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B & C   Bagpuss Records   Barcay   Bardic   Baycourt Records  

BBC   Beat Goes On   Beaumex Records   Bee’s Knees  

Bellaphon   Bellbridge   Big Beat Music   Big Plain  

Black Box Music   Black Crow   Black Rose Records  

Blarney Castle Records   Blix Street Records   Blue Chip  

BMG/RCA   Bogfire   Bounty   Bow Hand   Brunswick


B & C

No details available – vinyl releases listed below.

BCLP1                        Na Filí – A Kindly Welcome (1983)


Bagpuss Records

Basically, a one-off release to fight the attempted desecration of The Burren in County Clare.

BAG 001 CD              Various – The Sound of Stone (1993)

 


Barcay

Long-defunct French label.

 

9204 52733                 Various – Festival Pop Celtic, Kerat, France (1973; double LP).

 


Bardic

Dublin-based label – part of the Waltons group.

 

BARD 701                  Charlie McGee – Homes of Donegal

BARD 702                  Gerry Burns and the Jackie Hearst Céilí Band
BARD 703                  Joe Lynch Sings

 


Baycourt Records

Irish label – no details available – some CDs appear to have been reissued with different numbers.

 

BAYS CD 005            The Dubliners – Working Man (EP)

BAYCD 025               The Dubliners – 25 Years Celebration (double CD)

BAYCD 039               John Sheahan and Michael Howard – In Our Own Time

BAYCD 040               The Dubliners – The Dubliners’ Dublin

BAYCD 045               The Dubliners – Alive Alive-Oh

BAYCD 055               John Sheahan and Michael Howard – In Our Own Time

BAYCD 060               Eamonn Campbell – Romantic Rhapsody

BAYCD 065               The Dubliners – Further Along

BAYCD 070               The Dubliners – 40 Years

BAYCD 096               The Dubliners – Further Along

BAYCD 097               The Dubliners – Alive Alive-Oh (double CD live in Germany)


BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

The “Beeb” used to occasionally issue recordings of its music programmes.

REC 28                       Various – Ulster’s Flowery Vale (undated LP, though the sleeve notes indicate that the programme from which the music was drawn was originally broadcast in 1968)

 

BBCCD 727               Clannad – Atlantic Realm (1989)

 

REF 844                     Various – Bringing It All Back Home (1991; triple LP; also

issued as double CD 844)

 


Beat Goes On

UK reissue specialists.

 

BGOCD291                Finbar and Eddie Furey – The Dawning of the Day (reissue of

Dawn DNLS 3037)

 


Beaumex Records

Dublin-based label specialising in accordion music.

BMCD 552                 Sonny Knowles – An Irish Welcome

BMCD 553                 Paddy Noonan and Friends – Irish Party Songs

BMCD 554                 Paddy Noonan – Musical Memories from Ireland

BMCD 556                 Brian Roebuck – Classic Irish Ballads

BMCD 557                 John McCormick – The Early Years

BMCD 558                 John McCormick – Irish Songs of ...

BMCD 559                 Aoife Clancy – It’s About Time

 

BMCD 560                 The King’s River Band – Midnight on the Water

BMCD 561                 Joe Derrane – Irish Accordion (1993)

BMCD 563                 Joe Derrane and Jerry O’Brien – Irish Accordion Masters

BMCD 564                 Bobby Gardiner – Memories of Clare

BMCD 565                 Brian Roebuck – The Best of Irish Rebel Songs

BMCD 566                 Brian Roebuck – Classic Irish Pub Songs, Vol. 1

BMCD 567                 Pat Ely – Memories of Home

BMCD 568                 Various – The Masters’ Choice (accordion compilation)

BMCD 569                 Brendan Shine – The Very Best of ...

 

BMCD 570                 James Blennerhasset – Celtic Dawn

BMCD 571                 John Regan with Mary Corcoran and Paddy Glackin Let

Down the Blade (1999)

BMCD 572                 Various – 40 Irish Drinking Songs

 


 

Bee’s Knees

Presumably, De Dannan’s own label?

