TOMMY STEELE DISCOGRAPHY
TOMMY STEELE’S SINGLE
RELEASES:
Company____Disc #_____Year__Title______________________________________ Chart
Decca F 10795 1956 Rock With the Caveman/ Rock Around the Town #13
Decca F 10808 1956 Doomsday Rock/ Elevator Rock
Decca F 10819 1956 Singing The Blues/ Rebel Rock # 1
Decca F 10849 1957 Knee Deep in the Blues/ Teenage Party #15
Decca F 10877 1957 Butterfingers/ Cannibal Pot # 8
Decca F 10896 1957 Shiralee/ Grandad’s Rock #11
Decca F 10923 1957 Water, Water/ A Handful of Songs # 5
Decca F 10941 1957 Hey You!/ Plant A Kiss #28
Decca F 10976 1958 Happy Guitar/ Princess #20
Decca F 10991 1958 Nairobi/ Neon Sign # 3
Decca F 11041 1958 Only Man on the Island/ I Puts the Lightie On #16
All the above
were with the Steelemen
In 1957 Decca issued the disc F10915 entitled “The Lord Tavener’s All Star Hit Parade No. 2” which included Tommy’s “Butterfly”
In April 1957
Weekend Magazine included an exclusive
6” 78 rpm record entitled “The Truth About Me”, narrated by Tommy
Decca F11026 1958 It’s All Happening/ What Do You Do?
Decca F 11072 1958 Come On, Let’s Go/ Put a Ring on Her Finger #10
Decca F 11089 1958 A Lovely Night/ Marriage Type Love
Decca F 11117 1959 Hiawatha/ The Trial
Decca F 11152 1959 Tallahassee Lassie/ Give, Give, Give #16
Decca F 11162 1959 You Were Mine/ Young Ideas
Decca F 11177 1959 Little White Bull/ Singing Time # 6
All the above
45’s were initially issued with the triangular centers, but later pressings had
circular centers.
In 1959 a 33 1/3 rpm
flexi-disc issued a Marilyn Screen Test starring Tommy Steele. The listener could read their own part from
script strips which folded out in the sleeve and play a love scene with Tommy. WOW!
Decca F 11245 1960 What A Mouth/ Kookaburra # 5
All the above
were also issued as 78’s – a more popular medium at the time.
Decca F 11275 1960 Happy Go Lucky Blues/ Girl with the Long
Black Hair
Decca F 11299 1960 Must Be Santa/ Boys and Girls #40
Decca F 11361 1961 My Big Best Shoes/ The Dit Dit Song
Decca F 11372 1961 Writing on the Wall/ Drunken Guitar #30
Decca F 11479 1962 Hit Record/ What A Little Darling
All the above singles were also pressed as one-sided demos for promotional purposes.
Some labels were
hand-written. Others had printed labels. F 11245 had Pat Boone’s “Walking the Floor
Over You” on the flip side.
Decca F 11532 1963 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?/ Butter
Wouldn’t Melt in Your Mouth
Decca F11551 1963 He’s Got Love/ Green Eye
Decca F 11615 1963 Flash Bang Wallop/ She’s Too Far Above Me
Columbia DB 7070 1963 Egg and Chips/ The Dream Maker
RCA 1654 1965 Half A Sixpence/ If the Rain’s Got to Fall
Vista DF 457 1967 Fortuosity/ I’m a Brass Band
Pye 7N45393 1974 King’s New Clothes/ Wonderful Copenhagen
Safari SAFE62 1984 Half A Sixpence/
If the Rain’s Got to Fall
DECCA RED LABEL
RE-ISSUES: LATE 1970’S - EARLY 1980’s
Decca F13813 Rock
With the Caveman/ Elevator Rock
Decca F13814 Knee
Deep in the Blues/ Singing the Blues
Decca F13865 Doomsday
Rock/ Give, Give, Give
Columbia DB 7070 1963 The Dream Maker/ Maximum Plus (with Marion
Ryan)
This record is very rare. The flip side was switched before the official release.
All the above
singles were issued as mono recordings.
RCA Victor 1654 1967 Half a Sixpence/ It the Rain’s Got to Fall
Buena Vista DF 457 1967 Fortuosity/ I’m A Brass Band Today
In 1967 Walt Disney Productions issued a 45 rpm to commemorate the European premiere in London of “The Happiest Millionaire”
One side featured
Tommy singing “Fortuosity”. This item
is very rare. A collector’s gem.
