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Alun Davies - Daydo (1972) Unofficial Remastered CD Release 2008

Posted By: Designol

Date: 13 Jun 2025 11:00:04

Alun Davies (born 1943) is a Welsh guitarist, studio musician, recording artist, and composer who rose to fame primarily with his supporting guitar work and backing vocals as accompanist for English musician Cat Stevens, from early 1970 to 1977. Alun Davies' only solo album as of 2008 was Daydo, released in 1972. Much of the material was written as early as 1970, but this was just prior to Davies' introduction, backup work, and devoted friendship with Cat Stevens. With the intention of releasing the material as soon as possible, Davies bemoaned the fact that he had so little time to debut his own work, but stated that he had no regrets. The LP at last was released in the summer of 1972.

Alun Davies is one of the most highly respected session guitarists in the United Kingdom. A founding member, along with childhood friend Jon Marks and Nicky Hopkins, of pop-jazz group Sweet Tuesday, Davies made his greatest mark as accompanist for British singer/songwriter Cat Stevens from 1970 until Stevens' conversion to Islam and retirement from music in 1977. Davies subsequently collaborated with ex-Small Faces vocalist Ronnie Lane, co-writing the opening track "One Step" and a second tune, "She's Leaving," on Lane's 1979 album See Me.

Davies launched his musical career in a duo that he shared with Marks (then known as Michael Burchell) in 1963. The duo's sole album, Relax Your Mind, was produced by American producer Shel Talmy, best known for his work with the Who, the Kinks, Manfred Mann, Chad & Jeremy, and Ralph McTell. After busking in Paris and the south of France, in 1964, the two musicians returned to England and signed with an agent, who secured them a gig on a Cunard Line ship.

After 16 voyages across the Atlantic ocean, Davies and Mark went their separate ways. Davies, who had gone on to work as a session musician for Fontana Records and tour with Marianne Faithful, Spencer Davis, and Jeremy Taylor, reunited with Mark to form Sweet Tuesday in 1968. Although they recorded one memorable album, the group disbanded after Fontana declared bankruptcy and went out of business.

Returning to session work, Davies was recruited to perform on Cat Stevens' album, Mona Bone Jakon, in 1970. The session proved so successful that Stevens invited Davies to join him on tour following therecording of his groundbreaking album, Tea for the Tillerman. Davies' involvement with Stevens was reciprocated when he recorded his debut solo album, Waste of Time in 1972. The album, which showcased seven tunes written or co-written by Davies, featured Stevens on piano and was co-produced by Stevens and Paul Samwell Smith. Davies' second solo effort, Daydo followed two years later.

Craig Harris, Allmusic.com

Notes by Mark Almond, Summer 1972

Daydo is a poem: A Sweet Thursday album: is telling me to play louder when the heavy trucks rolled by: is a friend of Cat Stevens songs: V song ts living for today, laughing at yesterday, and writing for tomorrow. in this album, long awaited by friends and the first of many, are reflected the feelings and experiences, the joys and sorrows of time spent in the market place with Alex Campbell, Spencer Davis, Gerry Lockran, a host of others including myself, and, more recently, Cat Stevens, who perhaps more than anyone is responsible for introducing Alun as a major artist who stands alone and steps to his own tune.

It's rare these days that my path crosses Alun's, for different groups travel different routes, but when we do meet again I have a feeling it wi!l be in a concert hall on his own tour, sitting in the front row alongside all the other friends he's worked with. It is impossible for words to describe the music as they would serve only to confuse and you who listen will find your own words, no doubt better than mine as the only things you need for this album, are ears and plenty of them!

