title: Danny Spooner
text: # Danny Spooner
  
  Danny Spooner (16 December 1936 – 3 March 2017) was an Australian traditional folk singer and social historian. Born in England, he left school at the age of 13 and worked as a salvage tug and trawler skipper before moving to Australia in 1962. He rapidly became involved in the Melbourne folk revival centred on Frank Traynor's folk club, and was a major figure in the Australian folk scene thereafter.
  
  He died on 3 March 2017.
  
  ## Awards and honours
  
  Danny Spooner was the Port Fairy Folk Festival artist of the year in 1995.
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### LPs
  
  * 1965: A Wench and a Whale and a Pint of Good Ale, Discurio
  * 1966: Soldiers and Sailors, Discurio
  * 1977: Canterbury Fair, Anthology AR 001
  * 1978: Danny Spooner and Friends, Anthology AR 002
  * 1978: Limbo, Anthology AR 003
  * 1978: Revived and Relieved (with Gordon McIntyre), Larrikin LRF 016
  * 1986: I Got This One From..., Sandstock Music SSM 017
  * 1987: When a Man's in Love, Sandstock Music, SSM 021
  * 1988: We'll Either Bend or Break 'Er, Sandstock Music SSM 027
  * 1989: All Around Down Under, Sandstock Music SSM 036 (with Martyn Wyndham-Read)
  
  ### CDs
  
  * 2002: When a Man's in Love (love songs from a man’s point of view)
  * 2002: We'll Either Bend or Break 'Er (shanties)
  * 2002: Launch Out on the Deep (sea songs)
  
  ### Folk Trax
  
  * 2004: ‘ard Tack, (traditional Australian songs of work)
  * 2006: The Great Leviathan, traditional songs of whaling
  * 2007: Years of Spooner, (compilation of songs Danny has sung 1965-2007)
  * 2007: Emerging Tradition, (fairly) contemporary Australian songs
  * 2008: Brave Bold Boys
  