BRENDAN CROKER ALBUMS:

 

 

CENTRAL STATION HOTEL
Brendan Croker
a) Dropkick Me Jesus / Love Crazy / Rope Stretchin’ /
b) Let That Liar Pass On By / On Broadway / Furniture Man / Hard Times.
Limited private pressing (400) sold at gigs in 1985. Cover
The original version of Dropkick Me Jesus (Through the Goalpost of Life) is from Bobby Bare 


BARBER HAIR CUTS (= A CLOSE SHAVE)
Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows
Love Crazy / Chains / Brownskin Girl / Hard Times / Sober / Hobo’s Lullaby / Hawaiian Two Step / Furniture Man /
Lonesome Whistle Blues / Every Day Be Like A Holiday / Let That Liar Pass On By / Blood Done Signed My Name.

Released in Januari 1986 on the Unamerican Activities label, BRAVE1. 
Test Pressing Date 17-12-85 , Client Co15 , No Brave 1


A CLOSE SHAVE
Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows
Love Crazy / Chains / Brownskin Girl / Hard Times / Sober / Hobo’s Lullaby / Hawaiian Two Step / Furniture Man /
Lonesome Whistle Blues / Every Day Be Like A Holiday / Let That Liar Pass On By / Blood Done Signed My Name /
That’s The Way All My Money Goes(*) /Darlin’(*)
Tracks marked with (*) not on original vinyl album. Versions unavailable on other releases.
LP: Munich Records-MR 129, 1988
CD: Munich Records-MRCD 129,  Dutch import, released 1988


A CLOSE SHAVE
Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows

Love Crazy / Chains / Brownskin Girl / Hard Times / Sober / Hobo’s Lullaby / Hawaiian Two Step / Furniture Man / Lonesome Whistle Blues / Every Day Be Like A Holiday / Let That Liar Pass On By / Blood Done Signed My Name.
CD: Japanese, Village Green, Pony Canyon, PCCY-00151, 1990
(
bigger cover picture)


BOAT TRIPS IN THE BAY

Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows

Lonely Boy In Town / The Shuffle / Railroad Blues / The Polka / Last Train To Glory / Joshua Gone Barbados /
Let Me Explain / Don’t Let Nobody / Henry Thomas Deceased / Georgia Crawl/I Walk The Line / 'Darlin’.

Brendan Croker - Vocals & Guitars
Mark Creswell - Guitars
Marcus Cliffe - Fretless & Fretted basses
Davy Curry - Drums

LP: Red Rhino RED LP 77, test pressing 26 MARS 1987 (detail)
LP: Red Rhino RED LP 77, 1987
LP: Silvertone, ORE LP 510 &  NL 74571, 1987
CD: Silvertone, ORE CD 510 &  ND 74571, 1987
CD: Japanese, ALFA, ALCB-114, 25-07-1990 (cover front - back) / Munich Records, MRCD 130, 1990
Cassette: ORE C 510 &  NK 74571, 1990

Additional info:
The cover pictures are from a concrete wall somewhere in the UK.
Brendan found it very interesting because there was no water or ship at all in the neighbourhood.


Silvertone


Munich Records


ON THE BIG HILL
Music composed and arranged by Brendan Croker & Guy Fletcher
Opening Shot / Take A Short Walk / The Best Laid Plans / Some People Get Hurt / Mountain Madness / A Long Walk / Thru The Window /Across The Bridge / Try Not To Fall / Dougie’s March / The Higher Ground / Each Night You Die A Little / There Are Times... / In The Back Of Your Mind / Things Look Different / Home Dougie, Home'.
LP: Silvertone ORE LP 501, released 5th December 1988
CD: Silvertone ORE CD 501, released 5th December 1988
Look here for the movie.

"In February 1988, 36 soldiers, sailors, airman and marines set out to conquer Mount Everest by a route never successfully completed by the British.
A four-man Granada film crew joined the expedition on their Spring assault on the highest mountain in the world. They set out to document the lows as well as the highs, the misery as well the elation.
The results of their efforts tell the story of a group of people and the challenges they faced. "On the big hill" is about men climbing the mountain rather than mountain being conquered"


BRENDAN CROKER & THE 5 O’CLOCK SHADOWS
No Money At All / You Don’t Need Me Here / Shine On / This Man / Wrong Decision / That’s Why I’m Leaving Here /
All Mixed Up / This Kind Of Life / My Government / Ain’t Gonna Smile / Just An Old Waltz / Mister / Coconut Tree.
Notes: - Released 21st August 1989. Originally titled "Jukebox".
LP: Silvertone  ORE LP 505 / ZL 74218. USA & Canada, RCA Silvertone 41209-2-1 (J).
CD: Silvertone ORE CD 505 / ZD 74218. USA & Canada, RCA Silvertone 1209-2-J.  Japan , Silvertone 29B2 – 102.
Cassette: Silvertone ORE C 505 / ZK 74218. USA & Canada, RCA Silvertone 1209-4-J (two different cassettes).
Also Promo Cassette tape for Silvertone, BMG, RCA & HMV.

Notes: - Released 21st August 1989.
- Silvertone ZD 74218 two different cd fronts and three different booklets.
- Cassettes ZK 74218 and ORE C 505 without the track “Coconut Tree”


COUNTRY BLUES GUITAR
Brendan Croker
Acoustic Duet1 / Acoustic Duet2 / Pick & Slide / Rolling Blues Trio1 / Rolling Blues Trio2 / Rolling Blues Trio3 /
Stomping Blues1 /Stomping Blues2 / Muddy Delta Blues1 / Muddy Delta Blues2 / Bouncing Boy Blues1 / Bouncing Boy Blues2 / Bouncing Boy Blues3 / First On Out /Pile On The Bass / 3 Notes Down / Rag Boy / 5 To Go / And Then Some1 /
And Then Some2 / Lord Over There / The Light Is Low.
CD: Bruton Music, BRR33, r
eleased 1989.


THE GREAT INDOORS
Heart and Home / Nothing But Time / Send Me To New Orleans / I Hope That It Don’t Go Away / I Guess That Says It All / Darlin’ / Anything That I Can Say / One Day / Tell Me / What It Takes / There’ll Come A Day / Take Me Back Baby /
What A Thing To Do / Running On Down This Road. 
LP: Silvertone ORE LP 517 & ZL 74941.
LP: French 10 track test pressing on Échantillon label, 3 juillet '91, ORE LP 517
CD: Silvertone ORE CD 517 & ZD 74941.
       USA & Canada, RCA Silvertone 01241-41471-2; Longbox Silvertone front / back
       Japan, Silvertone Alfa ALCB-321 29B2 – 102.
Cassette: Silvertone ORE C 517 & ZK 41471-4.
                
Promo cassette: BMG / Silvertone Records (USA) 01241-41471-4A, Release; 12 mei 1992. Cassette ORE C 517.
Notes: Released 2nd September 1991. Brendan has taken
the cover picture from the TV-Screen when he was in Canada .


TIME OFF. Brendan Croker & The Serious Offenders
When It Comes To You / This Kind Of Life / Parchman Farm Blues / Darlin’ / Yellow Roses / 4+20 / Dropkick Me Jesus /
No Money At All /  County Jail / Railroad Worksong / Feel Like Going Home.
CD: Play That Beat, amc59309, Belgian import, released 1993.
Notes: the picture on the back of the booklet (taken by Jo Clauwaert) is taken in the snackbar ("frituur") on the  square of  Leffinge across café "De Zwerver" from other Brendan (and Kevin Coyne) appearances.
The original version of "Parchman Farm Blues" is from
Mose Allison, "Yellow Roses" is from Hank Snow", 4+20" is from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Country Jail is from Big Maceo and "Feel like Going Home" is from Charlie Rich


MADE IN  EUROPE . Brendan Croker & The Serious Offenders
Sittin’ On Ready / Which Way Will You Turn / Sweet Sweet Love / Devil’s Triangle / If Forever / Daddy’s Little Girl /
The Ultimate Wave / Tous Les Jours Pour Moi C’est Bonnard / Full Time Fun / Happy Home /
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / I’ll Be There For You.
CD: Emergency EM59001, Belgian import, released 1993.
The coverpicture was taken when the guy's were waiting in Vlissingen for the ferry wich should bring them to Sheerness.
"I’ll Be There For You" written by Fred Koller, the original version of "
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is from The Smiths.


