Sally Free and Easy

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Sally Free and Easy
Jon Mark's studio album

Publication
(s)

2017

admission

1965

Label (s) Cherry Red Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Folk

Title (number)

24

occupation Jon Mark

production

Shel Talmy

chronology
Relax Your Mind (1963) Sally Free and Easy Sweet Thursday (1969)
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Sally Free and Easy is the half-century unreleased debut solo album by acoustic guitarist Jon Mark , signed by record producer Shel Talmy around 1964 .

History and impact

The acoustic folk album, produced by Talmy in July and August 1965 and intended for early release, was only released in 2017 with a few outtakes and Jon Mark's debut single, recorded in November 1964 (Baby I've Got A Long Way To Go / Night Comes Down) as bonus tracks on the Cherry Red Records label .

When recording the folk classic Sally Free and Easy , Jon Mark accompanied himself with a sitar , making his album, which Talmy played to Ray Davies of the Kinks in the summer of 1965 , one of the first pop and folk albums on which the sitar was used as a defining accompanying instrument. However, since the finished album remained unreleased until 2017, the Kinks received the honor of being the first to integrate sitar sounds into pop music. Talmy has repeatedly pointed out in interviews that it was Jon Mark's unpublished song that inspired Davies to mimic the Kinks hit "See My Friends" on the sitar.

Track list

Planned album (1965)

  1. Sally Free & Easy ( Sitar Version)
  2. Paris Bells
  3. Confusion
  4. Blues for Hobbits
  5. I was born in winter
  6. Going down the road
  7. Love from Afar
  8. Gotta Make Their Future Bright
  9. The Vulture
  10. Buddy Can You Spare A Dime
  11. What Will You Do When I'm Gone
  12. Portland Town

Bonus tracks (2017):

  1. Baby I've Got A Long Way To Go
  2. Night Comes Down
  3. If you're gonna leave me
  4. North Country Fair [= Bob Dylan's " Girl from the North Country "]
  5. Once I Loved A Girl
  6. Black girl
  7. You don't know my mind
  8. The first time
  9. Sally Free & Easy (Acoustic Guitar Version)
  10. Baby I've Got A Long Way To Go (Acoustic Version)
  11. Stagger Lee
  12. Room Service (Blues Run The Game) (by Jackson C. Frank )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Shel Talmy's remarks on the talk page for this article.