| Wendy Matthews discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 9 |
| Soundtrack albums | 3 |
| Live albums | 2 |
| Compilation albums | 2 |
| Singles | 24 |
| Video albums | 4 |
Wendy Matthews is a Canadian-born Australian adult contemporary singer and songwriter. [1] Her discography consists of nine studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, four video albums and twenty-four singles.
Matthews started recording as a session and jingles singer in Los Angeles in 1981, one of her early vocals was for "Willow Pattern" which appeared on Osamu Kitajima's album Dragon King in 1982. Further session work was followed by touring Australia with Glenn Shorrock (ex-Little River Band) into 1983. Matthews relocated to Sydney and continued her session work and joined bands including Models in 1985, Rockmelons in 1988 and Absent Friends in 1989. Matthews also supplied vocals for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV series, Dancing Daze (1986), she supplied lead vocals on four tracks for the related soundtrack, Dancing Daze – Rock and three singles, "Dancing Daze" (duet with Jenny Morris), "Dare to Be Bold" and "Might Have Been" (trio with Morris and Mark Williams). A second ABC TV series was Stringer (1987), where Matthews and Kate Ceberano released a duet album, You've Always Got the Blues – Songs from the ABC TV Series "Stringer" in 1988. [1] The album peaked in the Top 10 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. [2]
Matthews released her debut solo studio album Émigré in 1990, which peaked at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart. [3]
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [3] | |||
| Émigré |
| 11 |
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| Lily |
| 2 |
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| The Witness Tree |
| 16 |
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| Ghosts |
| 43 | |
| Beautiful View |
| 36 | |
| Café Naturale |
| 42 | |
| She |
| — | |
| The Welcome Fire |
| 31 | |
| Billie and Me: The White Room Sessions |
| — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Awakening (Hiroshi Sato featuring Wendy Matthews) |
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| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS [6] | ||
| The Way It Has to Be |
| 102 |
| Live at Mudgee RSL '91 and Bunnamah Estate '94 | — |
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [3] | |||
| Dancing Daze (by Jenny Morris, Wendy Matthews, Mark Williams, Marc Hunter & Jane Clifton) |
| — | |
| Illusion (by Mark Williams, Wendy Matthews, Martin Armiger & Peter Blakeley) |
| — | |
| You've Always Got the Blues – Songs from the ABC TV Series "Stringer" (with Kate Ceberano) | 7 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [3] | |||
| Stepping Stones: The Best of Wendy Matthews |
| 4 |
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| The Essential Wendy Matthews |
| — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
| Year | Details |
|---|---|
| Live at the Sydney Opera House |
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| Ghosts EPK |
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| Stepping Stones - Best of |
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| Stepping Stones - Best of |
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| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [3] | |||
| 1986 | "Dancing Daze" (with Jenny Morris) | — | Dancing Daze |
| "Dare to Be Bold" | — | ||
| "Might Have Been" (with Morris and Mark Williams) | — | ||
| 1988 | "You've Always Got the Blues" (with Kate Ceberano) | — | You've Always Got the Blues |
| "Guilty (Through Neglect)" (with Ceberano) | — | ||
| "Jump" (Rockmelons featuring Wendy Matthews) | — | Tales of the City (Rockmelons album) | |
| 1990 | "I Don't Want to Be with Nobody but You" (Absent Friends featuring Wendy Matthews) | 4 | Here's Looking Up Your Address (Absent Friends album) |
| "Token Angels" | 18 | Émigré | |
| 1991 | "Woman's Gotta Have It" | 34 | |
| "Let's Kiss (Like Angels Do)" | 14 | ||
| 1992 | "The Day You Went Away" | 2 | Lily |
| 1993 | "Friday's Child" | 15 | |
| "If Only I Could" | 41 | ||
| "T.K.O." | 118 | ||
| 1994 | "Standing Strong" | 37 | The Witness Tree |
| 1995 | "Love Will Keep Me Alive" | 68 | |
| "Say a Prayer" | — | ||
| 1997 | "Then I Walked Away" | 75 | Ghosts |
| "Big" | 200 | ||
| 1998 | "Beloved" | 49 | |
| 1999 | "I've Got to Have You" | — | Stepping Stones |
| 2000 | "Day by Day" | — | Godspell (Australian Cast Recording) |
| "Free" | 131 | Beautiful View | |
| 2001 | "Beautiful View" | 88 | |
| "Like the Sun" | 195 | ||
| 2008 | "Fallen Angels" | — | She |
| 2013 | "Amelia" | — | The Welcome Fire |
| "Keeping My Distance" | — | ||
| 2016 | "F U Cancer" [12] (with Catherine Britt with Kasey Chambers, Beccy Cole, Lyn Bowtell, Josh Pyke, Wes Carr & Wendy Matthews) | — | non-album single |
| 2019 | "Help Is on Its Way" [13] (with Glenn Shorrock, The McClymonts, Beccy Cole, Jasmine Rae, Travis Collins, Busby Marou and Fanny Lumsden) | — | non-album single |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
| Year | Song | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | "Willow Pattern" | Osamu Kitajima | Dragon King |
| 1987 | "Oh! Darling" | Models | Non-album single |
| 1989 | "Skye Boat Song" | various artists | Five |
| "The Sound of the Wind" | various artists | Six | |
| "Golden Slumbers" (with Rick Price) | various artists | Zzzero | |
| "Hallelujah" | Absent Friends | Here's Looking Up Your Address | |
| 1990 | "Hullabaloo" | ||
| "Harmony" | |||
| 1993 | "Silent Night" | various artists | The Spirit of Christmas 1993 |
| 1998 | "Here Am I" | various artists | Good Vibrations – A Concert for Marc Hunter – The Live Event |
| 2000 | "Pure Inspiration" | various artists | Olympic Record |
| 2001 | "White Christmas" | various artists | The Spirit of Christmas 2001 |
| 2009 | "Day You Went Away" | Phrase | Clockwork |
| 2009 | "Easy" | Adam Harvey | Both Sides Now |
| 2010 | "Flower on the Water" | John Williamson | Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
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