REDNECK STATE OF THE ART
Brendan Croker
Redneck State Of The Art / On My Knees / Self Made Saviour / Let Me In / Waiting For You / Walk Through Fire / Hey Renee / Watching The Wheels / Finding It Hard Today / Your Time Will Come / Honest I Do.
CD: CNR 2101356 & CNR 2101356 (the cd without “Belgium” on the back cover has “Honest I Do” as hidden track)
Notes: - Released October 1995


THE KERSHAW SESSIONS
Brendan Croker
Brownskin Girl / That’s The Way All My Money Goes / Chains / Don’t Trade Me In / I Walk The Line / Lonely One In Town / 5 O’Clock Shuffle / Railroad Blues / 5 O’Clock Swing / Please Baby(*) / Blues Stay Away From Me(*) / Weapon Of Prayer(*) / That’s Where I Belong(*) / No Expectations / Just An Old Waltz / My Government.
CD: Strange Roots, ROOTCD007, 12-1995 & Strange Fruit 11, 12-1995
(x).
- All Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows except * = Notting Hillbillies

  James Cox found on the Andy Kershaw Wikia (thanks to them!!) - a short BBC session from June 1985, conspicious in its absence from the official Kershaw Sessions CD (was it bumped to make room for the Notting Hillbillies tracks?). Brendan's only available album at this point was the limited-circulation Central Station Hotel.
The tracks are in mono and I've done my best to clean them up but this was virtually impossible with Hard Times because of how much echo there is on the recording...!
Let That Liar Pass On By / Good Rockin' Tonight and Hard Times can be find here

THREE CHORD LOVESONGS
Brendan Croker
Three Chord Lovesongs / Wish That You Were My Baby / Come Back Home Again / Mind Over Matter / So Alone /
Sweet Prison / All Alone In Love / Forever And A Day / Wish You Would Stay / Good News And Bad News / 
All That We Need / Tomorrow Is Another Day / Be Good To Me / From One Heart To Another.
CD: CNR-2101843, 1996


NOT JUST A HILLBILLY...MORE LIKE A BEST OF BRENDAN CROKER

Joshua Gone Barbados / Wrong Decision / Running On Down This Road / The Great Indoors / Tomorrow Is Another Day /
On My Knees / What It Takes / This Man / Darlin / Anything I Can Say / This Kind Of Life / Three Chord Love Songs /
Each Night You Die A Little / Railroad Blues.
CD: EssentialMusic, ESMCD 826 (white cd), 24-01-2000 & Castle Music, CMAR604 (red cd), 24-01-2000
Notes: Railroad Blues incorrectly listed as Railroad Worksong


SINGLES:

 

THAT’S THE WAY ALL MY MONEY GOES
Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows
1. That’s The Way All My Money Goes
2. Let Me Explain
7":  Unamerican Activities, SIOUX1, 186
Notes - Track 1 and 2 are different versions as from the Boat Trips In The Bay recordings
Test Pressing
"Mayking Records Ltd" date 19 DEC. 1986


 
Demo record

DARLIN’
1. 'Darlin’
2. The Two Step
7” , Red Rhino, RED 81, 1988
Notes:  Track 2 is a non-album track.
Demonstration record:  2 track 7" single on Silvertone, ORE DJ16, rel.c.1990; 'Darlin’ / 'Darlin’.


WRONG DECISION
Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows
1. Wrong Decision, 2. All Mixed Up, 3. Coconut Tree, 4. Still Standing
Released - 29th May 1989 = 5th June 1989, Label – Silvertone. News information.
cds:  Silvertone, ORE CD5 (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4)
12”: Silvertone, ORE T5 (tracks 1, 2, 3)
7"  : Silvertone, ORE 5 (tracks 1 + 3)
Notes - Tracks 2 & 4 are non album tracks


NO MONEY AT ALL
Brendan Croker & the 5 O’Clock Shadows
1. No Money At All
2. Mister
3. Joshua Gone Barbados (Live at Leeds), non album track.
cds: Silvertone  Germany, ZD43094, 07-08-1986 (UK version unconfirmed)
12":  Silvertone,  ORE (T)8 test pressing issued by Echantillon Mastering Studio's.
         With hand-written note from Silvertone records employee "Lucy" on headed notepaper.
12": Silvertone, ORE T8 & ZT43094 (tracks 1, 2, 3), 07-08-1986
7"  : Silvertone, ORE 8 & ZB43093 (tracks 1 + 2), 07-08-1986


THIS KIND OF LIFE
1. This Kind Of Life,
2. You Don’t Need Me Here
3. Railroad Blues,
4. Georgia Crawl
cds: Silvertone, ZD43350, 1989. Tracks 2,3 & 4 - Live at Leeds 18th June 1989 - non album tracks
7"  : Silvertone, ZB 43349 , 1989. Tracks 1-3 only ( Germany ). 
Probable a “European-only” release.


GIVE A LITTLE BIT
Brendan Croker & the Benton Park School Choir
1. Give A Little Bit
2. Stand By Me
12” : Doormouse Records, TOY001, 1991
.
Charity record for the 'Calendar Toy Appeal'


NOTHING BUT TIME
Brendan Croker
1. Nothing But Time
2. The Great Indoors
3. Take Me Back Baby
cds: Silvertone, ZD44852 / ORE CD 27, 05-08-1991, Germany (printed in Austria) 
7”  : Silvertone, ORE 27 / ZB44851 (tracks 1 + 2), 05-08-1991
Track 2 is a non album track


THERE’LL COME A DAY
Brendan Croker
1. There’ll Come A Day
2. All Round Town
3. Tell Me
cds: Silvertone, ORE CD 32 / ZD45106, 04-11-1994
7"  : Silvertone , ORE 32 / ZB45105 (tracks 1 + 2), 04-11-1994
Track 2, non album track, it is the same as the "Bouncing Boy Blues3"; track on the "Country Blues Guitar CD.


RUNNING DOWN ON THIS ROAD
Brendan Croker
1. Running Down On This Road
2. Anything I Can Say
3. Take Me Back Baby
cds: Silvertone, ZD45372, 1991
7"  : Silvertone, ZB45371, 1991/92, only track 1 + 2.


DROPKICK ME JESUS
Brendan Croker & The Serious Offenders
1. Dropkick Me Jesus
2. No Money At All
cds: PlayThatBeat, AMC 19318, 1991
(w)
Notes - Belgian import - both tracks from "Time Off"


SITTIN’ ON READY
Brendan Croker & The Serious Offenders
1. Sittin’ On Ready
2. Full Time Fun
cds: Emergency Records, 659905 1/Em19002, 1994

I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU
Brendan Croker & The Serious Offenders
1. I'll Be There For You
2. If Forever
cds: EM19003, 1994


LET ME IN
Brendan Croker
1. Let Me In
2. Redneck State Of The Art
cds: CNR , 2101355, 1994 
Both tracks are written by Fred Koller.


ON MY KNEES
Brendan Croker
1. On My Knees
2. Looking For A Fool
cds: CNR, 2101530, 1995
This are non-album tracks


WALK THROUGH FIRE
Brendan Croker
1. Walk Through Fire
2. Watching The Wheels
cds: CNR, 2101660, 1995
(x)


THREE CHORD LOVESONGS
Brendan Croker
1. Three Chord Lovesongs
2. Come On Over
cds: CNR, 2101842, 1996
Track 2 is a  non-album track


MIND OVER MATTER
Brendan Croker
1. Mind Over Matter
2. All Crazy Over You
cds: CNR, 2101924, 1996
(a)
Track 2 is a non-album track

 

 

VIDEO CLIPS:

 

Brendan Croker, 'Hard Times', 1985


 

Brendan Croker, 'No Money At All', 1986


 

Brendan Croker and the 5 O'Clock Shadows, 'Wrong Decision', 1989

 Brendan Croker & The Five O`Clock Shadows, 'Shine On', 1989

 

Brendan Croker, 'On My Knees', 1995

 

 

PROMO's / Bootleg:

THIS MAN
1. This Man
2. Shine On
3. This Kind Of Life
4. Ain't Gonna Smile
CLOCK 1 - 4 track CD on Silvertone for the Brendan Croker & the 5 O’ Clock Shadows album, release 1989


 
 
NO MONEY AT ALL
USA 1-track double-sided advance promotional 12" vinyl featuring the single release from
Brendan and the 5 O'Clock Shadows.
Custom picture sleeve with custom white Silvertone labelled vinyl and "
NOT FOR SALE" on it.
release 1989, 1252-1-JDAA.

