Ted Heath discography

This is a discography for British bandleader Ted Heath.

Discography[]

Albums[]

Al Jolson Classics/Hits I missed

CD Vocalion CDLK 4168

All Time Top 8 (incl. in All Time top 12)

Lo MPL 1011

All Time Top Twelve

De LK 4208
De SKL 4054
MOIR 126
Lo PS117
Lo LL1716

All Time Top Twelve/Shall We Dance

CD Vocalion CD4115

A Salute to Glenn Miller

De PFS 4259
Lo SP44186
CD Polygram 3145204436 - 2

At Carnegie Hall

De LK 4165
MOIR 132
Lo LL1566
CD Limelight 820 950-2 (see also "First American Tour")

At Carnegie Hall/First American Tour

CD Limelight 820950-2

At The London Palladium/100th Palladium Concert

CD Vocalion CDLK 4153

At the London Palladium vol. 3/Final Swing Session

CD Vocalion CDLK 4203

A Yank in Europe

De LK 4191
Ldn LL1676
CD Vocalion CDLK 4143 (see also "Ted Heath recalls The Fabulous Dorseys")

Between the Devil and the deep blue sea (Lita Roza singles)

CD Vocalion CDLK 4189

Beatles, Bach and Bacharach

De PFS 4210
Lo SP44148

Big and Rich

Pickwick SPC 3197

Big Band Bash

De PFM 4018
De PFS 4018
Lo SP44017
CD Collectors Choice CCM 085-2 (see also "Big Band Percussion")

Big Band Bash

CD Lo 820595–2
This CD contains the LP "Big Band Bash" and the first six tracks of "Satin Saxes and Bouncing Brass"

Big Band Bash/Big Band Percussion

CD Collectors Choice CCM 085-2

Big Band Beat (same as Strike up the Band)

Richmond B 20034

Big Band Blues (also The World of Big Band Blues)

De LK 4324
De SKL 4074
De SPA 244
Lo LL3125
CD Vocalion CDLK 4155 (see also "Big Band Dixie Sound")

Big Band Dixie Sound/Big Band Blues

CD Vocalion CDLK 4155

Big Band Dixie Sound

De LK 4328
De SKL 4076
Lo LL3138
Lo PS 184
CD Vocalion CDLK 4155 (see also "Big Band Blues")

Big Band Gershwin (Gershwin for Moderns)

Richmond B22096

Big Band Percussion

PFM 24004
De PFS24004
De PFS 34004
Lo SP 44002
Lo SP 54002
CD Collectors Choice CCM 085-2 (see also "Big Band Bash)

Big Band Percussion

CD Lo 820593–2
This CD contains the LP "Big Band Percussion" and the last six tracks of " Satin Saxes and Bouncing Brass

Big Band Spirituals

De LK 4588
De PFS 4031
Lo SP44036
Lo LL325
Lo LL332
CD Vocalion CDLK 4228 (see "Pow)

Big Band Themes Remembered vol. 1

De PFS 4303
Lo SP44177

Big Band Themes Remembered vol. 2

De PFS 4304
Lo SP44178

Big Band World of Ted Heath compilation

De SPA 54

Chartbusters (Fever)

Lo SP44074

Coast to Coast

De LK 4619
De PFS 4049
Lo SP 44284
CD Lo 820355 - 2

Dancing Time 1959 radio

Golden Era 15032

Decca Singles & Rarites vol. 1

CD Vocalion CDLK 4251

Decca Singles & Rarites vol. 2

CD Vocalion CDLK 4276

Decca Singles & Rarites vol. 3

CD Vocalion CDLK 4321

Euphoria compilation

CD Jas JASMCD2567

Farewell Concert (see "The Farewell Concert") First American Tour and Carnegie Hall

CD Vocalion CDLK 4248

Fever (Chartbusters)

De LK 4773
De PFS 4082
CD London 820180-2
CD Vocalion CDLK 4209 (see also "The Sound of Music)

Fever/Sound of Music

CD Vocalion CDLK 4209

First American Tour

De LK 4167
Lo LL1564
CD Limelight 820 590-2 (see also "At Carnegie Hall")

