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| ORIOLE RECORDS |
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| Recorded at Levy’s Sound
Studios, New Bond St. London
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| Jack Baverstock, producer.
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| Freight Train* / Cotton Song
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Dec ‘56
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CB 1371
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| New Orleans (House of Rising Sun)
/ Worried Man##
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Mar ‘57
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CB 1357
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| Personnel; CHAS McDEVITT, Voc.
Guit. Whistling; JOHN PAUL, Bass. NANCY WHISKEY,Voc*.Guit. DENNIS
CARTER, Voc. Guit.
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| MARC SHARRATT, Washboard.
JIMMIE MacGREGOR##,Voc. Guit.
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| Mandolin. ALEX WHITEHOUSE, Voc.
Guit.
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| Greenback Dollar / I’m
Satisfied*
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May ‘57
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CB 1371
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| Face In The Rain / Sportin’
Life*+
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July‘57
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CB 1386
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| My Old Man*## / Sing, Sing, Sing*+
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Aug ‘57
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CB 1395
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| Johnnie O / Bad Man Stackolee*
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Aug ‘57
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CB 1403
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| Across The Bridge# / Deep Down*
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Aug ‘57
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CB 1405
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| Real Love# / Juke Box Jumble++
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Aug ‘58
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CB 1457
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| “NANCY & CHAS” EP
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July ‘57
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EP 7002
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| Freight Train / Greenback Dollar
|
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| Worried Man* / I’m Satisfied*
|
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| “THE
INTOXICATING MISS WHISKEY” 10” LP
|
July ‘57
|
MG 10018
|
| Poor Howard / The Fireman’s
Not For Me### / Sportin’ Life+
|
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| The Riddle Song### / I’m
Satisfied / Face In The Rain / Bad
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| Man Stackolee / Farewell### /
Every Day Of The Week
|
|
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| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
Mandolin, Whistling. NANCY WHISKEY, Voc. Guit. Solo Guit###. SHIRLEY
DOUGLAS,# Voc. Guit. BILL BRAMWELL,## Voc. Guit. TONY KOHN,+Voc. Guit.
|
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| LENNIE HARRISON, Bass.
MARC SHARRATT, Washboard, Drums.
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| JOHNNY PARKER,++ Piano.
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| NANCY WHISKEY not on these
tracks*.
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| Sad Little Girl# / Teenage Letter*
|
Nov ‘59
|
CB 1511
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| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc#. Bass Guit*. EDDIE WARBURTON, Trombone*. KEITH
BIRD, Tenor Saxophone*.
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| EMBASSY RECORDS
|
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| Recorded at Levy’s Sound
Studios as
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| THE
CRANES SKIFFLE GROUP
|
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| Banana Boat Song*# / Don’t
You Rock Me Daddy O##
|
Mar ‘57
|
W 223
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| Freight Train** / Cumberland Gap
|
|
W 238
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
Whistling. DENNIS CARTER, Voc. Guit. 2nd Whistling. ALEX
WHITEHOUSE, Lead Voc##, Guit.
|
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| MARC SHARRATT,
Washboard. JOHN PAUL, Voc. Bass. JIMMIE
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| MacGREGOR, Voc. Guit.
Mandolin*.
|
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| JACK BAVERSTOCK (Producer)
Biscuit tin & Brushes.
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OLD GOLD RECORDS
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| Freight Train / Greenback Dollar
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OG 9052
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| CHIC RECORDS, U.S.A.
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| Freight Train / Cotton Song
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45 1008
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EPIC RECORDS, U.S.A.
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| Face In The Rain / Sportin’
Life
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5-9244
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KAPP RECORDS, U.S.A.