 

NO MONEY AT ALL
1. No Money At All 3:38

One track Promo CD on Silvertone 1252-2-JDJ
release 1989


 
 
THE GREAT INDOORS
1. Nothing But Time
2. There’ll Come A Day
3. Anything I Can Say
4. One Day.
(no number) - 4 track CD on Silvertone for the Great Indoors album, release 26th July 1991.

 
 
BRENDAN CROKER & THE 5 O’CLOCK SHADOWS
The official Bootleg
Live at The Frontpage Club, Carlisle, 5 may 1987
Cassette tape FPLP 2

 

 

THE NOTTING HILLBILLIES

 

 

MISSING...PRESUMED HAVING A GOOD TIME, release 1990
Railroad Worksong / Bewildered / Your Own Sweet Way / Run Me Down / One Way Gal / Blues Stay Away From Me /
Will You Miss Me / Please Baby / Weapon Of Prayer / That’s Where I Belong / Feel Like Going Home.
LP: Vertigo 842 671-1 / Warner Bros 7599-26147-1 (also promo LP with gold inscription) / Warner Bros Venezuela 20.075-L
LP: Vertigo 842 671-1
"MILES COPYMASTERS" in run out groove.
LP: Phonogram STARL 5686 / manufactered and marketed by Zimbabwe Music Corporation.
Pressed in Zimbabwe.
       Cover printed on recycled board as is the norm for African records.
Records made in South Africa / Rhodesia / Zimbabwe were pressed
       in very small quantities mainly for the small white population. They are now being recycled and made into hand bags etc and are very
       rare. Some discographies published do not include these pressings as they were not know to exist.

CD: Vertigo 842 671-2 / WarnerBros 26147-2,
Phonogram Australia 842 671-2 (blue cd).
        Canada  Warner Bros/CRC W2 26147 /  Japan, Vertigo PPD-1134
Cassette: Vertigo 842671-4 / Warner Bros  9926147-4
Promo(?) cassette Buatan Malaysia Vertigo 842671-4
Cassette from Thailand (label Peacock 4746. This was an old music company in THAILAND)
Cassette from Israël (
made by Phonokol Israel 842671-4) 1 2
Cassette from Yugoslavia RTB 521051 1 2
Cassettes from various country's: Thailand & Taiwan, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Singapore
The traditional titel of Railroad Worksong is "Spike Driver Blues" by John Hurt (1928).


 

ALBUM PROMO
Your Own Sweet Way / Feel Like Going Home / Railroad Worksong / Will You Miss Me.
cds: CD-Vertigo-NHBS 100


 

CD SINGLE
Your Own Sweet Way (1. Fade 3:47, 2. LP version 4:30)
cds: Warner Bros  USA,  PRO-CD-3943, 1990.


    SINGLE
Your Own Sweet Way / Bewildered / That’s Where I Belong.
cds: Vertigo NHBCD 1 / Vertigo 875025-2
7”: Vertigo 875 024-7, Germany 1990 / Vertigo NHB 1 (only track 1 & 2)

12": Vertigo NHB 112 / Vertigo  875 025-1
Cassette: Vertigo NHBMC1

 
   

Cassette tape from New Zealand
Your Own Sweet Way / Bewildered
Vertigo 875024-4

Italian Promo 7" vinyl single:
"Your Own Sweet Way" (Mark Knopfler) - (3'50") The Notting Hillbillies.
Other side: "Rhythm Of Life", Oleta Adams.
Polygram AS 5000 854. Made in Italy.

Pr0fessional NTSC 8" Laserdisc for Laser Juke machines. Does play on normal LaserDisc-players as well. Cat. No. : 12.17.05
A 1 – Technotronic: This Beat Is Technotronic, 2 – Kid Creole: The Sex Of It, 3 – Oleta Adams: Rhythm Of Life 
    4 – Jimmy Somerville: Read My Lips, 5 – Jimi Hendrix: Crosstown Traffic  
B 1 – Elton John: I’m Still Standing, 2 – Heart: All I Wanna Do…, 3 – Creeps: Ooh I Like It, 4 – Rod Stewart: Downtown Train 
    5 – Notting Hillbillies: Your Own Sweet Way
Only companies who owned a Laser Juke machine were allowed to buy one copy of this LD from Pioneer. 
The original price was around 150 GBP as a lot had to be paid for the right to show the video clips in public places.


Brazilian 12" vinyl Promo single.
On cover  " Disco Promocional Mix - Invendável" = (Promotional Disc Mix - not for sale)
Vertigo White Promo label, Vertigo 2801 418, 1990.
Tracks on side 1 and 2 "Your One Sweet Way"  4:30

 
Promo cd single SAAB France.
Your Own Sweet Way / Bewildered / That’s Where I Belong.
Phonogram 4065, 1990

 

 
 

 

CD SINGLE, 1990, WARNER BROS  USA  PRO-CD-4340.
Bewildered


 

SINGLE
Feel Like Going Home / Lonesome Wind Blues / One Way Gal.
Track 2 - non-album track
cds: Vertigo NHBCD 2 / Vertigo 875301-2
12": Vertigo NHB 212 / Vertigo 875 301-1
7" : Vertigo NHB 2 / Vertigo 875 300-7  (tracks 1&2 only)
“Lonesome Wind Blues” is a non-album track (same track as on NHB CD3)


 

CD SINGLE, 1990, WARNER BROS  USA  PRO-CD-4092.
Will You Miss Me.


SINGLE -
Will You Miss Me / That’s Where I Belong / Lonesome Wind Blues.
cds: Vertigo NHBCD 3 / Vertigo 875643-2
12”: Vertigo NHB 312 / Vertigo 875 643-1
7”  :  Vertigo NHB 3 / Vertigo 875642-7 (only tracks 1 & 2)
“Lonesome Wind Blues” is a non-album track (same track as on NHB CD2)

Promo videos for NHBs - Your Own Sweet Way / Feel Like Going Home / Will You Miss Me.
- available on "Dire Straits-The Videos" compilation [Polygram 085 544-3]

Unofficial release:
The Notting Hillbillies "Live in London".
Recorded live in London in 1990.
Indian Records label IN O1, Luxemburg 1992.

Unofficial release:
The Notting Hillbillies "A Friendly Funny Night".
The Maltings, Snape UK 15.05.1990
Backstage BKCD 027

Unofficial release:
The Notting Hillbillies "Swan Hunter".
Recorded live at the Swan Hunter Benefit Concert,
City Hall, Newcastle UK 06.07.1993 (SB)
Compare: Alan Robson.
Limited Edition of 750 CD, UK 95.

 
 

Unofficial release:
Mark Knopfler and The Notting Hillbillies "Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club".
Recorded live at the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club,
Enlarge covers for details.
In 1998 and 1999, while Mark Knopfler was recording his second solo album, he called his other band, The Notting Hillbillies, to play a consecutive series of songs at the jazz club Ronnie Scott’s, in Birmingham and in London, being joined by several guests playing many old rock, country and folk classic songs together. This is a selection of the highlights played during those magic nights.


 
Unofficial release:
Mark Knopfler and The Notting Hillbillies,
"found... having too much fun"
Compilation of songs from 1986 to 1999.
Very nice selection of songs played by The Notting Hillbillies.
Enlarge covers for details.
Label: The Tower Records – TR01

The Notting Hillbillies with "That's All Right Mama".
Flexidisc from Russia # 5879.

The Notting Hillbillies with "Hobo's Lullaby".
Flexidisc from Russia # 6653.

 

 

Brendan plays / sings, has written the lyrics on the next albums:

 

DIM SUBOOTEYO "Lakeside" - Brendan Croker and Jon Langford
SNAT Records SNAT001- released 1980. Cover design by Ali Allen.

