboy" – 4:00 # "Nettle Wine" – 2:28 # "Sylvia" – 3:40 # "Birdman" – 6:10 ;Side Two # "Barges" – 4:28 # "Standing Down in New York Town" – 3:58 # "Another Rain Has Fallen" – 3:57 # "This Time of Night" – 4:27 # "Gypsy" – 6:14

Personnel

* Ralph McTell – guitar, piano, organ, harmonica, lead vocals *

– sitar, organ, recorder, backing vocals *

Mary Hopkin Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti from her marriage to Tony Visconti, is a Welsh singer-songwriter best known for her 1968 UK number 1 single "Those Were the Days". She was one of the first artists ...

– backing vocals (credited as ''Mary Visconti'') *

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– double bass *

Laurie Allan Laurie Allan (born 19 February 1943, London) is an English drummer, best known for stints in Delivery and Gong. Biography Allan started drumming when he was 12. His professional career got going in the early 1960s. He was in The First Real Po ...

– percussion Production *Tony Visconti – producer *Alan Harris - engineer *Victor Gamm – recording engineer *Seabrook/Graves/Aslett – sleeve art direction * Kelvin McGowan – photography

Release history

References

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