Notes by Mark Almond, Summer 1972

Review by Richie Unterberger, Allmusic.com

Considering that Alun Davies played guitar on most of Cat Stevens' '70s albums, it's not a surprise that Davies' obscure 1972 solo LP Daydo sometimes sounds like Stevens compositions being sung by a less talented singer. (In fact, one of the songs is a cover of Stevens' early B-side "Portobello Road.") There's more of a forceful rock approach to the production than Stevens used, but otherwise there are certainly similarities in the material. There are further strong Stevens connections given that Cat himself plays piano, and co-produced the record with Paul Samwell-Smith – who, in turn, produced most of Stevens' '70s solo output. But like many a solo effort from a valued sideman, the album can't compare to the star with whom he's identified – Stevens, in this case – in the songwriting department. At its best, this has some pleasant if not terribly memorable, slightly pensive folk-rockish tunes, like "Old Bourbon," "Market Place," and "Vale of Tears." At its worst (as on "Sbram Brown Continued"), though, it's anonymous early-'70s British rock, and covering "I'm Late" (from the animated movie Alice in Wonderland) was definitely a lousy idea.

Review by Richie Unterberger, Allmusic.com

Alun Davies at Allmusic
Alun Davies at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Market Place (3:47)
02. Old Bourbon (4:52)
03. Portobello Road (2:24)
04. Poor Street (4:28)
05. Abram Brown Continued (3:59)
06. Waste Of Time (4:08)
07. I'm Gonna Love You Too (2:42)
08. Vale Of Tears (5:08)
09. I'm Late (2:39)
10. Young Warrior (2:59)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

Отчёт EAC об извлечении, выполненном 13. апреля 2013, 16:36

Alun Davies / Daydo

Дисковод: ASUS DRW-24B3ST Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Режим чтения : Достоверность
Использование точного потока : Да
Отключение кэша аудио : Да
Использование указателей C2 : Нет

Коррекция смещения при чтении : 6
Способность читать области Lead-in и Lead-out : Нет
Заполнение пропущенных сэмплов тишиной : Да
Удаление блоков с тишиной в начале и конце : Нет
При вычислениях CRC использовались нулевые сэмплы : Да
Интерфейс : Встроенный Win32-интерфейс для Win NT/2000
Обработка зазоров : Добавлено к предыдущему треку

Выходной формат : Пользовательский кодировщик
Выбранный битрейт : 1024 kBit/s
Качество : Высокий
Добавление ID3-тега : Нет
Утилита сжатия : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Дополнительные параметры : -V -8 -T "Genre=%genre%" -T "Artist=%artist%" -T "Title=%title%" -T "Album=%albumtitle%" -T "Date=%year%" -T "Tracknumber=%tracknr%" -T "Comment=%comment%" %source%

TOC извлечённого CD

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1 | 0:00.00 | 3:46.41 | 0 | 16990
2 | 3:46.41 | 4:51.66 | 16991 | 38881
3 | 8:38.32 | 2:23.56 | 38882 | 49662
4 | 11:02.13 | 4:28.28 | 49663 | 69790
5 | 15:30.41 | 3:59.03 | 69791 | 87718
6 | 19:29.44 | 4:07.47 | 87719 | 106290
7 | 23:37.16 | 2:41.60 | 106291 | 118425
8 | 26:19.01 | 5:07.74 | 118426 | 141524
9 | 31:27.00 | 2:39.14 | 141525 | 153463
10 | 34:06.14 | 2:59.04 | 153464 | 166892

Трек 1

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\01. Market Place.wav

Длина предзазора 0:00:02.00

Пиковый уровень 74.9 %
Скорость извлечения 4.5 X
Качество трека 100.0 %
CRC теста CC2BB108
CRC копии CC2BB108
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 2

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\02. Old Bourbon.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 4.9 X
Качество трека 100.0 %
CRC теста 46A2F8FC
CRC копии 46A2F8FC
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 3

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\03. Portobello Road.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 3.5 X
Качество трека 99.9 %
CRC теста 8C1E2EB5
CRC копии 8C1E2EB5
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 4

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\04. Poor Street.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 5.2 X
Качество трека 100.0 %
CRC теста 9CAD7B5A
CRC копии 9CAD7B5A
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 5

