Full House (Fairport Convention album)

The original issue of Full House was intended to comprise the following tracks:

Test pressings were made following this sequence, but before the album was officially released, Richard Thompson requested that "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman" be removed, since he was not happy with his guitar solo;[9] this removal was done at such a late stage that the first LP sleeves had already been printed with the song shown on the track listing. A black block had to be printed over the original list with the revised track listing overprinted in gold, but a few sleeves were issued to the public without the overprinting and with the incorrect track listing. All subsequent printings had the corrected track listing despite the fact that the sleeve notes still referred to the missing track.[10]

The track ordering of the actual release was:[11]

In 2001, Island Records re-issued an expanded edition of Full House that followed the original track ordering and included four additional tracks:

• "Now Be Thankful" (the original mono mix)
• "Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament for the 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat from the Straits of Loch Knombe, in the Year of Our Lord 1727, on the Occasion of the Announcement of Her Marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie"
• "Bonny Bunch of Roses"
• "Now Be Thankful" (a new stereo mix)

"Now Be Thankful" and "Sir B. McKenzie's..." were originally released as a 1970 Island, UK single, WIP-6089. Both songs were recorded on 22 July 1970 at Sound Techniques, London.

Fairport Convention's studio recording of "Sir B. McKenzie's..." consisted of "Biff, Bang, Crash" (Trad.), "The Kilfenora" (Trad.), and "Boston Tea Party" (Dave Swarbrick)". By the time the single was issued, the band was playing the medley as "Bonny Kate" (Trad.), "The Kilfenora," "Boston Tea Party," and "Biff, Bang, Crash." Within a few years, "Sir B. McKenzie's..." consisted of the amended medley followed by "Tail Toddle" (Trad.). By the late 1970s, the medley also included the traditional tune "Up The Chimney."

The title "Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament For the 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits of Loch Knombe, In The Year of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion of the Announcement of Her Marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie" was the band's attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest song title.

"Bonny Bunch of Roses", recorded one month after the Full House sessions at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, was finally mixed 18 years later, for the release on the Fairport Convention compilation Meet on the Ledge: The Classic Years (1967–1975), issued on A&M Records in 1999.

The stereo mix of "Now Be Thankful" (an entirely different mix from the one that appears on Richard Thompson's Watching the Dark compilation) was created by Lee Hamblin and Frank Kornelussen and previously released on Island Life, 25 Years Of Island Records in 1988.