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|
|
| Sing, Sing, Sing / Johnny O
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|
K-216X
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| Personnel as on ORIOLE CB 1395
& CB 1403
|
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BELL RECORDS, U..S.A.
|
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|
| The Most Of What Is Least /
Don’t Blame Me
|
1966
|
644
|
| Personnel as on COLUMBIA DB
7703
|
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|
| CUPOL RECORDS, SWEDEN
|
|
|
| Freight Train / Cotton Song
|
|
CS 45/23
|
| Johnny O / Bad Man Stackolee
|
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|
| He’s Solid Gone* / Ella
Speed*(With Nancy Whiskey Group*)
|
|
CEP 174
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VERSAILLES RECORDS, FRANCE
|
|
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| Freight Train / Cotton Song
|
|
|
| It Takes A Worried Man / I’m
Satisfied
|
|
90 S 168
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|
BELTER RECORDS, SPAIN
|
|
|
| Freight Train / Greenback Dollar
|
|
|
| It Takes A Worried Man / I’m
Satisfied
|
|
50.116
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|
TOP RANK RECORDS
|
|
|
| Dream Talk / Forever
|
1960
|
JAR 338
|
| Session musicians. Mus. Dir.
JOHNNY DOUGLAS; A&R. DICK ROWE.
|
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|
| HMV RECORDS
|
|
|
| Recorded Lansdowne Studios.
A&R. Dennis Preston
|
|
|
| One Love / Can It Be Love
|
1961
|
POP 845
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc.
|
|
|
| DAVE SAMPSON’S HUNTERS;
NORMAN SHEFFIELD, Drums. JOHN ROGERS, Bass. NORMAN STACEY & BRIAN PARKER, Gtrs.
|
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|
| Mommy Out De Light /
I’ve Got A Thing About You
|
1962
|
POP 928
|
| Happy Family / Throwing Pebbles In
A Pool
|
|
POP 999
|
| Session musicians. Mus. Dir.
HARRY ROBINSON (Lord Rockingham).
|
|
|
|
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|
| Cruel Love / I Never Will Marry
|
1963
|
POP 1151
|
| Session musicians. OSSIAN
ELLIS, Harp. JOHN WILLIAMS, Guit.
|
|
|
| Mus. Dir. MARTIN SLAVIN.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| COLUMBIA RECORDS
|
|
|
| “SIXTEEN BIG FOLK HITS” LP
|
1965
|
33SX 1738
|
| Recorded London. A&R Roy Pitt.
|
|
|
| The Times They Are A
Changin’/ Walk Right In / Where Have All The Flowers Gone / Catch The Wind
/ If I Had A Hammer
|
|
|
| House Of The Rising Sun / Michael
/ San Francisco Bay Blues
|
|
|
| Tom Dooley / Subterranean Homesick
Blues / Little Boxes
|
|
|
| Green Green / Blowin’ In The
Wind / Puff (The Magic Dragon)
|
|
|
| Cotton Fields / Go Tell It On The
Mountain.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| “SIX
FOLK HITS” EP
|
1965
|
SSEG 8468
|
| Blowin’ In The Wind / Green
Green / Tom Dooley / Walk
|
|
|
| Right In / If I Had A Hammer / Go
Tell It On The Mountain.
|
|
|
| Personnel for above LP &
release on HALLMARK 306032 ; CHAS McDEVITT,
Voc. Guit. SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc. Bass Guit.
|
|
|
| PETE STANLEY,Banjo, Guit. WIZZ
JONES, Guit. RED REECE,
|
|
|
| Drums. MARC SHARRATT,
Washboard, Drums.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Don’t Believe Them / Where Am
I Goin’?
|
1965
|
DB 7595
|
| The Most Of What Is Least* /
Don’t Blame Me#
|
1966
|
DB 7703
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc.Guit. Bass
|
|
|
| Guit#. WIZZ JONES, Guit.&
12 String. PETE STANLEY, Banjo, Guit,Autoharp*. RED REECE, Drums.
|
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|
| When The Good Times Come+ / Never
Wed An Old Man*
|
1967
|
DB 7846
|
| Session musicians+. CHAS
McDEVITT, SHIRLEY DOUGLAS,Guit*.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| “SIXTEEN ENGLISH FOLKSONGS” LP
|
1966
|
SX 6082
|
| Seeds Of Love#*** / The Water Is
Wide## / Ophelia’s Song
|
|
|
| Sweet Nightingale***/ Let No Man
Steal Your Thyme / The
|
|
|
| Tailor’s Breeches*** / Cattle
Smock+++ / Greensleeves##
|
|
|
| As I Roved Out## / Kinrid’s
Garden* / Madeira M’Dear
|
|
|
| My Mother Chose My Husband / Never
Wed An Old Man**
|
|
|
| The Most Of What Is Least+**++ /
Good Ale / The Leavin’
|
|
|
| Of Liverpool.