Focus on Ted Heath compilation

De F0S 29/30

From Moira with love compilation

HorNel. SIV 106
CD HorNel CDSIV 6106

Georgia Brown & Ted Heath: A little of what you fancy

LK 4411
De SKL 4143
Eclipse 2011
CD Vocalion CDLK 4164 (see also "Will ye no come back again")

Georgia Brown/Lydia MacDonald

CD Vocalion CDLK 4164

Gershwin for Moderns (a.k.a. George Gershwin)

De LK 4098
De TAB 76
De ACL 1071
Lo LL1217
Richmond B20096
CD Vocalion CDLK4110 (see also "Rodgers for Moderns)

Gershwin for Moderns/Rogers for Moderns

CD Vocalion CDLK4110

Get with the Swing various

CD President PLCD 568

Goes Latin/West Side Story & Other Great Broadway Hits

CD Vocalion CDLK 4141

Golden Age of Ted Heath see The Golden Age Great Film Hits ( see also "The Great Film Hits/Pop Hits from the classics

De LK 4307
De SKL 4055
ACL 1157
Lo LL3106
Lo PS 159
CD Vocalion CDLK 4170 (see also Pop Hits from the Classics")

Headin' North Hit Singles

CD Memoir CDMOIR.505

Heath vs Ros

De LK 4590
De PFS 4033
MOIR 134
Lo SP44038
CD Vocalion CDLK 4123

Heath vs Ros Round 2

De LK 4834
De PFS 4111
MOIR 134
Lo SP 44089
CD CD Vocalion CDLK 4123

The above two albums are available as an LP double album "Swing Meets Latin"

Decca DS 3210/1 - 2
CD CD Vocalion CDLK 4123

Hits I Missed

De LK 4275
De SKL 4003
JASM 2201
King SLC 6 ( Japan )
Lo LL3057
Lo PS 116
CD Vocalion CDLK 4168 (see also "Ted Heath plays Al Jolson Classics)

Instruments of the Dance Orchestra see "The Instruments of the Dance Orchestra" Its Swingtime (Forties broadcasts) broadcast

Magic DAWE 8

Kern For Moderns (Big Band Kern)

De LK 4121
JASM 2022
Lo LL1279
Richmond B20097
CD Vocalion CDLK 4151 (see also Showcase")

Latino (selection from Edmundo Ros above) compilation

De TAB 64

Latin Swingers (Ted Heath goes Latin) Listen to my Music various

CD Empress RAJCD 87

Listen to my Music: 10in

De LF 1060
Lo LPB511
CD Vocalion CDLK4216 (see also "Listen to my Music etc")

Listen to my Music 12 in various 1959-60

De TAB 49

Listen to my Music (vol 1) various

CD Hep CD 52

Listen to my Music vol. 2 various

CD Hep CD 57

Listen to my Music vol. 3 various

CD Hep CD 61

Listen to my Music vol 4 various

CD Hep CD 69

Listen to my Music/Ted Heath selection/Swings in Hi-Fi

CD Vocalion CDLK 4216

Max Bygraves & Ted Heath: Hits of the 30s

De LK 4360
De SKL 4106
WRC LZ8264
Lo LL3192
CD Vocalion CDLK 4224 (see Max Bygraves & Ted Heath: Hits of the Twenties)

Max Bygraves & Ted Heath: Hits of the 20s (Max Sings whiles Ted Swings)

De LK 4317
Lo LL3128
De SKL 4086
TC PLE506 (tape)
CD Vocalion CDLK 4224

More Lost Treasures 4CDs

CD Avid AVHN 103

My very good friends the Bandleaders

De LK 4344
De SKL 4090
MOIR 214
Lo LL3127
Lo PS174
CD Vocalion CDLK 4139 (see "Swings in Hi-Stereo")

New Palladium Performances (Palladium Revisited)

Lo LL3367
Lo SP44046

Nice one, Ted compilation

Memoir CDMOIR 565

Olde Englyshe

De LK 4280
JAS 2200
Lo LL3058
CD Vocalion CDLK 4106 (see also The Instruments of The Dance Orchestra)