PIE 7N453933 1974 The King’s New Clothes/ Wonderful Copenhagen
Safari SAF 61 1974 Singin’ in the
Rain/ You Are My Lucky Star
Old Gold OG 9536 1985 Singing the Blues/ Come On, Let’s Go
TOMMY STEELE LP’s:
Decca 1957 LF1287, 10”, LIVE Decca 1957 LF1288, 10”
Giddy Up a Ding-Dong Take
me Back Baby
Treasure of Love Butterfingers
Honky-Tonk Blues I
Like
Razzle Dazzle A Handful of Songs
Kaw-Liga You
Gotta Go
Teenage Party Water,
Water
Wedding Bells Cannibal
Pot
What Is This Thing Called
Love? Will
It Be You?
On the Move Two
Eyes
Rock With the Caveman Build
Up
Time
to Kill
Decca 1957 LF 1299 Elevator
Rock
Stars of the 6-5 Special Doomsday
Rock
Teenage
Party
It’s All Happening “GET
HAPPY WITH TOMMY STEELE”
What Do You Do? Hollerin’
& Screamin’
Family Tree Lonesome
Traveler
Happy Guitar A
Handful of Songs
Hair Down Ho-down Nairobi
Princess Little
Darlin’
Photograph Old
Obadiah
Thanks A Lot What
A Mouth
Shiralee
Decca 1959 LK4304-Mono, SKL4050-Stereo Kookaburra
“CINDERELLA” Tommy,
the Toreador
Overture So
Long
In My Own Little Corner Shout
A Very Special Day
Do I Love You Because You’re
Beautiful? Decca 1963
SKL4521 LP
The Prince Is Giving a Ball “HALF
A SIXPENCE” London Recording
Marriage Type Love All
In the Cause of Economy
Stepsister’s Lament Half
A Sixpence
Your Majesties Money
to Burn
A List of the Bare
Necessities Oak
and Ash
When You’re Driving Through
the Moonlight She’s
Too Far Above Me
A Lovely Night I’m
Not Talking To You!
Impossible If
The Rain’s Got to Fall
No Other Love The
Old Military Canal
Ten Minutes Ago The
One That’s Run Away
You and Me Long
Ago
Tommy is featured in many tracks. Flash,
Bang, Wallop
I
Know What I Am
The Bay View RNBW018 I’ll
Build A Palace
CINDERELLA Sound Track I
Only Want A Little House
I
Decca 1963 33SX1537-Mono,
SCX3486-Stereo
“IT’S ALL HAPPENING”
Wind and The Rain RCA
1967
RB6735-Mono, SB6735-Stereo
Dream Maker “HALF
A SIXPENCE”
Meeting You All
In the Cause of Economy
Casbah Half
A Sixpence
Maximum Plus Money
to Burn
Somebody Else. Not Me I
Don’t believe A Word Of It!
That’s Livin’, That’s Lovin’ I’m
Not Talking to You!
Flamenco Proper
Gentleman
Eggs and Chips She’s
Too Far Above Me
Day Without You If
the Rain’s Got to Fall
Lady Botting’s Boating Regatta Cup Racing Song (The
Race is On)
Columbia 1964
33SX1674-Mono, Flash,
Bang, Wallop
SCX3536-Stereo I
Know What I Am
“SO THIS IS BROADWAY” This Is My World
Something’s Coming
Hey There!
It I Were a Bell Buena
Vista 1967 BV5001-Mono, BV5001-Stereo
Hey, Look Me Over “THE
HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE”
The Girl That I Marry Fortuosity
Too Close For Comfort What’s Wrong With That
Everything’s Coming Up Roses Watch
Your Footwork
I Talk to the Trees Valentine
Candy
I Wish I Were In Love Again Strengthen
The Dwelling
Happy Talk I’ll
Always Be Irish
They Say It’s Wonderful Bye-Yum
Pum Pum
There Once Was A Man Are
We Dancing?
