David John Liska
By Praguefrank
SESSIONS fragments only; Most of later albums by David John with The Comstock Cowboys recorded
at Ranch House Studios, Fredricksburg, CA
Early 1962 unknown, CA – Davy Jones And The Dolphins
ZTSP 81517 STRICTLY POLYNESIAN Audicon 116/
ZTSP 81518 THE BULLFIGHT Audicon 116
LOVE IS STRANGE 117
VELVET WATERS 117
1967 [soundtrack Hellcats, no 15251] Hollywood, CA - Davy Jones and The Dolphins-1,The Arrows-2,The
Sunrays-3,Somebody's Children-4.
62016 HELL CATS -1 Tower
ST 5124
62017 THE ONLY WAY TO FLY -1
ST 5124
62041 THE ANGRY MOB -2 ST 5124
62042 HELL CATS -2 ST
5124
62043 THE MARIONETTES -2 ST 5124
62044 HELL CATS -3 ST 5124
62045 MASS CONFUSION -1 ST 5124
62046 I'M UP -4 ST
5124
62047 LET'S LIVE A LITTLE -1 ST 5124
62048 I CAN'T TAKE A CHANCE -1 ST 5124
1969 East Coast Studios, ?, CT – Davy And the Dolphins
THE LEGEND OF THE SEAGULL Subtown ST 301
I’M A POOR BOY
Subtown ST 301
1976 The Gallery, East Hartford, CT – Kentucky Wind with
Dave Liska (Dave Liska [vl/gt/mandolin], Gary Pierce [vcl/gt], John Monthei
[vcl/banjo], Bill Reveley [mandolin/fiddle/steel], Rich Liska [vcl/dobro], Joe
Monthei [bass], Paul Silva [drums], Marty Sulliva [percussion])
LET THE OCEAN BE MY CRADLE Subtown AL 101
TENDER BREEZE Subtown AL 101
KENTUCKY WIND Subtown AL 101
APPALOOSA Subtown AL 101
STUDEBAKER Subtown AL 101
STARTIN ALL OVER AGAIN Subtown AL 101
LONG WAY TO NEW YORK CITY Subtown AL 101
ROLLIN SAM Subtown AL 101
GOLD WATCH AND CHAIN Subtown AL 101
HICKORY SUN Subtown AL 101
1977 The Gallery, East Hartford, CT – Kentucky Wind with
Dave Liska (Dave Liska [vl/gt/mandolin], Gary Pierce [vcl/gt], John Monthei
[vcl/banjo], Bill Reveley [mandolin/fiddle/steel], Rich Liska [vcl/dobro], Joe
Monthei [bass], Paul Silva [drums], Marty Sulliva [percussion])
NATURAL HIGH Aztec 1077
VILLAGE BURIAL GROUND Aztec 1077
I'LL BE A STONE Aztec 1077
HALLELUJAH TRAIN Aztec 1077
INDIAN SUMMER Aztec 1077
COW PIE BOOGIE Aztec 1077
ROCKING CHAIR Aztec 1077
WINTER WINE Aztec 1077
LONESOME ROAD BLUES Aztec 1077
CAROLINA ON MY MIND Aztec 1077
WHERE THE DOGWOOD'S BLOOMING Aztec 1077
OH LORDY OH Aztec 1077
1978 The Gallery, East Hartford, CT – Dave Liska with
Kentucky Wind (Dave Liska
[vl/gt/mandolin], Gary Pierce [vcl/gt], John Monthei [vcl/banjo], Rich Liska
[vcl/dobro], Joe Monthei [bass], Marty Sulliva [percussion], Steve Wnuk
[fiddle])
STRANGER LOST IN TIME Laughing Cat CSS 155
LOVE PLEASE COME HOME Laughing Cat CSS 155
EL CONDOR PASA Laughing Cat CSS 155
CEDAR GROVE Laughing Cat CSS 155
TOO LATE NOW Laughing Cat CSS 155
YUKON JACK Laughing Cat CSS 155
KATY DALEY Laughing Cat CSS 155
MY SOUL WILL BE FREE Laughing Cat CSS 155
YOU DON'T KNOW MY MIND Laughing Cat CSS 155
WILLY ROY Laughing Cat CSS 155
KENTUCKY WIND Laughing Cat CSS 155
ARAB BOUNCE Laughing Cat CSS 155
ALBUMS
Tower T/ST 5124 Hellcats:
Hellcats [2]; The Angry Mob [2]; The Only Way To Fly [1]; The Marionettes [4];
Hellcats [1]; Hellcats [3]; Mass Confusion [1]; I'm Up [4]; Let's Live A Little
[1]; I Can't Take A Chance [1] – 04-68 (O.S.) Davy Jones and The Dolphins-1,The
Arrows-2,The Sunrays-3,Somebody's Children-4
Subtown AL 101
Startin' All Over Again: Let The Ocean Be My Cradle; Tender Breeze; Kentucky
Wind; Appaloosa; Studebaker; Startin All Over Again; Long Way To New York City;
Rollin Sam; Gold Watch and Chain; Hickory Sun – 09-76 David Liska (also on
Pharoah PHA 101)
Aztec 1077 Indian Summer:
Natural High; Village Burial Ground;
I'll Be A Stone; Hallelujah Train;
