Pentangle - Sally Free And Easy (Set Of Six ITV, 27.06.1972) 

There's more talent on that stage than we'll ever be lucky enough to see again. Beautiful and timeless, love this music!

Go find any five musicians who played as wonderfully as these guys. You won't. Absolute perfection.

Superb and memorising

Jacqui and Bert always blended splendidly.

Funky, jazzy, hypnotic & mesmerising..........One of my favourite Pentangle performances.

Love them so much. They are absolutely unique. Hearing this incredible and harmonic mix of jazz, folk and blues I cannot imagine anything better, than theese guys and girl. Bert with a beard...

Pentangle have to be the ultimate musical group of any genre not just Folk/Jazz , cant think of anyone better pound for pound , they must have inspired many musicians since these early 70s performances , get your daily fix here folks !

Incredible musicians. You can't beat the 1970s

This version of Cyril Tawney's classic is possibly the best I've heard. It tells the story of a sailor who has received a 'Dear John...' letter after many months at sea. The rest is self explanatory. An incident similar to this happened when we were returning from the Far East in the early 1970s. We had got back to Gibraltar and were all looking forward to getting home to our wives/lovers/partners. But one young RM had received a DJ letter as we docked. It took a LOT of persuasion to talk him down from the mast where he had planned to throw himself down onto the steel decking below. Anyway he lived another day but while we were concentrating on him, another fellow off of another ship actually did manage to kill himself. It was a cruel life being a sailor and away for many months at a time. I've been singing a version of this since the 1960s but this really is the best I've heard from anyone - except Cyril, of course.

So good that it's a job to know what to concentrate on. You can take any element of this and get lost in it: the guitar work of either John or Bert, Danny's bass, Terry's percussion, the blend of vocals from Bert and Jacqui. Nothing for it - I'll just have to listen to it again!

That bass though.

I'm really enjoying John playing a Telecaster here !

Danny Thompson - the John Entwistle of the double bass

A great song lyric here. This performance is masterful!

No ordinary bass player here!

That jam could quite easily have gone on for another 10 minutes... Stunningly good.

I was getting into Fairport Convention (the Sandy Denny era) when I started picking up Pentangle. Love the jazz leanings of the group, especially the bass work of Danny Thompson. John's guitar work adds as much as the bass.

set the standard for all acoustic rock projects to come

I feel my soul yearning for Britain, but I’m from New Zealand!

Brilliant Group !!

A perfect song for the morning wake.

The whole image, concept and idea of this music was carried out to perfection during this era. The Act was superb and performers they certainly were. I mean you can picture Jacqui getting her hair brushed by a maid in some medieval castle centuries ago. That voice of hers and the bands playing and arrangements.............sweet era.

Amazing stuff 🥇🏆

just beautiful .....

La conosco in varie versioni ma questa vola insieme ai pensieri,,,, a me piace

I first caught wind of these folks through my sister, who somehow picked up a recording while attending Reed College. Loved their music then, but these clips are wonderful renditions.

exquisite. and groovy to boot

The singing is wonderful These guys had it all voices, instrumental conjunction, adventure

I just love everything about this but especially Danny' s double bass. I have the vinyl version and I saw them live too, in Glasgow.

SWEEEEEEEEEEET ORIGINAL AND PENTANGLE.

Sublime.

wow love

LOVE PENTANGLE

Meravigliosa

Wow..

The Best!!

Nice

Still best band EVER!

Terry Cox's drumming is incredible.

Marianne Faithfull made an amazing cover of this song on "North country maid"…

when you look at the sum of the elements Damn they pretty and tight

Coisa Linda!!

Musica !!!

Man.

The band trees ...done a good version of this song

woooow

Это знать надо! Это классика! Ядмиралу Ямамото бы понравилось.

Does anybody know the best Pentangle albums?

Someone asks you who's that singing in the background, and you have to say, "It's Sally."

Bert Jansch xxxc

The box deluxe.

Sally Free and Easy Pentangle Sally, free and easy, That should be her name, Sally, free and easy, That should be her name, Took a sailor's loving, For a nursery game. Though the heart she gave me, Was not made of stone, [Repeat: x2] It was sweet and hollow, Like a honey comb, Think I'll wait till sunset, See the ensign down, [Repeat: x2] Then I'll take the tideway, To my burying ground, Sally, free and easy, That should be her name, [Repeat: x2] When my body's landed, Hope she dies of shame.

compare this to the Corries version.. to hear how it should be sung!

bert is much more hansome with the beard

Jacqui McShee is THE songbird

The men can sing too, eh.

She is as good as linda ronstadt.