Re: Lonnie Donegan

Re: Lonnie Donegan

I bought a CD of Donegan's only last summer. I wore my old vinyl out when a teenager. I loved Midnight Special, Grand Coolie Dam and all of those type songs, but did not like it when he did My Old Man's a Dustman.

Re: Lonnie Donegan

A list of all his singles........



"Rock Island Line" / "John Henry" (1955) - UK #8; U.S. #8 †
"Diggin' My Potatoes" / "Bury My Body" (1956) †
"Lost John" / "Stewball" (1956) - UK #2; U.S. #58 †
"Bring A Little Water, Sylvie" / "Dead or Alive" (1956) ‡
"On A Christmas Day" / "Take My Hand Precious Lord" (1956) ‡
"Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" / "I'm Alabammy Bound" (1957) - UK #4 ‡
"Cumberland Gap" / "Love Is Strange" (1957) - UK #1 ‡
"Gamblin' Man" / "Puttin' On the Style" (1957) - UK #1 ‡
"My Dixie Darlin'" / "I'm Just a Rolling Stone" (1957) - UK #10 ‡
"Jack O' Diamonds" / "Ham 'N' Eggs" (1957) - UK #14 ‡
"The Grand Coulee Dam" / "Nobody Loves Like an Irishman" (1958) - UK #6 ‡
"Sally Don't You Grieve" / "Betty, Betty, Betty" (1958) - UK #11 ‡
"Lonesome Traveller" / "Times are Getting Hard Boys" (1958) - UK #28 ‡
"Midnight Special" / "When The Sun Goes Down" (1958) ‡
"Lonnie's Skiffle Party" / "Lonnie Skiffle Party Pt.2" (1958) - UK #23 ‡
"Tom Dooley" / "Rock O' My Soul" (1958) - UK #3 ‡
""Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour (On The Bedpost Over Night)" / "Aunt Rhody" (1959) - UK #3; U.S. #5 ‡
"Fort Worth Jail" / "Whoa Buck" (1959) - UK #14 ‡
"Battle of New Orleans" / "Darling Corey" (1959) - UK #2 ‡
"Kevin Barry" / "My Lagan Love" (1959) ‡
"Sal's Got A Sugar Lip" / "Chesapeake Bay" (1959) - UK #13 ‡
"Hold Back Tomorrow" - UK #26 ¶
"San Miguel" / "Talking Guitar Blues" (1959) - UK #19 ‡
"My Old Man's a Dustman" / The Golden Vanity (1960) - UK #1 ↑
"I Wanna Go Home (Wreck Of the 'John B')" / "Jimmy Brown The Newsboy" (1960) - UK #5 ↓
"Lorelei" / "In All My Wildest Dreams" (1960) - UK #10
"Rockin' Alone" - UK #44 ♠
"Lively" / "Black Cat (Cross My Path Today)" (1960) - UK #13 ↑
"Virgin Mary" / "Beyond The Sunset" (1960) - UK #27
"(Bury Me) Beneath The Willow" / "Leave My Woman Alone" (1961)
"Have A Drink on Me" / "Seven Daffodils" (1961) - UK #8 ↑
"Michael, Row the Boat" / "Lumbered" (1961) - UK #6 ↑
"The Comancheros" / "Ramblin' Round" (1961) - UK #14
"The Party's Over" / "Over the Rainbow" (1962) - UK #9
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" / "Keep on the Sunnyside" (1962)
"Pick A Bale of Cotton" / "Steal Away" (1962) - UK #11 ↑
"The Market Song" / "Tit-Bits" (with Max Miller) (1962)
"Losing By A Hair" / "Trumpet Sounds" (1963)
"It Was A Very Good Year" / "Rise Up" (1963)
"Lemon Tree" / "I've Gotta Girl So Far" (1963)
"500 Miles Away From Home" / "This Train" (1963)
"Beans in My Ears" / "It's a Long Road to Travel" (1964)
"Fisherman's Luck" / "There's A Big Wheel" (1964)
"Get Out Of My Life" / "Won't You Tell Me" (1965)
"Louisiana Man" / "Bound For Zion" (1965)
"World Cup Willie" / "Where In This World are We Going" (1966)
"I Wanna Go Home" / "Black Cat (Cross My Path Today)" (1966)
"Aunt Maggie's Remedy" / "My Sweet Marie" (1967)
"Toys" / "Relax Your Mind" (1968)
"My Lovely Juanita" / "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" (1969)
"Burning Bridges" / "'Til I Can't Take No More" (1970)
"Come to Australia" / "Don't Blame the Child" (1971)
"Speak To The Sky" / "Get Out of My Life" (1972)
"Jump Down Turn Around (Pick a Bale of Cotton)" / "Lost John Blues" (1973 - Australia only release)
"Who's Gonna Play this Old Piano" / "South" (1973) (with Kenny Ball's Jazzmen)
"Lost John" / "Jenny's Ball" (1976)
"I've Lost my Little Willie" / "Censored" (1976)
"Rock Island Line" / "Ham 'N' Eggs" (1978)
"Puttin' On the Style" / "Drop Down Baby" (1978)
"Donegan's Dancing Sunshine Band" / "Leaving Blues" (1987) (with Monty Sunshine)
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Re: Lonnie Donegan

My dad used to have a skiffle group in the late 50's. He played harmonica and guitar and sang with the others who all played instuments even a wash board and Lonnie was their hero. Lonnie covered most of Woody Guthries songs,still ace though.

Re: Lonnie Donegan

As you will see from Galtys post the man was a grafter, he was working right up to the time he died, he was good at his trade (Unlike so many modern musicians) and he could act a bit too ('tho he never did much acting) in my youth he offered good music without the patronising, loutish, foul mouthed antics of the current mob, keep singing and playing those songs up there Lonnie.

Re: Lonnie Donegan

Yeh I agree there Losos, There was many a party at our house where I grew up with my dad playing his guitar and harmonica while another used my mums washing board and thimbles all singing songs of Lonnies or as dad called him "Donnie Lonegan". Btw did you know Lonnie wrote Nights In White Satin for the Moodyblues? What a talent!

Re: Lonnie Donegan

No I didn't know that - thank you - I know he wrote a good few of that long list Galty posted.

As you rightly said - What a talent.