Indian Summer; Cow Pie Boogie; Rocking Chair; Winter Wine; Lonesome Road
Blues; Carolina On My Mind; Where The Dogwood's Blooming; Oh Lordy Oh – 77 Dave
Liska with Kentucky Wind
Laughing Cat CSS 155 Stranger Lost In Time: Stranger Lost In
Time; Love Please Come Home; El Condor Pasa; Cedar Grove; Too Late Now; Yukon
Jack; Katy Daley; My Soul Will Be Free; You Don't Know My Mind; Willy Roy; Kentucky
Wind; Arab Bounce Inst. – 78 Dave Liska and Kentucky Wind
Aztec ? Those Old Songs: (tracks unknown) - 79
Aztec ? (UPC820320008223) Runaway Train: Runaway Train; Stranger Lost In Time; It's Been A Blue Blue Day; Village Burial Ground; Blue Moon;
Roseville Faire; The Man On
Calvary; The Traveling Medicine Show; A Light On the Mountain; Running Gun;
Blue Kentucky Rain - 98 David John and The Comstock Cowboys
Aztec ? (UPC820320008322) Songs Of The Old West: The Trail
of the Bandit; Shenandoah; Calico;
Comanche (Of the 7th Cavalry);
Cowboy Bill; The Sun's Going Down
On The Old Chisholm Trail; I Got Spurs
That Jingle, Jangle, Jingle; Take Me
Back To My Boots and Saddle; Riders In
the Sky; Goodbye Sierra Madre (The Trail
of the Bandit, part 2) – 98 (or 96?)
Aztec ? (UPC820320008421) Legends Of The West: Aces And
Eights; Cool Water; Rose Of Sonora; Cattle Call; Guns Of Arizona; Streets Of
Laredo; High Noon; Tombstone; San Luis Obispo; The Wayward Wind; Trail Of No
Return; The Cowboy Was The Hero – 99 (or 01?)
Aztec ? (UPC625989115028) Calico: On a Night Like This; That's When I Miss Her Most of All; What am I Doing in This Cowtown; Calico;
Texas Rag; Sun's Goin' Down on
the Old Chisholm Trail; Red River; El Dorado;
Shotgun Wedding Song; Take the
Money and Run; The Man from Yuma; They'll Never Take the Cowboy Out of Me; Sure Was a Helluva Town; Where you Going Cowboy – 99 (O.S.)
Aztec ? (UPC733792309722) Christmas in the Sierra: Silent
Night; Christmas in my Home Town; Christmas in the Sierra; Jingle Bells;
Christmas on the Trail; Winter Wonderland/Carol
of the Bells; Down Bethlam Way; Fiddletown;
The Beautifull Christmas Waltz;
Christmas the Cowboy Way/Beer Barrel Polka; When Winter Comes to Tahoe; A Rancher's Christmas Prayer - 99
Aztec ? (UPC 820320003624) Cowboys, Old Fiddles and Wine:
You Can't Keep an Old Cowboy Down; Tomb
of the Unknown Cowboy; River of No
Return; Bury Me Not on the Lone Prarie; Waltz of Nevada; Tying Knots in the Devils
Tail; My Rifle, My Pony and Me; The Days of '49; Julia Bulette; Tumbling Tumbleweeds; Return to the Red River Valley; A Little Bit of Texas in My Bow - 02
Aztec ? The Boys of the 50's: Those Old Songs; Mr. Blue;
Lawdy Miss Clawdy; Love Is For
Heros; You Belong to Me; Sea Cruise;
I Should Be Over You By Now; Come
And Go With Me; Tragedy; The Boys From the 50's - 03 (w. The
Jordanaires)
Aztec ? (UPC820320000487) The Nashville Sessions: Southern
Lady; I'm Not That Good At Saying Goodbye;
Music City Dream; All I Really
Need; Good To the Last Tear Drop; I
Don't Want To Play Anymore; The Band
Played A Cheatin' Song; I'm Gonna Wash
Her Memory; A Woman Possessed; Eight Mile River; Let the Lovin' In; You Made A Believer Out of Me; She's Getting Over Me; You Don't Have To Be From Dixie - 03
Aztec GRC 2005 Gather Round Cowboys: It's The Cowboy Life
For Me; Gather Round Cowboys; Freight Train Blues; A Song Of A Rebel Soldier;
Outlaw; Tropical Cowboy; Morgan's Last Ride; Cadillac Moon; The Cowboy In His
Heart; The Ghost Of Laredo; Swing Me Back To Texas; Wyoming; Stardust On The
Trail; Cowboys And Aliens – 05