|
|
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc.Guit.
|
|
|
| Autoharp*, Bs Guit**. THE
CROFTERS (Gef &Martin)Voc.Guit***.
|
|
|
| GEF LUCENA, Kalimba#,
Ocarina+++, JIM SULLIVAN, 12 String##. WIZZ JONES, Guit+. PETE STANLEY,
Autoharp++.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| “NAUGHTY BUT NICE” EP
|
1966
|
SEG8471
|
| Recorded Regent Sound, Denmark
Street, London.
|
|
|
| Mommy Out De Light / Naughty But
Nice / Follow Me
|
|
|
| Forbidden Fruit* / Night Food* /
The Anvil At Gretna Green
|
|
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc.Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc.Guit. Bass Guit.CLEM CATTINI, Drums*.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
COLUMBIA RECORDS
South Africa
|
|
|
| Recorded Johannesburg South
Africa..
|
|
|
| Mr. Man* / Mummy Out The Light#
|
1967
|
DSA 711
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc. Bs Guit#.
|
|
|
| Session musicians. Mus. Dir.
GUS GALBRAITH (Flugal Horn).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FONTANA RECORDS
|
|
|
| Recorded Philips Sound Studios,
Stanhope Place. London.
|
|
|
| A&R Jack Baverstock.
|
|
|
| City Smoke* / One Man Band#
|
1968
|
F 957
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc. Bass Guit#. RED REECE, Drums#.
|
|
|
| Session musicians*. Mus. Dir.
KEN WOODMAN.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PRESIDENT RECORDS
|
|
|
| Recorded Pan Studios, Swiss
Cottage, London.
|
|
|
| Freight Train / Snowbird
|
1972
|
PT 376
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
Whistling. SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc.
|
|
|
| Bass Guit. WIZZ JONES, Guit.
PETE STANLEY, Banjo, Guit.
|
|
|
| MARC SHARRATT, Washboard.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Boy Child Is Born / Amazing
Grace
|
1973
|
PT 410
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, SHIRLEY DOUGLAS,
Voc. IRENE CHANTER,Voc Backing .
|
|
|
| Session musicians. Mus.Dir.
MARTIN SLAVIN.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JOY RECORDS
|
|
|
| Recorded Pan Studios, Swiss
Cottage, London.
|
|
|
| “OLD, NEW, BORROWED & BLUE” LP
|
1972
|
JOYS 241
|
| Rose Garden / Everything I Own /
The First Time Ever I Saw
|
|
|
| Your Face / Kansas City / I Could
Say / La Bamba / Walk
|
|
|
| Right In* / Mummy Out The Light* /
She’ll Be There
|
|
|
| Snowbird* / Try To Remember* #/
Freight Train*
|
|
|
| Session musicians. Mus. Dir.
GUS GALBRAITH.
|
|
|
| CHAS McDEVITT*, Voc. Guit.
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc. Guit. Bass Guit*, Autoharp#. WIZZ JONES,
Guit.
|
|
|
| PETE STANLEY, Banjo, Guit.
MARC SHARRATT, Washboard.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Recorded Grange Chigwell, Regent
Sound & Commodore.
|
|
|
| “TAKES YA BACK DON’T IT” LP &
Cassette.
|
1976
|
JOYS 263
|
| Bloodshot Eyes# / Thirty Days* /
Crazy World* / La Bamba*
|
|
|
| Peggy Sue# / Freight Train# / Walk
Right In / Cottonfields**
|
|
|
| San Francisco Bay Blues / Rock
Island Line** / Tom Dooley
|
|
|
| Wabash Cannonball*.
|
|
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit. WIZZ
JONES, Guit. PETE STANLEY, Banjo, Guit. MARC SHARRATT, Washboard. JOE BROWN*,
Guit,
|
|
|
| Fiddle, Autoharp. Slide Guitar.