I
Believe in This Country
Deram Records 820589-2 Detroit
Half A Six Pence When
A Man Has a Daughter
There
Are Those
Let’s
Have a Drink On It
Warner Bros – 1968 Decca
1969 PA24-Mono, SPA24-Stereo
“FINIAN’S RAINBOW” “HAPPY
WORLD OF TOMMY STEELE”
This Time Of the Year Nairobi
How Are Things in Glocca
Morra? A
Handful of Songs
Look to the Rainbow Little
White Bull
If This Isn’t Love Flash,
Bang, Wallop
Somethin Sorta Grandish Rock
With the Caveman
The Great Come and Get It
Day The
Only Man on the Island
Old Devil Moon What
A Mouth
When the Idle Poor Become
the Idle Rich Singing
the Blues
When I’m Not near the Girl I
Love Marriage
Type Love
Necessity Hit
Record
Rain Dance Ballet Shiralee
The Begat Song Sweet
Georgia Brown
Decca 1971 SPA137-Stereo Pye Records 1974 TS101
“WORLD OF TOMMY STEELE, VOL
2” “MY LIFE, MY
SONG”
Hiawatha My
Life, My Song
It’s All Happening Conceived
Kaw-Liga War
Young Love Youngest
Love
The Writing in the Wall Work
Happy Guitar Adventure
Come On, Let’s Go Revolution
Green Eye Ambition
Wishing Star Wilderness
Butterfingers Marriage
Young Ideas Fatherhood
She’s Too Far Above Me Hope
Arcade Records1974 ADEP14
“40 FAVOURITES”
Side A
Medley 1: Consider Yourself/ Get Me to the Church on
Time/ I’m Henry the Eighth I Am/ Knees Up Mother Brown/ Roll Out the Barrel
Medley 2: Singing In the Rain/ Rambling Rose/ Tiptoe
Through the Tulips/ When the Red Red Robin/ On An Slow Boat to China
Medley 3: Carolina In The Morning/ My Mammy/ April
Showers/ Is It True What They Say About Dixie?/ Baby Face
Medley 4: Que Sera, Sera/ Cruising Down the River/
Wonderful Copenhagen/ Tulips From Amsterdam
Side B
Medley 1: You Made Me Love You/ On Mother Kelly’s
Doorstep/ I’ll Be with You Inb Apple Blossom Time/ In A Shanty in Old Shanty
Town/
Underneath the Arches
Medley 2: I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now/ Hey, Good
Looking/ Sunny Side of the Street/ Zip A Doo Dah/ When You’re Smiling
Medley 3: For Me and My Gal/ You Are My Lucky Star/
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby/ Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Medley 4: Boiled Beef and Carrots/ Any Old Iron/
Wotcher/ My Old Man’s a Dustman/ Don’t Dilly Dally On The Way/
I’ve Got a
Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
“HANS ANDERSEN” – 1974 “HANS
ANDERSEN” London Palladium Production - 1978
This Town Dare
to Take a Chance
Thumbelina Thumbelina
Truly Loved Truly
Loved
For Hans Tonight Happy
Days
Jenny Kissed Me Jenny
Kissed Me
Inchworm Inchworm
Ecclesiasticus (I Can Spell) Ecclesiasticus
(I Can Spell)
Wonderful Copenhagen Wonderful
Copenhagen
Anywhere I Wander Anywhere
I Wander
I’m Hans Christian Andersen I’m
Hans Christian Andersen
The Ugly Duckling The
Ugly Duckling
No Two People No
Two People
The King’s New Clothes The
King’s New Clothes
Have
I Stayed Away Too Long?
Recorded in London on December 8, 1974, and on December 11, 1977. Tracks differ slightly.
Decca 1977 2 LP Set. FOS21/2 Stereo Enhanced Ronco Records 1979
RTD2041
“FOCUS ON TOMMY STEELE” “FAMILY
ALBUM”
A Handful of Songs Handful
of Songs
Rock With the Caveman Matchstick
Men and Matchstick Cats and Dogs
Elevator Rock Flash,
Bang, Wallop
Nairobi Sometimes
When We Touch
Happy Guitar High
Hopes
Shiralee The
Runaway Train
Young Love Bridge
Over Troubled Waters
Signing The Blues Singing In the Rain
Water, Water Bright
Eyes
Razzle Dazzle Wonderful
Copenhagen
The Only Man On the Island Windmills
of Old Amsterdam
Sweet Georgia Brown Half
A Sixpence
Marriage Type Love What
A Mouth
Kaw-Liga Sweet
Caroline
Little White Bull King
of the Road
Butterfingers Little
White Bull
Rebel Rock Singing
the Blues
Georgia On My Mind Puff,
the Magic Dragon
Cannibal Pot When
I’m 64
Kookaburra Superbird
Knee Deep In the Blues
Flash, Bang, Wallop All new recordings
Where Have All the Flowers
Gone?
