DA and ZDA series (1962-75)

A bit of a ragbag, the DA (mono) and ZDA (stereo) 12 inch LP series, issued by Argo between 1962 and 1975.

With each album retailing in 1962 at 36/8 (including tax), the series includes a fair bit of Transacord Railway recordings (in red in the list), spoken word (in yellow), jazz (in white) and folk (in green – including re-releases from the RG and ZRG series). Plus other bits of miscellany (grey) that probably didn’t fit into the other Argo series running at the time.

Thanks to Argo recording engineer Iain Churches for his help in compiling it.

There are lots of holes in it, but I can’t for the life of me find what’s supposed to go in them.

ARGO No	ARTIST	TITLE	YEAR
DA 1	Marlowe Society of Cambridge	Shakespeare – The Tragedies Vol 1 selected scenes	1962
DA 2	Marlowe Society of Cambridge	Shakespeare – The Comedies Vol 1 selected scenes	1962
DA 3	Marlowe Society of Cambridge	Shakespeare – The Histories Vol 1 selected scenes	1962
DA 4	Marlowe Society of Cambridge	Shakespeare – The Tragedies Vol 2 selected scenes	1962
DA 6		West Highland Line	1962
DA 7		Shap	1962
DA 8		The Somerset & Dorset	1962
DA 9		West of Exeter	1962
DA 10 DA 11	Argo Chamber Ensemble, dir. Austin	The Beggar’s Opera
DA 12		Trains in the Night	1962
DA 13 ZDA 13		Newfoundland Heads the Waverley
DA 14		The Great Eastern
ZDA 19-20	a) Elsie Morison (soprano) Pamela Bowden (contralto) Richard Lewis (tenor) Richard Standen (bass) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra cond John Pritchard b) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden cond John Pritchard. Rec in assoc wuth British Council	Tippett – a) A Child of Our Time, b) The Midsummer Marriage: Ritual Dances	Apr 1963
DA 21 ZDA 21		The Triumph of an A4 Pacific
DA 22 ZDA 22		Trains in the Hills
DA 23 ZDA 23		Whistling Through Dixie
DA 24 ZDA 24		Sunday Only
DA 25 ZDA 25		Steam Railroading Under Thundering Skies
DA 26 DA 27 ZDA 26 ZDA 27	Various Artists – Mitchell/Abse/ Robson/Lee/Garrick	Poetry and Jazz 1 & 2	1964
DA 28 ZDA 28		Rhythms of Steam
DA 29	Various Artists, prod. James McNeish	Greece in Music and Song	Feb 1965
DA 30	Various Artists, prod. James McNeish	Sicily in Music and Song	Feb 1965
DA 31		Working on the Footplate	1964
ZDA 32	Various Artists	Songs for Children	Nov 1964
DA 33 ZDA 33	Michael Garrick Quintet	October Woman	1965
DA 34	Peter Pears, Noel Mewton Wood, Amadeus Quartet	Tippett – Boyhood’s End
DA 35 ZDA 35		The Power of Steam
DA 36	Michael Garrick Sextet, with Ian Carr	Promises	1965
DA 37		Sounds of the Sea and Ships
DA 38	Cdr A. B. Campbell, Cdr R. T. Gould, Philip Guedalla, Sir Julian Huxley, Lady Barbara Ward Jackson, Prof C. E. M. Joad, Donald McCullough, Sir Harold Nicholson, Sir Malcolm Sargent. Recorded with coop. of BBC Radio Enterprises	The Brains Trust	1967?
DA 39		The Great Western
DA 40
DA 41	Joseph Lhevinne	The Golden Age of Piano Virtuosi 1	1966
DA 42	Rosenthal/Rach	The Golden Age of Piano Virtuosi 2
DA 43	Various Artists	The Golden Age of Piano Virtuosi 3
ZDA 44	Various Artists incl. Pat Shuldham Shaw and Esme Lewis	Oats, Beans and Barley	1966
DA 45			1966
DA 46 ZDA 46	The Critics Group	A Merry Progress to London	1966
DA 47 ZDA 47	The Critics Group	Sweet Thames Flow Softly	1966
DA 48 ZDA 48		Trains to Remember
DA 49		Paris Express
DA 50 – DA 63 ZDA 50 – ZDA 63	Various Artists	Poetry and Song (14 LPs)	1967- 1968
DA 66 – DA 75	MacColl/Seeger	The Long Harvest	1967- 1968
DA 76 ZDA 76	MacColl/Seeger	Ballads Resident and Migrant (never issued)
DA 77 ZDA 77	MacColl/Seeger	Second Crop (never issued)
DA 78		London’s Last Trams
DA 79
DA 80	Peggy Seeger & Mike Seeger	Peggy ‘n’ Mike	1967