Lakeside / My Lifewith the Harehills Cruisers / Philipino Dementos Demestos / Painkiller /
Who Is The Baddy? Says Alan Laddie / Half Ponderosa / Eat / the Evil One Cometh
(he rides roughshod on the shoulders of the poor) / Je Suis Tres Fatigue / Friend Bothering / Rubble Trouble.

UNDER THE RUBBER EAGLE - ROGER SUTCLIFFE
LP: Moonraker label; M005; released 1985/1986 ?
Side 1: 1. Livin’ With The Blues, 4. I’m Sober Now, Side 2: 6. Troubling Mind. *
CD:
Low Ash Music, serial number LAM02, release year 1994
Roger is assisted by several other musicians on this album.
There are the three tracks from the album that feature Brendan, Nigel Brooke on bass and Graham Pollard on drums.
*The labels have been stuck on the wrong sides of the vinyl record.


BLUES FROM THE AIRE DELTA - VARIOUS ARTISTS
RRS label; LP RT1; released 1985/86
Side One: 2. Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow (with Rob Mason), 
                  5. Blues Stay Away From Me (with Steve Phillips and Rob Mason)
Side Two: 5. Oh That Naggin’ Wife Of Mine, 7. You Shall
Back cover: Brendan Croker and Ali Allen. Back cover photography: Ali Allen.


THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - THE MEKONS
SIN label; SIN003; released 1986
Brendan Croker's involvement unconfirmed


 

The Best Of Steve Phillips - STEVE PHILLIPS
LP: Unamerican Activities Bravo 5, 1987.
CD: V2 348 PCCV 00150
www.brendancroker.com/BCA/The Best Of Steve Phillips kz GR.jpg

Square Roots. FROOT 001 (cassette FROOT C001), 1987
A4; Brendan Croker; Oh That Naggin' Wife Of Mine.
Brendan's recording of this old country blues first appeared on the limited edition anthology LP Blues From
The Aire Delta
. Recorded at the Billiard Room, Leeds: produced by Mick Holland; engineer Carl Rosamund.
Brendan Croker & The 5 O'Clock Shadows'most recent LP was A Close Shave (Unamerican Activities). FR39.

 

Sally Timms And The Drifting Cowgirls - The Butcher Boy
Label: T.I.M., date 1987
12”  = 12 MT 4, 7”  = MT 4
Songs: Long Black Veil, Butcher's Boy, Down From Dover, Margherita.

 

"Road To Roundhay Pier" - The Rhythm Sisters
Elderberry Avenue / Wild West Party / Forbidden Fruit
On the album "Road To Roundhay Pier" released on the Red Rhino label (REDLP87 / RED CD 87), 1987.


HONKY TONKIN’ - THE MEKONS
SIN label; SIN006; released 1987
I Can't Find My Money / Hole In The Ground / Sleepless Nights / Keep Hoppin' / Charlie Cake Park / If They Hang You /
Prince Of Darkness / Kidnapped / Sympathy For The Mekons / Spit / The Trimdon Grange Explosion /
Plese Don't Let Me Love You / Gin Palace
Brendan Croker - "Tipple" - not known on which tracks


Hole in the Ground
Sin City
Prince of Darkness (featuring Michelle Shocked)

12" (1987)
Sin Recordings / Cooking Vinyl [SIN 007T]
United Kingdom

This House is a House of Trouble - Sally Timms and the Drifting Cowgirls
 Line Up: Sally Timms, Marc Almond, Brendan Croker, Steve Goulding, Rory Allam, Emma Bolland, Jon Langford. T.I.M Records 7” MOT 6, Date: 1987
This House is a House of Trouble / Chained to the Anchor of Love.
T.I.M Records 12” 12 MOT 6, Date: 1987
This House is a House of Trouble / Chained to the Anchor of Love, My Little Pony (Heaven's Gates)
SALLY TIMMS feat. MARC ALMOND 
CD single in cardsleeve is the 12” version. Label Contreasena OLD 016 CDMX, Spain, 1997

Indipent July Issue*, 1987.
Flexie disk with the Bundu Boys and from the British Isles,
Brendan Croker & the 5 O'Clock Shadows with Joshua Gone Barbados.


 
 

On The Big Hill (the movie)
"In February 1988, 36 soldiers, sailors, airman and marines set out to conquer Mount Everest by a route never successfully completed by the British. A four-man Granada film crew joined the expedition on their Spring assault on the highest mountain in the world. They set out to document the lows as well as the highs, the misery as well the elation. The results of their efforts tell the story of a group of people and the challenges they faced. "On the big hill" is about men climbing the mountain rather than mountain being conquered".
On the big hill is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Everest. It was directed by Mark Anderson in 1988 and produced by Granada Television. It features Dave Nicholls, Merv Middleton, Dougie Keelan and Laurie Skuodas.
1988 | UK | COLOR | 180 MIN. On Youtube part 1-3 , 2-3 , 3-3 .


SO GOOD IT HURTS - THE MEKONS

SIN label; released 1988

Brendan "Staff Nurse" Croker - Bass - not known on which tracks


Sally Timms And The Drifting Cowgirls - Somebody's Rocking My Dreamboat
Label: TIM Records MOT LP021, Date: 1988
Side 1: Horses / I Live With a Happyman / Rhinestones / When It's Late / Chained to the Anchor of Love
Side 2: Justine / Down from Dover / Mombassa / Queen of an Unfurnished Room / Butcher's Boy
The Drifting Cowgirls are: Brendan Croker, Jon Langford, Robert Worby, Steve Goulding, Emma Bolland Chet Taylor, Kenny Braithwaite.

Notes: This is a hard to find item that is definitely worth the search. With a set of tunes penned by Timms and Langford, the sole exception being the excellent cover of the Dolly Parton classic "Down from Dover", it's just a shame more people don't have access to this record. Sally is in fine voice and her phrasing and depth make this a joy from start to finish. Of course when you're surrounded by one class act after another it's hard to mess up, but every parade needs a Grand Marshall and Sally's voice hoists the baton here. From her punk roots to her cowboy leanings you can never go wrong with Sally. The cover painting by Ms. Bolland has a feel of mystery about it, in its muted tones and energetic composition. If you can find it buy it or at least borrow it for a fortnight.


‘TILL THINGS ARE BRIGHTER - A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH - VARIOUS ARTISTS
CD 1988 USA Red Rhino Records 1988; REDCD 88; released 1988, LP 1988 USA Red Rhino; RED LP 88; released 1988
CD 1988 Red Rhino Record; RAVE 3 CD (Made in France), LP 1988 USA Fundamental RAVE 3 (Made in England)
One Piece At A Time(Michelle Shocked) / I Walk The Line(Stephen Mallinder) / Rosanna’s Goin’ Wild(Steve Mack) / Cry,Cry,Cry (Sally Timms) / Country Boy (David McComb) / Wanted Man (Marc Riley) / Straight A’s In Love(Peter Shelley) / Ring Of Fire(Cathal Coughlan) / Five Feet High And Risin’(Tracey and Melissa Beehive) / Home Of The Blues (Brendan Croker) / Boy Named Sue (Mary Mary) / Folsom Prison Blues (Mekons) / Man In Black (Marc Almond).
Brendan Croker also credited as "Guitar" for the project, i.e. on some or all of the other tracks.
The original version of "Home Of The Blues" is from Johnny Cash, 1957.


 

KINDNESS TO STRANGERS - VARIOUS ARTISTS.
Charity record featuring bands from Leeds and Bradford, put together for Give For Life, a charity linked to Save The Children.
Side Two: Learning The Game.
Vocals, Guitar - Brendan Croker, Percussion - Steve Goulding
Words and Music by Buddy Holly, © Southern Music Publishing Co.
Label: SRT/Give For Life, GFL 1, 1988.


 

ANCIENT HEART - TANITA TIKARAM
LP:  WX210
, CD:WEA 243877-2; released 1988
He Likes The Sun, Brendan Croker on guitar.
Ancient Heart is a 1988 album by Tanita Tikaram. The album had huge success and was a hit globally, launching Tanita's mainstream career. It is generally considered a classic. Guest musicians included Rod Argent, Mark Isham, Peter Van Hooke, Paul Brady, and Brendan Croker. Argent and Van Hooke produced the album.


