The Staccatos

Discography:

Albums

• Come Back Silly Girl, RCA Victor, 33, 042, 1965
  
  
  
  Tracks: Come back silly girl/ Sllop John B/ Mr Tambourine man/ Crying in the rain/ Romeo and Juliet/ My mom/ Ain't no way I'm gonna change/ You were on my mind/ Houston/ Little girl/ The one to lose/ Don't ask me
  
  
• The 2nd Sin, PYE, PL 2091, 1966
  
  
  
  Tracks: Bless you/ Thou shalt not steal/ Then you can tell me goodbye/ Everybody loves a lover/ What have they done to the rain/ All the winds/ Sounds of glory/ Everybody knows/ Secret love/ Power of love/ Summertime/ It's just gotta be
  
  
• Here and now, NEM, NEMS 300, 1968
  
  
  
  Tracks: Cry to me/ My back pages/ A place in the sun/ Shake your money maker/ Why care about today/ I'll take you where the music's playing/ Butchers and bakers/ You ain't going nowhere/ Respect/ Hold on to what you've got/ I get so excited/ Imitations of love
  
  
• He was a friend of mine, NEM, NEMS 302, 1969
  
  
  
  Tracks: He was a friend of mine/ For what it's worth/ When something is wrong with my baby/ I got you/ Stormy monday part 1/ Cry to me/ I shall be released/ My heart beats like a hammer/ Police on my back/ Stormy monday part 2
  
  

  Steve Lonsdale Solo Album

• Hard To Handle, NEM, NEMS 303, 1970
  
  
  Tracks: Hard to handle/ Do right woman/ Both sides now/ The love you save/ A whole lotta woman/ Rainon'/ Change your ways/ The long black limousine/ Send out love/ (It's all over now) baby blue
  
  

  Compilation Albums

• Dance Party Spectacular, PYE, P 163, 162/3 R.P.M
  
  
  
  Track: Sounds of glory
  
  
• Double Date, PYE, PL 2106, 1967
  
  
  
  Tracks: Spicks and specks/ Come back silly girl/ Bless you/ Sounds of glory/ Then you can tell me goodbye/ Thou shalt not steal
  
  

  Seven Singles

• Skinny Minny/ Ain't that just like me, Parlophone 45 PD 322, 1964
  
  
• Will ya or won't ya/ She's gone, Parlophone 45-SPD 347, 1965
  
  
• Darlin'/ She's my girl, Parlophone 45-SPD 347, 1965
  
  
• Come back silly girl/ My mom, RCA Victor, 41. 811, 1965
  
  
• Bless you/ Then you can tell me goodbye, PYE, PY 69, 1966
  
  
• Sounds of glory/ Thou shalt not steal , PYE, PY 115, 1966
  
  
• Spicks and specks/ Everybody knows, PYE, PY 143, 1967
  
  
• New York mining disaster/ All the winds, PYE, PY 156, 1967
  
  
• I'll take you where the music's playing/ My girl, NEM, TOS 3001, 1968
  
  
  
  
• Butchers and bakers/ Imitations of love, NEM, 3002, 1968
  
  
  
  
• Cry to me/ Why care about today, NEM, 3003, 1968
  
  
  
  
• Cry to me/ Why care about today, NEM, 3003, 1968, Limited Edition
  
  
  
  
• Hold on to what you've got/ Another place-another time, NEM, TOS 582, 1969
  
  
  
  
• When something is wrong with my baby/ Soothe me, NEM, TOS 610, 1969
  (The Staccatos with Wanda Arletti)
  
  
  
  
• I shall be released/ A place in the sun, NEM, TOS 671, 1970
  
  
• Cinnamon girl/ The journey, RTS, RTS.29, 1973
  
  

• Brian le Gassick
• John Leach
• Willie van der Walt
• Ian Miller
• Richard Crouse
• Jimmy Ryan
• Billy Andrews
• Gary Allen
• Lieb Brews
• Ronnie Cline
• Steve Lonsdale
• Eddie Boyle
• Wanda Arletti
• John Elliot
• Ivor Back
• Peter Vee
• Tom Morton
• Neil Fox
• Harold Nicholson
• Gavin Carson
• Neville Harbett
• Andre van Zyl
• Neville Mann
• Charlie Allen

The Film "Katrina":

The Staccatos performing cry to me in the film "Katrina"

International Artists:

The Staccatos supported Peter and Gordon (1965), the Byrds (1970) and Chris de Burgh (1979) on their South African tours

Tertius Louw, October 2002.

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