Marty Wilde discography

Marty Wilde discography
Studio albums10
EPs8
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums3
Compilation albums22
Singles56
Video albums1
Cast recording albums4

This article is the discography of English rock and roll singer Marty Wilde, including releases with the Wildcats, as part of the Wilde Three (with Joyce Wilde and Justin Hayward) and under various pseudonyms.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[1]
1959 Wilde About Marty
  • Released: August 1959
  • Label: Philips
  • Released in the US in 1960 by Epic as Bad Boy, with the inclusion of "Bad Boy" for "Mean Woman Blues"
 —
1960 Versatile Mr. Wilde
  • Released: August 1960
  • Label: Philips
  • Released in the US and Canada in 1961 by Epic as Wilde About Marty
 —
1969 Diversions
  • Released: May 1969
  • Label: Philips
 —
1970 Rock 'n' Roll
  • Released: November 1970
  • Label: Philips
 —
1976 Born to Rock 'n' Roll
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Big M
  • Re-recorded tracks
 —
1994 Solid Gold
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Select
 —
1996 It's Been Nice
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Select
  • Re-recorded tracks
 —
2010 Wilde on Track
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: –
 —
2017 Songs for Your Children and Grandchildren
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: –
 —
2020 Running Together
  • Released: 2 October 2020
  • Label: Pushka
 75
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Year Title Details
2004 Live
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: –
2010 Marty Wilde and Star Guests Live at the London Palladium
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: –
2019 Solid Gold Tour 2019
  • Released: 2019
  • Label: –
  • Mini-album

Soundtrack albums

Year Title Details
1964 What a Crazy World

Cast recording albums

Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[2]
1961 Bye Bye Birdie 17
1967 Dr. Doolittle —
1968 Half a Sixpence —
1970 Paint Your Wagon —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[1]
1960 Marty Wilde Showcase
  • Released: June 1960
  • Label: Philips
 —
1969 Wilde About Marty
  • Released: August 1969
  • Label: Fontana
 —
1974 Good Rockin' – Then and Now
  • Released: July 1974
  • Label: Philips
 —
1980 The Wildcat Rocker
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Jan
  • Sweden-only release
 —
1984 The Hits of Marty Wilde
  • Released: November 1984
  • Label: Philips
 —
1991 Marty Wilde's Frantic Fifties
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Philips
 —
1993 Teenager in Love —
1995 The Best of Marty Wilde
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Spectrum Music
 —
2007 The Greatest Hits – Born to Rock n' Roll
  • Released: 5 March 2007
  • Label: See for Miles
 19
2009 Endless Sleep
  • Released: 2009
  • Label: Weton
 —
2010 The Full Marty
  • Released: April 2010
  • Label: Spectrum Music
 —
Bad Boy
  • Released: December 2010
  • Label: Delta
 —
2011 Bad Boy —
2015 Rock! Rock! Rock'n'Roll! —
The Very Best of Marty Wilde
  • Released: October 2015
  • Label: One Day Music
 —
2016 Four Classic Albums Plus Singles
  • Released: 18 April 2016
  • Label: Real Gone Music
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2017 Walk on the Wild Side – The Singles Collection 1957–1962
  • Released: 24 February 2017
  • Label: Jasmine
 —
2018 The Essential Recordings
  • Released: 29 June 2018
  • Label: Primo
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Abergavenny: The Philips Pop Years 1966–1971
  • Released: 6 July 2018
  • Label: Teensville
  • Australia-only release
 —
2019 Three Classic Albums Plus...
  • Released: 25 March 2019
  • Label: Avid
 —
Dreamboats and Petticoats Presents the Very Best of Marty Wilde 7
A Lifetime in Music 1957–2019 – His Highlights and Rarities
  • Released: 7 June 2019
  • Label: RPM
 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory

Video albums

Year Title Details
2007 Born to Rock

EPs

Year Title[A] Details
1958 Presenting Marty Wilde
  • Released: March 1958
  • Label: Philips
  • With the Wildcats
More of Marty
  • Released: September 1958
  • Label: Philips
  • With the Wildcats
1959 Sea of Love
  • Released: December 1959
  • Label: Philips
1960 The Versatile Mr Wilde
  • Released: October 1960
  • Label: Philips
1961 Marty Wilde Favourites
  • Released: March 1961
  • Label: Philips
1962 Come Running
  • Released: February 1962
  • Label: Philips
1963 Marty
  • Released: February 1963
  • Label: Philips
1978 Marty Wilde
  • Released: September 1978
  • Label: EMI

