{{short description|1972 studio album by Lindisfarne}} {{other uses of|Dingley Dell}} {{use British English|date=May 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox album | name = Dingly Dell | type = studio | artist = Lindisfarne | cover = Lindisfarne-DinglyDell-1972.jpg | alt = | released = September 1972 | recorded = 14–16 July 1972 | venue = | studio = Island Studios, Basing Street, Notting Hill, London | genre = {{hlist|Folk rock|hard rock}} | length = | label = {{flagicon|UK}} Charisma Records<br> Elektra Records | producer = Bob Johnston | prev_title = Fog on the Tyne | prev_year = 1971 | next_title = Lindisfarne Live | next_year = 1973 }}

'''''Dingly Dell''''' is a 1972 album by English rock band Lindisfarne.

==Production== The album was produced by and mixed by Bob Johnston, who had also worked on the earlier No. 1 album ''Fog on the Tyne''. However, the band were unhappy with the album, and remixed it themselves shortly before it was released.<ref name=DD>[http://www.lindisfarne.co.uk/discdinglydell.htm Dingly Dell] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725033654/http://www.lindisfarne.co.uk/discdinglydell.htm |date=25 July 2011}} ''lindisfarne.co.uk''</ref><ref name=Live>[http://www.livemusicmagazine.com/ETCHED%20IN%20STONE%20-%20LINDISFARNE.htm Lindisfarne – Live Music Magazine]</ref>

==Release and chart performance== ''Dingly Dell'' was released in September 1972. It spent ten weeks in the UK album charts, entering at No. 5 and never going above this position.<ref>[https://www.officialcharts.com/archive/official-albums-chart/ Chart Stats – Lindisfarne – Dingly Dell]</ref>

Two songs from the album were released as singles, "All Fall Down" and "Court in the Act".<ref>[http://www.lindisfarne.de/discography/di_singles.htm Discography - Singles] ''lindisfarne.de''</ref> The former was a minor success, charting at No. 34 in the UK,<ref>[https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Polk%20Salad%20Annie Official Charts Company – Lindisfarne – All Fall Down]</ref> while the latter failed to chart.

On its original British release, it appeared in a matt pale sepia cardboard sleeve, blank except for the name of the album and the band, with all the information contained on the inner sleeve and a sepia poster of the band inside. This was at their insistence, on the grounds that it was the music which mattered.<ref>"Dingly Dell: A track by track review". Jerry Gilbert, ''Sounds'', 29 July 1972. Available online at [http://www.lindisfarne.co.uk/archives/misc/mc_sounds72_ah-dd.htm lindisfarne.co.uk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725034814/http://www.lindisfarne.co.uk/archives/misc/mc_sounds72_ah-dd.htm |date=25 July 2011}}</ref>

==Reception== {{Album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AM>{{cite web |last=Eder |first=Bruce |title=Dingly Dell – Lindisfarne &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/dingly-dell-mw0000468977 |publisher=AllMusic}}</ref> }} The album was in general not as well received as previous Lindisfarne releases. The band's official website describes it as "a disappointment", although it praises the single "All Fall Down".<ref name=DD /> Some contemporary reviews were relatively positive, including one from the ''Milwaukee Journal''.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x58oAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qygEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,5872727&dq=dingly-dell+lindisfarne&hl=en The Milwaukee Journal – 18 October 1972 – Google News Archive]{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Bruce Eder, writing for AllMusic in 2004, gave the album a rating of four stars. He described the band's playing as "spirited" and the songs as "enjoyable", and suggested that the rock press "savaged the album unfairly".<ref name=AM/> Live Music Magazine considered that the album "had a very crisp sound, very upfront, and more of a mainstream hard rock sound", but felt that "this was not the move that the critics had wanted or expected of the band", and that "the songwriting didn't match the prior two albums".<ref name=Live />

== Track listing == <ref name=AM /> :All tracks credited to Alan Hull except where indicated # "All Fall Down" – 3:47 # "Plankton's Lament" (Cowe) – 1:55 # "Bring Down The Government" – 1:30 # "Poor Old Ireland" – 3:02 # "Don't Ask Me" (Clements) – 3:37 # "O No Not Again" – 3:24 # "Dingle Regatta" (Traditional; arranged by Lindisfarne) – 1:04 # "Wake Up Little Sister" – 2:53 # "Go Back" (Cowe) – 3:02 # "Court in the Act" – 3:17 # "Mandolin King" – 2:37 # "Dingly Dell" – 6:19 '''Bonus track on CD reissue:''' # "We Can Swing Together" (Live) – 17:58

==Charts== {| class="wikitable" |- !Chart (1972/73) !Peak<br/>position |- |UK (Official Charts Company) | style="text-align:center;"|5 |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=178}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|38 |}

==Personnel== ; Lindisfarne *Alan Hull - vocals, acoustic, electric and 12-string guitars, keyboards, bass *Ray Jackson - vocals, mandolin, harmonica *Rod Clements - electric bass, acoustic, electric and 12-string guitars, violin *Simon Cowe - lead, acoustic and 12-string guitars, mandolin, harmonium, vocals *Ray Laidlaw - drums with: *Paul Laidlaw - orchestral arrangements, conductor *Bob Potter - engineer

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==External links== *[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r43272|pure_url=yes}} ''Dingly Dell''] at Allmusic

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Category:1972 albums Category:Lindisfarne (band) albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Johnston Category:Charisma Records albums Category:Elektra Records albums