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Doug Ashdown

Australia • b. 1942-07-29

Doug Ashdown is credited on 204 releases across 72 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1966–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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204

Pressings credited

72

Albums

7

Decades active

4

In collections

Biography

Douglas Wesley Ashdown (born 29 July 1942) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter from Adelaide. He had a top 40 hit on the Australian singles chart with "Winter in America" or "Leave Love Enough Alone" (1976). It also reached No. 13 on the Dutch Singles Chart in 1978 and charted in 14 of the first 15 editions of the Dutch annual Top 2000 of all time, with a peak position of 820 in 1999. In 1988, "Winter in America" was covered by Dutch singer René Froger, and in 1994 by Australian group the Robertson Brothers. Ashdown also reached the Australian top 50 with "The Saddest Song of All" (1970).

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Credited work

204 releases · 72 albums · active 1966–2025

  • Performance · 275
  • Production · 67
  • Other credits · 6

Studios: Festival Studios · ATA Studios · EMI Studios 301 · United Sound Studios, Sydney

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • René Froger
  • Rene Froger
  • Fraternity
  • Marian Henderson
  • Lee Towers
  • Johnny Tillotson
  • Marco Bakker

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