Richard Clapton discography

Richard Clapton discography
Studio albums16
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums3
Compilation albums6
Singles41

The discography of Australian musician Richard Clapton spawned sixteen studio albums, six compilation albums, three live albums, one soundtrack album, and forty-one singles.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart
positions
AUS
[1][2]
Prussian Blue —
Girls on the Avenue
  • Released: April 1975
  • Label: Infinity / Festival (L 35508)
 33
Main Street Jive
  • Released: August 1976
  • Label: Infinity / Festival (L 35963)
 64
Goodbye Tiger
  • Released: October 1977
  • Label: Infinity / Festival (L 36352)
 11
Hearts on the Nightline
  • Released: April 1979
  • Label: Interfusion / Festival (L 36932)
 17
Dark Spaces
  • Released: August 1980
  • Label: Interfusion / Festival (L 37331)
 23
The Great Escape
  • Released: February 1982
  • Label: WEA (600106)
 8
Solidarity
  • Released: September 1984
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53137)
 27
Glory Road
  • Released: October 1987
  • Label: WEA (600144-1)
 28
Distant Thunder 37
Angeltown
  • Released: May 1996
  • Label: Roadshow Music (17982-2)
 89
Diamond Mine 90
Rewired
  • Released: April 2006
  • Label:Warner Bros.
 —
Harlequin Nights
  • Released: August 2012
  • Label: Gypsy Music
 —
The House of Orange
  • Released: 8 April 2016
  • Label: Gypsy Music
 —
Music Is Love (1966–1970)
  • Released: 9 April 2021[3]
  • Label: Bloodlines/Mushroom Group
 3
[4]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

List of live albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart
positions 		Certifications
AUS
[2]
The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Released: September 1989
  • Label: WEA (256582-1)
 23
Up and Down the Glory Road
  • Released: 12 November 2001
  • Label: WEA/WAR (0927422332)
 (6°)
  • ARIA: Gold (DVD)[6]
Live at the State Theatre
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: WEA
 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.
Notes
  • ° Australian Music DVD Chart.

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart
positions 		Certification
AUS
[1][2]
Past Hits and Previews
  • Released: December 1978
  • Label: Infinity / Festival (L 36691)
 42
The Very Best of Richard Clapton
  • Released: March 1982
  • Label: Festival (L 37674)
 18
The Definitive Anthology
  • Released: October 1999
  • Label: WEA (3984294362)
 28
The Definitive Collection
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Festival
 —
The Essential Hits
  • Released: 13 August 2010
  • Label: Warner
 —
Best Years 1974–2014
  • Released: 8 August 2014
  • Label: Festival / Warner
 36
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Soundtrack albums

List of live albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart
positions
AUS
[8]
Highway One
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Infinity / Festival (L 36138)
 94

Singles

Year Title Peak chart positions Album
AUS
[1]
1972 "Last Train to Marseilles" — Prussian Blue
1973 "All the Prodigal Children" —
1974 "I Wanna Be a Survivor" —
1975 "Travelling Down the Castlereagh" /
"Girls on the Avenue"[A] 		4 Girls on the Avenue
"Down the Road" —
1976 "Please Come Home" — Non-album single
"Suit Yourself" — Main Street Jive
1977 "Capricorn Dancer" 40 Highway One
"Deep Water" 43 Goodbye Tiger
1978 "(Down in the) Lucky Country" 70
"Steppin' Across the Line" 98 Past Hits and Previews
1979 "Hearts on the Nightline" — Hearts on the Nightline
"Ace of Hearts" —
1980 "Get Back to the Shelter" 94 Dark Spaces
"High Society" —
1982 "I Am an Island" 20 The Great Escape
"Spellbound" 89
"The Best Years of Our Lives" —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Year Title Peak chart positions Album
AUS
[1][2]
1984 "The Heart of It" 90 Solidarity
"Solidarity Goodbye" —
1985 "Goodbye Barbara Ann" 90 Non-album single
"The Transpac Slide" — Non-album single
1986 "Spirit of Sydney" (duet with Kevin Borich) — Non-album single
1987 "Glory Road" 42 Glory Road
"Trust Somebody" —
1988 "Angelou" —
"Go Windward Passage" (with Crew of Windward Passage) — Non-album single
1989 "Deep Water" (live) — Best Years of Our Lives
"Ace of Hearts" (live) —
1992 "Happy Valley" — Distant Thunder
1993 "Distant Thunder" 80
"All Fall Down" —
1994 "Oceans of the Heart" —
1996 "Dixieland" — Angeltown
1999 "Calling for You" — The Definitive Anthology
2012 "Dancing with the Vampires" — Harlequin Nights
2016 "Something About You" — The House of Orange
2021 "Summer in the City[9]" — Music Is Love (1966-1970)
"Cinnamon Girl[10]" —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Notes

A.^ "Girls on the Avenue" was originally released as the B-side of "Travelling Down the Castlereagh". After considerable radio play it was named the A-side.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Discography Richard Clapton". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
  3. ^ "Music Is Love (1966-1970) (DD)". Apple Music. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  4. ^ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  5. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  6. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Clapton, not clapped-out". The Age. 1 June 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 282. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  9. ^ "Richard Clapton Pays Homage to His Influences". Noise11. 5 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Cinnamon Girl Track". amrap. 2 April 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  11. ^ McFarlane, 'Richard Clapton' entry. p. 124. Retrieved 11 June 2010.