Swaddling Songs is the only studio album

Album

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 released by Irish

Ireland

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 progressive folk

Progressive folk music

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 band Mellow Candle

Mellow Candle

Mellow Candle were a progressive folk rock band. Principally Irish, the members were also unusually young, Clodagh Simonds being only 15 and Alison Bools and Maria White 16, and still at school, at the time of their first single, "Feelin' High", released in 1968 on Simon Napier-Bell's SNB...

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Track listing

1. "Heaven Heath" (Alison Williams) – 3:00
2. "Sheep Season" (Clodagh Simonds, A. Williams, David Williams) – 5:01
3. "Silversong" (Simonds) – 4:26
4. "The Poet and the Witch" (Simonds) – 2:51
5. "Messenger Birds" (A. Williams) – 3:38
6. "Dan the Wing" (Simonds) – 2:45
7. "Reverend Sisters" (Simonds) – 4:21
8. "Break Your Token" (Simonds) – 2:27
9. "Buy or Beware" (D. Williams) – 3:04
10. "Vile Excesses" (D. Williams, William Murray) – 3:14
11. "Lonely Man" (Simonds) – 4:30
12. "Boulders on My Grave" (Simonds) – 3:40

Bonus tracks

The CD re-issue includes the following as bonus tracks: -

1. "Feeling High" (Simonds) – 2:23
2. "Tea with the Sun" (Simonds) – 3:18

These tracks were the original single and B-side released by the young band in 1968.

Single

The track "Silversong" was released as a single with "Dan the Wing" as B-side

A-side and B-side

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. The song was also later covered by All About Eve

All About Eve (band)

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Personnel

• Clodagh Simonds – lead vocals, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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  , piano
  Piano
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  , harpsichord
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  , mellotron
  Mellotron
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• Alison Williams – lead vocals, backing vocals
• David Williams – guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Frank Boylan – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , backing vocals
• William Murray - drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
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Versions

• vinyl
  Gramophone record
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  LP (Deram, 1972)
• Vinyl LP ADLP1040 (ACME Gramophone Company, 2004)
• CD ADCD1040 (ACME Gramaphone Company, 2004)