Giddy-Up A Ding Dong
Hiawatha
Come On, Let’s go
She’s Too Far Above Me
What A Mouth
TOMMY STEELE STAGE
SHOW: RE-RELEASED BY DECCA LFT1287 –
1981
TOMMY STEELE STORY: RE-RELESED BY DECCA LFT1288 – 1981
CINDERELLA: RE-RELEASED BY ENTERTAINMENT RECORDS – 1984
Safari Records 1984 RAIn1
“SINGING IN THE RAIN”
Fit As A Fiddle
Temptation
I Can’t Give You Anything
But Love
Be A Clown
Too Marvelous for Words
You Are My Lucky Star
Moses Supposes
Good Morning
Singing in the Rain
Would You?
Fascinating Rhythm
Recorded February
20-21, 1984, EMI Studios in London
Oak Records 1987 OAK1001
“LIVE AT THE FESTIVAL”
Tommy Baby
I’m A Song
A Handful of Songs
Flash, Bang Wallo
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Little White Bull
Rock On
Johnny B. Goode
Sweet Carolone
Rock With the Caveman
Nairobi
Water, Water
Happy Guitar
Butterfingers
Singing the Blues
Hey Jude
Maybe It’s Because I’m a
Londoner
THE ROCK AND ROLL YEARS –
REMASTERED – 1988
THE DECCA YEARS – REMASTERED
– 1988
SOME LIKE IT HOT – MUSICAL
SOUNDTRACK – 1992
THE EP COLLECTION – REMASTERED HITS - 1992
Decca DFE 6388 1957 “Young Love” - Young Love/ Doomsday Rock/
Wedding Bells/ Rock With the Cavemen
Decca DFE6389 1957 “ Singing the Blues” - Singing the Blues/
Rebel Rock/ Knee Deep in the Blues/ Elevator Rock
Decca DFE6398 1957 “The Tommy Steele Story No. 1” – Take Me Back
Baby/ Water, Water/ Will It Be You?/ Build Up
Decca DFE6424 1957 “The Tommy Steele Story No. 2” - A Handful of
Songs/ Cannibal Pot/ Time to Kill/ You Gotta Go
Decca DFE6472 1958 “Duke Wore Jeans” – Photograph/ Hair-Down Hoe Down/ Princess/ Happy Guitar
Decca DFE6551 1958 “Tommy Steele” – Come On, Let’s Go/ Put a
Ring on Her Finger/ The only Man on the Island/
Number
Twenty-Two Across the Way
Decca DFE6592 1959 “Tommy” – I’m A Little Blackbird/ Georgia On
My Mind/ Sweet Georgia Brown/ Mandy, Make Up Your Mind
The above 45’s were initially issued with triangular centers, but some later pressings had circular centers.
Decca DFE6607 1960 “Tommy, the Toreador” – Tommy the Toreador/
Where’s the Birdie?/ Little White Bull/ Amanda/
Take A Ride/ Singing Time Appeared on the EP
charts!
Decca DFE6660 - 1960 “ What A Mouth” – What a Mouth/ Kookaburra/
Little Darlin’/ Hollerin’ & Screamin’
All these 45’s were issued with circular centers.
TOMMY STEELE CD’s
RCA Victor SB 6735 - Half A Sixpence - Film Soundtrack
RCA Victor NK - Half A Sixpence – Broadway Production
Deram Records 820589-2 Half A Sixpence – London
Production
Masters Records OCR CD6028 Some Like It Hot – Cast Recording
Success Records CMA Cd119 Hans Andersen –
First Night Records CD6013 Singing In the Rain –
Bay View Records - Cinderella (not released in the UK)
See For Miles Records
CD203 The Rock N’ Roll Years
See For Miles Records
CD347 The EP Collection
Decca 466-409-2 The Decca Years 1856-1963
JAL Productions JAL010105 Memories of Scrooge, the Musical
Spectrum 9824798 2005 Rock
with the Caveman – 43 tracks
All these CD’s are currently available for purchase
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Steele, we apologize if any have been omitted.
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