Sandy Denny discography | |
---|---|
Studio albums | 4 |
Live albums | 2 |
Compilation albums | 15 |
EPs | 1 |
Singles | 4 |
Collaborations | 2 |
The Sandy Denny discography chronicles the output of British folk rock singer Sandy Denny. Her brief career, spanning 1967 to 1978, saw the release of 4 solo albums and 4 singles on several record labels.
Denny was the lead singer of the group Fairport Convention, and fronted the band through several of their most highly regarded albums: What We Did on Our Holidays , Unhalfbricking , and Liege & Lief were all released by the band during 1969, and are today considered touchstones in the progression of British folk rock. Fairport guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson would prove to be an important collaborator in Denny's life, and he would go on to perform guitar duties on each of her solo albums.
In addition to her work with Fairport Convention, Denny was also a member of The Strawbs, Fotheringay and The Bunch. Other notable recordings include her duet with Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore", as well as a brief appearance on a live version of The Who's Tommy . She has received a number of awards and accolades from different organizations.
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1971 | The North Star Grassman and the Ravens | 31 |
1972 | Sandy | - |
1974 | Like an Old Fashioned Waltz | - |
1977 | Rendezvous | - |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1998 | Gold Dust | - |
2011 | 19 Rupert Street | - |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1970 | It's Sandy Denny | - |
1985 | Who Knows Where the Time Goes? | - |
1987 | The Best of Sandy Denny | - |
1995 | The Attic Tracks 1972-1984 | - |
1999 | Listen Listen - An Introduction to Sandy Denny | - |
2000 | No More Sad Refrains: The Anthology | - |
2002 | The Best of Sandy | - |
2004 | The Collection | - |
A Boxful of Treasures | - | |
2005 | Where The Time Goes - Sandy '67 | - |
2007 | Live at the BBC | - |
2008 | The Best of the BBC Recordings | - |
The Music Weaver: Sandy Denny Remembered | - | |
2010 | Sandy Denny | - |
2012 | The Notes and the Words: A Collection of Demos and Rarities | - |
2016 | I've Always Kept a Unicorn | - |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1967 | Alex Campbell and His Friends (with Alex Campbell) | - |
Sandy and Johnny (with Johnny Silvo) | - | |
2012 | Don't Stop Singing (with Thea Gilmore) | 89 |
Year | Song | UK | Album |
---|---|---|---|
1972 | "Listen, Listen" | - | Sandy |
1974 | "Whispering Grass" | - | Like an Old Fashioned Waltz |
"Like an Old Fashioned Waltz" | - | ||
1977 | "Candle in the Wind" | - | Rendezvous |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1973 | All Our Own Work (Recorded 1967) | - |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1991 | Sandy Denny and the Strawbs | - |
2010 | All Our Own Work - The Complete Sessions Remastered | - |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1969 | What We Did on Our Holidays | - |
Unhalfbricking | 12 | |
Liege & Lief | 17 | |
1975 | Rising for the Moon | 52 |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1974 | Fairport Live Convention | - |
1987 | Heyday | - |
2016 | Ebbets Field 1974 | - |
Year | Song | UK | Album |
---|---|---|---|
1968 | "Meet On The Ledge" | - | Unhalfbricking |
1969 | "Si Tu Dois Partir" | 21 | |
1975 | "White Dress" | - | Rising for the Moon |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1970 | Fotheringay | 18 |
2008 | Fotheringay 2 | - |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
2011 | Fotheringay Essen 1970 | - |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
2015 | Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay | - |
Year | Song | UK | Album |
---|---|---|---|
1970 | "Peace In The End" | - | Fotheringay |
Year | Album | UK Albums Chart |
---|---|---|
1972 | Rock On | - |
Year | Song | UK | Album |
---|---|---|---|
1972 | "When Will I Be Loved?" | - | Rock On |
"The Loco-Motion" | - |
This section needs additional citations for verification .(April 2021) |
The untitled fourth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, was released on 8 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was produced by guitarist Jimmy Page and recorded between December 1970 and February 1971, mostly in the country house Headley Grange. The album contains one of the band's best-known songs, "Stairway to Heaven".
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater They started out influenced by American folk rock, with a set list dominated by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell songs and a sound that earned them the nickname "the British Jefferson Airplane". Vocalists Judy Dyble and Iain Matthews joined them before the recording of their self-titled debut in 1968; afterwards, Dyble was replaced by Sandy Denny, with Matthews later leaving during the recording of their third album.
"The Battle of Evermore" is a folk duet sung by Robert Plant and Sandy Denny, included on Led Zeppelin's untitled 1971 album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV. The song's instrumentation features acoustic guitar and mandolin playing, while the lyrics allude to J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny was an English singer who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. She has been described as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer".
