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Welcome to the Music of Buddy Williams
Buddy left behind more than songs; he left a lasting imprint on Australia's cultural story.
His recordings helped shape the foundation of Australian Country Music.
Here, you will find a selection of his music and lists of his recordings.
We hope you enjoy the musical journey of a true Australian poet.
*This section will continue to grow as new additions are added.
Information courtesy of Garry Coxhead, veteran broadcaster, country music historian, and producer on some of Buddy's albums.
EMI - Regal Zonophone - Columbia Releases.
New studio recordings
60 X 78s = (120 songs)
24 singles Plus two additional tracks - Horse Teams and Rules of Love - recorded c. 1963/64 but not released until 1978 on the album I'll Stroll Down Memory Lane with You.
Album: Buddy Williams sings Jimmie Rodgers
10 new songs recorded for the album
2 songs added from previous recordings.
Total 12 tracks
Re-released EMI material
2 X 45" EPs material from 78s
The EPs were titled Wedding Bells and The Kelly Gang
Columbia 45 reissues
The Death of Hank Williams
Missing in Action
The Flying Doctor
A Mother as Lovely as You
Special 7" single (EMI-601 1981)
In 1981 EMI rereleased Heading for the Warwick Rodeo Flip side: The Bushmen's Rodeo
Issued to commemorate Buddy receiving the keys to the City of Warwick and the 40th anniversary of his famous rodeo song.
12" Albums with rereleased 78s
Outback Ballads (1960)
I'll Stroll Down Memory Lane With You (1978)
Bushland of my Dreams (1979)
Blazin' The Trail (1983)
Over Hilltop and Hollow (1985)
Away Out on the Plains (1987)
CD Releases
Under Western Skies - re-released singles from 1960-1964 (1991)
Regal Zonophone Collection - 3-CD set (1997)
Garry with Buddy
Garry Coxhead
Extended plays
Title | Label | Released |
|---|---|---|
"I'm Gonna Tear Down the Mailbox" / "Beyond the Setting Sun" | Regal Zonophone | 18 June 1951 |
"The Flying Doctor" / "A Mother As Lovely As You" | Regal Zonophone | 30 Oct 1951 |
"There's Another Angel In Heaven" / "Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals" | Regal Zonophone | 30 Oct 1951 |
"I Can't Stand Sitting in a Cell" / "Gambling Polka Dot Blues" | Regal Zonophone | 30 Oct 1951 |
"Too Old to Cut The Mustard" / "Back Street Affair" | Regal Zonophone | 18 Nov 1952 |
"My Mother Must Have Been a Girl Like You" / "I Love You a Thousand Ways" | Regal Zonophone | 18 Nov 1952 |
"Christmas Bells" / "Dear Old Dorrigo" | Regal Zonophone | 18 Nov 1952 |
"Somebody's Stolen My Honey" / "Blue Since You've Been Gone" | Regal Zonophone | 18 Nov 1952 |
"Death of Hank Williams" / "Missing In Action" | Regal Zonophone | 3 July 1953 |
"Pentridge Jail" / "Spirit of Progress" | Regal Zonophone | 3 July 1953 |
"I Can't Forget My Memories" / "Swagman's Friend" | Regal Zonophone | 3 July 1953 |
"The Old Sundowner" / "Australia's Kitty Gill" | Regal Zonophone | 3 July 1953 |
"Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship" / "The Ring" | Regal Zonophone | 2 Oct 1953 |
"The Blacksheep's Return to the Fold" / "The Kelly Gang" | Regal Zonophone | 2 Oct 1953 |
"In Daddy's Footsteps" / "I'd Rather Have a Pony Than a Girl" | Regal Zonophone | 2 Oct 1953 |
"I've Mortgaged the Farm Again" / "Sailor Boy" | Regal Zonophone | 22 June 1955 |
"Away Out On the Plain" / "Ben Hall the Bushranger" | Regal Zonophone | 22 June 1955 |
"Busy Buzzin' Round" / "A Yellow Dog's Love" | Regal Zonophone | 22 June 1955 |
"There's Sunshine On My Side of the Street" / "She Left Me for the Joys of Gold" | Regal Zonophone | 22 June 1955 |
"Little Red Bonnet" / "Kings Cross Boogie" | Regal Zonophone | 5 Oct 1956 |
"Answer to Missing in Action" / "The Ringer" | Regal Zonophone | 5 Oct 1956 |
"Mareeba Rodeo" / "Poison Darts" | Regal Zonophone | 5 Oct 1956 |
"Mummy Didn't Tuck Me Into Bed Last Night" / "Lest We Forget" | Regal Zonophone | 5 Oct 1956 |
"Flynn of the Inland" / "My Dream of Hank and Jimmie" | Regal Zonophone | 29 Aug 1958 |
"I'll Stroll Down Memory Lane With You" / "Don't Forget Me Little Darling" | Regal Zonophone | 29 Aug 1958 |
"The Prisoner's Song" / "On an Ocean of Broken Dreams" | Regal Zonophone | 29 Aug 1958 |
"In the Doghouse" / "Bowlegged Stockman" | Regal Zonophone | 29 Aug 1958 |
"Hank, It Will Never Be The Same Without You" / "Aren't I Lucky" | Regal Zonophone | 18 Sep 1959 |
"Rocking Alone in an Old Rocking Chair" / "Rhythm of the Roundup" | Regal Zonophone | 18 Sep 1959 |
"Polling Day" / "Dave Sands" | Regal Zonophone | 18 Sep 1959 |
"Anybody's Lover" / "The Nightmare" | Regal Zonophone | 24 March 1960 |
"Christmas Blues" / "What's the Use?" | Regal Zonophone | 24 March 1960 |
"The Snowy Mountains" / "Ten Years" | Regal Zonophone | 24 March 1960 |
"Under Western Skies" / "When The Cactus Is In Bloom" | Regal Zonophone | 22 Sep 1960 |
"The Panther" / "The Spice of Life" | Regal Zonophone | 22 Sep 1960 |
"My Sleepy Valley Home" / "Roley" | Regal Zonophone | 22 Sep 1960 |
"Mother Went A-Walking" / "Crazy" | Regal Zonophone | 1 Dec 1961 |
"I Went Home to Mother" / "Teardrops" | Regal Zonophone | 1 Dec 1961 |
Journey's End /
Gonna Ride Till the Sun Goes Down | Regal Zonophone | 1 Dec 1961 |
"True Friends Are So Few" / "Rockin' Cowboy" | Regal Zonophone | 1 Dec 1962 |
"Gonna Ride Till the Sun Goes Down" / "My Sleepy Valley Home" (Recut) | Regal Zonophone | 1 Dec 1962 |
"Please Light the Darkness for Me" / "I've Forgotten How to Cry" | Regal Zonophone | 20 May 1963 |
"Snow On the Mountain" / "Back to Alice Springs" | Regal Zonophone | 20 May 1963 |
"When Jesus Calls" / "The Cross of Jesus" | Regal Zonophone | 20 May 1963 |
"The Rules of Love" / "Horse Teams" | Regal Zonophone | 1979 |
"Way Up North" / "Pal Of My Heart" | Regal Zonophone | 26 Feb 1964 |
"I'm Moving Out" / "Pretty Girl" | Regal Zonophone | 26 Feb 1964 |
"I've Been Around" / "A Letter to Slim" | Regal Zonophone | 26 Feb 1964 |
"Chapel Bells" / "We're Both Sorry Now" | RCA | |
"Lofty" / "My Windflower State" | RCA | |
