Many of the songs recorded by Peter Doyle, both as a solo artist and with his various groups have been performed by various artists. Sometimes the same title is used for totally different songs. Below are some of the different versions of 'Peter's Songs' with links to clips, lyrics and information on other artists who have recorded them.
Research is in progress - any additions or corrections are welcome.
Some websites may require you to download software to listen to their clips.
Song
Titles link to Song Info.
Other Links to pages providing song clips and lyrics.
In
most cases the earliest version traced has been listed,
this is not necessarily the same version as the sound clip. |
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Ain't
Love Easy
New
Seekers first release 1971
Lyrics
C'Mon
Get Happy includes a verse not recorded by the New Seekers.
Writer
Carol Hall - 1970-1 If I Be A Lady LP and then
included in her stage musical To Whom it May Concern in 2003.
Released
as a single by
Shirley
Jones - 1972 single whilst with the Partridge Family
Also
recorded by
Tom Brown - 1989 What a Wonderful World cd
Barbara
Cook -1977 As of Today LP
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All
Right My Love
New
Seekers first release 19th March, 1970
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Angel
Of the Morning
New Seekers first
release 1970
Lyrics
LP
Discography Covers & Lyrics
Writer
Chip Taylor - 1971 Gasoline album
Chip
Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez - 2004 Angel of the
Morning EP
Released as a single by
P.
P. Arnold - 1968
Billie
Davis - 1967
Connie
Eaton - 1970
Guys 'n'
Dolls - 1977
Joya
Landis - 1968
Melba Montgomery
- 1977
Juice Newton - 1981
The
Pretenders - 1994/5 CD Issued to promote the Friends
Sound Track album
(Click
on' 977' for correct soundbite)
Merrilee
Rush and The Turnabouts -1968
Evie Sands
- 1967. Her record company went bankrupt a week after
the release of this much requested single and with a lack
of copies available it left the way clear for Merrilee Rush
to have the first major US hit with the song.
Bettye
Swann - 1969
Also
recorded by
Elisabeth
Andreassen - 1968 Angel of the Morning album
Ace Cannon - 1994 Music For Lovers album
Ray
Conniff - 1968 Turn Around Look at Me album
Skeeter
Davis - 1969 The Closest Thing To Love album
Percy
Faith - 1968 Angel of the Morning album
Dan Gibson - 2002 Morning has Broken CD
Barbara Jones - 2004 Just When I Needed You Most CD
Pat
Kelly - 1978 - Give Love a Try album
Zoe McCulloch - 2002 - Never Give Up, Never Give In album
Olivia
Newton-John - 1972 Olivia album
Northstar Orchestra - 2000 - Feelings of Love CD
Maggie Reilly - 2003 Save it for a Rainy Day album
Nina
Simone - 1971 Here Comes the Sun album
The Tremeloes - 1969 Live in Cabaret album
Bonnie Tyler - 1998 All in One Voice album
Italian Version
Gli
occhi verdi dell'amore by I Profeti - 1968
Medley
Angel of the Morning/Anyway That you Want Me - 1977 single for Mary Mason |
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And
More
Angel - 2000 single for Shaggy drew heavily on Angel
of the Morning for its origins.
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Anything
You Might Say
Co-Writer
Bruce Woodley
- single B side and 1972 Just Good Friends album
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Bad
to Me
1986
live recording - temporarily available at Neil Gray's MySpace - more info on his blog.
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Beautiful
New
Seekers first release 1972
Lyrics
Carole
King.com
Writer
Carole
King - 1971 Tapestry album
Also recorded by
Bob
Belden - 1997 Tapestry album
Petula
Clark - 1971 Warm and Tender album
Barbra Streisand - 1971 Barbara Joan Streisand album
Richard
Marx - October 31, 1995 Tapestry Revisted album
(Various Artists)
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Not
to be confused with
Beautiful Written by Nicola Hitchcock and Saul Freeman and released
by them as the duo Mandalay as a single and on the Empathy album in 1998. Lyrics
The same song was released by Sarah Brightman on the Harem album in 2003.
*Website includes video clip of song |
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Nor
Beautiful written by Linda
Perry which produced a massive international hit for Christina Aguilera in 2002/3
Lyrics at The Christina Connection
Wikipedia
article
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Beautiful
People
New
Seekers first release 1970
Lyrics
A
Guide to the Recordings of Melanie
Writer
Melanie - 1969 single, Affectionately Melanie album.
Also recorded by:
Eve Graham - 2005 The Mountains Welcome Me Home CD
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Not
to be confused with
Beautiful
People written and released as a single by Kenny O'Dell. Lyrics at LP Discography.
Also
released as a single in 1967 by Bobby Vee
and on the 1972 Bill and Jan (Or Jan and Bill) album
by Bill Anderson and Jan Howard. |
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Nor
Beautiful
People Barbara Tucker's 1994 US single
Lyrics at lyricsvault.net
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Beg,
Steal or Borrow
New
Seekers first release 1972
Lyrics
lyricsvault.net
Also recorded by:
Eve Graham - 2005 The Mountains Welcome Me Home CD |
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Not
to be confused with:
Beg
Steal or Borrow written by J. Crawford and released on
Berlin's Love Life album in 1984 |
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Nor
Beg Steal or Borrow recent single written by Paul Doherty
and recorded by Baby Shambles
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Blackberry
Way
New
Seekers first release 1973
Lyrics
lyricsvault.net
Hit single for
The
Move - 1968 UK No. 1
Also recorded by
ELO
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Blowin'
In the Wind
Lyrics
Bob Dylan.com
Writer
Bob
Dylan - 1963 Free Wheelin' album
Also recorded by
Chet
Atkins - 1965 More of that Guitar Country
Joan Baez 1967 - Live in Japan & Live in
Italy albums
The Browns - June 1964 The Young Land album
Cher - 1965 All I Really Want to Do album
Judy
Collins - 1994 Live at Newport (1959 - 1966) album
Sam Cooke - 1964 Live at the Copa album. Blowin' in the Wind inspired Cooke to write his
own much-acclaimed protest song A Change is Gonna Come which was released as a single shortly after his death in
1965.
