Richard Clapton discography

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

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

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions
TitleAlbum detailsPeak 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 Thunder37
Angeltown
  • Released: May 1996
  • Label: Roadshow Music (17982-2)
89
Diamond Mine90
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
TitleAlbum detailsPeak 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

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions
TitleAlbum detailsPeak 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
  • ARIA: Gold [7]
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
TitleAlbum detailsPeak 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]

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