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Waltons   Warner Bros/WB/WEA   Wavelength   Waverley  

West Winds   Whirling Discs   Wild Boar Music   Windham Hill  

Windmill   Windsong/Strange Fruit   Wing  Wooded Hill   World Music 

World Music Network   World Network   World Village  

Wren Records   Wundertüte


Waltons

Dublin-based music shop which has produced a number of cassettes and CDs related to tutorials – www.waltons.ie.

 

1323                            Various – Ireland’s Best Session Tunes

1324                            Various – Ireland’s Best Fiddle Tunes

1325                            Various – Ireland’s Best Tin Whistle Tunes

1341                            Tommy Peoples – Fiddler’s Fancy: Fifty Irish Fiddle Tunes

(1986)


Warner Bros/WB/WEA

This multinational has undergone several name-changes over the years and once had a Dublin office. Some releases prefixed 9031 were issued on its East West offshoot while others with that number were released by The Pogues on the Pogue Mahone label.

CDNYR 1                   The Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1987)

 

DDCD 1                     De Dannan – Ballroom (1988)

 

IR 0230                       Moving Hearts – Live Hearts (1983 – also issued as 2292

402302)

 

K/10104/2401011       Planxty – Words and Music (1983)

 

WEA 58387                Moving Hearts (1981 – also issued as 258387)

WEA 58718                Moving Hearts – Dark End of the Street (1982 – also issued as

2292 501442)

 

WEA LOF1                Liam O’Flynn (1988)

 

WX 104                       Christy Moore – Unfinished Revolution (1987)

WX 471                       The Pogues – The Rest of the Best (1992)

 

2292-240150-2            Christy Moore – The Time Has Come (1983)

2292-246156-2            Christy Moore – Voyage (1989)

2292-40230-2              Moving Hearts – Live Hearts

2292-40427-2              Christy Moore – Ride On (1984)

2292-40763-2              Christy Moore – Ordinary Man (1986)

2292-42134-2              Christy Moore – Unfinished Revolution (1987)

2292-42168-2              Moving Hearts

2292-44493-2              The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace with God (1989

reissue of the item above)

2292-44494-2              The Pogues – Red Roses for Me (reissue of 1984 Stiff LP)

2292-44495-2              The Pogues – Rum Sodomy and the Lash (reissue of 1985 Stiff

LP)

2292-46086-2              The Pogues – Peace and Love (1989)

2292-50144-2              Moving Hearts – Dark End of the Street

 

4509-93463-2              The Pogues – Waiting for Herb (1993)

4509-96653-2              The Bucks (Ron Kavana, Terry Woods with Paddy Keenan,

Mick McAuley, etc) – Dancin’ to the  Céilí Band (1994)

 

9031-72554-2              The Pogues – Hell’s Ditch (1990)

9031-75351-2              Christy Moore – The Christy Moore Collection ’91 (1991)

9031-75405-2              The Pogues – Best of ... (1991)

9031-77341-2              The Pogues – The Rest of the Best

 

0630-11210-2              The Pogues – Pogue Mahone (1995)

 

5046-67179-2              Various – Dónal Lunny’s Definitive Lisdoonvarna

5046-67266-2              Christy Moore – Ride On/Voyage

5046-67267-2              Christy Moore – The Time Has Come/Ordinary Man

5046-69532-2              Moving Hearts – Dónal Lunny’s Definitive Moving Hearts

(2004)

5101-19979-2              Moving Hearts – The Platinum Collection (2007)

 


 

Wavelength

Dublin-based label.

CD 001                       Barry Gleeson – Path Across the Ocean (1994)

 


 

Waverley

 

Glasgow-based label, specialising in Scottish music and song which was eventually taken over by the EMI Group – information courtesy of John Cummins.

ZLP 2064                    Various – His Name Was Connolly (1966; Republican songs by

Peadar O'Mally, Diarmuid O'Neill, Peter O'Toole with the Liam

Mallory Band    two of the singers are reputed to be Dominic

Behan using assumed names)

 


 

West Winds

 

Part of the Celtic Music group.

 

 

WW CD 004               Grianán – The Maid of Erin (1993)

 


 

Whirling Discs

Dervish’s own Sligo-based label – www.dervish.ie.

WHRL 001                 Dervish – Harmony Hill (1993)

WHRL 002                 Dervish – Playing with Fire

WHRL 003                 Dervish – At the End of the Day (1996)

WHRL 004                 Dervish – Live in Palma

WHRL 005                 Dervish – Midsummer’s Night  (1999)

WHRL 006                 Dervish – Decade (2002)

WHRL 007                 Dervish – Spirit (2003)

WHRL 008                 Various – Simpatico (2003)

WHRL 009                 Dervish – A Healing Heart

WHRL 010                 No Crows – Live at the Strand (2006)

WHRL 011                 Dervish – Travelling Show (2007)

WHRL 012                 No Crows – Magpie (2008)

WHRL 013                 The Unwanted – Music from the Atlantic Fringe (2009)

 


 

Wild Boar Music

 

Belgian labelwww.wildboarmusic.com

 

WBM21004                Shantalla (1999)

WBM21030                Shantalla – Seven Evenings, Seven Mornings (undated)

 


 

Windham Hill

 

Based in Beverly Hills, California, Windham Hill issued a number of Irish-related releases in its catalogue of ambient music, most, if not all, were produced by Mícheál Ó Domnhaill.

