Discography: Early 70's
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Records are ordered by recording date (known or estimated)
(Additions are especially requesteded for Lindsay's early recording activities in this part )

Tiger Sue
Burn Burn Burn
Maple Annie (UK) MA 101 [7” single] (1971)
Blue Mountain (Spain) BLUE MOUNTAIN 10.859 [7” single] (1972)
A: Burn burn burn B:Tease Me
Note: L.C comments this record in her 1985 Bad Alchemy discography as “absolutely horrible”

Jalo Withren
Raw But Tender
CBS ? 1973

Henry Cow
Ruins
1995 - Canterbury Dream (Japan),
CTD-025/026 [2xCD]
Disc 1:
1/ Unreleased Title 1 2/ Unreleased Title 2 3/ Nine Funerals Of The Citizen King 1 4/ Nirvana Foe Mice 5/ Nine Funerals Of The Citizen King 2 6/ Unreleased Title 3
Disc 2:
7/ Beautiful As The Moon - Terrible As An Army With Banners 8/ Nirvana For Mice 9/ Ottawa Song 10/ Gloria Gloom 11/ Ruins 12/ Beautiful As The Moon
(1-6) are demos recorded in 1973 without L.C.; (7-12) recorded at the NDR Jazz Workshop, Hamburg on March 26, 1976
Lindsay Cooper (7-12) - bassoon, oboe, flute; Chris Cutler - drums; Fred Frith - guitar, violin, etc.; John Greaves - bassguitar; Tim Hodgkinson - keyboards, alto saxophone, clarinet; Dagmar Krause (7-12) - voice; Geoff Leigh (1-6) - saxophone, flute.

Geoff Whitehorn
Whitehorn
Stateside 80164 [LP] 1974
Albert Lee - guitar; Geoff Whitehorn - guitar, voice; Lindsay Cooper - woodwinds; Peter Arnesen - keyboards; Tony Atkins - voice; Gerry Conway - drums; Cliff Davies - drums: Pat Donaldson - bass guitar; Gerry Morris - bass guitar; Dick Morrissey - saxophone; John Richardson - drums.

Mike Oldfield
Hergest Ridge
Virgin Records (UK) DV 2013 [LP] (1974)
Virgin Records (UK) CDV 2013 [CD] (publishing date not known)
1: Hergest Ridge Part One (21:30) 2: Hergest Ridge Part Two (18:49)
All compositions by M. Oldfield
Mike Oldfield: electric guitars, glockenspiel, Sleigh Bells, Mandolin, Nutcracker, Timpani, Gong, acoustic guitar, spanish guitar, Farfisa, Lowrey & Gemini organs; June Whiting - oboe; Linsay Cooper - oboe; Ted Hobart - trumpet; Chili Charles - snare drums; William Murray [uncredited] - cymbal; Clodagh Simonds - voice; Sally Oldfield - voice; David Bedford - conductor.
Note: In opposition to "Tubular Bells" this time the female Lindsay is colaborating with Mike Oldfield.
Note: An 9’33 excerpt of “Hergest Ridge” is included in the CD compilation “Elements: Mike Oldfield 1973-1991” (2002). For the many other editions of this record compare the Mike Oldfield Discography (look at the LINKS page)

Linda Thompson
Give Me a Sad Song. A Collection Of Rare And Previously Unreleased Gems
Fledg'ling Records (U.K.) FLED 3020 [CD] (2001)
10. Restless Boy (Richard Thompson) (4’15) 11. The World Is A Wonderfull Place (Richard Thompson) (3’29)
recorded at Sound Techniques in 1973
Linda Thompson - voice; Richard Thompson - guitar; Lindsay Cooper - oboe
Note: CD contains 15 more songs on which LC is not appearing. (10) and (11) are recorded as demos. (11) was previously released on the 1993 Hokey Pokey (U.K.)/Green Linnet (U.S.) collection of the same title HPR 20032.

Comus
To Keep From Crying
Virgin (U.K.) V 2018 [LP] (1974)
A 1. Down (Like A Movie Star) A 2. Touch Down A 3. Waves And Caves A 4. Figure In Your Dreams A 5. Children Of The Universe B 1. So Long Supernova B 2. Perpetual Motion B 3. Panophany B 4. Get Yourself A Man B 5. To Keep From Crying B 6. After The Dream
Roger Wooton - voice, guitar; Bobbie Watson - voice, recorder, percussion; Keith Hale - piano, organ, electric piano, synthesizer, marimbas; Andy Hellaby - bass, auto harp, efects, tape music; Gordon Coxon - drums, percussion
+ Lindsay Cooper - bassoon; Didier Malherbe - tenor saxophone; Phil Barry - bongos; Tim Kraemer - cello.

IMPROVED ENTRY (Oct. 2004)
*Egg
The Civil Surface
Caroline 1510 [LP] (1974)
Blue Plate CAROL-1814-2 [CD] (1992)
Caroline 1814 [CD]
CD Plan 9/Caroline 1814 [CD]
Mason Records (EEC) MR 56411 [CD] (2003)
1. Germ Patrol (8’31) 2. Wind Quartet 1 (2’20 3. Enneagram (9’07) 4. Prelude (4’17) 5. Wring Out the Ground (Loosely Now) (8’11) 6. Nearch (3’22) 7. Wind Quartet 2 (4’48)
Recorded at Saturn Studios, Worthing, August 1974
Dave Stewart - organ, piano, keyboards, bass (on 6); Mont Campbell - bass, piano, French horn (2, 7), vocals; Clive Brooks - drums
with
Jeremy Baines - flute (“germophone and bunk”); Maurice Cambridge - clarinet (2, 7); Lindsay Cooper - oboe, bassoon (1, 6); Barbara Gaskin - voice (4); Steve Hillage - guitar (5); Tim Hodgkinson - clarinet (1, 6); Christopher Palmer - bassoon (2, 7); Amanda Parsons - voice (4); Ann Rosenthal - voice (4); Stephen Solloway - flute (2, 7)