BKCD1                       Frankie Gavin – Frankie Goes to Town (1990)

BKCD002                   De Dannan - ½ Set in Harlem

BK 003 CD                 Frankie Gavin – Irish Christmas (1994)

 

PED9601                    De Dannan – Hibernian Rhapsody

 


Bellaphon

German label – no other details known.

 

288.07.136                  The Dubliners – Ballads on Tap (1989)

 


Bellbridge

The release below was a one-off production, recorded at Junior Crehan’s home and subsequently released by Tony Crehan.

001                              Bobby Casey – Casey in the Cowhouse (1992 cassette

of 1959 recordings)

 


 

Big Beat Music

Dublin-based label.

BBM 001                    Various – Pure Bodhrán: The Definitive Collection (2000)

 


 

Big Plain

 

Turlough Boylan’s Houston-based label www.bigplain.com.

 

BP3201                       Gleann an Iolair Céilí Band – The Derry Boat

BP3202                       Turlach Boylan – The Tidy Cottage (1997)

BP3203                       Turlach Boylan – Shame the Devil (2000)

BP3205                       Glen Road – Round the Bend

 


 

Black Box Music

Piano accordionist Alan Kelly’s own label – www.blackboxmusic.ie

BBM 001                    Alan Kelly – Out of the Blue (1996)

BBM 002                    Alan Kelly – Mosaic (1999)

BBM 003                    Alan and John Kelly – Fourmilehouse (2003)

BBM 004                    Alan Kelly – After the Morning (2009)


Black Crow

Offshoot of the Newcastle-based MWM label – thanks to Alastair Banfield for this information.

CROCD 221               Maire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman – The Living

Wood (1988)

 


Black Rose Records

Cran’s own labelwww.cranmusic.com.

 

002 has not been issued (Ronan Browne has confirmed that this number refer to the Claddagh release of Black Black Black).

 

BRRCD 001               Cran – The Crooked Stair

BRRCD 003               Cran – Lover’s Ghost (2000)

BRRCD 004               Cran – Music from the Edge of the World

 


 

Blarney Castle Records

 

Owned by Avoca and based at Westbury, New York (information courtesy of John Cummins).

 

BC 507                        Various – Céilí Bands of Ireland

BC 509                        McCusker Brothers And Assaroe Céilí Bands, Seán

McGuire

BC 510                        Tadhg O'Regan – Dungarvan My Home Town

 


 

Blix Street Records

Based in Washington state  www.blixstreet.com.

G2-10007                    Arty McGlynn and Nollaig Casey – Lead the Knave (reissue

                                    Of Ringsend Road CD)

G2-10018                    Máire Breatnach – Angels Candles (reissue of STARC CD)

G2-10033                    Boys of the Lough – Midwinter Night’s Dream (reissue of

Lough 006 The Day Dawn)

G2-10036                    Máire Breatnach – Celtic Lovers (reissue of STARC CD)


Blue Chip

German label – no other details known.

 

550 9292                     The Dubliners – Live in Carré (1995)


BMG/RCA

Multinational ‘entertainment’ company which absorbed the very long-standing RCA Victor label www.bmg.com. Note that some of these releases originally appeared on the now defunct, Paddy Moloney-run Wicklow label.

RCALP 6072              Clannad – Magical Ring (1983)

 

INTS 1362                  Malachy Doris Céilí Band – Cottage on the Old Dungannon

Road

 

ND 71473                   Clannad – Magical Ring (1987 reissue of RCALP 6072)

ND 71703                   Clannad – Legend (1988 reissue of PD 70188)

ND 75149                   Clannad – Sirius (1992 reissue of PD 71513)

 

PD 70003                    Clannad – Magical Ring (1988 reissue of RCALP 6972 –

reissued as BMG 82876 545032; 2003)

