Spiral Staircase – Classic Songs

Spiral Staircase – Classic Songs is a double CD compilation of tracks from Ralph McTell's early Transatlantic LPs Eight Frames a Second, Spiral Staircase, My Side of Your Window and Revisited. It was released in 1997.

Track listing
All titles by Ralph McTell except where stated.

Disc 1
 * 1) "Summer Come Along"
 * 2) "Terminus"
 * 3) "Michael in the Garden" [Version 2]
 * 4) "Nanna's Song"
 * 5) "Last Train and Ride"
 * 6) "Wino and the Mouse"
 * 7) "Clown"
 * 8) "Willoughby's Farm"
 * 9) "The Mermaid and the Seagull"
 * 10) "Eight Frames a Second"
 * 11) "Wait Until the Snow"
 * 12) "Hesitation Blues" (Trad. arr. Ralph McTell)
 * 13) "England 1914"
 * 14) "Girl on a Bicycle" (Ralph McTell/Gary Petersen)
 * 15) "Mrs. Adlam's Angels"
 * 16) "Granny Takes a Trip" (Boyer/Beard)
 * 17) "Blind Blake's Rag" (Trad. arr. Ralph McTell)
 * 18) "Spiral Staircase"
 * 19) "Father Forgive Them" [Version 1]
 * 20) "All Things Change"
 * 21) "Streets of London"

Disc 2
 * 1) "Factory Girl" [Version 2]
 * 2) "Bright and Beautiful Things"
 * 3) "Father Forgive Them" [Version 2]
 * 4) "Michael in the Garden" [Version 1]
 * 5) "I've Thought About It"
 * 6) "Blues in More Than 12 Bars"
 * 7) "Rizraklaru (Anag)"
 * 8) "Factory Girl" [Version 1]
 * 9) "Silver Birch and Weeping Willow"
 * 10) "Louise"
 * 11) "Too Tight Drag" (Blind Blake)
 * 12) "Kew Gardens"
 * 13) "Fairground"
 * 14) "Sleepy Time Blues"
 * 15) "Daddy's Here"
 * 16) "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson arr. Fred Neil)
 * 17) "I'm Sorry - I Must Leave"

Note. Titles marked '[Version 1]' are from the original albums; those marked '[Version 2]' are re-mixes from Revisited.

Musical credits

 * Ralph McTell - guitar, vocals
 * For other musicians see Eight Frames a Second, Spiral Staircase and My Side of Your Window.

Production credits

 * See the articles on the contributing albums Eight Frames a Second, Spiral Staircase, My Side of Your Window and Revisited.