What We Did on Our Holidays is the second album by British band Fairport Convention, released in 1969. It was their first album to feature singer-songwriter Sandy Denny. The album also showed a move towards the folk rock for which the band became noted, including tracks later to become perennial favourites such as "Fotheringay" and the song traditionally used to close live concerts, "Meet on the Ledge".
Trevor George Lucas was an Australian folk singer, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay. He mainly worked as a singer-songwriter and guitarist but also produced many albums and composed for the film industry toward the end of his career. He married three times, his first wife was Cheryl, his second wife was fellow folk musician Sandy Denny (1973–1978), and his third wife was Elizabeth Hurtt (1979–1989). Lucas died on 4 February 1989 of a heart attack in his sleep, in Sydney, aged 45. He was survived by Elizabeth Hurtt, his daughter, Georgia Rose Lucas, and his son, Daniel 'Clancy' Lucas. According to Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane, Lucas "was one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters Australia ever produced and although he was held in high regard in UK folk rock circles, he remained virtually unknown in his homeland".
Linda Thompson is an English singer-songwriter.
Henry the Human Fly is the debut solo album by Richard Thompson, his first release following his leaving former group Fairport Convention. It was released on the Island label in the U.K. and the Reprise label in the U.S.A. in April 1972. The album was reissued by Rykodisc in 1991.
Unhalfbricking is the third album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and their second album released in 1969. It is seen as a transitional album in their history and marked a further musical move away from American influences towards more traditional English folk songs that had begun on their previous album, What We Did on Our Holidays and reached its peak on the follow-up, Liege & Lief, released later the same year.
Liege & Lief is the fourth album by the British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the third album the group released in the UK during 1969, all of which prominently feature Sandy Denny as lead female vocalist, as well as the first to feature future long-serving personnel Dave Swarbrick and Dave Mattacks on violin/mandolin and drums, respectively, as full band members. It is also the first Fairport album on which all songs are either adapted (freely) from traditional British and Celtic folk material, or else are original compositions written and performed in a similar style. Although Denny and founding bass player Ashley Hutchings quit the band before the album's release, Fairport Convention has continued to the present day to make music strongly based within the British folk rock idiom, and are still the band most prominently associated with it.
Simon John Breckenridge Nicol is an English guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founding member of British folk rock group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band. He has also been involved with the Albion Band and a wide range of musical projects, both as a collaborator, producer and as a solo artist. He has received several awards for his work and career.
Fairport Convention is Fairport Convention's debut album. The band formed in 1967, with the original line-up consisting of Richard Thompson (guitar); Simon Nicol (guitar); Ashley “Tyger” Hutchings (bass); and Shaun Frater (drums), who was replaced after their first gig by Martin Lamble. They were joined by Judy Dyble (vocals), and Ian MacDonald after they made their major London stage debut in one of Brian Epstein’s Sunday concerts at the Saville Theatre.
Sandy is the second solo album by British folk rock musician Sandy Denny. Work on the album began just a fortnight after her UK tour promoting her debut solo album, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, ended in early November 1971 and continued through to May 1972.The album was released in September 1972.
If You Saw Thro' My Eyes is the 1971 album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews. It was the first of two Ian Matthews solo albums released on Vertigo, a subsidiary label of Philips/Phonogram. Guest musicians were former Fairport Convention bandmates Sandy Denny on vocals and keyboards, and Richard Thompson on accordion and guitar. The album also featured guitarist Tim Renwick, jazz pianist Keith Tippett and Matthews' future bandmate in Plainsong, Andy Roberts.
The Bunch were a British folk rock band, which came together in 1971 to record their one off album, Rock On.
The North Star Grassman and the Ravens is a 1971 album by English folk rock singer-songwriter Sandy Denny. Built mostly around her own compositions, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens is distinguished by its elusive lyrics and unexpected harmonies.
Like an Old Fashioned Waltz is the third solo album by English folk rock singer Sandy Denny, released in June 1974.
Rendezvous is the fourth and final studio album by English folk rock singer-songwriter Sandy Denny, released on Island Records in May 1977, and the final album released during her lifetime.
Gold Dust is a live album by the late English folk rock singer Sandy Denny. It documents one of Denny's last public performances and was recorded at London's "Sound Circus" venue at the Royalty Theatre, Portugal Street, near Aldwych, London on 27 November 1977. The album features many of her classic songs both as a solo artist and as a member of Fairport Convention and Fotheringay and remains the most extensive documentation of Sandy's live work with a backing band. The album was not released on the label originally planned owing to stated technical problems with the master tape, and was only released on a different label twenty years after her death after various guitar and backing vocal tracks parts were re-recorded by Jerry Donahue and others.
Gottle O'Geer is the eleventh studio album by English folk rock band Fairport Convention. The album was released through Island Records in May 1976.