MEKONS ROCK’N’ROLL - THE MEKONS
SIN label; CD Blast First BFFP 40CD + Rough Trade CD RTCD 132, released 1989
Brendan Croker - Guitar and backing vocals - not known on which tracks

 

 

 
Brendan plays on an album by Ann Lewis: My Name Is Woman, released 1989.
Inside the album cover is a collage of everyone who worked on the album.

 

Silvertone Sampler.
Track 2: Brendan Croker and the 5 O'Clock Shadows
"Railroad Blues" (live at Leeds) 4.58
Silvertone TD 74540, 1990


NECK and NECK - CHET ATKINS and MARK KNOPFLER
Brendan Croker plays guitar in the "Poor Boy Blues" video clip!


THE CURSE OF THE MEKONS
1991 - LP on Blast First (UK) 1991 - LP on Raugh Trade (Germany) (RTD 179.1159.1)
2002 - CD Reissue on Collector's choice (incl. Fun 90) Universal Music CCM-202-2
Tracks: The Curse, Blue Arse, Wild and Blue (John Scott Sherrill), Authority, Secrets, Nocturne, Sorcerer, Brutal, Funeral, Lyric, Waltz.
Engineer: Guy Crackers , Ian Caple. Guitar: Jon "Dee Fanglord" Langford, Tom "In The Green" Greenhalgh, Ken Litemare, Brendan "Crowkey" Croker. Trumpet: Neil Yates. Saxophone: Gavin Sharp. Vocals: Jon "Dee Fanglord" Langford, Tom "In The Green" Greenhalgh, Sally "Endora" Timms, Ken Litemare, Eric "Rico Hell" Bellis, Brendan "Crowkey" Croker. Trombone: John Hart. Synthesizers: Jon "Dee Fanglord" Langford, Tom "In The Green" Greenhalgh. Violin: Susie "Samantha Herebemonsters" Honeyman. Harmonica: Tom "In The Green" Greenhalgh. Banjo: Jon "Dee Fanglord" Langford. Melodeon: John "The Dubmaster General" Gill. Bagpipes: Lu Cipher, Cumbus Lu Cipher. Norwegian Flute: Lu Cipher.




2 METER SESSIES Volume 3
Track 12 = This Kind Of Life (3:10) (Live on 10 september 1991)
VARAGram Radio Records 47424 2 (Dutch)


ORIGINAL SIN - THE MEKONS
BMG label; BMG 89164; released 1992
Brendan Croker - Slide guitar, back ground vocals on '$ 1,000 Dollar Wedding
- not known which tracks more (or whether they are tracks from other Mekons albums as this is a compilation)

AIN’T I A WOMAN - RORY BLOCK
Rolling Log.
Released Rounder CD 3120 / Munich Records NETCD 0038, 1992. Cassette Rounder Records C 3120.
Brendan Croker - acoustic guitar
[track also appears on the "Gone Woman Blues" compilation]

 



'THE CONTEMPORARY ROCK BLUES COLLECTION"
track 12 = All mixed up 3'42
Compilation cd BMG / RCA PD 75348, 1992


CD from Evangeline released by Margaritaville/MCA Records in 1992.
All-female country group with 11 tracks that have a Louisiana / cajun flavor.
Slick harmonies and instrumental prowess.
Executive producer Jimmy Buffett sings a duet on one track.
Track 4: "Hey René" 3:25, Brendan Croker. sample

2 cd - aus der funk- und tv-werbung
'I Love the Blues.'
Compilation on BMG / Ariola, 354 487, 1992
Track 2-13: Brendan Croker "What It Takes".


LEIDSE KADE LIVE Volume 2
Track 15 = Sweet, sweet love (Live)
Recorded on 08-05-1993 at the NOB Audio, Studio 4, KRO Hilversum Holland.
Phonogram / Mercury 526 717-2, 1993, Dutch


The track "What it Takes" from Brendan is used for the DVD movie "Leap of Faith"

 
 

Wanted - Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
A rare documentary shown in 1993. Intriguing. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were once the most wanted men in the West. They are thought to have fled South America, but what happened after that? Dr. Clyde Snow, the celebrated forensic anthropologist exhumes two bodies in Bolivia. But are they the legendary outlaws? Dr. Clyde Snow earned his ...
Music by Brendan Croker



ANGEL OF MERCY - RORY BLOCK
Polydor 613126 / Rounder NETCD 47, 1994.
Brendan Croker on 'Big Bad Agent Man'


Crocodile Shoes - Jimmy Nail
Original songs from the BBC Television serial.
Released: 1994 by Warner Music UK Ltd, 4509-98556-2
Track 5. "Only One Heart" written by Nail/Croker.

What I need tonight - Man X
Produced by Brendan Coker at Lion Studio's, Leeds, UK. Distribution Durenco & Witlof Music, WML003/94, 1994.
Brendan on tracks:
2. Friday night (3:08),
5. Like a reason to cry (4.36),
9. Attack on my heart (2:18),
12. Hardlife (5:08).
Cd single with:
A. What I need tonight,
B. Like a reason to cry.
4'36 (B. Croker) - Zombia.
Produced by Brendan Coker at Lion Studio's, Leeds, UK. Distribution Durenco & Witlof Music, WLM005/95, 1995.

MAN X - What i need tonight @ Focus-TV . Christ Dinneweth and Antoon Lamon performing this number, also the title of the second CD of MAN X produced by Brendan Croker and recorded at Lion Studio's, Leeds, UK.

 
 
HEART II HEART "Why?
Produced by Brendan Coker. Mixed and engineered by Guy Hatton at Lion Studio's, Leeds, UK.
Photography & Design: Jo Clauwaert.
1. Why ? (A. Lamon)
2. Jacqueline (C. Dinneweth)

1994 Play That Beat! Records.

Only One Heart - Jimmy Nail / Brendan Croker
3 track cd single.
Released: 1994 / 1995 by East West Music YZ949CD 0630-11017-2

JUST PICKIN’(1967-1981) - STEVE PHILLIPS
Buried Treasure label; TROV2; released 1995
Moon Going Down (1977 with Steve Phillips) / Let’s Go To Town (1977 with SP) / You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back (1979 with SP,Sholto Lenaghan, Kevin Conlon) / Hillbilly Boogie (1981 with SP,SL) / Swingin’ With Lonnie (1981 with SP,SL) / Blues Stay Away From Me (1981 with SP,SL).
Siren Label; SRNC201CD; released 14-10-2002 with 3 bounus tracks:
Cool Drink Of Water (1977) / I Could n't Stay There (1977) / Boogie Woogie Dance (1979).

 

WIGBERT
EP 'Roughs', 1995
Brendan plays on the track 'Heet Van De Naald'

Thank you Wigbert for your help and kindness

 

GOLDEN HEART - MARK KNOPFLER
Vertigo 514 732-2; released 1996
No Can Do / Cannibals.
Brendan Croker - backing vocals


Sally Timms - Cowboy Sally (E.P.)
Label: BLOODSHOT Records, BS 016 CD-EP, 1997

1. Seminole Wind, 2. Drunk By Noon, 3. Old Flames Can't Hold A Candle To You, 4. Tennessee Waltz, 5. Long Black Veil.
1. Waco Brothers with Jessica Biley, fiddle
2. The Handsome Family

3. Brendan Croker & Jon Langford guitars, Steve Goulding drums
4. The Baron bass, Harry steel drum, Jonboy ac. Guitars
5. Brendan Croker & Jon Langford guitars, Tim Tylor bass, Steve Goulding drums