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\05. Abram Brown Continued.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 4.6 X
Качество трека 99.9 %
CRC теста B1F511C4
CRC копии B1F511C4
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 6

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\06. Waste Of Time.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 4.7 X
Качество трека 99.9 %
CRC теста 069682B3
CRC копии 069682B3
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 7

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\07. I'm Gonna Love You Too.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 5.0 X
Качество трека 100.0 %
CRC теста B964C254
CRC копии B964C254
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 8

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\08. Vale Of Tears.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 5.5 X
Качество трека 100.0 %
CRC теста 0AD38954
CRC копии 0AD38954
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 9

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\09. I'm Late.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 5.0 X
Качество трека 100.0 %
CRC теста 784DD9C4
CRC копии 784DD9C4
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Трек 10

Имя файла C:\Documents and Settings\Sergei\Мои документы\Моя музыка\EAC\10. Young Warrior.wav

Пиковый уровень 97.7 %
Скорость извлечения 4.9 X
Качество трека 100.0 %
CRC теста 2187C0A4
CRC копии 2187C0A4
Трек не обнаружен в базе AccurateRip
Копирование… OK

Ни одного трека нет в базе AccurateRip

Ошибок не произошло

Конец отчёта

==== Контрольная сумма отчёта DC5613548C477E3135778319316EDAB0ED430B519482AE005BBAF0826786740F ====

AR log

[CUETools log; Date: 07.09.2018 16:14:28; Version: 2.1.4]
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2 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
3 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
4 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
5 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
6 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
7 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
8 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
9 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
10 | (1/1) Accurately ripped
[AccurateRip ID: 000e7d8d-00735bf7-8308b10a] found.
Track [ CRC | V2 ] Status
01 [c9344a94|444583ba] (0+1/2) Accurately ripped
02 [c13c084b|99d1781e] (0+1/2) Accurately ripped
03 [6b1f149c|b315629c] (0+1/2) Accurately ripped
04 [49e74057|58580f24] (0+1/2) Accurately ripped
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08 [a4b131a8|a20bac7d] (0+1/2) Accurately ripped
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10 [b08580ba|77e1539d] (0+1/2) Accurately ripped

Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL] [ LOG ]
– 97,7 [A7FB61EF] [356B3121]
01 74,9 [CC2BB108] [28FDF068] CRC32
02 97,7 [46A2F8FC] [6A5A3512] CRC32
03 97,7 [8C1E2EB5] [8C711E91] CRC32
04 97,7 [9CAD7B5A] [960F642E] CRC32
05 97,7 [B1F511C4] [3443C69E] CRC32
06 97,7 [069682B3] [66E212C6] CRC32
07 97,7 [B964C254] [AA4D55E4] CRC32
08 97,7 [0AD38954] [A70247B5] CRC32
09 97,7 [784DD9C4] [58C7383E] CRC32
10 97,7 [2187C0A4] [D6CF26A6] CRC32

DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2018-09-07 16:13:53

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Alun Davies / Daydo
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR13 -2.51 dB -19.10 dB 3:47 01-Market Place
DR11 -0.20 dB -14.73 dB 4:52 02-Old Bourbon
DR11 -0.20 dB -14.75 dB 2:24 03-Portobello Road
DR11 -0.20 dB -13.51 dB 4:28 04-Poor Street
DR11 -0.20 dB -14.16 dB 3:59 05-Abram Brown Continued
DR10 -0.20 dB -13.83 dB 4:08 06-Waste Of Time
DR10 -0.20 dB -12.57 dB 2:42 07-I'm Gonna Love You Too
DR12 -0.20 dB -14.60 dB 5:08 08-Vale Of Tears
DR8 -0.20 dB -10.56 dB 2:39 09-I'm Late
DR13 -0.20 dB -15.30 dB 2:59 10-Young Warrior
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 888 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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