Dyer-Bennet Album Discography
By David Edwards and Mike Callahan
Last update: April 24, 2025





Richard Dyer-Bennet was folk singer from England who moved to the United States in 1925 and sang in New York night spots (including Carnegie Hall) in the 1940s, then recorded for several labels in the early 1950s (including Stinson, Keynote, Continental, Mercury, Concert Hall, Decca, Vox, and Remington). He established his own record label in 1955 (in association with Harvey Cort and recording engineer J. Gordon Holt) at his home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The Dyer-Bennet label recorded folk and classical. The only artists on the label were Richard Dyer-Bennet and Aksel Schiøtz.

Richard Dyer-Bennet lost interest in recording music in the late 1960's and as a consequence, lost interest in the record label. After his death in 1991, the Smithsonian-Folkways label acquired the Dyer-Bennet recordings four years later with the exception of the Aksel Schiøtz material. All Richard Dyer-Bennet albums are available on CD from Smithsonian Folkways.

The albums were named with the sequence of releases starting with 1 and reaching 13. When the Dyer-Bennet records were released they appeared in the Schwann New Entry's section under the numbers DYB-1000 to DYB-9000. After DYB-9000, they appeared in the Schwann Catalogs as DYB-10, DYB-11, DYB-12 and DYB-13. We have used DYB-1, etc. as the basic series catalog numbers, with alternate numbers in parentheses.

One of the oddities of the Dyer-Bennet releases was that all the album labels were different, each one being a custom label for that particular album. We have captured most of them in the gallery below.

Stereo albums had the same label as the mono releases, but contained a small print notation on the cover that said, "This is a stereophonic recording" and a notation "(Stereophonic)" on the label.

				Labels for albums 1-4.
				Labels for albums 5-8.
				Labels for albums 9, 10, 12, & X-2.

We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications is an information web page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have no association with Dyer-Bennet Records. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this discography (which are all out of print), we suggest you see our Frequently Asked Questions page and follow the instructions found there. This story and discography are copyright 2025 by Mike Callahan.