Aztec ? (UPC820320012220) Break It To The Cowboy: Break It
to the Cowboy; Big Iron; Montana out in the Cold; The Duke;
Saturday Night in a Cowboy Town;
My Ol' Guitar; Rolling Down Route
66; Rollin' Like a Tumbleweed Through
Texas; Santa Anna Wind; Rocky Mountain Railroad Blues; Sixteen Tons;
Mississippi River Queen; Once in
a Bluegrass Moon; Orange Blossom Special - 07
Aztec ? (UPC 820320013128) I Was Never Alone: I Was Never
Alone; Seven Spanish Angels; My Stained Glass Window; Summerland;
Great Speckled Bird; Let's Go
Down To the River; Desert Rosie; Little Wooden Church In the Pines; God Must Be A Cowboy; There's Got To Be Something More; Wafaring Stranger; Master's Train; Give Mother A Rose; Amazing Grace - 09
Aztec ? (UPC820320017027) Songslinger: Songslinger; This Old Coyote Town; Lone Star Nights, Nashville Days; Some Old Hank Williams Song; El Paso;
Smoke that Cigarette; Winter
Wine; Ponch and Lefty; The Bottoom of the Cold, Cold Mine; The Last Cowboy Waltz; A Hopless Rollin Stone; Let the Ocean Be My Cradle; Statue of a Fool; Slot Machine Junkie – 09
Aztec ? (UPC885767704008) Patriot Addition No.4: The
Wall; Ragged Old Flag; Goodbye America; Meet Mr. and Mrs. America; Ode To the Confederate Flag; The Cowboy Was the Hero; What Happened To America; No Country Boys Left In Nashville; The Duke - 11
Aztec ? (UPC820320018925) One Last Train: V + T Railroad Line; Dark Hollow;
Fireball Mail; Freight Train
Blues; The Man from Yuma; One Last Train; New River Train; Heartbreak Flyer; Run Away Train; Different Train Same Ol' Blues; I'm Your Train; Wabash Cannonball; Blue Kentucky Rain; Master's Train; Southern Lady; Rock Mountain Railroad Blues; Back to Shady Grove; Midnight Train; Orange Blossom Special; I Know You Rider – 14
Aztec ? (UPC820320019168) Last Man Standing:
Last Man Standing; Pay Check Blues; Desierto Paradise; I'd Go Crazy; The
Loneliest Road in America; Dog Days of Summer;
Rollin' in His Grave; It Seems Like Such a Lonesome Town; Last
Man Standing; Keeper of the Flame; Addison; Down Along "C" Street; Father
Time; When the Sun Goes Down;
The Only Grass They Ever Smoked – 08-08-16
Aztec ? Blues, Ballads, and Barstools: It's Hard to Be a Cowboy; Fool on the Highway; . A Hard Place to Fall; It Ain't Rocket Science; Blue Moon Saloon; Yosemite Wind; The Legend of the Seagull; It Don't Get Better Than That; Maybe Tomorrow ;
Ain't That Just Like the Rain; The Wall;
Gypsy Wind; Warm Wind; Can't Take Another Lonely Night; . Tin Can -
18
EPs
Aztec ? David John And The Comstock Cowboys: The Cowboy Was
The Hero; What Happened To America; Ain't No Country Boys Left In Nashville;
Goodbye America;
Ode To The Confederate Flag - 00
Ode To The Confederate Flag - 00
SINGLES (incomplete)
Audicon (1962) Davy Jones and The Dolphins
116 Strictly Polynesian / The Bullfight – 03-62
117 Love Is Strange / Velvet Waters – 04-62 (rev. May 5)
Subtown (1969-1970)
ST 301 The Legend Of The Seagull / I’m A Poor Boy - 69
SUBST 1001 Shannon / Cherry Berry Bay – 70 Crossroads
featuring David Liska (also on Columbia
4-45193 on June 23, 1970)
151 Heather / Who’ll Buy The Woman – 7- David Liska Music By
Crossroads
Heather
20th century Davey and The Dolphins
Can’t Get A Date
529 She Likes Older Boys / The Spider
Sinclair
1005 Dance, Dance, Little Girl, Dance
Taurus
T-100 Long Ride Home
Aztec
AZ 1002 She’s Getting Over Me / ? – 7- (promo)
You Don't have to be From Dixie / I'm Not That Good at Saying Goodbye
The Boys From 50’s / Tragedy