Richard Clapton discography
| Richard Clapton discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 16 |
| Soundtrack albums | 1 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 6 |
| Singles | 41 |
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
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [1][2] | |||
| Prussian Blue | — | ||
| Girls on the Avenue |
|
33 | |
| Main Street Jive |
|
64 | |
| Goodbye Tiger |
|
11 | |
| Hearts on the Nightline |
|
17 | |
| Dark Spaces |
|
23 | |
| The Great Escape |
|
8 | |
| Solidarity |
|
27 | |
| Glory Road |
|
28 | |
| Distant Thunder |
|
37 | |
| Angeltown |
|
89 | |
| Diamond Mine |
|
90 | |
| Rewired |
|
— | |
| Harlequin Nights |
|
— | |
| The House of Orange |
|
— | |
| Music Is Love (1966–1970) |
|
3 [4] | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||
Live albums
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [2] | |||
| The Best Years of Our Lives |
|
23 | |
| Up and Down the Glory Road |
|
(6°) |
|
| Live at the State Theatre |
|
— | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||
- Notes
- ° Australian Music DVD Chart.
Compilation albums
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [1][2] | |||
| Past Hits and Previews |
|
42 | |
| The Very Best of Richard Clapton |
|
18 | |
| The Definitive Anthology |
|
28 |
|
| The Definitive Collection |
|
— | |
| The Essential Hits |
|
— | |
| Best Years 1974–2014 |
|
36 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||
Soundtrack albums
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS [8] | ||
| Highway One |
|
94 |
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[9]" | — | Music Is Love (1966-1970) | |||||||||||
| "Cinnamon Girl[10]" | — | |||||||||||||
| "—" 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.[11]
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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Clapton, not clapped-out". The Age. 1 June 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.