DYER-BENNET ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY

Cover	Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] Contents
	Dyer-Bennet DYB-1 Main Series:
	DYB-1 (DYB-1000) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 1 - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1955] Reissued as Smithsonian Folkways SFW-40078. Oft In The Stilly Night/Molly Brannigan/Down By The Sally Gardens/The Bold Fenian Men/Three Fishers/The Bonnie Earl Of Morey/Fine Flowers In The Valley/The Vicar Of Bray/So We'll Go No More A Roving/Phyllis And Her Mother/The Joys Of Love/I'm A Poor Boy/Pull Off Your Old Coat/Down In The Valley/Pedro/The Lonesome Valley
	DYB-2 (DYB-2000) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 2 - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1956] Reissued as Smithsonian Folkways SFW-40142. When Cockleshells Turn Silverbells/Corn Rigs Are Bonnie/The Garden Where The Praties Grow/The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington/Two Maidens Went Milking/Who Killed Cock Robin?/Veillée De Noël/Jan Hinnerk/Woman! Go Home!/Blow The Candles Out/Eggs And Marrowbone/The Beggar Man/The Turkish Revery
	DYB-3 (DYB-3000/RDB-1003) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 3 - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1956] The Lady's Policy/Dinah And Villikens/Fain Would I Wed/Willie Taylor/Charlie Is My Darling/Lilli Burlero//The Beloved Kitten/Spottlied Auf Napoleons Rückzug Aus Russland/The Lass From The Low Country/The Swapping Song/The House Carpenter/The Lady Who Loved A Swine/Go Down, Moses
	DYB-4 (DYB-4000) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 4 - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1957] A May Day Carol/The Rising Of The Moon/The Kerry Recruit/Searching For Lambs/The Bonnets Of Bonnie Dundee/The Spanish Lady In Dublin City/The Three Ra'ens//Song Of Reproach/Jag Vill Ga Vall/The Three Tailors/The Swagman/The Foggy Foggy Dew/The Fox/Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill!
	DYB-5 (DYB-5000 mono/SDBY-5764 stereo) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 5: Requests - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1958] Reissued as Smithsonian Folkways SFW-40143. Greensleeves/The "Golden Vanity"/The White Lily/Lord Rendal/Westryn Wynde/Barbara Allen/Venezuela/The Quaker Lover/John Henry/Spanish Is The Loving Tongue/I Ride An Old Paint/Edward
	DYB-6 (DYB-6000) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 6: Songs with Young People in Mind - Richard Dyer- Bennet [1958] Reissued as Smithsonian Folkways SFW-45053. Come All Ye/Old Bangum/Three Jolly Rogues Of Lynn/Aunt Rhody/Frog Went A-Courtin'/John Peel/Leprechaun/Piper Of Dundee/Bow Down/Tailor And The Mouse/I Went Out One Morning In May/Green Corn/Buckeye Jim/Little Pigs/Three Craw/Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea
	DYB-7 (DYB-7000) - Richard Dyer-Bwennet 7: Beethoven Scottish and Irish Songs - Richard Dyer-Bennet, Natasha Magg, Urico Rossi, Fritz Magg [1958] Faithfu' Johnie/On The Massacre Of Glencoe/Bonnie Laddie, Highland Laddie/Sunset/The Lovely Lass Of Inverness/The Pulse Of An Irishman//Once More I Hail Thee/Morning A Cruel Trumoiler Is/The Morning Air Plays On My Face/The Return To Ulster/Oh! Who My Dear Dermont/Again, My Lyre
	DYB-8 (DYB-8000) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 8: The Agincourt Song - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1959] The Agincourt Song/Come Live With Me/Come Away, Death/I Care Not For These Ladies/Flow, My Tears/All In A Garden Green/Henry Martin/All Mein Gehanken/Die Bekehrte Schaferin/Kranzelkraut/Jagdabenteuer/Warnung/Te Brave Marin/Aminte
	DYB-9 (DYB-9000) - Richard Dyer-Bennet 9 - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1960] Group I: The Laird O' Cockpen; The Two Sisters Of Binnorie; Early One Morning ; The Pride Of Petravore; Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo; The British Light Dragoons//Group II: Schneiders Höllenfahrt; Der Tod Von Basel; Le Joli Tambour/Group III: The Buffalo Skinners; John Riley; The Cherry Tree Carol
	DYB-10 - Richard Dyer-Bennet 10: Accompanying Himself on the Classic Spanish Guitar - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1962] The Lincolnshire Poacher/Lowlands/I Once Loved A Girl/She Moved Thro' The Fair/The Seven Little Pigs/O Speak Then My Love/Le Veritable Amour//The Unfortunate Troubadour/The Reaper's Ghost/Two Comments/Go 'Way, Old Man/The Wife Wrapped In Wether's Skin/My Good Old Man/No Hiding Place
	DYB-11 - Richard Dyer-Bennet 11: Stephen Foster Songs - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1962] Linger In Blissful Repose/Gentle Annie/Come With Thy Sweet Voice Again/If You've Only Got A Mustache/Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair/For Thee, Love, For Thee//Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway!/Beautiful Dreamer/Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair/There Are Plenty Of Fish In The Sea/Open Thy Lattice, Love/Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
	DYB-12 - Richard Dyer-Bennet 12: Of Ships, Seafaring Men, Watery Graves, Card Sharpers, A Giant Ram, An Indian Scalping, And One Edible Rat - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1964] Shallow Brown/The Drunken Sailor/The Eddystone Light/Hullabaloo Belay/The Mermaid/The Willow Tree/The Charleston Merchant//Peter Gray/The Roving Gambler/Billy Barlow/Australian Girls/Hanging Johnny/The Derby Ram/Plain Language From Truthful James
	DYB-13 - Richard Dyer-Bennet 13: Stories and Songs for Children and Their Parents - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1964] The Soldier And The Lady/The Tale Of The Tales/The Man Who Was Full Of Fun/The King Of The Noise/The Devil And The Farmers Wife//The Old Gray Goose/The Wolf Who Was A Friend/The Fox And The Geese
	Dyer-Bennet X-1 Classical Series: It appears that the only record issued on the Dyer-Bennet label that was not a recording of Richard Dyer-Bennet was the following classical offering by Aksel Schiøtz.
	DYBX-2 mono/DYBXS-2 stereo - Aksel Schiøtz, Baritone, Singing Schubert, Bellman, Wolf, Brahms - Askel Schiøtz with Paul Ulanowsky, Piano; Richard Dyer-Bennet, Guitar [1960] Liebesbotschaft (Rellstab); Ganymed (Goethe); Der Wanderer Am Den Mond (Joh. Gabr. Seidl); An Die Laute (Fr. Rochlitz) (Franz Schubert)/Fredman's Epistles: No. 25, Blåsen Nu Alla!; Fredman's Song. No. 31, Opp, Amaryllis!; Fredman's Epistles. No. 30, Drick Ur Ditt Glass (Carl Michael Bellman)/Heb Auf Dein Blondes Haupt (Italienisches Liederbuch-Heyse); Der Tambour (Mötrike); Verschwiegene Liebe (Eichendorff-Lieder); Auf Dem Grünen Balkon (Anon.); Anakreons Grab (Goethe) (Hugo Wolf)/An Die Nachtigall (Hölty); Salamander (Lemcke); Im Waldeseinsamkeit (Lemcke); Mein Mädel (Folk Song) (Johannes Brahms)
	Dyer-Bennet DYB-1600 Spoken Word Series:
	DYB-1601 - Mark Twain's 1601 - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1962] Label shown at right. Dyer- Bennet Reading 1601//Old Joe Clark/Old She Crab/The Tailor's Boy/The Eer-I-E Canal/There Was A Friar In Our Town/The Gatherin' O The Clan/Fireside Conversation In The Time Of Queen Elizabeth I
	Dyer-Bennet Extended Play (45rpm EP) Series:
	L80H - Richard Dyer-Bennet - Richard Dyer-Bennet [1958] Greensleeves/John Henry/Lots of Love/Lonesome Valley

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