''Bed Sitter Images'' is the debut studio album of folk artist
Al Stewart, released in 1967, and again in a revised edition with a new cover picture in 1970. The songs were orchestrated by
Alexander Faris
Samuel Alexander "Sandy" Faris (11 June 1921 – 28 September 2015) was a Northern Irish composer, conductor and writer, known for his television theme tunes, including the theme music for the 1970s TV series '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. He compos ...
. The cover of the first 1967 edition spells "
Bed Sitter" without a hyphen, as do many reviews and Al Stewart's official website. The album and its title track are both named on the record label as Bedsitter Images, with neither hyphen nor space between 'Bed' and 'sitter'.
The album is commercially available as part of a 2-CD box set ''To Whom It May Concern'', which contains Stewart's first three albums as well as both sides of his first single and the tracks added to the 1970 re-release, which also featured a new cover, and was known as ''The First Album (Bed-Sitter Images)''. A new CD reissue in 2007 (
Collectors' Choice Music
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) contains all tracks from both versions of the album, plus bonus tracks.
The album has also been released in Japan as ''The News from Spain (The First Album)'', with the addition of some later recordings by Stewart.
Track listing
1967 release
Side 1
# "Bedsitter Images" – 3:20
# "Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres" – 3:59
# "The Carmichaels" – 2:52
# "Scandinavian Girl" – 2:35
# "Pretty Golden Hair" – 3:39
# "Denise at 16" – 3:18
Side 2
# "Samuel, Oh How You've Changed" – 4:00
# "Cleave to Me" – 2:53
# "A Long Way Down from Stephanie" – 3:27
# "Ivich" – 4:24
# "Beleeka Doodle Day" – 6:57
1970 UK Re-release
''All songs written by Al Stewart except where noted''
Side 1
# "Lover Man" ''(
Mike Heron
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)'' – 2:31
# "Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres" – 3:59
# "The Carmichaels" – 2:52
# "Clifton in the Rain" – 2:41
# "Bed Sitter Images" – 3:20
Side 2
# "Denise at 16" – 3:18
# "Samuel, Oh How You've Changed!" – 4:00
# "A Long Way Down from Stephanie" – 3:27
# "Ivich" – 4:24
# "Beleeka Doodle Day" – 6:57
2007 Collectors' Choice Music edition bonus tracks
* "Go Your Way" – 1:51
* "My Contemporaries" – 0:30
Personnel
* Al Stewart – guitar, vocals
*
Alexander Faris
Samuel Alexander "Sandy" Faris (11 June 1921 – 28 September 2015) was a Northern Irish composer, conductor and writer, known for his television theme tunes, including the theme music for the 1970s TV series '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. He compos ...
– conductor, orchestral arrangements
Technical
* Mike Claydon – engineer
*Sophie Litchfield – photography
Notes
References
AlStewart.com: Bedsitter Images
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Al Stewart albums
1967 debut albums
CBS Records albums
Collectors' Choice Music albums