From: malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes)
Subject: Re: Mike Oldfield's first album
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:30:05 GMT

zaphod@niksula.hut.fi (Seppo J Niemi) writes:


>I heard that Mike Oldfield has recorded an album with his sister Sally
>back in 1968 - that is, even before the Tubular Bells. Could someone
>please enlighten me a bit about that. What is the name of the album,
>and what kind of music is it; and most of all: is it worth buying, if
>I ever get my hands to it?

I've not heard it, and I get the impression it's been released under other
names. One listing I have for it is:

  Sallyangie             Children of the Sun     1968

Here's a pile of Oldfield info - a list of releases posted some time ago
and a list of additions to that which I dug up from Rock Record and other
sources. BTW, I thought Oldfield was said to be 17 when he joined Ayers
band in 1970! If this is true, he was 15 when the above release was recorded? 


>From: jepp@iesd.auc.dk (Jesper Petersen)
Subject: Complete OLDFIELD list
Date: 17 Sep 91 09:23:30 GMT

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* Jesper          * This record could be hazardous to the health of  *
* Petersen        * cloth eared nincompoops. If you suffer from this *
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* jepp@iesd.auc.dk*                      Mike Oldfield about AMAROK  *
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Well, I thought it be be about time to give ya all a complete
list of what Oldfield has been doing for the past 23 years:

1968    Children of the Sun (with Sally)
1973    Tubular Bells
1974    Hergest Ridge
1974    Orchestral Tubular Bells
1975    Ommadawn
1976    Boxed
1978    Incantations
1979    Exposed
1979    Platinum
1980    QE2
1981    ("Pekka Pohjola" with Sally Oldfield
         also out as "The Consequences of Indecisions"
         and under the name of "The mathematicians Air-display" 
         this time by Pekka.)
1982    Five Miles Out
1983    Crisis
1984    Discovery
1984    The Killing Fields (soundtrack)
1985    The Complete Mike Oldfield
1987    Islands
1989    Earth Moving
1990    Amarok
1991    Heaven's Open (alias'ed Michael Oldfield)

That's about what he has done over the past few years.
If anyone knows of other projects, I'd be glad to hear about it!

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Other Oldfield lps not listed above:
  Airborne                           1980
  Music Wonderland                   1981

Oldfield singles on Virgin:
  Don Alfonso (w/David Bedford) VS 117  February 1973 
  Mike Oldfield's Single   VS 101           June 1974
  In Duki Jubilo (?)  VS 131            November 1975
  Portsmouth   VS 163                   November 1976
  William Tell Overture  VS 167         February 1977

David Bedford lps with Mike Oldfield:
  Nurses With Elephants               1972
  Stars End                           1974
  Orchestral Tubular Bells            1975  
  Rime of the Ancient Mariner         1975
  Odyssey                             1976
  Instructions for Angels             1977

Note: In Rock Record by Terry Hounsome Orchestral Tubular Bells is 
listed under David Bedford instead of Mike Oldfield. Bedford has done
arrangements on both Tubular Bells lps, and was in Kevin Ayer's Whole 
World band with Oldfiled. 


Kevin Ayers lps with Mike Oldfield:
  Shooting At The Moon                1971
  Whatever She Brings We Sing         1972  
  Confessions Of Dr. Dream            1974
  June 1st, 1974  (Live lp with Eno, Cale and Nico also) 
  Odd Ditties                         1976 

Other Appearances:
  Sallyangie             Children of the Sun     1968
  Edgar Broughton Band                           1971
  Lol Coxhill            Ear of The Beholder     1971
  Henry Cow              Unrest                  1974
  Robert Wyatt           Rock Bottom             1974
  Edgar Broughton Band   Bandages                1975
  Tom Newman             Fine Old Tom            1975
  Pekka Pohjola          Skuggonas Tjuvstart     1977
  Bram Tchaichovsky      Stange Man Changed Man  1979
  Pierre Moerlen's Gong  Time is The Key         1979
  Pierre Moerlen's Gong  Downwind                1979
  Lea Nicholson          The Concertina Record   1980

 - malcolm@wrs.com  
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