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==Discography== === Studio albums === *''[[Lonnie Donegan Showcase]]'' (December 1956) β [[UK Albums Chart|UK]] # 2; [[UK Singles Chart|UK]] No. 26 β‘ **"[[Wabash Cannonball]]" / "[[How Long, How Long Blues]]" / "[[Nobody's Child (Hank Snow song)|Nobody's Child]]" / "[[I Shall Not Be Moved]]" / "[[I'm Alabama Bound|I'm Alabamy Bound]]" / "I'm a Rambling Man" / "[[Wreck of the Old 97]]" / "[[Frankie and Johnny (song)|Frankie and Johnny]]" *''Lonnie'' (November 1957) β UK No 3 *''Lonnie Rides Again'' (May 1959) β re-released in 1960 as *''Skiffle Folk Songs'' *''Sing Hallelujah'' (December 1962) *''The Lonnie Donegan Folk Album'' (August 1965) *''Lonniepops β Lonnie Donegan Today'' (1970) *''Lonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann'' (with Leinemann, 1974) *''Country Roads'' (with Leinemann, 1976) *''Puttin' on the Style'' (February 1978) ** Including guest musicians [[Rory Gallagher]], [[Elton John]], [[Brian May]], [[Ronnie Wood]] and [[Ringo Starr]] amongst others. *''Sundown'' (May 1979) *''Muleskinner Blues'' (January 1999) ** The song "Lost John" was used to open the [[John Peel]] tribute album === Compilation albums === *''Tops with Lonnie'' (September 1958) *''More! Tops with Lonnie'' (April 1961) *''Golden Age of Donegan'' (1962) β [[UK Albums Chart|UK]] No. 3 *''Golden Age of Donegan Volume 2'' (1963) β UK No. 15 *''Putting on the Style'' (1978) β UK No. 51 *''King of Skiffle'' (1998) *''Puttin' on the Style β The Greatest Hits'' (2003) β UK No. 45<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums" /> *''This Yere de Story'' (2004) === Live albums === *''The Great Re-Union Album'' (1974) *''The Skiffle Sessions β Live in Belfast'' (2000) β UK No 14 β ** Recorded November 1998 with [[Van Morrison]], [[Chris Barber]] and others. *''The Last Tour'' (2006)<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums" /> *''Jubilee Concert 1st Half'' (2007) *''Jubilee Concert 2nd Half'' (2007) *''Lonnie Live! Rare Tapes from the Late Sixties'' (2008) *''Donegan on Stage β Lonnie Donegan at Conway Hall'' === EPs === * "Rock Island Line" / "John Henry" / "Digging My Potatoes" / "Bury My Body". 45 rpm, [[Decca Records|Decca]] 6345 (1954) β *''Skiffle Session (EP)'' (1956) β [[UK Singles Chart|UK]] No. 20 β **"Railroad Bill" / "Stockalee" / "Ballad of Jesse James" / "Ol' Riley" *''Backstairs Session (EP)'' (1956)<ref name="Harper">{{cite book|last=Harper|first= Colin |year=2006|orig-year=First published 2000|edition = 2nd revised|title= Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival|location=London|publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn= 07-4758-725-6}}</ref>{{rp|37}} β β ** "Midnight Special" / "New Burying Ground" / "It Takes a Worried Man" / "When the Sun Goes Down".<ref name="LDEPBS">{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Lonnie-Donegans-Skiffle-Group-Backstairs-Session/release/766067 |title=''Backstairs Session'' |publisher=[[Discogs]] |date=1956 |access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> *''Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)'' (1961) ===Singles=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year || A-side || B-side || [[UK Singles Chart|UK]] || [[CHUM Chart|CAN]] || [[Billboard Hot 100|US]] || Notes |- | 1955 || "[[Rock Island Line]]" || "[[John Henry (folklore)|John Henry]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|8 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|8 || style="text-align:center;"|β |- |rowspan="5"| 1956 || "Diggin' My Potatoes" || "[[Bury My Body]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "Lost John" || "[[Skewball|Stewball]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|2 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|58 || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "[[Skewball|Stewball]]" ||"Lost John"||style="text-align:center;"|27 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "Bring a Little Water, Sylvie" || "Dead or Alive" ||style="text-align:center;"|7 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "On a Christmas Day" || "Take My Hand Precious Lord" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- |rowspan="5"|1957 || "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" || "I'm Alabammy Bound" ||style="text-align:center;"|4 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "[[Cumberland Gap (folk song)|Cumberland Gap]]" || "Love Is Strange" ||style="text-align:center;"|1 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "[[Gamblin' Man]]" || "[[Puttin' On the Style]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|1 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "My Dixie Darlin'" || "I'm Just a Rolling Stone" ||style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "[[Jack of Diamonds (song)|Jack O' Diamonds]]" || "Ham 'N' Eggs" ||style="text-align:center;"|14 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- |rowspan="6"|1958 || "[[Grand Coulee Dam (song)|The Grand Coulee Dam]]" || "Nobody Loves Like an Irishman" ||style="text-align:center;"|6 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "[[Midnight Special (song)|Midnight Special]]" || "When the Sun Goes Down" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "Sally Don't You Grieve" || "Betty, Betty, Betty" ||style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "Lonesome Traveller" || "Times Are Getting Hard, Boys" ||style="text-align:center;"|28 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "Lonnie's Skiffle Party" || "Lonnie Skiffle Party Pt.2" ||style="text-align:center;"|23 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "[[Tom Dooley (song)|Tom Dooley]]" || "Rock O' My Soul" ||style="text-align:center;"|3 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- |rowspan="7"| 