JOHN POLWYN**, Banjo, Guit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
HALLMARK RECORDS
|
|
|
| “SKIFFLE PARTY” CD & Cassette.
|
1995
|
301702
|
| Freight Train / Everyday Of The
Week / My Old Man / Sing,
|
|
|
| Sing, Sing / Trottin’ To The
Fair / I Dig You Baby / County
|
|
|
| Jail / BB Blues / Poor Howard /
Sportin’ Life / She Moves
|
|
|
| Through The Fair / Bad Man
Stackolee / Come All Ye Fair
|
|
|
| And Tender Ladies / Greenback
Dollar.
|
|
|
| Personnel as for ROLLERCOASTER
RCCD 3007
|
|
|
|
|
|
| “BIG
FOLK AND PROTEST HITS OF THE 60’s” CD & Cassette
|
1997
|
306032
|
| Walk Right In / Puff (The Magic
Dragon) / Go Tell It On The
|
|
|
| Mountain / If I Had A Hammer / Tom
Dooley / Michael / House Of
|
|
|
| The Rising Sun / Blowin’ In
The Wind / Cottonfields / Where
|
|
|
| Have All The Flowers Gone / San
Francisco Bay Blues / Little
|
|
|
| Boxes / Freight Train */ Green
Green / Subterranean Homesick
|
|
|
| Blues / Catch The Wind / The Times
They Are A Changin’
|
|
|
| Personnel as for COLUMBIA
RECORDS 33 SX 1738
|
|
|
| *Personnel as for PRESIDENT
RECORDS 376*
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BEAR FAMILY RECORDS
|
|
|
| “THE
CHAS McDEVITT SKIFFLE GROUP” CD
|
1999
|
BCD 1615
|
| (With Nancy Whiskey & Shirley
Douglas)
|
|
|
| Recorded between 1956-1960
|
|
|
| Freight Train / Cotton Song / New
Orleans / Don’t You Rock
|
|
|
| Me Daddy O / Banana Boat Song /
Worried Man / Freight
|
|
|
| Train (2) / Cumberland Gap /
Greenback Dollar / I’m
|
|
|
| Satisfied / Face In The Rain /
Sportin’ Life / Poor Howard
|
|
|
| The Fireman’s Not For Me /
The Riddle Song / Bad Man
|
|
|
| Stackolee / Farewell / Everyday Of
The Week / My Old Man
|
|
|
| Sing, Sing, Sing / Johnny O / Bad
Man Stackolee (2) / Across
|
|
|
| The Bridge / Deep Down / Real Love
/ Juke Box Jumble / Sad Little Girl / Teenage Letter.
|
|
|
| Personnel as for ORIOLE and
EMBASSY RECORDS.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ROLLERCOASTER RECORDS
|
|
|
| “NANCY & CHAS” 7” LP
(33rpm)
|
1993
|
RCEP 113
|
| Recorded live at The Royal
Festival Hall, 22 April 1957
|
|
|
| Everyday Of The Week* / I Saw The
Light + / Ballad Of The
|
|
|
| Titanic*** / Greenback Dollar# /
Freight Train#
|
|
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
Whistling. DENNIS CARTER, Voc***,
|
|
|
| Guit. ALEX WHITEHOUSE, Voc+.