Revieuw from New Jersey Online:
Sally Timms has to be the most unlikely country singer this side of, um, her pal Jon Langford, I guess.
Both are longtime members of The Mekons, one of the original punk bands that came out of England in the late '70s (along with the Clash, Buzzcocks, etc.). But a funny thing happened to Timms, Langford and the rest of the Mekons during a mid-'80s trip to Chicago.
They discovered country music. It wasn't the Eagles-influenced, radio-ready country rock that's been dominating Nashville for the past two decades. Instead, it was the raw honky-tonk of Hank Williams and Merle Haggard, as personified by the Sundowners, a legendary Chicago roadhouse band. Things were never the same for the Mekons, who began morphing their sound to include country influences -- which really wasn't that far spiritually from their British beer hall-inspired punk -- and made the underrated late '80s greats Fear and Whiskey and The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll. Today, Timms and Langford are both working solo country projects. Langford's a leader of the Waco Brothers, who just released their second album of "Cash-meets-Clash" hardcore country. Timms, meanwhile, this month released her second solo record in the past three years. This one's called Cowboy Sally, and it features Langford -- along with fellow Mekon Steve Goulding, as well as Brendan Croker and Chicago cult heroes The Handsome Family -- backing her on four country classics and one Handsome Family original that doesn't sound out of place next to the others. Timms isn't your typical country songbird. She's got an upper-class Brit accent and can sound very proper, with her perfect enunciation. But she clearly believes in the music, and the emotion comes through on a quietly twangy version of John Anderson's "Seminole Wind," and much-played classics like "Tennessee Waltz." She turns it into a sweetly attractive romp, sounding like a frontier schoolmarm who loses her reserve and conjures up some passion with bittersweet memories. Singing the Handsome Family's "Drunk by Noon" -- the only new song on the album and one of the best -- she could be a Tennessee Williams character, a faded southern beauty who hides in a bottle but still hasn't lost all of her class. Her singing is very feminine, yet the spirit behind it is always robust and passionate. That makes for a seriously sexy listen. 
My only regret about this album is that it's really an EP. The five songs come and go way too soon 

 



HEADS HELD HIGH – The Album, Jarrow 86.
On this LP also "Hard Times" from Brendan Croker 


THE HALEY SISTERS "The Angels Break Free"
Comet Records COMET001, 1997.
Track 6 (download a part of this track): Loving' All Night - vocals and guitar Brendan Croker

 


[UNRELEASED]
Brendan Croker did a number of pieces of music for the Channel4 programme "Dinosaur Cops - To The Ends Of The Earth" -
Transmitted 24th July 1997 - Looking Out / Snow Chase / Peak Town / Night Drive / Undercover / White Hills /  Ride To Tucson / Slide String / Chopper Ride.
(If anyone have this program, or even the music, please let me know.)


Brendan Croker has written and played the music for two "Harp Irish Lager" commercials.

GONE WOMAN BLUES - RORY BLOCK
Compilation with track 9: "Rolling Log".
Released 1997
Brendan Croker - acoustic guitar
[track original on the "
Ain't I a woman" album]

Conmemorativo "A Tribute To Gram Parsons". "$ 1000 Wedding".
Recorded at Offbeat Studio, Leeds. The back insert lists a copyright date of 1990 for the recording, reinforcing my impression that this is not the version from the Slightly South of the Border ep. According to the liner notes, $1000 Wedding was written in the late 1960s after Gram's mother's marriage split up. The song was recorded by the Flying Burrito Brothers but rejected for Burrito Deluxe, their 1970 release. It later appeared on Gram's final LP, Grievous Angel.
Lineup:
Tom Greenhalgh, Jon Langford, Brendan Croker, Rico Bell, Kenny Lite, and Steve "Lil' Willy" Goulding (Suzie and Sally were "mysteriously absent").

THE MAJESTY OF BOB WILLS - THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS
BLOODSHOT label; BS029; released 1998
Brendan Croker - vocals on "Faded Love"


CIRCO DI SENTO, Lizard Discs, LCD 80011, 1998.
Track 14 is a version of Brendan's "Wish you would stay" (3.19)

The Mekons
Where Were You? Hen's Teeth and other lost fragments of unpopular culture Vol. 2
Tr. 11: FOLSOM PRISON BLUES (part of this number)
Recorded by Tony Bonner at Offbeat Studios, Kirkstall, Leeds and mixed by Ian Caple at Berry Street London.
Produced by Langy & Lardy for the 1987 'Til Things Are Brighter tribute to Johnny Cash benefitting the Terence Higgins Trust Aids Foundation.
Tim Taylor of the Pink Peg Slax plays standup bass and Brendan Croker plays lead guitar.


Brendan Croker play’s a "bluesy acoustic” guitar soundtrack to a series of ten ground-breaking short films,
each set in the back of a London taxi  called "Black Cab" (these series were broadcasted in May 2000).


Evil Among Us: Hate in America
This three-part series chronicles key events, groups, and figures in the rise of America’s extreme right wing from the 1980s onward. Each program combines extensive news footage with interviews and commentary from white supremacists and hate group leaders as well as the experts in watchdog organizations and law enforcement agencies who monitor and contain them.
A Discovery Channel Production. 3-part series, 50 minutes each. Brendan and Guy Fletcher have played the music for this serie

Susan Anton,
CD: One Night, release 27-03-2001
Track 2. What It Takes - Susan Anton, Brendan Croker.
Part of this track

PENTIMENTO - CIRCO di SENTO
Brendan Croker on "Dreaming my Dreams" , (a Waylon Jennings song from 1974)
3SUN Recordings, released July 2001, The Netherlands.
   
CD + bonus DVD
LIFE IS ALMOST WONDERFUL - KEVIN COYNE and BRENDAN CROKER
Life is almost wonderful / Pass me the memories / Old King Cole / Martha & Arthur / Looking from my window /
Whisper in the night / I want to sit with the girls / Ocean of love / Searching for a friend / Strange pictu(r)es /
Be your sugar daddy / How it burns / The Eisenhower/Churchil blues / I know who you are / This is not a joke.

DVD total
approx. 60 min. :
Live @ De Zwerver, Leffinge (Belgium), 13th Nov. 2002;
Life is Almost Wonderful / Martha & Arthur / Looking From My Window / How It Burns / I Want To Sit With The Girls / Whispers In The Night / Strange Pictues.
Live @ Troubadour, Hardenberg (Netherlands), 1st Dec. 2002;
Be Your Sugar Daddy / I Know Who You Are / Karate King
Live @ De Zwerver, Leffinge (Belgium),13th Nov. 2002;
Lunatic  / We’ve Got A Love Of Our Own


Release 25-09-2020. More info at Mig-music.de . Order at:
https://kevincoyne.lnk.to/LiveIsAlmostWonderful
   
LIFE IS ALMOST WONDERFUL - KEVIN COYNE and BRENDAN CROKER
Life is almost wonderful / Pass me the memories / Old King Cole / Martha & Arthur / Looking from my window /
Whisper in the night / I want to sit with the girls / Ocean of love / Searching for a friend / Strange pictures /
Be your sugar daddy / How it burns / The Eisenhower/Churchil blues / I know who you are / This is not a joke.
Brendan Croker on all tracks. This recording is one of a limited of 500. ©&® Coyne/ Croker 2002.


                                 Detail

Japanese Promo cd: ICHIOSHI-KUN GA YUKU Vol. 23,
Cat.#: Y 12-36 Promotion.  Track 7: Heart And Home


30 JAAR HUBERT ON THE AIR.
Compilation cd for Hubert Van Hoof, a personal friend of Brendan Croker. Hubert about Brendan. Hubert & Brendan 06-1996
On 23th November 2003 he was more than 30 years radio reporter and was the realease from this special cd.
Track 2: "Dreaming My Dreams" (Allen Reynolds) 3'11", recorded July 2001 L1 Radio
Track 3: "All That We Need" (Croker) 2'49", The Lost Hawaiians recorded 01-06-1996, Omroep Limburg
Track 4: "Miss Otis Regrets" (Cole Porter,) 4'34", Brendan Croker, recorded on 04-03-2001, Café Forum Maastricht.
All tracks are remastered by Hubert.

The Gonnebee'z, track 7 “I guess that says it all”.

Recorded and mixed at A.C.E. Aartselaar (B) and Impuls Herent (B) in February, March and April 1994. 

Mastered at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Holland.  