1959 || "[[Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)]]" || "Aunt Rhody" ||style="text-align:center;"|3 || style="text-align:center;"|20 || style="text-align:center;"|5 || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "Fort Worth Jail" || "Whoa Buck" ||style="text-align:center;"|14 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "Bewildered" || "Kevin Barry" / "It Is No Secret" / "My Laggan Love" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "[[The Battle of New Orleans]]" || "[[Darlin' Cory|Darling Corey]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|2 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "Sal's Got a Sugar Lip" || "Chesapeake Bay" ||style="text-align:center;"|13 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- || "Hold Back Tomorrow" || "Deedle-Dum-Doo-Die-Day" ||style="text-align:center;"|26 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|ΒΆ |- || "San Miguel" || "Talking Guitar Blues" ||style="text-align:center;"|19 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β‘ |- |rowspan="6"| 1960 || "[[My Old Man's a Dustman]]" || "The Golden Vanity"||style="text-align:center;"|1 || style="text-align:center;"|1 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "[[Sloop John B|I Wanna Go Home (Wreck of the 'John B')]]" || "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy" ||style="text-align:center;"|5 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "Lorelei" || "In All My Wildest Dreams" ||style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "Rockin' Alone (In An Old Rocking Chair)" || "I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail" ||style="text-align:center;"|44 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "Lively" || "Black Cat (Cross My Path Today)" ||style="text-align:center;"|13 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "Virgin Mary" || "[[Beyond the Sunset (song)|Beyond the Sunset]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|27 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="4"| 1961 || "[[Bury Me Beneath the Willow|(Bury Me) Beneath the Willow]]" || "Leave My Woman Alone" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "Have a Drink on Me" || "Seven Daffodils" ||style="text-align:center;"|8 || style="text-align:center;"|7 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "[[Michael Row the Boat Ashore|Michael, Row the Boat]]" || "Lumbered" ||style="text-align:center;"|6 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "The Comancheros" || "Ramblin' Round" ||style="text-align:center;"|14 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="4"| 1962 || "[[The Party's Over (1956 song)|The Party's Over]]" || "[[Over the Rainbow]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|9 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "[[I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Lonnie Donegan song)|I'll Never Fall in Love Again]]" || "Keep on the Sunny Side" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "[[Pick a Bale of Cotton]]" || "Steal Away" ||style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β |- || "The Market Song" || "Tit-Bits" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="4"|1963 || "Losing by a Hair" || "Trumpet Sounds" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "[[It Was a Very Good Year]]" || "Rise Up" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "[[Lemon Tree (Will Holt song)|Lemon Tree]]" || "I've Gotta Girl So Far" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "[[500 Miles|500 Miles Away From Home]]" || "[[This Train]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="2"|1964 || "Beans in My Ears" || "It's a Long Road to Travel" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "Fisherman's Luck" || "There's a Big Wheel" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="2"| 1965 || "Get Out of My Life" || "Won't You Tell Me" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "Louisiana Man" || "Bound for Zion" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- |rowspan="2"| 1966 || "World Cup Willie" || "Where in This World Are We Going?" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- || "I Wanna Go Home" || "Black Cat (Cross My Path Today)" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1967 || "Aunt Maggie's Remedy" || "(Ah) My Sweet Marie" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1968 || "Toys" || "Relax Your Mind" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1969 || "My Lovely Juanita" || "[[Who Knows Where the Time Goes?]]" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1972 || "[[Speak to the Sky]]" || "Get Out of My Life" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1973 || "[[Pick a Bale of Cotton|Jump Down Turn Around (Pick a Bale of Cotton)]]" || "Lost John Blues" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| (Australia only release) |- | 1976 || "I've Lost My Little Willie" || "Censored" ||style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"|β || style="text-align:center;"| |}<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums" /> === Billing === Most of the above [[gramophone record|records]] were accredited to Lonnie Donegan; except, as follows:<br /> β Billed as the Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group<br /> β‘ Billed as Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group<br /> ΒΆ Billed as Lonnie Donegan meets [[Miki & Griff]] with the Lonnie Donegan Group<br /> β Billed as Lonnie Donegan and his Group<br /> β Billed as Lonnie Donegan and [[Angela Morley|Wally Stott's]] Orchestra<br /> β Billed as Miki and Griff with the Lonnie Donegan Group<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | pages= 164β165}}</ref>
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