Thanks to Alan Coombe, Chris Eley, Tony Gardner and Ingar Knudtsen, I have access to some unreleased tracks, which have been added to the site as Real Audio files. Eventually, we hope, some of these and many more unreleased treasures will find their way onto a CD.

Several people must have hissy tapes or other unreleased recordings. For example, someone is known to have taped the session at the Blue Boar Festival. Please get in touch, so that these recordings are heard by the audience they deserve.

THE LUXEMBOURG FILES
ALL RIGHT/SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN
CHILLS AND FEVER
JOHNNY B. GOODE/GOODNIGHT BABY
TAKE THESE CHAINS/intro Tornados/DOWN THE LINE/LOVE & FURY
MONEY HONEY
RUNAWAY LOVER

Back in 1961, Billy recorded a series of programmes called Billy's Pad for Radio Luxembourg. As well as items by Billy, these featured guests, including Marty Wilde and Joe Brown.

Billy's manager, Larry Parnes, insisted that the tapes should be erased after use. A few recordings slipped through the net, and these are thought to be the source of some of the tracks on the CD Billy Fury Sings A Buddy Holly Song (Ozit CD56). The others, we thought had disappeared for ever.

But in Norway, a teenager called Ingar Knudtsen was not just listening on his tranny. He was also recording many of the programmes on his reel-to-reel tape recorder. These have been stored on tape ever since, and they have, of course, deteriorated a little. They will deteriorate no further because I am now digitising them.

Take a trip back to 1961. Draw the curtains, put the speaker under your pillow, turn down the volume, put your ear next to the speaker and pretend your Dad's creeping upstairs to catch you tuned into Luxembourg when you should be sleeping.

I shall gradually add the better files to this page.

NOBODY'S CHILD

This is the first - and, I think, the most remarkable - of several stereo tracks supplied to me by Tony Gardner. The song is a favourite of many people, which appears in mono or "electronically created" stereo on several EPs, LPs and CDs.

However, this is the genuine stereo version of the original recording, made available publicly for the first time.

Please ensure that you can hear both speakers. When you've heard the track once, either adjust the balance or bung one of the speakers in a drawer, and listen to Billy (almost) unaccompanied.

Click here or on the title above and listen to a piece of history, which has been lost for over 35 years.

THE RIVER AND THE SUN

Probably recorded in 1968, this is an unreleased Parlophone track.

LOVING TOUCH

Recorded in about 1967 for Parlophone and once considered for release as a single.

MY BABY LEFT ME

Recorded in 1967 with The Gamblers.

These tracks, kindly supplied by Chris Eley, have also been issued on an unauthorised CD (of which only 15 copies are thought to have been produced) listed in the A-Z as CD21. Chris has no connection with this CD or its publisher.

I MUST BE DREAMING

For years, I've had a tape of a frustrating few hissy seconds of a track that I believe was recorded from the television in the 1960s.

Then I read a piece by Chris Eley which made me suspect the track was I Must Be Dreaming. This was cut on November 18, 1964, during the same session as Billy's next single, I'm Lost Without You.

There the trail ended until Alan Coombe contacted me. Remarkably, he recorded the song when it was broadcast on the radio, and announced at that time as Billy's next single.

Chris says the track has not been located at Polygram, so here, for the first time in 36 years, is a public hearing for the single that never was.

Just click the disc above for the studio track, or the link below for a live version.

Live version broadcast on Saturday Club with The Gamblers.