Tommy Steele discography

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Tommy Steele discography
Studio albums9
Compilation albums16
EPs9
Singles33
Soundtrack albums5
Cast recording albums8

This is the discography of English rock and roll singer Tommy Steele, both with the Steelmen and as a solo artist.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[1]
1957 Tommy Steele Stage Show
(live album)
  • Released: March 1957
  • Label: Decca
5
1960 Get Happy with Tommy
  • Released: June 1960
  • Label: Decca
  • Live recording session at Decca Studios
1964 So This Is Broadway
  • Released: 1964
  • Label: Columbia
  • Covers of well-known musical numbers
  • Released in the US and Canada in 1965 as Everything's Coming Up Broadway!
1974 40 Favourites
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Pye
  • NB: 8 singalong medleys.
1974 My Life, My Song
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Pye
  • NB: Musical autobiography
1978 Live at the Festival
  • Released: 1978
  • Label:
    OAKS
  • NB: Recorded live at the Paignton Festival Theatre, August 1977
1979 Tommy Steele's Family Album
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Ronco
2020 Tommy Steele presents: Breakheart
  • Released: 2020
  • Label: TSL Independent
  • Online released audio recording.
2020 Tommy Steele presents: The Christmas Mystery of Muchhope
  • Released: 2020
  • Label: TSL Independent
  • Online released audio recording.
2023 Tommy Steele presents: The Magic of Christmas
  • Released: 2023
  • Label: TSL Independent
  • Online released audio recording.
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Soundtrack albums

Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[1][2]
1957 The Tommy Steele Story
  • Released: May 1957
  • Label: Decca
  • Soundtrack to the film of the same name
  • Released in the US and Canada as Rock Around the World
1
1958 The Duke Wore Jeans 1
1967 Half a Sixpence
Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire
1968 Finian's Rainbow
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Cast recording albums

Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[1]
1958 Cinderella
1963 Half a Sixpence 20
1965 Half a Sixpence
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Original Broadway cast recording from the musical of the same name
1974 Hans Andersen
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Pye
  • Original cast recording from the musical of the same name
1977 Hans Andersen
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Pye
  • Revival cast recording from musical of the same name
  • Album features a number of recordings from the 1974 version
1984 Singin' in the Rain
1992 Some Like It Hot
2007 Scrooge
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released

Compilation albums

Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[1]
1969 The Happy World of Tommy Steele
  • Released: August 1969
  • Label: Decca
1971 The World of Tommy Steele Vol. 2
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Decca
1977 Focus on Tommy Steele
  • Released: February 1977
  • Label: Decca
1979 Tommy Steele's Family Album
  • Released: October 1979
  • Label: Ronco
1983 20 Greatest Hits
  • Released: August 1983
  • Label: Spot
1987 The Rock 'n' Roll Years
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: See for Miles
  • Credited to Tommy Steele and the Steelmen
1992 The EP Collection
  • Released: May 1992
  • Label: See for Miles
1999 The Decca Years 1956–1963
  • Released: May 1999
  • Label: Decca
2000 The Best of Tommy Steele
2005 Rock with the Caveman
  • Released: June 2005
  • Label: Spectrum Music
2009 The Very Best of Tommy Steele 22
2010 The Collection
  • Released: 4 January 2010
  • Label: Eagle
2015 The Very Best Of Tommy Steele
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: One Day Music
  • 3xCD box set
2017 Three Classic Albums Plus Singles and EP Tracks
  • Released: March 2017
  • Label: Real Gone Music
  • 4xCD box set
The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
  • Released: June 2017
  • Label: Big3
2021 Tommy Steele: Hits and Rarities
  • Released: April 2021
  • Label: Acrobat
  • 3xCD box set (live and rare material)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released