DA 81	Peggy Seeger	Peggy Alone	1967
DA 82 ZDA 82	The Critics Group	The Female frolic	1968
DA 83 ZDA 83	Maccoll/Seeger	The Angry Muse	1968
DA 84	MacColl/Seeger	The Amorous Muse	1968
DA 85	MacColl/Seeger	The Wanton Muse	1968
DA 86 ZDA 86	The Critics Group	Waterloo Peterloo	1968
DA 87	Ruth & Clive Sansom	The Witnesses
DA 88	Michael Garrick Septet	Black Marigolds	1968
DA 89	Various Artists, prod James McNeish	Folk music of Czechoslovakia	1970
DA 90 ZDA 90		Echoes of Engines
DA 91 – DA 96	Various Artists	Voices	1968
DA 98 ZDA 98	MacColl/Seeger/Critics	Paper Stage 1	Mar 1969
DA 99 ZDA 99	MacColl/Seeger/Critics	Paper Stage 2	Mar 1969
ZDA 100	The Yetties & Sherborne Town Band	Up In Arms	Sep 1974?
DA 101	Edward Kamau Brathwaite	Rights of Passage	1969
DA 102
DA 103	Herbert Read	Echoes of My Life	1968
DA 104	New Deal String Band	Down in the Willow	1969
DA 106		Trains in Spain	1969
ZDA 109		Copper Capped Engines	1969
DA 115		Vive La Vapeur	1969
ZDA 125	Various artists, recorded in the field by Deben Bhattacharya	The Living Tradition – Music from Rumania	1969
DA 133	MacColl/Seeger/Parker et al	The Travelling People	1970
ZDA 134	Leicester Schools Symphony Orchestra	Chapell – Dead in Tune	May 1970
ZDA 135	Michael Garrick Sextet	The Heart is a Lotus	May 1970
DA 136 ZDA 136	MacColl/Seeger/Parker et al	On the Edge (Radio Ballad)	Jan 1971
ZDA 137	The Critics Group	As We Were a Sailing	Jul 1970
ZDA 138	The Critics Group	Ye Mariners All	Feb 1971
DA 139	MacColl/Seeger/Parker et al	The Ballad of John Axon (Radio Ballad)	1971
DA 140	MacColl/Seeger/Parker et al	The Big Hewer (Radio Ballad)	1971
DA 141	MacColl/Seeger/Parker et al	The Fight |Game (Radio Ballad)	1971
DA 142	MacColl/Seeger/Parker et al	Singing the Fishing (Radio Ballad)	1971
ZDA 147	Druids/Wyndham Read/Scots Guards et al	Songs and Music of the Redcoats	Feb 1972
ZDA 148	Norma Winstone	Edge of Time	Apr 1972
ZDA 149	Flanders/Horowitz/The King’s Singers	Captain Noah/Holy Moses	Nov 1972
ZDA 150	Gothic Horizon	Tomorrow is Another Day	1972
ZDA 153	Michael Garrick	Cold Mountain	Nov 1972
ZDA 154	Michael Garrick Band	Home Stretch Blues	Nov 1972
ZDA 155	Sam Parry	If Sadness Could Sing	Jan 1973
ZDA 156	Rick Jones	Hiya Maya	1972
ZDA 158	The Druids/Trevor Crozier’s Broken Consort/St George’s Canzona et al	Giles Farnaby’s Dream Band	Oct 1973
ZDA 159	Alan Cohen Band	Black, Brown and Beige	Oct 1973
ZDA 160	Co-operation	One More Mountain to Climb	Oct 1973
ZDA 161	Talisman	Stepping Stones	Nov 1973
ZDA 162	Ian Whitcombe	Hip Hooray for Neville Chamberlain	Jul 1974
ZDA 163	Michael Garrick	Troppo	Jun 1974
ZDA 164	Various Artists	Willpower (Shakespeare Jazz)	Jul 1975
ZDA 165	Various Artists	Willpower (Shakespeare Jazz)	Jul 1975
ZDA 166	P.G. Wodehouse	Speaking Personally	Oct 1974
ZDA 167	New Paul Whiteman Orchestra	Runnin’ Wild	Apr 1975
ZDA 168	The Yetties	The Yetties of Yetminster	May 1975
ZDA 170	Stanley Holloway	Life in the old dog yet	1975
ZDA 171	Martin Best Consort	Fine Old English Tory Times
ZDA 173	Arthur Askey	Before Your Very Eyes	Oct 1976
ZDA 174	Forbes Robinson/Robin Stapleton	Ballads, Songs and Snatches	Feb 1977
ZDA 175	The Yetties	Let’s Have a Party	1975
ZDA 176	Roy Dotrice	Scenes from Watership Down
ZDA 201	Juan Martin	The Exciting Sound of Flamenco	Jun 1974
ZDA 202	Bibs and Vanya	The Romantic Sound of the Balalaika	Jun 1974
ZDA 203	Wilbraham/Pearson	The Baroque Sound of the Trumpet	Jun 1975
ZDA 204	Roger Nicholson	The Gentle Sound of the Dulcimer	Jun 1974
ZDA 205	Akinobu Matsuda	The Classic Sound of the Guitar	June 1974
ZDA 206	Tommy Reilly	The Silver Sound of the Harmonica	Jun 1975
ZDA 207	Bob Stewart	The Unique Sound of the Psaltery	Jun 1975

~ by folkcatalogue on March 15, 2010.