Guit. JOHN PAUL, Voc. Bass,
|
|
|
| MARC SHARRATT, Washboard. NANCY
WHISKEY, Voc#. Guit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| “CHAS McDEVITT SKIFFLE GROUP” CD
|
1993
|
RCCD3007
|
| Broadcasts & acetates recorded
between 1957-1959
|
|
|
| Freight Train* / Bad Man Stackolee
/ County Jail* / I’m
|
|
|
| Satisfied (1) / I’m Satisfied
(2) / She Moves Through TheFair*
|
|
|
| My Old Man**(1) / My Old Man**(2)
/ Poor Howard
|
|
|
| Greenback Dollar* / Sing, Sing,
Sing*** / BB Blues / Deep
|
|
|
| Down / Born To Be With You# / I
Want A Little Girl***
|
|
|
| Across The Bridge# / Come All Ye
Fair And Tender Ladies#
|
|
|
| Sportin’ Life*** /
Trottin’ To The Fair# / Everyday Of The Week Face In The Rain# /
Goin’ Home / Tom Hark / It Makes No
|
|
|
| Difference Now# / Goodmornin’
Blues / Real Love# / Pop Pourri
|
|
|
| Everyday I Have The Blues*** / I
Dig You Baby##++ / Ace In
|
|
|
| The Hole / Tom Hark / Teenage
Letter+.
|
|
|
| CHAS McDEVITT, Voc. Guit.
Mandolin. Whistling. NANCY WHISKEY, Voc*. Guit. SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, Voc#.
Guit. Bs Guit+.
|
|
|
| TONY KOHN,Voc***. Guit. BILL BRAMWELL,
Voc**.Guit.
|
|
|
| LENNIE HARRISON, Bass. /
MARC SHARRATT, Washboard, Drums.
|
|
|
| LES BENNETTS, Voc##. Guit. /
RED REECE, Drums++.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Same personnel for HALLMARK
301702.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| **********CURRENT RELEASE***********
|
|
|
| “CHAS McDEVITT & FRIENDS” CD
|
1999
|
RCCD6004
|
| Recorded between 1956-1999
|
|
|
| Walk Right In / San Francisco Bay
Blues / Rock Island Line
|
|
|
| Tom Dooley / Worried Man / Cotton
Song / Freight Train
|
|
|
| Bad Man Stackolee / Sweet Tooth+ /
What A Crazy World
|
|
|
| La Bamba / Thirty Days / Wabash
Cannonball / Peggy Sue
|
|
|
| Subterranean Homesick Blues /
Bloodshot Eyes / Dr. Jazz**
|
|
|
| Tin Roof Blues##** / The Glory Of
Love** / Postman’s
|
|
|
| Lament** / Magpie Stomp** /
Seduced**# / Come On
|
|
|
| Mister**# / Goin’ Home*** /
When You Were Sweet 16***.
|
|
|
| Personnel as for JOYS 263
except for; JOE BROWN GROUP+.
|
|
|
| WEST LONDON RHYTHM KINGS**,
JOHN KEEN, Trumpet; JOHN LAWES, Clarinet; JOHN HOWLETT, Trombone,
JOHN
|
|
|
| RODBER, Bass; BRIAN
‘DIPPER’ DUDDY, Drums; TIM WAKE,
|
|
|
| Banjo; MOLE BENN,
Sousaphone#; KERRY McDEVITT, Voc##.
|
|
|
| THE LONNIGANS***; EDDIE ARMER,
Harmonica. JOHN ARMER, Trombone, Guit. STEVE SIMPSON, Guit. CHRIS RODEL,
Bass. CHRIS COMAC, Banjo, Guit. DEREK MASON,Washboard. |
|
|
| SHARON DRAIN, HARRIET
THOMAS, RICHARD BARKER, Backing vocals.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| DISKY
|
|
|
| "SKIFFLE, As Good As It Gets" Double
CD . 61 tracks
|
2000
|
DO 250522
|
| I'm Satisfied/Greenback
Dollar/Freight Train/ Poor Howard
Personnel as for Rollercoaster records
Plus tracks from Donegan, Duncan, Vipers, Les Hobeaux, Jimmy Jackson, Chris
Barber, Don Lang etc.
"SKIFFLE, As Good As It Gets" Vol
2 Double CD . 60 tracks Badman
Stackolee/BB's Blues/Sporting Life/Goin' Home/My Old Man/Across The Bridge/Face
In The
Rain
Personnel as for Rollercoaster Records
Plus tracks from Donegan, Duncan, Vipers, Avon Cities, Johnny Parker,
Barnstormers Spasm Band etc.
|
2001
|
DO 999862
|