Norma Jean discography
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The discography of American singer, Norma Jean contains 24 studio albums, seven compilation albums, 38 singles, two other charting songs and ten album appearances. Her first releases were four singles issued by Columbia Records between 1959 and 1960. In 1963, "Let's Go All the Way" reached number 11 on the US Hot Country Songs chart, becoming her first of 23 singles to place there. In 1964, "Go Cat Go" became her first top-10 single on the chart, peaking at number eight. It also was her only release to place on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, rising to number 34. Norma Jean had two more top-10 singles on the US country chart: "I Wouldn't Buy a Used Car from Him" (1965) and "The Game of Triangles" (1966). The latter was a duet with Bobby Bare and Liz Anderson that was issued on an album of the same name. Between 1964 and 1966, RCA Victor issued four studio albums of Norma Jean's material. This included the Pretty Miss Norma Jean (1965) and Please Don't Hurt Me (1966), both of which made the top-10 on the US Top Country Albums chart.
| Norma Jean discography | |
|---|---|
Norma Jean in 1968 | |
| Studio albums | 24 |
| Compilation albums | 7 |
| Singles | 38 |
| Other charted songs | 2 |
| Other album appearances | 10 |
In 1967, all three of her studio LP's made the Top Country Albums survey: Norma Jean Sings Porter Wagoner, Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town and The Game of Triangles. Between 1966 and 1967, four of her solo singles made the top-40 on the US country chart: "The Shirt", "Pursuing Happiness", "Don't Let That Doorknob Hit You" and "Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town". The 1967 single, "Heaven Help the Working Girl", was her last top-20 appearance on the same chart. The following year, "You Changed Everything About Me But My Name", was her final single to make a top-40 US country chart appearance. RCA issued four studio LP's between 1968 and 1969, including the charting albums Body and Mind, Love's a Woman's Job and Country Giants. The label issued seven more studio albums through 1973 including It's Time for Norma Jean (1970), Norma Jean (1971) and Thank You for Loving Me (1972). The 1971 single, "The Kind of Needin' I Need", was her final solo release to make the country chart.
Norma Jean's next recordings were not released until the 1980s. This began in 1982 with a duet version of "Let's Go All the Way". A collaboration with Claude Gray, the single reached number 68 on the Hot Country Songs chart and was her final charting song. In 1983, the Roma label issued her first studio LP in nine years titled Pretty Miss...Norma Jean. It included the single "We Got a Good Thing Going". In 1995, she collaborated with Hermann Lammers Meyer on the German-issued single, "Faith in Santa" which appeared on his 1995 album, Till the End of Time. In April 2005, the Heart of Texas label released her first studio album in many years titled The Loneliest Star in Texas. The label also issued Norma Jean's Cowboy Church Gospel in 2012 and her most recent release titled Aged to Perfection in 2014.
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country [1] | ||
| Let's Go All the Way |
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| Pretty Miss Norma Jean |
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3 |
| Please Don't Hurt Me |
|
8 |
| Norma Jean Sings a Tribute to Kitty Wells |
|
23 |
| The Game of Triangles (with Bobby Bare and Liz Anderson) |
|
18 |
| Norma Jean Sings Porter Wagoner |
|
19 |
| Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town |
|
11 |
| Heaven's Just a Prayer Away |
|
44 |
| Heaven Help the Working Girl |
|
— |
| Body and Mind |
|
37 |
| Love's a Woman's Job |
|
39 |
| Country Giants |
|
36 |
| Another Man Loved Me Last Night[2] |
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| It's Time for Norma Jean[3] |
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— |
| Norma Jean[4] |
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— |
| Norma Jean Sings Hank Cochran Songs[5] |
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| Thank You for Loving Me[6] |
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| I Guess That Comes from Being Poor[7] |
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| The Only Way to Hold Your Man[8] |
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| Pretty Miss...Norma Jean[9] |
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| One Day at a Time[a] |