Our Kind of Jazz (Things to come)

De LK 4262
CD Vocalion CDLK 4130 (see also "Spotlight on the sidemen")

Our Kind of Jazz/Spotlight on the Sidemen")

CD Vocalion CDLK 4130

Palladium: Revisited (New Palladium Performances)

De LK 4607
De PFS 4046
Lo LL3367
Lo SP44046
CD Vocalion CDLK 4149 (see also "Swing Session"

Palladium: Ted Heath at the London Palladium (89th)

De LK 4062
De SKL 4030
ACL 1110
Eclipse ECM/ECS 2164
JASM 2005
Lo LL802
CD Vocalion CDLK 4153 (see "100th Palladium Concert")

Palladium: Ted Heath at the London Palladium vol. 3

De LK 4097
JASM2021
Lo LL1211
CD Vocalion CDLK 4203 (see "Ted Heath at the London Palladium" vol. 4,)

Palladium: Ted Heath's 100th Palladium Concert

De LK 4075
Eclipse ECS 2091
De ACS 2091
Lo LL1000
CD Vocalion CDLK 4153 (see "At the London Palladium, 89th")

Palladium: Ted Heath at the London Palladium vol. 4

De LK 4134
Lo LL1379

Play it again Ted compilation

CD Memoir CDMOIR 524

Platinum Collection - see The Platinum Collection Pop Hits from the Classics

De LK 4315
De SKI, 4066
Lo PS171
Lo LL3124
POW 07/66
De LK 4775
De PFS 4099
Lo SP44079
CD Vocalion CDLK4170 (see The Great Film Hits)

Pow

Lo SP44079
De LK 4475
DE PFS 4099

Pow/Big Band Spirituals

CD Vocalion CDLK 4228

Rhapsody in Blue: (Winifred Atwell plays Gershwin)

De LK 4214
Ace of Clubs ACL1026
CD Vocalion CDLK 4177 (see Winifred Atwell "Hall of fame")

Rodgers for Modems (Richard Rodgers Hits, Big Band Rogers)

De LK 4148
ACL 1063
JASM 2025
Lo LL1500
Richmond B 20098
CD Vocalion CDLK 4110 (see also "Gershwin for Moderns)

Salutes Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman

CD Vocalion CDLK 4309

Satin Saxes & Bouncing Brass (Satin Strings & Bouncing Brass)

De PFS 4023
Lo SP44023
CD Vocalion CDLK 4244 (See The Big Ones)

Sentimental Journey

Philips (Spanish) 811004-1

Shall We Dance (same as Big and Rich)

De LK 4299
De SKL 4 046
JAS 2201
Lo PS148
Lo LL3062
CD Vocalion CDLK 4115 (see also "All Time Top 12")

Showcase

De LK 4210
De SKL 4046
Lo LL1737
CD Vocalion CDLK 4151 (see also "Kern for Moderns")

Smooth 'n Swinging

De TAB 33

Strictly Instrumental

De DVL 8

Strike Up The Band (see Ted Heath Big Band) singles

De LK 4064
JASM 2006
Lo LL750
Everest FS 5251
CD Vocalion CDLK 4124 (see "Ted Heath Fats Waller Album")

Strike up the Band/Fats Waller Album

CD Vocalion CDLK4124

Sweet and Lovely

PGNCD 849

Swing is King vol.1

De LK 4911
De PFS 4135
De DGS 6
Lo SP44014
Richmond B20034

Swing is King

Teldec DS3198/1-2 (2 volume set)
CD Limelight 820594-2

Swing is King vol. 2

De PFS 4146
De SKL 16853P
De DGS 20
Lo SP44113

Swing meets Latin (2 volume set) (see Ted Heath meets Edmundo Ros)

De DCS 3210/ 1 - 2

Swing Session: New master of 89th Palladium Concert

De SKL 4030
JAS 2205
London PS138
CD Vocalion 4149 (see also "Palladium Revisited)

