Bursting at the Seams is a studio album

Album

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 by English

England

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 band Strawbs. It contains their two most successful singles and reached number 2 in the UK Album Chart.

Side one

1. "Flying" (Dave Cousins
   Dave Cousins
   Dave Cousins has been the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.-Career:...
   
   ) – 4:49
2. "Lady Fuchsia" (Richard Hudson
   Richard Hudson (musician)
   Richard Hudson is an English singer-songwriter and musician.-Career:Richard Hudson was a member of Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, in which he played drums and sitar and sang. In 1970, he and band-mate John Ford joined Strawbs...
   
   , John Ford) – 3:59
3. "Stormy Down" (Cousins) – 2:45
4. "Down by the Sea" (Cousins) – 6:17
5. "The River" (Cousins) – 2:21

Side two

1. "Part of the Union
   Part of the Union
   "Part of the Union" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1973 album Bursting at the Seams and was the band's most successful single, peaking at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart. The writing credits are given to Richard Hudson and John Ford, but the song may be an adaptation of the...
   
   " (Hudson, Ford) – 2:54
2. "Tears and Pavan" – 6:35

   "Tears" (Cousins)

   "Pavan" (Cousins, Hudson, Ford)

3. "The Winter and the Summer" (Dave Lambert
   Dave Lambert (British musician)
   Dave Lambert is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who was a member of The Strawbs in the 1970s.-Career:...
   
   ) – 4:07
4. "Lay Down
   Lay Down
   "Lay Down" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1973 album Bursting at the Seams. It peaked at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart....
   
   " (Cousins) – 4:31
5. "Thank You" (Blue Weaver
   Blue Weaver
   Blue Weaver is a British keyboard player, session musician, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:...
   
   , Cousins) – 2:11

Bonus tracks

The A&M 1998 remastered CD featured the following as bonus tracks:

1. "Will You Go" (Traditional
   Traditional music
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   )
2. "Backside" (Cousins, Hudson, Ford, Lambert, Weaver)
3. "Lay Down" (Single version) (Cousins)

Additionally, tracks 4 & 5 are reversed in order (4) "The River" followed by (5) "Down by the Sea."

Personnel

• Dave Cousins
  Dave Cousins
  Dave Cousins has been the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.-Career:...
  
   – lead vocals, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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  , acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , banjo
  Banjo
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• Dave Lambert
  Dave Lambert (British musician)
  Dave Lambert is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who was a member of The Strawbs in the 1970s.-Career:...
  
   – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Blue Weaver
  Blue Weaver
  Blue Weaver is a British keyboard player, session musician, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:...
  
   – organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , piano
  Piano
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  , mellotron
  Mellotron
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• John Ford – lead vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Richard Hudson
  Richard Hudson (musician)
  Richard Hudson is an English singer-songwriter and musician.-Career:Richard Hudson was a member of Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, in which he played drums and sitar and sang. In 1970, he and band-mate John Ford joined Strawbs...
  
   – backing vocals, drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , sitar
  Sitar
  The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
  
  

Recording

• Strawbs – Producers
• Tom Allom
  Tom Allom
  Tom Allom is an English sound engineer and record producer, mainly active in the 1970s and 1980s. Allom is known for his work on seminal albums by Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, KIX, and Rough Cutt...
  
   – Engineer

Recorded at Sound Techniques, the Manor and Morgan Studios

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...		A&M A&M Records A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...	stereo Stereophonic sound The term Stereophonic, commonly called stereo, sound refers to any method of sound reproduction in which an attempt is made to create an illusion of directionality and audible perspective...  LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	AMLH 68144
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...		A&M	stereo LP	SP 4383
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...		A&M	stereo LP	A&M 86 658
Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...		Sonet/Dansk Grammafon	stereo LP	SLPS 1544
United Kingdom		A&M	cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	ZCAM 68144
United States		A&M	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	394383-2
Worldwide		A&M	remaster Remaster Remaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began... ed CD (3 bonus tracks)	540 936-2
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...		A&M	remastered CD (3 bonus tracks)	UICY-9215