Richard Clapton discography

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

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions
Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
Title	Album details	AUS ^[1]^[2]
Prussian Blue	Released: November 1973 Label: Infinity / Festival (L 34956)	—
Girls on the Avenue	Released: April 1975 Label: Infinity / Festival (L 35508)	33
Main Street Jive	Released: August 1976 Label: Infinity / Festival (L 35963)	64
Goodbye Tiger	Released: October 1977 Label: Infinity / Festival (L 36352)	11
Hearts on the Nightline	Released: April 1979 Label: Interfusion / Festival (L 36932)	17
Dark Spaces	Released: August 1980 Label: Interfusion / Festival (L 37331)	23
The Great Escape	Released: February 1982 Label: WEA (600106)	8
Solidarity	Released: September 1984 Label: Mushroom (RML 53137)	27
Glory Road	Released: October 1987 Label: WEA (600144-1)	28
Distant Thunder	Released: May 1993 Label: Columbia Records (473531)	37
Angeltown	Released: May 1996 Label: Roadshow Music (17982-2)	89
Diamond Mine	Released: May 2004 Label: Warner Bros.	90
Rewired	Released: April 2006 Label:Warner Bros.	215
Harlequin Nights	Released: August 2012 Label: Gypsy Music	135
The House of Orange	Released: 8 April 2016 Label: Gypsy Music	112
Music Is Love (1966–1970)	Released: 9 April 2021^[3] Label: Bloodlines/Mushroom Group	3 ^[4]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

List of live albums, with selected chart positions
Title	Album details	Peak chart positions	Certifications
Title	Album details	AUS ^[2]	Certifications
The Best Years of Our Lives	Released: September 1989 Label: WEA (256582-1)	23	ARIA: Platinum^[2]^[5]
Up and Down the Glory Road	Released: 12 November 2001 Label: WEA/WAR (0927422332)	(6^°)	ARIA: Gold (DVD)^[6]
Live at the State Theatre	Released: 2008 Label: WEA	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Notes

° Australian Music DVD Chart.

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions
Title	Album details	Peak chart positions	Certification
Title	Album details	AUS ^[1]^[2]	Certification
Past Hits and Previews	Released: December 1978 Label: Infinity / Festival (L 36691)	42
The Very Best of Richard Clapton	Released: March 1982 Label: Festival (L 37674)	18
The Definitive Anthology	Released: October 1999 Label: WEA (3984294362)	28	ARIA: Gold^[7]
The Definitive Collection	Released: 2004 Label: Festival	—
The Essential Hits	Released: 13 August 2010 Label: Warner	—
Best Years 1974–2014	Released: 8 August 2014 Label: Festival / Warner	36
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Soundtrack albums

List of live albums, with selected chart positions
Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
Title	Album details	AUS ^[8]
Highway One	Released: 1977 Label: Infinity / Festival (L 36138)	94

Singles

Year	Title	Peak chart positions	Album
Year	Title	AUS ^[1]	Album
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
1975	"Down the Road"	—	Girls on the Avenue
1976	"Please Come Home"	—	Non-album single
1976	"Suit Yourself"	—	Main Street Jive
1977	"Capricorn Dancer"	40	Highway One
1977	"Deep Water"	43	Goodbye Tiger
1978	"(Down in the) Lucky Country"	70	Goodbye Tiger
1978	"Steppin' Across the Line"	98	Past Hits and Previews
1979	"Hearts on the Nightline"	—	Hearts on the Nightline
1979	"Ace of Hearts"	—	Hearts on the Nightline
1980	"Get Back to the Shelter"	94	Dark Spaces
1980	"High Society"	—	Dark Spaces
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
Year	Title	AUS ^[1]^[2]	Album
1984	"The Heart of It"	90	Solidarity
1984	"Solidarity Goodbye"	—	Solidarity
1985	"Goodbye Barbara Ann"	90	Non-album single
1985	"The Transpac Slide"	—	Non-album single
1986	"Spirit of Sydney" (duet with Kevin Borich)	—	Non-album single
1987	"Glory Road"	42	Glory Road
1987	"Trust Somebody"	—
1988	"Angelou"	—
1988	"Go Windward Passage" (with Crew of Windward Passage)	—	Non-album single
1989	"Deep Water" (live)	147	Best Years of Our Lives
1989	"Ace of Hearts" (live)	122	Best Years of Our Lives
1992	"Happy Valley"	110	Distant Thunder
1993	"Distant Thunder"	80
1993	"All Fall Down"	128
1994	"Oceans of the Heart"	—
1996	"Dixieland"	182	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)
2021	"Cinnamon Girl^[10]"	—	Music Is Love (1966-1970)
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Notes

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

^ ^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."Richard Clapton ARIA chart history 1988 to 2024, received from ARIA in January 2025". ARIA. Retrieved 13 February 2025 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
^ "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.

[Kent-1] 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.

[AusCharts-2] "Discography Richard Clapton". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 June 2010."Richard Clapton ARIA chart history 1988 to 2024, received from ARIA in January 2025". ARIA. Retrieved 13 February 2025 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.

[3] "Music Is Love (1966-1970) (DD)". Apple Music. Retrieved 6 February 2021.

[4] "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

[ARIACert00-5] "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 27 December 2021.

[ARIACert09-6] "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[7] "Clapton, not clapped-out". The Age. 1 June 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2020.

[8] 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.

[9] "Richard Clapton Pays Homage to His Influences". Noise11. 5 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.

[10] "Cinnamon Girl Track". amrap. 2 April 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.

[McF-11] McFarlane, 'Richard Clapton' entry. p. 124. Retrieved 11 June 2010.

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