"Les Dingo" / "Lucky Horseshoe" | RCA | |
"Wild River" / "This Particular Baby" | RCA | |
"That Old Gum Tree" / "Black Diamond" | RCA | |
"The Big Banana Land" / "Who Can Make a Flower" | RCA | July 1969 |
"The Sounds Of The Bush At Night" / "The Sad Eyed Zebu Steer" | RCA | |
"Back O' Bourke" / "Spider From The Gwydir" | RCA | |
"Buddy Williams At the Opera House" / "Mighty Moonbi Range" | RCA | 1974 |
"The Wreck of the Tasman Bridge" / "35 Wonderful Years" | RCA | |
"The Black Sheep" / "Freight Train Blues" | Regal Zonophone | 18 June 1951 |
"Wedding Bells" / "Murrumbidgee Blues" | Regal Zonophone | 18 June 1951 |
"My Darling River Rose" / "Little Jackeroo" | Regal Zonophone | 21 Sep 1950 |
"Riding Down the Wallaby Trail" / "Always Call Me Darling" | Regal Zonophone | 21 Sep 1950 |
"Dear Old Aussie Blues" / "Beneath the Queensland Moon" | Regal Zonophone | 21 Sep 1950 |
"They Call Me The Clarence River Yodeller" / "Where The Jacarandas Bloom" c. 1936 Private Recordings1
"That Dapple Grey Broncho Of Mine" / "They Call Me the Rambling Yodeler" 7 Sep 1939 Regal Zonophone G23854
"Lonesome for You Mother Dear" / "Give a Little Credit to Your Dad" 7 Sep 1939 Regal Zonophone G23855
"The Orphan's Lament" / "My Moonlight Lullaby" 7 Sep 1939 Regal Zonophone G23856
"Happy Jackaroo" / "Dreaming of My Mother" 14 May 1940 Regal Zonophone G24026
"A Cowboy's Life Is Good Enough for Me" / "Under the Old Wattle Tree" 14 May 1940 Regal Zonophone G24027
"The Australian Bushman's Yodel" / "There's an Empty Bunk in the Bunkhouse" 14 May 1940 Regal Zonophone G24028
"The Shearer's Goodbye" / "Memories of Home" 25 Nov 1940 Regal Zonophone G24187
"The Newsboy's Message" / "Going Home" 25 Nov 1940 Regal Zonophone G24221
"The Wandering Gambler" / "Happy Cowboys" 25 Nov 1940 Regal Zonophone G24326
"Headin' for the Warwick Rodeo" / "Can a Black Sheep Be Forgiven?" 14 Nov 1941 Regal Zonophone G24382
"The Crepe Upon the Little Cabin Door" / "The Maple on the Hill" 14 Nov 1941 Regal Zonophone G24409
"When the Candle Lights are Gleaming" / "Let's Grow Old Together" 14 Nov 1941 Regal Zonophone G24482
"The Dying Soldier's Prayer" / "I'll Be Back Never Fear" 20 Nov 1941 Regal Zonophone G24506
"The Face On the Bar Room Floor" / "Wingie the Railway Cop" 20 Nov 1941 Regal Zonophone G24545
"Down By the Old Beaten Trail" / "The Australian Hillbilly" 20 Nov 1941 Regal Zonophone G24554
"What a Pal My Mother Might Have Been to Me" / "Where the White Faced Cattle Roam" 18 May 1942 Regal Zonophone G24596
"My Pretty Quadroon" / "Wonder Valley" 18 May 1942 Regal Zonophone G24632
"Blazin' the Trail" / "A Mother's Plea" 18 May 1942 Regal Zonophone G24670
"Where the Roly Poly Grass Rolls O'er the Plain" / "Music in My Pony's Feet" 22 Dec 1942 Regal Zonophone G24822
"Stockmen in Uniform" / "Sunny Australian Sweetheart" 22 Dec 1942 Regal Zonophone G24851
"Riding Home At Sundown" / "Bushland of My Dreams" 22 Dec 1942 Regal Zonophone G24883