Swing Session/Palladium Revisited

CD Vocalion CDLK 4149

Swing Spectacular (Readers Digest compilation)

Details Unknown

Swings in Hi-stereo/My very good friends the bandleaders

CD Vocalion CDLK 4139

Ted Heath 1935–1945 compilation

CD Emp RAJCD 868

Ted Heath and his Music: promotional issue in USA compilation

Lo RAD 2

Ted Heath and his Music broadcast

CD Sound Waves SWNCD 015

Ted Heath at the BBC

BBC REH 483

Ted Heath and Edmundo Ros

CD Vocalion CDLK4123
(This is a combination of "Swing v Latin", "Swing v Latin Round. 2)

Ted Heath and Friends (selection of singles)

CD Vocalion CDLK 4198

Ted Heath at Kingsway Hall: see Swing Session Ted Heath Big Band (similar to Strike up the Band)

Everest FS 251

Ted Heath Collection 3/52

tape: De LF1064
same as Untitled 10" LP

Ted Heath goes Latin 05/61

De LK 4389
De SKL 4130
Lo LL3195
Lo PS219
CD Vocalion CDLK 4141 (see also "West Side Story)

Ted Heath in Concert (Beaulieu Jazz Festival)

De LK 4331
De SKL 4079
De PFS4408
Lo LL3143
Lo PS187
CD Vocalion CDLK 4180 (see also "Ted Heath 21st Anniversary Concert")

Ted Heath: Spotlight on the Sidemen

De LK 4204
JASM 2026
Eclipse ECM/ECS 2004
Lo LL1721
CD Vocalion CDLK 4130 (see also "Our kind of jazz")

Ted Heath plays Al Jolson Classics

De LK 4227
ACL 1150
MOIR 215
Lo LL1776
CD Vocalion CDLK 4168 (see also "Hits I missed)

Ted Heath Recalls the Fabulous Dorseys

De LK 4224
Eclipse ECS 2004
JASM 2027
Lo LL1743
CD Vocalion CDLK 4143 (see also "A Yank in Europe )

Ted Heath Salutes the Duke

De PFS 4328
Lo SP44220

Ted Heath's Fats Waller Album

De LK4074
JASM 2007
Lo LL978
Richmond B20082
CD Vocalion CDLK 4124 (see "Strike up the Band")

Ted Heath Swings in Hi-Fi

Lo LL1475
Lo PS138
CD Vocalion CDLK 4216 (see also "Listen to my Music etc")

Ted Heath Swings in Hi-Stereo

De SKL 4023
JAS 2202
Lo PS140
Lo LL1479
CD Vocalion CDLK 4139 (see ""My very good friends the bandleaders")

Ted Heath 21st Anniversary Album

De LK 4903
De SKL 4903
Lo PS535
CD Vocalion CDLK 4180 (see also "Ted Heath in Concert: Beaulieu Jazz Festival")

Tempo for Dancers 10 in

De LF 1037
Lo LPB340

Thanks for the memory singles

President PLE529
CD President PLCD529

That lovely weekend compilation

De RFL 32

The Beginning

De DDV 5015/6

The Best of Ted Heath (4 vol. set:Readers Digest) compilation

GTED/4A

The Best of Ted Heath compilation

CD Spectrum 544169-2

The Big Band sound of Ted Heath (under Don Lusher)

Intersound ISST131

The Big Band World of Ted Heath compilation

DE SPA 54

The Big Ones

De PFS 4182
Lo SP 44140
Vocalion CDLK 4244 (see Satin Saxes & Bouncing Brass)

The Essential Collection 4CDs

Pulse PBXCD 460/1-4

The Farewell Concert

Avid/Nelson AVHN 100

The Golden Age vol 1 compilation

HorNel SIV102
CD HorNel CDSIV 6102

The Golden Age vol 2 compilation

HorNel SIV121
CD HorNel CDSIV 6121

The Golden Age vol 3 compilation

HorNel SIV1135
CD HorNel CDSIV 6135

The Golden Age vol 4 compilation

HorNel SIV1137
CD HorNel CDSIV 6137

The Great American Songbook

CD Vocalion CDLK 4145

The Great Film Hits/Pop Hits from the Classics

CD Vocalion CDLK 4170

The Instruments of the Dance Orchestra 10/60

De LK 4374
De SKL 4117
Lo LL3196
Lo PS 220
CD Voc CDLK4106 (see also "Olde Eglyshe")

