All Around My Hat (album)

ReleasedOctober 1975

RecordedJuly 1975

StudioAir, London

GenreBritish folk rock

All Around My Hat
Studio album by Steeleye Span
Released	October 1975
Recorded	July 1975
Studio	Air, London
Genre	British folk rock
Length	38:33
Label	Chrysalis
Producer	Mike Batt
Steeleye Span chronology
Commoners Crown (1975) All Around My Hat (1975) Rocket Cottage (1976)

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All Around My Hat is a 1975 album by Steeleye Span, their eighth and highest-charting; it reached number 7 on the UK Albums Chart, and stayed on the chart for six months. It was produced by Mike Batt, who also produced their follow-up album Rocket Cottage. It briefly made the band a household name in the UK.^{[citation needed]} In the United States it became the band's first album to chart, reaching number 143.

The title track was edited to just over three minutes long for single release (omitting the final verse) and became their highest-charting single, reaching No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart, with "Black Jack Davy" as its B-side.

In 1976 an edited version of a second track from the album, "Hard Times of Old England", was issued as a single, but did not chart.

The song "Dance with Me" is a version of a Scandinavian ballad, "Herr Olof och Älvorna".

The album cover and back was designed by John O'Connor, a friend of the band's guitarist Tim Hart, using an anamorphic projection that distorted the facial features of the band members but which looks correct when viewed from the side through special pinholes in the lyric sheet.