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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 label – www.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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