 

WD-1031                    Nightnoise

WD-1057                    Nightnoise – Something of Time

WD-1076                    Nightnoise – At the End of the Evening

WD-1097                    Nightnoise – The Parting Tide

 

01934 11111               Nightnoise – A Windham Hill Retrospective

01934 11130               Nightnoise – Shadow of Time

01934 11166               Nightnoise – A Different Shore

01934 11178               Various – Celtic Season

01934 11195               Nightnoise – The White Horse Sessions (1997)

01934 11247               Patrick Cassidy – Deirdre of the Sorrows

 

09134 12402               Patrick Cassidy – Famine Remembrance

 

 

Numbers unknown     Various – A Celtic Christmas (several volumes and not nearly as

cheesy as it sounds!)

 


 

Windmill

Details unknown.

WMD 151                  The McPeake Family – Irish to Be Sure (1972)

 


 

Windsong/Strange Fruit

London-based label set up to release live recordings from BBC radio.

WIN CD 060              The Bothy Band – Live in Concert (1994 release of recordings

from 1976 and 1978)

WIN CD 071              Gay and Terry Woods – In Concert (1995 release of recordings

from 1976-1978)

 


Wing

UK budget label, long defunct subsidiary of Philips – some listings courtesy of John Cummins.

 

WL1039                      Eileen Donaghy – Shamrock Favourites

WL1042                      Eileen Donaghy – Pub Favourites

WL1149                      Malachy Doris Céilí Band  with Peter Sherry – Lovely Leitrim

 


Wooded Hill

Short-lived Somerset label which reissued everything from Captain Beefheart to Ralph McTell in CD format.

HILL CD 4                 The Dubliners – The Best of ...

HILL CD 9                 The Johnstons – Colours of the Dawn

HILL CD 12               The Dubliners

HILL CD 13               Finbar Furey – Traditional Irish Pipe Music (1997 reissue of 1969 Transatlantic LP)

 


World Music

Charlie Lennon’s Spiddal-based label.

WOM101                   Charlie Lennon – Musical Memorie, Volume 1

WOM102                   Charlie Lennon with Frankie Gavin – Flight from the Hungry

Land

WOM104                   Charlie Lennon – Time for a Tune (2000)

WOM106                   Charlie Lennon – The Mass of St. Kevin (2001)

WOM110                   Charlie Lennon and Johnny Óg Connolly – Dusk Till Dawn

(2002)

 


 

World Music Network

London-based label which has issued many CDs in association with The Rough Guides – www.worldmusic.net

RGNET 1006 CD      Various – The Rough Guide to Irish Music (1996)

RGNET 1036 CD      Various – The Rough Guide to Irish Folk (1999)

RGNET 1148 CD      Various – The Rough Guide to Irish Music, Second Edition

(2005)

RGNET 1155 CD      Various – The Rough Guide to Celtic Music (2005)

RGNET 1226 CD      Various – The Rough Guide to Irish Folk, Second Edition (2009)

 


 

World Network

 

No information available.

 

WDR 55833               Various – Treasures of Irish Music (1995; live recordings of Altan,

De Dannan, etc.)

 


 

World Village

 

No details available.

 

468029                        Susan McKeown – Sweet Liberty (2004)

 


 

Wren Records

 

Dublin-based label http://www.wren.ie/.

 

WRCD 401                 Arcanadh – Soundings (2004)

WRCD 402                 The West Ocean String Quartet – Unwrapping Dreams

(2004)

WRCD 1403               Nollaig – Under a Pale Moon (2004)

WRCD 1404               Jason O’Rourke and Ruadhraí O’Kane – Roguery Road

(2004)

WRCD 1405               Luke Daniels – Secret Sessions (2004)

WRCD 1601               Arcanadh – Turning of the Day (2006)

WRCD 1602               Luke Daniels – Lost Music of the Gaels (2006)

 

 


 

Wundertüte

 

German label – still operating?

 

TUT 72.133                Davy Spillane – Atlantic Bridge

TUT 72.134                Skylark (1987)

CD TUT 72.136          Dolores Keane (1988)

CD TUT 72.139          Skylark – All of It (1989)

TUT 72.140                Andy M. Stewart – Songs of Robert Burns (1989)

CD TUT 72.141          Andy Irvine – Rainy Sundays ... Windy Dreams (1989 reissue

of 1980 LP)

CD TUT 72.144          Joe and Antoinette McKenna – Magenta Music (1990)

CD TUT 72.145          De Dannan – A Jacket of Batteries (1988)

CD TUT 72.154          Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman – Out of Court

(1991)

CD TUT 72.160          Various – Folk Friends

CD TUT 72.166          Finbar and Eddie Furey – Four Green Fields

CD TUT 72.168          Mike Hanrahan (1994)

CD TUT 72.4004        Dolores Keane, John Faulkner and Éamonn Curran –

Farewell to Éirinn (reissue of Mulligan LUN 043)

TUT CD 72.4007        Dick Gaughan and Andy Irvine – Parallel Lines (1981)

TUT CD 72.7478        Various – Best of the Irish Folk Festival: The 1970s (1988)

TUT CD 72.7479        Various – Best of the Irish Folk Festival: Volume 2

TUT CD 72.7490        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: Back to the Future

TUT CD 72.7491        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: Jubilee – 10th Festival

Tour

TUT CD 72.7492        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: The Next Generation

TUT CD 72.7493        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: Harvest Storm (1993)

TUT CD 72.7495        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: The Women

TUT CD 72.7497        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: Spirit of Ireland (1997)

TUT CD 72.7498        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: Celtic Voyage (1998)

TUT CD 72.7499        Various – The Irish Folk Festival: Celtic Waves

 

TUT 74321407642     Various – The Irish Folk Festival: Celtic Roots & Celtic Moods

 


 

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