Richard Clapton discography
| Richard Clapton discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 16 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 6 |
| Singles | 41 |
| Soundtrack albums | 1 |
The discography of Australian musician Richard Clapton spawned sixteen studio albums, six compilation albums, three live albums, one soundtrack album, and forty-one singles.
Studio albums[edit]
| Year | Title | Chart peak positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [1][2] | |||
| 1973 | Prussian Blue
|
— | |
| 1975 | Girls on the Avenue
|
33 | |
| 1976 | Main Street Jive
|
64 | |
| 1977 | Goodbye Tiger
|
11 | |
| 1979 | Hearts on the Nightline
|
17 | |
| 1980 | Dark Spaces
|
23 | |
| 1982 | The Great Escape
|
8 | |
| 1984 | Solidarity
|
27 | |
| 1987 | Glory Road
|
28 | |
| 1993 | Distant Thunder
|
37 | |
| 1996 | Angeltown
|
89 | |
| 2004 | Diamond Mine
|
90 | |
| 2006 | Rewired
|
— | |
| 2012 | Harlequin Nights
|
— | |
| 2016 | The House of Orange
|
— | |
| 2021 | Music Is Love (1966–1970)
|
3 [4] | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||
Compilation albums[edit]
| Year | Title | Chart peak positions | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [1][2] | |||
| 1978 | Past Hits and Previews
|
42 | |
| 1982 | The Very Best of Richard Clapton
|
18 | |
| 1999 | The Definitive Anthology
|
28 |
|
| 2004 | The Definitive Collection
|
— | |
| 2010 | The Essential Hits
|
— | |
| 2014 | Best Years 1974–2014
|
36 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||
Live albums[edit]
| Year | Title | Chart peak positions | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [2] | |||
| 1989 | The Best Years of Our Lives
|
23 | |
| 2001 | Up and Down the Glory Road
|
(6°) |
|
| 2008 | Live at the State Theatre
|
— | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||
- Notes
- ° Australian Music DVD Chart.
Soundtrack albums[edit]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1976 | Highway One
|
Singles[edit]
| 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[8]" | — | Music Is Love (1966-1970) | |||||||||||
| "Cinnamon Girl[9]" | — | |||||||||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Notes[edit]
- 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.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e "Discography Richard Clapton". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
- ^ "Music Is Love (1966-1970) (DD)". Apple Music. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
- ^ "Clapton, not clapped-out". The Age. 1 June 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Richard Clapton Pays Homage to His Influences". Noise11. 5 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Cinnamon Girl Track". amrap. 2 April 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ McFarlane, 'Richard Clapton' entry. p. 124. Retrieved 11 June 2010.