PD 70188                    Clannad – Legend (1984 – reissued as BMG 82876 545022;

2003)

PD 70894                    Clannad – Macalla (1985 – reissued as BMG 82876 54002;

2003)

PD 71513                    Clannad – Sirius (1987 – reissued as BMG 82876 545012;

2003)

PD 74074                    Clannad – Past Present (1989)

PD 74762                    Clannad – Anam (1990; also issued as 74321 33068 2)

 

PL 75358                    Máire Brennan – Maire (1982)

           

RD 60824                   The Chieftains – The Bells of Dublin (1991)

RD 60412                   The Chieftains – Reel Music (1991)

RD 60424                   The Chieftains with James Galway – Over the Sea to Skye

RD 60824                   The Chieftains – The Bells of Dublin (1991; also issued as

laser disc 781 199)

RD 60916                   The Chieftains – An Irish Evening (1992; alsoissued as laser

disc 781 231)

RD 85798                   James Galway and The Chieftains in Ireland

RD 86358                   The Chieftains – Celtic Wedding (1987)

RD 87858                   The Chieftains – A Chieftains Celebration (1989)

 

09026 60939 2            The Chieftains – Another Country (1992)

09026 61490 2            The Chieftains – The Celtic Harp

09026 631312             Cherish the Ladies – Threads of Time

09026 63250 5            The Chieftains – Silent Night: A Christmas in Rome (2000)

09026 63133 2            The Chieftains – Fire in the Kitchen

09026 63377 2            Cherish the Ladies – At Home (1999)

09026 63637 2            The Chieftains – Water from the Well (2000)

09026 63917 2            The Chieftains – The Wide World Over (2002)

09026 63971 2            The Chieftains – Down the Old Plank Road

 

09026 68438 2            The Chieftains – Film Cuts

09026 68602 2            The Chieftains – Santiago (1998)

09026 68963 2            The Chieftains – Long Journey Home

09026 68968 2            The Chieftains – Tears of Stone (1999)

 

295943                        The Dubliners – The Wild Rover (1987)

 

74321 13961 2            Clannad – Banba (1993)

74321 16035 2            Clannad - Macalla

74321 25081 2            Clannad – The Angel and the Soldier Boy

74321 25167 2            The Chieftains – Long Black Veil (1995)

74321 28981 2            Clannad – Pastpresent

74321 30080 2            Clannad - Lore

74321 31867 2            Clannad – Atlantic Realm

74321 33068 2            Clannad - Anam

74321 48674 2            Clannad – The Ultimate Collection

74321 56007 2            Clannad – Landmarks

74321 64789 2            The Dubliners – A Night out with The Dubliners

 

82876 52897 2            The Chieftains – Further Down the Old Plank Road (2003)

82876 56402 2            In a Lifetime: The Best of Clannad (2003)

82876 67137 2            The Chieftains – Live from Dublin

82876 83674 2            The Chieftains – The Essential Chieftains (2006; 2 CDs; yet again!)

 

07863 66978 2            Clannad – Rogha (The Best of)


BogFire

James Fraher’s Illinois-based homage to Sligo –  two essential albums www.bogfire.com

2001                            Kevin Henry – One’s Own Place: A Family Tradition (1998)

2002                            Colm O’Donnell – Farewell to Evening Dances (1999)

 


Bounty

Part of the Polydor group.

 

BY 6040                      Jimmy Power – Irish Dances (later reissued as Clan 233 003)

 


Bow Hand

Dermot Kearney’s Coventry-based label.

001CD                        Danny Meehan – Navvy on the Road (2000)

002CD                        Seán Casey – The Porthole of the Kelp (2002)

003CD                        Bobby Casey – The Spirit of West Clare (2007)

 


Brunswick

An erstwhile branch of the Decca group, Brunswick issued everything from deep southern soul to this entry, courtesy of John Cummins.

 

LAT 8339                   Mickey and Mary Carton and Their Orchestra – Little Bits of

Ireland

 


 

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