The Legendary Big Bands–Ted Heath various

Pulse PLSCD 423

The Lost Treasures Of Ted Heath 4 vol. CD various

Avid HNCD 4444

The Phase 4 World of Ted Heath 9 compilation

De SPA 54

The Platinum Collection

PC638

The Sound of Music

De LK 4667
De PFS 4065
Lo SP44063
CD Vocalion CDLK 4209 (see also "Fever")

The Ted Heath Band in Concert

De PFS 4408
De KPFC 4408

The Ted Heath Band Salutes Benny Goodman

De PFS 4357
Lo SP44227
Lo SP544277

The Ted Heath Band Salutes Tommy Dorsey

De PFS 4346
Lo SP44228

The Ted Heath Years with Lita Roza, Dennis Lotis

De SPA 497
De DPA 3077/78

The Very Best of Ted Heath (Ted Heath Band) vol. 1

CD HorNel CDSIV 6150
CD Crimson CRIMCD 155

The World of Big Band Blues see Big Band Blues The Years of Fame

De DPA 3077/8

Things to come (Our Kind of Jazz)

Lo LL3047

Those were the Days

De PFS 4229
Lo SP44164

Transcriptions 1 radio

Echo Jazz EJLP 06
CD Echo EJCD 06

Transcriptions 2 radio

Echo Jazz EJLP 20
CD Echo Jazz EJCD20

Turn on the Heath CD Memoir CDMOIR 532 Selection (untitled) 10 in (Blue Skies etc.) 03/52

De LF 1064
Lo LPB374
CD Vocalion CDLK 4216 (see also "Listen to my Music etc")

West Side Story and other Great Broadway Hits

De LK 4419
De SKL 4151
CD Vocalion CDLK 4141 (see also Ted Heath Goes Latin

Will ye no come back again (Lydia MacDonald w Ted Heath)

De LK 4272
Lo LL3040
CD Vocalion CDLK 4164 (see also "Georgia Brown")

Winifred Atwell: Hall of Fame/Rhapsody in blue

CD Vocalion CDLK 4177

World of Big Band Blues see Big Band Blues You've gone to my head

CD Jasmine JASMCD2575

Big Band Bash

CD Lo 820595–2
This CD contains the LP "Big Band Bash" and the first six tracks of " Satin Saxes and Bouncing Brass"
Big Band Percussion (February 1962) - Decca PFM 24004 - UK #17 (his only UK charting album)
- CD Lo 820593–2; This CD contained Big Band Percussion and the last six tracks of Satin Saxes and Bouncing Brass

Singles[]

Year	Title	UK Singles Chart^[1]	Label
1953	"Vanessa"	#11	Decca
1953	"Hot Toddy"	#6	Decca
1953	"Dragnet"	#9	Decca
1954	"Skin Deep"	#9	Decca
1956	"The Faithful Hussar"	#18	Decca
1958	"Swingin' Shepherd Blues"	#3	Decca
1958	"Tequila"	#21	Decca
1958	"Tom Hark"	#24	Decca
1961	"Sucu Sucu"	#36	Decca

References[]

^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 248. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

Sources[]

Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley, Jazz: The Rough Guide 2nd edition. ISBN 1-85828-528-3
Moira Heath, I Haven't Said Thanks: The Story of Ted and Moira Heath ISBN 978-0-9534729-0-1
Colin Larkin, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music ISBN 0-85112-721-5
Music Master Albums Record Catalog ISBN 0-904520-65-X
Joseph Murrells, The Book of Golden Discs ISBN 0-214-20032-9
The Ted Heath Music Appreciation Society
Max Gray "themusicoftedheath.co.uk"

[British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums-1] Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 248. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

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