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Tara Records
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Founded in 1972 by Jack Fitzgerald to license Christy Moore's Prosperous LP
for the Irish Market. Customers in his Tara Records shop in Dublin couldn't get
hold of the Leader Records album at the time. The label slowly grew, with only
a handful of releases by 1980, but under the direction of MD John Cook the label
has become one of the premier Irish traditional music labels.
The short-lived American Tara Records label launched in 1973 (destributed by Famous) is
most likely not related to the Irish label.
Singles
TS 001 Irish Coffee - Top of the Morning
TS 002 Dev Shawn - Mind Of My Child / Playground In My Mind [1974] (PS)
TS 003 John Aherne - Snowfall / The Stranger [1974]
TS 004 Stich - To The Aisle / I Believe In You [1977] licensed from King of Music Records, Nashville
TS 005 Paula Christian - Baby Me / Sweet Water [1977] soul/disco recorded at the Record Plant in New York
TS 006 Christy Moore - John O'Dreams / One Last Cold Kiss [1980]
TS 007 Stockton's Wing - Fiddler John / Cameron Highlanders [1981]
TS 008 Stockton's Wing - Beautiful Affair / Ceili Swing [1981]
TS 009 Clannad - Mhσrag's na horo Gheallaidh / Strayed Away [1981] (no PS)
TS 010 Stockton's Wing - Walk Away / Lasagne [1982] (PS)
TS 011 Philip King - Arc Of A Diver / Trouble / Factory Girls [1982]
TS 012 Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game / Strayed Away [1982] (PS)
TS 013 Steve Cooney & Stocktons Wing - Skidoo / Ice Fields / Bay Of Tranquility [1982] (PS)
TS 014 Clannad - I See Red / Ta me Mo Shui [1983] (PS)
TS 015 C'est Clave - You Hold The Key / Programmed Romance (3/1983] (PS)
TS 016 Clannad - Newgrange / Seachran Charn Tsiail [1983] (PS)
TS 017 Moving Hearts - Oil Sheiks / Promises [1983]
TS 018 Clannad - Robin (The Hooded Man) / Lady Marian [1984] (PS)
TS 019 Freddie White - Frozen Heart / The Birth of the Blues [1984] (PS)
TS 020 Moving Hearts - State Music / May Morning Dew [1984]
TS 021 Clannad - Now Is Here / Together We [1984]
TS 022 Freddie White - Long Distance Runner / Christmas In Capetown [1984]
TS 023 Freddie White - It's You / You Don't Know Me [1985]
TS 024 April South - Drift Away / I'm Not Foolin' [1985] (PS)
TS 025 Clannad (with Bono) - In A Lifetime / Indoor [1986]
TS 026 Those Nervous Animals - How Does The Shopper Feel / Town (2/1986]
TS 027 Freddie White - Frozen Heart / Long Distance Runner [1986] (PS)
TS 028 Rita Connolly - The Defence Of Hens Castle / Death Of Richard In Iron [1986]
TS 029 Flex & The Fastweather - The Darkness / Little Pieces [1986]
TS 030 Those Nervous Animals - Damien / The Business Enterprise (live at Self Aid) [1986]
TS 031 Freddie White - Silas Rat / (dub mix) [1986] (PS)
TS 032 Henry McCullough - Gone With Another / All Shook Up // Can't Help Falling In Love [1987]
TS 033 Clannad - Something To Believe In / Second Nature
TS 034 Freddie White - Have A Nice Day / Desperados Waiting for A Train // When Jesus Gets To Town / Martha 12"/K7
TS 035 Davy Spillane - Theme For Eurovision '88 / Daires Dream [1988?]
TS 036 Shaun Davey - from The Relief of Derry Symphony EP 7" [1990] (PS)
Rita Connolly - The White Horse
Gerard McChrystal - Air from The Relief of Derry Symphony
Liam O'Flynn - Inside the Walls of Derry
KKS 1 Ken Kiernan - You Know It's All Right / The River [1990]
Albums
1001 Christy Moore - Prosperous LP [1972] [licensed from Trailer LER 035]
note that some copies carry the number 1000 on the sleeve due to a printing error