 
 
CD single "I Guess That Says It All"
1. I Guess That Says It All*, 4:21
2. This Time, 3:53
* written by Brendan Croker
Recorded and mixed at Impuls Herent (Belgium, March '94) & The Groove Schelle (Belgium, September 1994)
ALORA 1994

The Gonnabee'z
The Will To Survive.
The Gonnabeez with Brendan
The Gonnabeez in the studio with Brendan

The Gonnabee'z
The Will To Survive.
A. The Will To Survive
B. It Rained Today
CD single 1996, Alora 210 511
Produced by Brendan Croker

The Gonnabee'zMagic
A. Magic
B. Small Town Blues

CD single 1996,
Alora  911 031
Produced by Brendan Croker

The Gonnabee'zIt rained today
A. It Rained Today
B. If You Daire

CD single 1996, Alora  210 509
Produced by Brendan Croker

De Nieuwstraat Van Studio Brussel
Vol. 3CD compilatie - 1994
Play That Beat! - AMC 54.006
2. The Gonnabee'z - I can't let go

"What It Takes" written by Brendan Croker; appears on the Wynonna Judd CD "Wynonna Judd" [CURB 471871 2], 1992.
Also a Japanese pressing, Alfa records ALCB-559.
Lyrics of
"What It Takes".

STEVE PHILLIPS - BEEN A LONG TIME GONE [CD-Clarion-], 1995

The Nashville Story.
KPM 390, 1999.
Track 24: "Hometown Sweetheart" Guy Fletcher / Rod Williams
Early 'fireside' ballad featuring Brendan Croker vocal. Duration: 1.59   

 

 

VIDEOS

"THIS is...", compilation VHS video with Brendan Croker & 5 O'Clock Shadows, videoclip "Hard Times.
Unamerican Activities 1986. Video produced & directed by Maurice Baker.
Promo VHS video for "No Money At All"
Promo VHS video for "Wrong Decision"
Promo VHS video, Fatman Films, BMG Conference 1989
Promo VHS video for The Notting Hillbillies, "Your Own Sweet Way"
Rock Steady, "A Taste Of".
Compilation VHS with The Notting Hillbillies "I Think I Love You Too Much".
Holmes associates and HTM (international) for channel 4 UK 1990.

 

 

 

COVERS, COMPILATIONS and RELATED RELEASES

Recorded by John Mayall
"Brendan was the opening act on a couple of shows in England a few years ago. 
It was after we'd covered his song 'Anything I Can Say' on the 'Wake Up Call' CD".......John Mayall

The Squeezy Scramble demo-cd contains a cover of ' Sittin' on ready '.

The Album Network.
TUNE UP Rock 37.
Track 3, Brendan Croker, "No Money At All" (Silvertone/RCA) 3:36.
Rock # 37, July 17, 1989.
Inlay info
   
The Album Network.
TUNE UP Rock 45.

Track 1, "Your Own Sweet Way" The Notting Hillbillies (
featuring Brendan Coker and Mark Knopfler)      4:32
Rock # 45, Februari 5, 1990.

Silvertone Sampler.
Track 2: Brendan Croker and the 5 O'Clock Shadows
"Railroad Blues" (live at Leeds) 4.58
Silvertone TD 74540, 1990

Silvertone Records
Een Introductie van het Silvertone label en artiesten....
Voorjaars Campagne 1990.
Track 2: Brendan Croker and the 5 O'Clock Shadows
(c) & (p) 1990 Zomba Holland b.v.

2 LP music and interview radio show "Scott Muni's World Of Rock", hosted by the late New York dj Scott Muni. This program features music and interviews of both current and past rock and rollers. These records are sent to the radio stations for airplay, with cue sheets.
This program was to air the weekend of May 12, 1990. Songs heard in this two hour program are as follows: Led Zeppelin-Dancing Days/ The Ocean/ Elton JohnRocket Man/ Candle In The Wind/ Starship-Jane/ dIRE sTRAITS-Money For Nothing/ Walk Of Life/ 
The Notting Hillbillies-Your Own Sweet Way
/ Pink Floyed-Wish You Were Here/ Learning To Fly/ Bob Dylan-Mr. Tamborine Man/ Knockin On Heavens Door/ The Times They Are A Changin/ Guess Who-American Woman/ Bachman Turner Overdrive-Takin Care Of Business/ Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin/ Steve Winwood-Back In The High Life/ Genisis-The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway/ Peter Gabriel-Sledgehammer/ Cream-Sunshine Of Your Love/ Jack Bruce-No Surrender.

High Life Sommerhits 1990.
Track 9 on cd1:
The Notting Hillbillies "Your Own Sweet Way" 3'48.

Mega Slows, 4 cd set, Arcade 3000902.
Track 18 cd 3: Brendan Croker Feat Mark Knopfler "No Money At All".

 
 

OLON Promo LP 9150, Holland 1991
Side B track 7 'There'll Come A day'

Compact! 9/91
Rare German Inhouse PR Sampler with:
PM Dawn - Mike Linney - Midge Ure - Stefanie Werger - Georg Danzer - Marianne Rosenberg - Stoppok - Brendan Croker - Dana Gillespie - Crash Test Dummies - Robert Palmer - John Lee Hooker - Screaming Target - Matia Bazar - Gabs - Chris Thompson - Taj Mahal.
10. Brendan Croker "Nothing But Time"4:05
Ariola, 261 341, 1991

Compact! Hightlights Herbst 1991
German Inhouse PR Sampler with:
Arthur Baker - Sonia - Jennifer Holiday - Crash Test Dummies - PM Dawn - Top - Screaming Target - Midge Ure - Brendan Croker - John Lee Hooker - Taj Mahal - Keedy - Jon & Vangelis
09. Brendan Croker "Nothing But Time"4:05
Ariola, 262 102, 1991

 
 
Rock Over London Show #91/42 - Airs week of October 18 - 24 1991.
Track 4 music Brendan Croker - "Heart And home" 4:53
Distributed by radio Ventures 516 358-2250
Not for sale - For licensed broadcast use only

BLUES Album.
Compilation cd with as track 13:
Brendan Croker & the 5 O'Clock Shadows, "No Money At All".
Arcade compilation, ARC4728462, 1992.
A cover of 'Darlin' is made by Jan Rot, now called 'Liefje' (Brendan Croker / Jan Rot).
On the cd 'Rot voor jou' , 1996, BMG 74321 396192.
Lyrics in Dutch.

Dance Masters CD van het jaar: "Feel the rhythm 6", 1997

4. "Sittin' on ready" (Jive) 2:50

Steve Gibbons Band - Maintaining Radio Silence.
Track 2: Don't Trade Me In (For a New Model) - Steve Gibbons, Brendan Croker.
LP: 1988
CD label "Road Goes on Forever", RGF/SGDCD043, 1998.

School's Out - Jeronimo Groovy FM 88.9
LP: EMI Records Greece, 241985, 1990
Track 12:  Brendan Croker "No Money At All"



"No Money At All" written by Brendan Croker; played by Dutch coverband "Anytime". 



All You Need 15 Years of Love 1980 - 1995 vol. 3

Track 5: Brendan Croker & 5 O'Clock Shadows, "This Kind Of Life".

Acoustic cd from Hennie Kortsten "Calore", 2001.
Track 16: Coconut tree
Track 10: Dreaming my dreams (for Clara) (Allen Reynolds)

"Horses" was covered by Bonnie "Prince" Billy sings Greatest Palace Music album, 2004.
Phonogram Promotion. For promotion only, not for sale.
CD NR. 7.
Track 8: "Feel Like Going Home" The Notting Hillbillies.
Mercury 846583-2, 1990.

