Ted Heath discography

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. as 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 30's

• 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 20's (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	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

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"