Several people made recordings at the Club.
Of particular note were many fine recordings taken by Ashley Preston. For the technically minded he used stereo half track reel-to-reel, with 10.5 inch reels recording at 15 inches per second. Whilst Ashley destroyed the master tapes when he emigrated to Spain, he did convert them to CD. Sadly most of the CDs are missing, but there is still a chance that they will surface. Keep looking Ashley!
I hope to add more short clips of recordings to this website, subject to permissions.
The following recordings are known to exist:
An evening with Diz Disley and Chris Newman, recorded late 1970 or early 1971 by Peter Brown.
Country Roads to Turville Folk - a stereo live vinyl album recorded at the Club by Ashley Preston. Click for Track List.
A fabulous stereo recording by Ashley Preston of an evening with The Golliard, date unknown.
An evening with Hratch recorded by Rodney Pickett.
Jeremy Riches' Turville tapes. Click here to listen to clips of the recordings.
The Romany - A stereo live vinyl album of the 'near resident' band, recorded Sat July 3rd 1971, at about the time they disbanded. Click for details.
Keith Pearson's Right Hand Band - Recorded on 20th October 1979 by Stephen Wills & Chris Butler. A fine mono recording. It includes a version of Greensleaves that leaves you speechless.
Geoff Duckworth has recordings of the following:
- Jacqui & Bridie (undated)
- John & Chris Leslie, 1st November 1975
- John and Chris Leslie, Hratch, Brian Willoughby, 10th July 1977
- Louis Robinson, Flaky Pastry, Second Edition, 24th July 1976
- Dave Philips, Hedley Kaye, 10th July 1976:
- Chronicle, 20th March 1976
- Hedley Kaye, Foggy, 29th November 1975
The following albums bought at the club are owned by Geoff Duckworth:
- Keith Pearson's Right Hand Band - Keith Pearson's Right Hand Band
- White on Black - White on Black
- Drowsy Maggie - Drowsy Maggie
- Therapy - Bringing the House Down
- Therapy - One Night Stand
- Therapy - > Schizophrenia
- Therapy - Super Troupers
- Rhona - Sings for Free
- Rhona - Lady for Today
- Jacqui and Bridie - Hello Friend
- Jacqui and Bridie - How can you keep from Singing
- Jacqui and Bridie - Come day Go Day
- Tuxedo Bay - Tuxedo Bay
- Terry McCann - Terry McCann
- Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey - That's Not the Way it's got to Be
- Norman Castle & Gill - Free & Easy
- Norman Castle & Gill - Boney Fingers
- John and Chris Leslie - The Ship of Time
- Foggy - Foggy
- Foggy - Patchwork Album
- Second Edition - Not Really Bluegrass
- Chronicle - Two Sides of Chronicle
- Flaky Pastry - Ingredients
Ray Wilkinson has over 70 hours of recordings he took at the Club of of the following: Therapy, Flaky Pastry, Foggy, Jack Hudson, Pat Nelson, Keith Pearson, Windfall, Rhona Jones, The Yetties, Therapy, Roy Bailey, Hratch, Moonshadow, Jeremy Taylor, Norman Castle & Gill, Flaky Pastry, Steve Rostron, Foggy Dewo (Foggy), Jacqui & Bridie, The McCalmans, Derek Brimstone, Dave Cartwright,Talisman, Roy & Val Bailey, Pam Ayres, Keith Pearson, Filigree, Green Ginger, Hedley Kaye, Harvey Andrews & Graham Cooper, Ian Campbell, Coppermill, Jack Hudson, The Exiles, Ron Smith, Decameron, Mosaic, Doug Porter, Richard Digance, and The Golliard. Wow!
He also purchased many of the original albums of the artists and has a signed copy of Pam Ayres' poetry book that she had to pay to print herself as no publisher was interested. Her latest book is in the top 10... Remember the story of Decca and the Beatles?
There are believed to be other recordings that will surface. Watch this space! I intend to respect the copyright of the artists, and regret that none of the recordings are available, so please do not ask for copies! Please contact me if you know of any other recordings.
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