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Discography

Singles

  • "Love and Fury" (Meek) / "Popeye Twist" (Cattini) (Decca F11449, 1962)

  • "Telstar" (Meek) / "Jungle Fever" (Goddard) (Decca F11494, 1962) - UK & U.S. Number 1

  • "Globetrotter" (Meek) / "Locomotion With Me" (Peter Lawrence) (Decca F11562, 1963) - UK Number 5

  • "Robot" (Meek) / "Life On Venus" (Meek) (Decca F11606, 1963) - UK Number 19

  • "The Ice Cream Man" (Meek) / "Scales of Justice (Theme)" (Douglas) (Decca F11662, 1963) - UK Number 21

  • "Dragonfly" (Gary Asquith; Barry Gray; Brijitte West) / "Hymn For Teenagers" (Meek; Lawrence) (Decca F11745, 1963) - UK Number 41

  • "Joystick" (Lawrence) / "Hot Pot" (Meek) (Decca F11838, 1964)

  • "Monte Carlo" (Phil Tate) / "Blue, Blue Beat" (Bryan Irwin) (Decca F11889, 1964)

  • "Exodus" (Ernest Gold) / "Blackpool Rock" (Cattini; Lawrence) (Decca F11946, 1964)

  • "Telstar" / "Red Rocket" (as Original Tornados, SRT 1975)[7]

Singles with Dave Watts

  • "Granada" / "Ragunboneman" (Meek) (Columbia DB7455, 1965)

  • "Early Bird" (Meek) / "Stomping Thru The Rye" (Tornados) (Columbia DB7589, 1965)

  • "Stingray" (Gray) / "Aqua Marina" (Gray) (Columbia DB 7687, 1965)

  • "Pop-Art Goes Mozart" (Mozart arr. Meek) / "Too Much In Love To Hear" (Robb Gale [Huxley]; Pete Holder) (Columbia DB7856, 1966)

  • "Is That A Ship I Hear" (Meek) / "Do You Come Here Often?" (Tornados) (Columbia DB7894, 1966)

EPs

  • The Sounds of The Tornados (Decca DFE 8510, 1962)

"Ridin the Wind"; "Earthy"; "Dreamin' on a Cloud" (Heinz [Burt]); "Red Roses and a Sky of Blue" (Meek)

  • Telstar (Decca DFE 8511, 1962)

"Love and Fury"; "Popeye Twist"; "Telstar"; "Jungle Fever"

  • More Sounds from The Tornados (Decca DFE 8521, 1962)

"Chasing Moonbeams"; "Theme from 'A Summer Place'"; "Swinging Beefeater"; "The Breeze and I"

  • Tornado Rock (Decca DFE 8533, 1963)

"Ready Teddy"; "My Babe"; "Blue Moon of Kentucky"; "Long Tall Sally"

Albums

  • Away from It All (album) (Decca LK4552, 1963)

  • Tornados Now (Private pressing, 1997)

"Please Stay" / "Starlight" / "Jersey Girl" / "Once We Were Friends" / "Out There Looking for Love" / "Satellite" / "Telstar Now" / "Dancing with Danger" / "Silver Bird" / "Startel" / "Nessun Dorma" / "Telstar (the mix)".

  • Throughout The Days (album) (So-Far records, 2019).

Foreign releases

  • The Original Telstar: The Sounds of the Tornadoes (U.S. 1962)

Side 1: "Telstar" / "Red Roses and a Sky of Blue" / "Chasing Moonbeams" / "Earthy" / "Swinging Beefeater" / "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" Side 2: "Love and Fury" / "Dreamin' on a Cloud" / "Ridin' the Wind" / "The Breeze and I" / "Jungle Fever" / "Popeye Twist"

New Zealand 7" Single 45 rpm. Side 1: "The Twist" Side 2: "Deep in the Heart of Texas Twist"

With Billy Fury

  • Billy Fury and The Tornados (Decca DFE 8525, EP, recorded 8 and 11 January, and released 30 March 1963)[8]

"Nobody's Child"; "What Did I Do"; "I Can't Help Loving You"; "Keep Away"

  • Billy Fury and The Tornados: We Want Billy! (live, recorded 30 April 1963) (Decca (S)LK4548, released October 1963)

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