1002 Sιamus Ennis The Pure Drop [1973]
1003 Basil Henriques Sounds of Sunset with ... [1973]
1004 Jimmy Brewer Changin' Country
1005 John Aherne At Home and Abroad [1974]
1006 The Pirates To Ireland They Did Fly [1975]
1007 Roger Mulvihill - Goin' Home [1976]
1008 John and James Kelly (later reissued as Outlet PTICD 1041]
1009 Sιamus Ennis The Fox Chase [1979]
2001 Aengus [1978]
2002 Christy Moore - The Iron Behind The Velvet LP [1978] insert
2003 Muintir Lewis Weeds in the Garden [1978]
2004 Stockton's Wing - s/t LP [1978]
2005 Christy Moore Live in Dublin [1978]
2006 Noel Hill And Tony Linnane - s/t LP [1978]
2007 Paddy Glackin And Paddy Keenan - Doublin' LP [1979]
2008 Christy Moore Prosperous (reissue of Tara 1001]
2009 Paddy Glackin and Jolyon Jackson Hidden Ground [1980]
2010 Oisin - s/t (1st) (orig:1976) LP [1980]
2011 Oisνn Bealoideas [1978]
2012 Oisνn Over the Moors to Maggie
2013 Oisνn The Jeannie C.
2014 v/a The Irish Folk Collection LP [1985]
2015 Those Nervous Animals Hyperspace! [1985]
2016 Geraldine MacGowan Winds of Change
2017 Davy Spillane Band Out of the Air [1988]
3001 Planxty - After The Break LP [1979] insert
3002 Andy Irvine - Rainy Sundays...Windy Dreams LP [1980]
3003 v/a - High Kings Of Tara LP [1980]
3004 Stockton's Wing Take a Chance
3005 Planxty - The Woman I Loved So Well LP [1980]
3006 The Brendan Voyage: An Orchestral Suite for Uilleann Pipes, played by Liam O'Flynn and composed by Shaun Davey [1980]
3007 Clannad - Crann Ull LP [1980]
3008 Clannad - Fuaim LP [1982]
3009 Stockton's Wing Light in the Western Sky [1982]
3010 Clannad - Magical Ring LP [1983] insert
3011 Shaun Davey - The Pilgrim LP [1984]
3012 Clannad Legend [1984]
3013 Freddie White Long Distance Runner [1985]
3014 Moving Hearts - The Storm LP [1985]
3015 The Emerald Isle Singers Memories of Ireland
3016 Clannad Macalla [1985]
3017 Granuaile, composed by Shaun Davey, Rita Connolly vocals, Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes) [1986]
3018 Diarmuid O'Leary and The Bards Classic Irish Ballads
3019 Davy Spillane Atlantic Bridge [1988]
3020 Danny Doyle Twenty Years A Growing [1988]
3021 Clannad Sirius [1989]
3022 Clannad - Pastpresent
3023 Davy Spillane Shadow Hunter [1990]
3024 The Relief of Derry Symphony, composed by Shaun Davey, with Rita Connolly & Liam O'Flynn [1992]
3025 Clannad - Anam
3026 Davy Spillane Pipedreams [1991]
3027 Andy Irvine and Davy Spillane East Wind [1992]
3028 Stockton's Wing The Crooked Rose [1992]
3029 Rita Connolly [1992]
3030 The Seville Suite, composed by Bill Whelan and featuring Davy Spillane and Mαirtνn O'Connor [1992]
3031 Liam O'Flynn Out to Another Side [1993]
3032 The Pilgrim, composed by Shaun Davey [1994] note that this is different to the LP 3011 above.
3033 Rita Connolly Valparaiso [1995]
3034 Liam O'Flynn The Given Note [1995]
3035 Nollaig Casey and Arty McGlynn Causeway [1995]
3036 Stockton's Wing Letting Go [1995]
3037 Liam O'Flynn The Piper's Call [1998]
3038 Maurice Lennon Brian Boru: The High King of Tara (2001]
4001 Stockton's Wing - American Special LP [1984]
4002 Stockton's Wing Take One: Live (also issued by Revolving Records)
4003 Various The Sound of Stone: Artists for Mullaghmore (reissue of original Bagpuss CD)
4004 The Voice Squad Many's the Foolish Youth [1987]
4005 The Fallen Angels Happy Ever After [1996]
4006 Maca Blood and Gold [1998]
4007 Phil Callery From the Edge of Memory [1999]
4008 Josephine Marsh (reissue of JM CD 001]
4009 Beginish [1998; reissue of INIS 001]
4010 Alan Kelly Mosaic (reissue of Black Box release)
4011 Frankie Gavin Fierce Traditional [2001]
4012 Zoλ Conway
4013 The Voice Squad Holywood
4014 Robin Dempsey Spirit of an Irish Christmas [2004]
4015 Emma Kate Tobia An Irish Dream
4016 Stockton's Wing Take One: Live (reissue)
4017 Shaun Davey May We Never Have to Say Goodbye [2006]
4018 Zoλ Conway The Horse's Tail [2006]
9001 Various The Best of Irish Jigs and Reels, Volume 1 [1985] cassette
9002 Various The Best of Irish Jigs and Reels, Volume 2 [1987] cassette
9003 John Aherne and The Jolly Beggarmen The Best of Irish Ballads
CD4 Stockton's Wing - The Stockton's Wing Collection [1991]
BCD 501 Who Really Discovered North America Boxed set containing Tim Severin's book The Brendan Voyage and CD 3006
BCD 502 Various The Very Best of Irish Jigs, Reels and Songs
TBC1* Christy Moore The Folk Collection (triple cassette containing 2002, 2005 and 2008)
thanks to Eddie Kelly and Alistair Banfield for his help
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