It's Blues Vol.1
German Pressing with Gary Moore - Albert Collins - John Lee Hooker - Texas - Brendan Croker - Bonnie Tyler - Blues Band -
Colin James - Joe Cocker - Bonnie Raitt - Lenny Kravitz - Ray Charles - Eric Clapton
LP: Virgin, 211041, CD: 
Year: 1990
Track 5: Railroad Blues (Live At Leeds)    5:12    Brendan Croker & The 5 O´Clock Shadows

It's Blues Vol.2
German Pressing with The Jeff Healey Band - John Mayall (& The Bluesbreakers) Albert Collins - Phil Carmen - Etta James - Paul Rodgers - Alexis Korner - Gary Moore - The Notting Hillbillies - Rocky Hill - The Vaughan Brothers
- The Robert Cray Band - Scott Walker 
LP: Virgin; CD: 261141
Year: 06.05.1991
Track 9: Blues Stay Away From Me - The Notting Hillbillies
   
The Notting Hillbillies "Your own sweet way" / Oleta Adams
Single 7" 45
Names on juke box strip
 
Het Nationale Muziek Kado 1990. Platen 10 daagse.
Track 15 The Notting Hillbillies "Your own sweet way" (M. Knopfler) 3'47

Artists: Paul Anka, Robin Beck and others. 12" Promo EP from Argentinia.
Track list in Spanish side two "Tu Dulce Manera" The Notting Hillbillies.
Polygram oo586, 1990

The Glory of Love, a 1990 super popgala, volume 2.
Track 7 The Notting Hillbillies featuring Mark Knopfler "Your own sweet way" 4'29

 
 
Village Green Volume Two (Japanese 2 CD set) Various Folk Indie Country
Track 09 Love Crazy / BRENDAN CROKER & THE 5 O'CLOCK SHADOWS


Track 07 Don't Forget It / STEVE PHILLIPS
Track 08 Tennessee Blues / STEVE PHILLIPS
Record label Pony Canyon, 1990.

DVD: VH-1 - Video Hits One. The Greatest Hits of Music Video. Contains:
Good Lovin - The Rascals; Just the Way it is, Baby - the Rembrandts; Ridin' the Rails - K.D. Lang and Take 6; Respect - Aretha Franklin;
Your Own Sweet Way - The Notting Hillbillies;
Baboleo - Gipsy Kings; Always - Atlantic Starr; Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey 
Warner Special Products, 1991.

One for the road
Track 12 "No money at all"

Gold Vol 1 No 7
Track 16 "Nothin' but time"

 
 
V/A * REPLAY VOL. 1 NO. 3 *
Track 2, ""Nothing but time" 4:08

Nightlife
Track 15 "No money at all"

Nightlife BLUES
B6: "No Money At All", Brendan Croker.
Cassette Thomsun Original ENB - 1993.

Still Got The Blues 2.
Track 13: Brendan Croker - "I Guess That Says It All".
Arcade 017960.61, 1993.

Honig Homeblues Collection
Track 14: Brendan Croker and the 5 O'Clock Shadows
featuring Eric Clapton on "This Kind Of Life".
BMG SP 6281, 1993.
This track was used for commercial spots in The Netherlands.


CD "Old New Borrowed And...Blues"
Track 14 Brendan Croker & The Serious Offenders "Feel Like Going Home".
Play That Beat!, AMC 59313, 1993
Muziek voor wakker Nederland.
Compilation cd from De Telegraaf 100 jaar.
Track 7. Brendan Croker, "No Money At All".
BMG Ariola 1993.

CD "For Your Ears Only".
Track 4 Brendan Croker "Sittin' on ready" 2:48.
Columbia Sampler SAMPCD 1994.


CD "Harvest".
Track 12 Notting Hillbillies "Your Own Sweet Way".
OPCD-1642, JCD-3123, 1994

CD "The Ultimate Music Collection" #12, Ballads
Track 13 Brendan Croker & The 5 O'Clock Shadows "This Kind Of Life" 3:16.
BMG Nederland BV, 1995

CD "Swinging The Blues". The Sunday Times Music Collection.
Track 12 Notting Hillbillies "Feel like going home".
Charly Holdings SPA ST18, 1995.
CD "Nighthawk", 36 songs zum hören und fühlen.
Compilation, PolyGram GmbH, 1996.
Track 15 The Notting Hillbillies "Your Own Sweet way"

CD "Baby Love" for Tommy's Campaign "giving baby's a better start".
Compilation 1996 EMI Records LTD.
Track 10 Notting Hillbillies "I Feel Like Going Home".

2 CD "Still Got The Blues".
Track 1.9; Brendan Croker, "I Guess That Says It All" 5'18
Track 2.3; Brendan Croker & The 5 O'Clock Shadows, "No Money At All" 3'36
Disky DOU 882402, 1997.   

POP essentials, CD one.
Compilation from Polygram Records Australia, CD1: 5651532, 1998.
Track 9. "Your Own Sweet Way", Notting Hillbillies.

24 Great Railroad Songs! "Premium Blend"
This collection is Dedicated to the Loving Memmory of Fellow Rail Fan:
Mr. Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003)
Tricks of the Light Records HRPCDM04, 2003.
Track 7; "Railroad Work Song", Notting Hillbillies w/ Mark Knopfler (5:27)

Ronnie Scott's Forty Five.
Track 2.03 "Your Own Sweet Way", The Notting Hillbillies.
Label: Universal Jazz, 18-10-2004

 
 
De Vieze gasten
CD: de Straffe Gasten, release 16-09-2011.
Track 1:
Derek & Bruno Deneckere "Sittin On Ready" from Brendan Croker

 
 
40 jaar Hubert on the Air
CD met Draaibare radio op CD! Met DJ Hubert zelf, Rootsmuziek, fragmenten uit programma's, live opnamen & interviews.
From radio Limburg "L1". Promotion copy not for sale! 12-2013.
Track 7: Yellow Roses - Brendan Croker & Umberto di Sento.
Tekst hubert: "Repetitione Necesse Est! In 1993 repeteerden Brendan Croker en ik voor een paar optredens als The Lost Hawaiians.
De omroep had toen nog een vleugel waarmee ik kon oefenen op deze country-classic van Hank Snow".

 

 

 

More PROMO MATERIAL & MERCHANDISING

Silvertone promo photo of Brendan Croker

Silvertone promo photo of Brendan Croker.

Silvertone promo photo of Brendan Croker & The 5 O'Clock Shadows.

 
      Brendan Croker & The 5 O'Clock Shadows vintage promo shirt
for the 1986 single "That's The Way All My Money Goes".

The
Notting
Hillbillies

missing...

Media information Warner USA
Presskit January 1990


The Notting Hillbillies Promo photo USA 1990.

Media information Warner USA 1990.

     The Notting Hillbillies
missing...
...on tour 1990 

A Notting Hillbillies Sherriff style badge.
Originally purchased at a performance the band made in Folkstone.

Promo item for the Notting Hillbillies album and CD.
Issued on a limited basis as a PROMOTIONAL ONLY ITEM by WARNER BROS. RECORDS in 1990.
A 5 1/2" ceramic corked jug, features the NOTTING HILLBILLIES logo on the front along with the Warner Bros. 
records logo underneath. ( It originally contained  100% ENGLISH TEA)

 
 


THE
NOTTING
Hillbillies
UK TOUR 97

Two mugs in dark green and black


    

Quiet Please!
The Notting Hillbillies on tour May 1997.

 

The four members of The Notting Hillbillies
received for the million sales of

'MISSING...PRESUMED HAVING A GOOD TIME'

a silver mini guitar with inscription.

 


The
Notting
Hillbillies
watch


 
 

Two keychains with THE NOTTING HILBILLIES


T-Shirts with "We only look like fools". Limited edition of 50 pieces
During the "Grand Opening" of the "We Only Look Like Fools" exhibition, (19 - 28 July 2008)
in Galerie Link, Ghent, Belgium.

Official "We only look like fools" exhibition catalogue.
This catalogue is a full colour 48 page book printed on thick glossy paper.
Each copy is individually numbered and signed by hand by both Brendan Croker and Jo Clauwaert.
A real collectors' item in a limited number of only 200 copies! (Still a few copies available)


T-shirt Brendan Croker
"Romance is not dead but it should be in hospital"

T-shirt Bruno & Brendan
"Before We Forget"
Both T-shirts have a strictly limited edition of 50 pieces each. (Still a few available)

    

Handwritten slates sold in Hamme, Belgium on 12-12-2009 for charity reasons.
Limited edition of 20 slates.

 
 

Official "how we see things" catalogue for the exhibition 11 July - 01 August 2010 in galery Link.
This catalogue is a full colour 48 page book printed on thick glossy paper.
Each copy is individually numbered and signed by hand by both Brendan Croker and Jo Clauwaert.
A real collectors' item in a limited number of only 100 copies! (
unfortunately sold out)

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