EPs

Year Title[A] Details Peak chart

positions

UK
[3]
With the Steelmen
1957 Singing the Blues
  • Released: February 1957
  • Label: Decca
Young Love
  • Released: August 1957
  • Label: Decca
The Tommy Steele Story No. 1
  • Released: September 1957
  • Label: Decca
The Tommy Steele Story No. 2
  • Released: October 1957
  • Label: Decca
1958 Tommy Steele In "The Duke Wore Jeans"
Solo
1958 Tommy Steele
  • Released: November 1958
  • Label: Decca
1959 Tommy
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Decca
Tommy the Toreador 4
1960 What a Mouth!
  • Released: 1960
  • Label: Decca
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
AUS
With the Steelmen
1956 "Rock with the Caveman"
b/w "Rock Around the Town"
13 Tommy Steele Stage Show
"Doomsday Rock
b/w "Elevator Rock"
The Tommy Steele Story
"Singing the Blues"
b/w "Rebel Rock"
1 Non-album singles
1957 "Knee Deep in the Blues"
b/w "Teenage Party"
15
"Butterfingers"
b/w "Cannibal Pot"
8 The Tommy Steele Story
"Shiralee"
b/w "Grandad's Rock"
11 Non-album single[B]
"Water, Water"
b/w "A Handful of Songs"
5 The Tommy Steele Story
"Hey You!"
b/w "Plant a Kiss"
28 Non-album single
1958 "Happy Guitar"
b/w "Princess"
20 The Duke Wore Jeans
"Nairobi"
b/w "Neon Sign"
3 Non-album singles
"The Only Man on the Island" [C]
b/w "I Puts the Lightie On"
16
92
Solo
1958 "It's All Happening"
b/w "What Do You Do"
The Duke Wore Jeans
"Come On, Let's Go"
b/w "Put a Ring on Her Finger"
10 53 Non-album single
"A Lonely Night"
b/w "Marriage Type Love"
Cinderella
1959 "Hiawatha"
b/w "The Trial"
Non-album singles
"Tallahassee Lassie"
b/w "Give! Give! Give!"
16
28
"You Were Mine"
b/w "Young Ideas"
"Little White Bull"
b/w "Singing Time"
6 20 Tommy the Toreador (EP)
1960 "What a Mouth (What a North and South)"
b/w "Kookaburra"
5 3 Get Happy with Tommy Steele
"Happy-Go-Lucky Blues"
b/w "(The Girl with The) Long Black Hair"

[D]
94 Non-album singles
"Must Be Santa"
b/w "Boys and Girls"
40
1961 "My Big Best Shoes"
b/w "The Dit Dit Song"
"The Writing on the Wall"
b/w "Drunken Guitar"
30
1962 "Hit Record"
b/w "What a Little Darlin'"
"Butter Wouldn't Melt in Your Mouth"
b/w "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
"He's Got Love"
b/w "Green Love"
1963 "Flash, Bang, Wallop!"
b/w "She's Too Far Above Me"
Half a Sixpence (OCR)
"The Dream Maker"
b/w "Egg and Chips"
Non-album single[E]
1967 "Fortuosity"
b/w "I'm a Brass Band"
Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire
1968 "Half a Sixpence"
b/w "If the Rain's Got to Fall"
Half a Sixpence (OST)
1974 "The King's New Clothes"
b/w "Wonderful Copenhagen"
Hans Andersen
1984 "Singin' in the Rain"
b/w "You Are My Lucky Star"
Singin' in the Rain
1991 "Some Like It Hot"
b/w "It's Always Love"
Some Like It Hot
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.

Notes

  1. ^ This is a list of EPs released in the UK. Various other EPs were released elsewhere. Note also that the UK EP chart did not start until 1960.
  2. ^ From the film The Shiralee.
  3. ^ Released after Steele's first solo single "It's All Happening".
  4. ^ "Happy-Go-Lucky Blues" did not chart on the Record Retailer chart, but did reach number 27 on the NME chart
  5. ^ From the film It's All Happening.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "TOMMY STEELE | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. ^ "SOUND TRACK | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  3. ^ "everyHit.com - UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". www.everyhit.com. Retrieved 23 April 2021.