The King's Singers ATLANTIC BRIDGE (1979)

Here are all together the tracks from the King's Singers LP "ATLANTIC BRIDGE", a collection of traditional popular American and British songs recorded in studio and released in 1979.
As a King's Singers fan, I waited years for the CD release of some of their earlier albums, and most of them were. However, in a few cases I'm rather sure this never happened. To my knowledge, "ATLANTIC BRIDGE" was never released on CD as a whole, nor can it - to date - be bought downloadable from the main web platforms, but in the UA-cam channel Red Arrows you can find "Home on the Range", "Annie Laurie" and "Joshua Fit the Battle Of Jericho", from a digital source - I have no idea which one. A few titles stayed in the KS's repertoire: "Shenandoah" they had recorded much slower in the debut album some eight years earlier, with only a trio accompaniment; "Annie Laurie" was recorded again for their eponymus album in 1991, rearranged by Jeremy Jackman; "Danny Boy", same arrangement, was re-recorded in 1985 for the WATCHING THE WHITE WHEAT album, as "Londonderry Air" (published by Faber&Faber), and in 1991 for the ANNIE LAURIE album, with the less captivating arrangement by Robert Chilcott. "Ring de Banjo" can be found digital in the CD re-issue of the compilation THIS IS THE KING'S SINGERS by EMI 7777-49118-2, very rare nowdays.
All in all, ATLANTIC BRIDGE is a good album, but far from outstanding, in the wake for the KS's 70s style (studio performaces picked up as they were, with no artifacts), before what I consider the groundbreaking THE KINGS SINGERS BELIEVE IN MUSIC. Some arrangements are particularly fine - the beautiful arrangement of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was published in 1986 by Hinshaw Music, HMC-872. The album's cover, hardly catchy, lacks any notes and is quite shabby in fact. I'm quite sure it's the first time Bill Ives appears in an KS's album, replacing the previous tenor Alastair Thompson. As ususal, alas, there's no mention of the musicians.
I've been digitizing some of my older LPs, never in mint condition - I hope you'll appreciate anyway. You can listen to this upload as if you where listening to the old record lasting around 45 minutes ... with the advantage that you needn't bother to wipe it clean or turn side halfway...
As to technicalities, I used a Thorens TD160S MkV turntable, with a Roksan cartridge. For A/D conversion, I fed the phono signal from my Onkyo amplifier into a Focusrite Saffire PRO14. VinylStudio is the SW I handled the digital audio with. I didn't want to fiddle too much with it, but I did brush away clicks and pops to some extent - unfortunately, VinylStudio was unable to get rid of "swishes". So what you hear is basically flat from the disc. The YT video your're listening to embeds a normalized MP3.
In ATLANTIC BRIDGE, the King's Singers are:
Nigel Perrin and Alastair Hume, countertenors
Bill Ives, tenor
Anthony Holt and Simon Carrington, baritones
Brian Kay, bass.
The album was produced by Hartmut Kiesewetter at Abbey Road Studios, except * produced by Bob Barratt at Olympic Sound Studios.
Recording Engineers: John Kurlander, Allan Rouse and Keith Grant.
For reasons I cannot recall, I own a US vinyl print, catalogue no. MMG 1113 (Canadian distributor). Possibly, a British master would have made a better print on vinyl.
The tracks:
Ring de Banjo (Foster, arr. Gordon Langford) 0:03
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Trad., arr. Peter Knight) 2:21
Dry Bones (Trad., arr. Robert Sells) 4:56
Shenandoah (Trad., arr. Gordon Langford) 6:38
Nobody Knows (Trad., Gordon Langford) 9:28
Keep In the Middle Of the Road (Trad., arr. David Overton) 13:19
Beautiful Dreamer (Foster, arr. Gordon Langford) 15:27
Coming Through the Rye (Trad., arr. Peter Knight) 18:32
Oh Susanna (Foster, arr. Peter Knight) 21:13
Annie Laurie (Trad., arr. Peter Knight) 23:38
Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho (Trad., arr. Robert Sells) 26:45
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (Foster, arr. Peter Knight) 28:36
Standing In the Need Of Prayer (Trad., arr. Simon Park) 32:34
Danny Boy (Fred Weatherly, arr. Peter Knight) 34:26
The Last Rose Of Summer (Trad., arr. Gordon Langford) 37:21
Home On the Range (Trad., arr. Gordon Langford) 40:21
I'd be glad to get feedbacks from other fans.