Singles

Year Title Peak chart positions Label
UK
[1] 		AUS NL
[3] 		US
[4]
1957 "Honeycomb" (with the Wildcats)
b/w "Wild Cat" 		— — — — Philips
1958 "Love Bug Crawl" (with the Wildcats)
b/w "Afraid of Love" 		— — — —
"Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again" (with the Wildcats)
b/w "Sing, Boy, Sing" 		— — — —
"Endless Sleep" (with the Wildcats)
b/w "Her Hair Was Yellow" 		4 — — —
"My Lucky Love" (with the Wildcats)
b/w "Misery's Child" 		— — — —
"No One Knows"
b/w "The Fire of Love" 		— — — —
1959 "Donna"
b/w " Love-A Love-A Love-A" 		3 — — —
"A Teenager in Love"
b/w "Danny" 		2 — — —
"Sea of Love"
b/w "Teenage Tears" 		3 — — —
"Bad Boy"
b/w It’s Been Nice" (UK) / "Teenage Tears" (US) 		7 41 — 45
1960 "Johnny Rocco"
b/w "My Heart and I" 		30 — — — Philips
"The Fight"
b/w "Johnny at the Crossroads" 		47 — — —
"Little Girl"
b/w "Your Seventeenth Spring" 		16 — — —
"I Wanna Be Loved by You"
b/w "Angry" 		—
[B] 		— — —
"My Baby Is Gone (Stop This World)" (US and Canada-only release)
b/w "Angry" 		— — — — Epic
"Amapola" (US promo-only release)
b/w "Autumn Leaves" 		— — — —
1961 "Rubber Ball"
b/w "Like Makin' Love" 		9 — — — Philips
"When Does It Get to Be Love"
b/w "Your Loving Touch" 		— — — —
"Hide and Seek"
b/w "Crazy Dream" 		47 — — —
"Tomorrow’s Clown"
b/w "The Hellions" 		33 — — —
1962 "Come Running"
b/w "Ev'ryone" 		— — — —
"Jezebel"
b/w "Don’t Run Away" 		19 — — —
"Ever Since You Said Goodbye"
b/w "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" 		31 — — —
1963 "Lonely Avenue"
b/w "Brand New Love" 		— — — — Columbia
"No! Dance with Me"
b/w "Little Miss Happiness" 		— — — — Philips
"Bless My Broken Heart"
b/w "Save Your Love for Me" 		— — — — Columbia
1964 "When Day Is Done"
b/w "I Can't Help the Way That I Feel" 		— — — —
"Kiss Me" (with the Wild Cats)
b/w "My, What a Woman" 		— — — —
"The Mexican Boy"
b/w "Your Kind of Love" 		— — — — Decca
1965 "Since You’ve Gone" (as part of the Wilde Three)
b/w "Just as Long" 		— — — —
"I Cried" (as part of the Wilde Three)
b/w "Well Who’s That" 		— — — —
1966 "I've Got So Used to Loving You"
b/w "The Beginning of the End" 		— — — — Philips
1968 "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
b/w "Shutters and Boards" 		56[C] — — —
"Abergavenny" (released in the US and Canada under the pseudonym Shannon)
b/w "Alice in Blue" 		— 8 6[D] 47
"The World Stood Up" (France-only release)
b/w "In the Night" 		— — — —
1969 "All the Love I Have"
b/w "Any Day" 		— — — —
"Shelley"
b/w "Jump on the Train" 		— — — —
"Jesamine" (as Shannon; US-only release)
b/w "Lullaby" 		— — — — Heritage
"Mean Woman Blues" (France-only release)
b/w "So Glad You’re Mine" 		— — — — Philips
1970 "No Trams to Lime Street"
b/w "A Prelude to Old Age" 		— — — —
1971 "The Busker"
b/w "It’s So Unreal" 		— — — —
1972 "When You Wish Upon a Star" (as Scrumpy 'n' Dumpy)
b/w "The Scrumpy 'n' Dumpy Boogaloo" 		— — — — Famous
1973 "Caterpillar" (as Cold Fly)
b/w "Yesterday Started for Judy" 		— — — — Bus Stop
"Rock and Roll Crazy" (as Zappo)
b/w "Right On!" 		— — — — Magnet
"20 Fantastic Bands" (as the Dazzling All Night Rock Show)
b/w "20 Fantastic Bands (Continued)" 		— — — —
1974 "The Shang-a-Lang Song" (as Ruby Pearl and the Dreamboats)
b/w "Will You Stop That!" 		— — — —
"All Night Girl"
b/w "She's a Mover" 		— — — —
"I Love You"
b/w "She's a Mover" 		— — — —
1975 "Come Back & Love Me" (as Shannon)
b/w "She’s a High Flyer" 		— — — —
1982 "In Dreams"
b/w " Hard to Find, Easy to Lose" 		— — — — Kaleidoscope
"Sea of Heartbreak"
b/w " Don't Wanna Be the Ond" 		— — — —
1991 "Sea of Love" (by Phil Phillips & the Twilights)
b/w "Sea of Love" (by Marty Wilde) 		100 — — — Mercury
2007 "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (featuring Kim Wilde; promo-only release) — — — — Universal Music TV
2020 "Running Together" (featuring Kim Wilde) — — — — Pushka
"60's World" — — — —
"Christmas Fantasia" (with Roxanne Rizzo Wilde & Kim Wilde)
b/w "Christmas All Over the World" 		— — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory

Notes

  1. ^ This is a list of EPs released in the UK. Various other EPs were released elsewhere.
  2. ^ "I Wanna Be Loved" did not chart on the Record Retailer chart, but the B-side, "Angry" did reach #25 on the NME chart.
  3. ^ Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".
  4. ^ "Abergavenny" was also successful in Belgium, peaking at number 6 on the Flanders chart and number 16 on the Wallonia chart.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Marty Wilde | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  2. ^ "bye bye birdie | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1994). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1993. Record Research. pp. 536, 646. ISBN 9780898201048.
  5. ^ "Marty Wilde - Abergavenny". ultratop.be. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Marty Wilde - Abergavenny". ultratop.be. Retrieved 7 May 2021.