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| Loneliest Star in Texas[12] |
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| Norma Jean's Cowboy Church Gospel[13] |
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| Aged to Perfection[14] |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||
Compilation albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country [1] | ||
| The Country's Favorite[15] |
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| The Best of Norma Jean[16] |
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26 |
| It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels[17] |
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| My Best to You[18] |
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| The Best of Norma Jean[19] |
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| The Essential Norma Jean: The RCA Years[20] | — | |
| Columbia Singles[21] |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Bub. [22] |
US Cou. [23] | |||
| "Chapel Bells"[24] | 1959 | — | — | N/a |
| "You Called Me Another Woman's Name"[25] | — | — | ||
| "Just Like I Knew"[26] | 1960 | — | — | |
| "Someplace to Cry"[27] | — | — | ||
| "Let's Go All the Way" | 1963 | — | 11 | Let's Go All the Way |
| "I'm a Walkin' Advertisement (For the Blues)" | 1964 | — | 32 | |
| "Go Cat Go" | 34 | 8 | Pretty Miss Norma Jean | |
| "I Cried All the Way to the Bank" | 1965 | — | 21 | |
| "I Wouldn't Buy a Used Car from Him" | — | 8 | ||
| "You're Driving Me Out of My Mind" | — | 41 | Please Don't Hurt Me | |
| "The Shirt" | 1966 | — | 28 | |
| "Pursuing Happiness"[b] | — | 28 | The Game of Triangles | |
| "The Game of Triangles" (with Bobby Bare and Liz Anderson) |
— | 5 | ||
| "Don't Let That Doorknob Hit You"[c] | — | 24 | ||
| "Conscience Keep an Eye on Me" | 1967 | — | 48 | Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town |
| "Chet's Tune" (credited as Some of Chet's Friends) |
— | 38 | N/a | |
| "Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town" | — | 38 | Jackson Ain't a Very Big Town | |
| "Heaven Help the Working Girl" | — | 18 | Heaven Help the Working Girl | |
| "Truck Driving Woman" | 1968 | — | 53 | Body and Mind |
| "You Changed Everything About Me But My Name" | — | 35 | Love's a Woman's Job | |
| "One Man Band" | — | 61 | N/a | |
| "Dusty Road" | 1969 | — | 44 | Country Giants |
| "These Flowers"[29] | — | — | Another Man Loved Me Last Night | |
| "Long Ago Is Gone"[30] | — | — | ||
| "Somebody's Gonna Plow Your Field"[31] | 1970 | — | — | |
| "Another Man Loved Me Last Night"[32] | — | — | ||
| "Whiskey-Six Years Old" | — | 48 | It's Time for Norma Jean | |
| "The Kind of Needin' I Need" | 1971 | — | 42 | Thank You for Loving Me |
| "That Song Writtin' Man (Has Wrote My Mind)"[33] | — | — | Norma Jean | |
| "Chicken Every Sunday"[34] | — | — | Thank You for Loving Me | |
| "Thank You for Loving Me"[35] | 1972 | — | — | |
| "Hundred Dollar Funeral"[36] | — | — | I Guess That Comes from Being Poor | |
| "I Guess That Comes from Being Poor"[37] | — | — | ||
| "The Only Way to Hold Your Man"[38] | 1973 | — | — | The Only Way to Hold Your Man |
| "I Can't Sleep with You"[39] | — | — | ||
| "Let's Go All the Way" (with Claude Gray) |
1982 | — | 68 | N/a |
| "We've Got a Good Thing Going"[40] | 1983 | — | — | Pretty Miss...Norma Jean |
| "Faith in Santa" (with Hermann Lammers Meyer)[41][42] |
1995 | — | — | Till the End of Time |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||
Other charted songs
Other album appearances
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "I'll Take a Chance on Loving You" | 1963 | Porter Wagoner | The Porter Wagoner Show | [45] |
| "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" | N/a | |||
| "I Want to Live Again" | ||||
| "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin' | ||||
| "Head Over Heels in Love with You" | 1964 | Porter Wagoner in Person Recorded Live | [46] | |
| I Didn't Mean It" | ||||
| "Talk Back Trembling Lips" | ||||
| "Private Little World" | ||||
| "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" | 2011 | Joe Paul Nichols | Friends in High Places | [47] |
| "Let's Go All the Way" | 2018 | Buck Trent | Spartanburg Blues | [48] |
Notes
- One Day at a Time was originally released as a cassette via Roma Records during the 1980s. The specific date is unknown and a catalog number does not exist for this album. A digital re-release from Apple Music cites a date of June 30, 1995 release on Heart of Texas Records.[10][11]