Marmalade - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1970-1971

In May 2022, I first posted this album. But in July 2022, I radically transformed it. Thanks to musical friend Marley, I was given a bunch of Marmalade's BBC performances from the early 1970s. Only a few of the songs are still the same.

For the first of their BBC albums I posted, every single song was officially released, from an album simply called "BBC Sessions." But for this album, absolutely none of the songs are officially released.

The first song comes from a BBC TV show hosted by singer Julie Felix. I've included "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" from that show even though I included a version of that on Volume 1, because this version is done as a duet with Felix. So I figured that was different enough to merit inclusion.

The fourth and fifth songs aren't from the BBC at all. There was a music show called "Doing Their Thing" on a rival British TV station at the time. These two cover songs are from that. You can find the whole half hour performance on YouTube. This is just about the only footage I know of featuring the band playing live.

All the other songs are from BBC studio sessions. These survived in excellent sound quality due to transcription discs made of the radio show "Top of the Pops."

During this time period, the band excelled with their harmony vocals, similar in style to Crosby, Stills and Nash. In fact, this album includes a cover of CSN's classic "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." This resulted in other folky covers, like "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell and "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor. But they also increasingly employed a more rocking sound, which can be heard on some original songs near the end of this volume, like "I've Been Around Too Long" and "back on the Road."

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Marmalade & Julie Felix)
02 Dear John [Edit] (Marmalade)
03 Rainbow [Edit] (Marmalade)
04 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Marmalade)
05 Scarborough Fair - The Sounds of Silence (Marmalade)
06 Both Sides Now [Edit] (Marmalade)
07 My Little One [Edit] (Marmalade)
08 Fire and Rain [Edit] (Marmalade)
09 I've Been Around Too Long [Edit] (Marmalade)
10 Back on the Road [Edit] (Marmalade)
11 Cousin Norman [Edit] (Marmalade)
12 Lady of Catrine [Edit] (Marmalade)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15264304/Marmld_1970-1971_BBSessionsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is a promotional photo related to an appearance the band did on the British TV show "Top of the Pops" in 1971.