"Brown Eyed Sweetheart Of Mine" / "The Bushman's Rodeo" 16 March 1945 Regal Zonophone G24929
"The Drover's Song" / "Where The Lazy Murray River Rolls Along" 16 March 1945 Regal Zonophone G24947
"Bushland Paradise" / "Rhythm In The Saddle" 16 March 1945 Regal Zonophone G24963
"The Overlander Trail" / "Over Hill Top And Hollow" 19 Sep 1946 Regal Zonophone G25052
"Riding Down the Valley" / "The Mountain Barbecue" 19 Sep 1946 Regal Zonophone G25069
"Chain Lightning the Outlaw" / "The Orphan Boy and His Dog" 19 Sep 1946 Regal Zonophone G25078
"Down the Old Bush Track" / "Pioneering Days" 25 Mar 1948 Regal Zonophone G25224
"The Stockman and the Outlaw" / "My Sunny Southern Home" 25 Mar 1948 Regal Zonophone G25237
"The Chicken Song" / Eureka" | Regal Zonophone | 23 Apr 1948 |
Compilation albums and special releases
Title | Released | Label |
|---|---|---|
Buddy Williams Sings Outback Ballads | unknown | EMI |
Buddy Williams "I'll Stroll Down Memory Lane With You" | 1978 | EMI |
Buddy Williams "Bushland Of My Dreams" | 1979 | EMI |
Buddy Williams "Blazin' the Trail" | 1983 | EMI |
Buddy Williams "Over Hilltop and Hollow" | 1985 | EMI |
The Immortal Buddy Williams "Away Out On The Plain" | 1987 | EMI |
Buddy Williams "Under Western Skies" | 1991 | EMI |
Buddy Williams Regan Zonophone Collection – Vol 1 | 1997 | EMI |
Buddy Williams – Last Outback Entertainer | 12 July 2011 | Rocket Group Party |
Buddy Williams Sings Jimmy Rodgers | 1962 | EMI |
Singles
Albums
Title | Label | Released |
|---|---|---|
"It Sure Makes You Wonder, Don't It?" / "Christmas Boogie" / "Rocky Roundup Show" / "Our Wedding" | Regal Zonophone | 5 Oct 1956 |
The Kelly Gang | EMI Columbia | 1957 |
Cattle Train | RCA | 1966 |
The Old North Queensland Line | RCA | 1968 |
Buddy's Country | RCA | 1983 |
Wedding Bells | EMI Columbia | 1951 |
Title | Release Date | Label |
|---|---|---|
Buddy Williams Remembers | 19 Jan 1965 | RCA |
Family Album | 19 Jan 1966 | RCA |
Buddy Williams Remembers Vol:2 | 1967 | RCA |
Songs of the Australian Outback | 1967 | RCA |
The Williams Family | 1968 | RCA |
Buddy Sings Hank | 1968 | RCA |
A Family Affair | 1968 | RCA |
The Cowboy's Life is Good Enough for Me | 1969 | RCA |
Sentimental Buddy | 1969 | RCA |
Buddy N' Shorty | 1970 | RCA |
Hard Times | 1971 | RCA |
Along the Outback Tracks | 1972 | RCA |
Aussie on My Mind | 1972 | RCA |
Country Touch | 1975 | RCA |
Hittin' the Road Again | 1975 | RCA |
Thanks to You | 1975 | RCA |
The Happiest Days of My Life | 1976 | RCA |
Farming '77 | 1977 | RCA |
Trucks and Trains | 1978 | RCA |
What a Dreary Old World It Would Be | 1978 | RCA |
Ramblin' Round | 1979 | RCA |
Wonder Valley | 1980 | RCA |
An Old Hillbilly from Way Back | 1981 | RCA |
A Man and His Guitar | 1982 | RCA |
A Breath of Country Air | 1982 | RCA |
Big Country Muster | 1983 | RCA |
Take My Hand | 1985 | RCA |
How's Your Memory | 1986 | RCA |
The Bushland That I Love | 1986 | RCA |
Buddy Williams – Reflections | 1987 | RCA |
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