Jackie DeShannon - 1963 Jackie DeShannon album
Marlene Dietrich - 1965 UK single
Lou Donaldson - 1966 Blowin' In The Wind album
Marianne Faithfull - 1964 single
Julie Felix - 1982 Blowing in the Wind LP
Lester
Flatt & Earl Scruggs - 1968 Changin' Times album
The
Edwin Hawkins Singers - 1969 Peace is Blowin' in
the Wind LP
The
Hollies - 1969 The Hollies sing Dylan album
The
Kingston Trio - 1963 Sunny Side album
Me
First and the Gimme Gimmes - 2000 Blow in the Wind album
Johnny Nash -
1969 Soul Folk Album
New
World Singers -1962 Original release Broadside Vol.
1 album (Various Artists)
Odetta - 1965 Odetta Sings Dylan album
Dolly
Parton - 2005 Those Were the Days CD
Peter,
Paul and Mary - 1963 In the Wind album
Elvis
Presley - 1997 Platinum: A Life in Music CD
The
Seekers - 1964 Hide and Seekers album
Stevie Wonder
- 1966 single
Neil
Young and Crazy Horse - 1991 Weld live album
See Also BBC Sold
On Song
German
Version
Die
Antwort Weiss Ganz Allein Der Wind - Marlene Dietrich
1969 The Magic of Marlene album
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Boom
Town
New
Seekers first release 1971
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Not
to be confused with
Boomtown - written by Toby Keith and released on his 1994 Boomtown CD
lyrics at
the Toby
Keith Music Network
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Brand
New Song
New
Seekers first release 1973
Lyrics
Paul
Williams.co.uk
Writer
Paul Williams - 1979 A Little on the Windy Side
album
Also recorded by
Cliff Richard - 1972 single, Cliff's first not produced by Norrie Paramour and also the first which failed to reach the top 30.
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Captain
Stormy
New
Seekers first release1972
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Changes
IV
New
Seekers first
release 1972
Lyrics
Santana's
Website (Zebop album)
Writer
Cat
Stevens - 1971 Teaser & the Firecat album
Released as a single by
Martyn Kaye - 1972
Santana - 1981
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Child
of Mine
New
Seekers first
release 1970
Lyrics
Carole
King.com
Writer
Carole
King - 1970 Writer album
Released as a single by
Cilla
Black - 1970
Also
recorded by
Emmy
Lou Harris - 1995 'Til There Eyes Shine album (Various
Artists)
Sherry
Goffin Kondor - 2002 Mellow My Baby album
Anne
Murray - 1971 Straight, Clean and Simple album
Turley Richards - 1971 Expressions Album
Billie Joe Royal - 2002 The Very Best of Billie
Joe Royal album
Ronnie Stoots - 1972 Ashes to Ashes album |
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Not
to be confused with
Sweet
Child of Mine - By Guns 'n' Roses first released on their debut album Appetite
for Destruction in 1987 and then as a hit single in
1988
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China
Doll
Lyrics
lyricsvault.net
Peter Doyle recorded mid 70's first release 2004
Released as a single by
Karl
Denver - 1961
Slim
Whitman - 1955 |
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Not
to be confused with
China
Doll written by Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia and
released on the 1974 Grateful
Dead from the Mars Hotel album Lyrics
China
Doll written and performed by Bruce Hornsby
on the 1993 Harbour Lights album.
China Doll written and performed by Saiichi Sugiyama on his 1994
album Saiichi Sugiyama. Lyrics
China Doll written and perfomed by Burt Weedon on his
1961 single
Nor
Punk
China Doll written by John Zorn and released
on the first Naked City album in 1989
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Cincinatti
Not
to be confused with
Cincinnati - Jeff Guhde Lyrics
Cincinnati Kid - Ray Charles recorded the theme to
the film of the same name in 1965
Cincinnati
the Dancing Pig - Written by Al Lewis and Guy Wood a
1950 hit single for Vic Damone
The
Girl From Cincinnati - Written by Millis, Ducey and
Lascelles and appeared in 1971 on the Very Best of Bobbie
Gentry album Lyrics
South
of Cincinnati - Written and recorded by Dwight Yoakam
for the 1988 film Fresh
Horses
Susie
Cincinnati - 1970 B side for the Beach Boys
written by Al Jardine |
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Circles
New
Seekers first release 1972
Lyrics
Harry
Chapin Website
Writer
Harry
Chapin - 1990 Greatest Stories Live album
Released as a single by
Mary Travers - 1974
Also recorded by
Tom
Chapin - 1982 In the City of Mercy album
Eve Graham - 2005 The Mountains Welcome Me Home CD |
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Not
to be confused with
Circles written by Mariah Carey and released on her 2005 The
Emancipation of Mimi album. Lyrics
Circles a 1995 single by the Rainbow Butt Monkeys
Circles written by Pete Townshend released as a single by The Who
in 1966
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Come
Softly To Me
New
Seekers first release 1973
Lyrics
The
Fleetwoods.us
Writer
The
Fleetwoods - 1959 Hit Single
Released as a single by
Frankie
Vaughan and the Kaye Sisters - 1959
Also
recorded by
Chet Atkins -1960 Teensville album
Buck Dharma - 1982 Flat Out album
Sandy Posey - 1967 I Take It Back album
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