Tennessee Ernie Ford discography
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The following is the discography of American singer Tennessee Ernie Ford.
| Year | Album | Chart positions | Cert. (RIAA) |
Label | |
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| US Country | US [1] | ||||
| 1956 | This Lusty Land! | 12 | Capitol Records | ||
| Hymns | 2 | Platinum | |||
| 1957 | Spirituals | 5 | Gold | ||
| Ford Favorites | |||||
| Ol' Rockin' Ern' | |||||
| 1958 | Nearer the Cross | 5 | Gold | ||
| The Star Carol | 4 | Platinum | |||
| 1959 | Gather 'Round | ||||
| A Friend We Have | |||||
| 1960 | Sing a Hymn with Me | 23 | |||
| Sixteen Tons | |||||
| Sing a Spiritual with Me | |||||
| Come to the Fair | |||||
| 1961 | Civil War Songs of the North | ||||
| Civil War Songs of the South | |||||
| Looks at Love | |||||
| Hymns at Home | 67 | ||||
| 1962 | Mississippi Showboat | 110 | |||
| I Love to Tell the Story | 43 | ||||
| Book of Favorite Hymns | 71 | ||||
| 1963 | Long, Long Ago | ||||
| We Gather Together | |||||
| Story of Christmas | 14 | ||||
| 1964 | Great Gospel Songs | ||||
| Country Hits Feelin' Blue | |||||
| World's Best Loved Hymns | |||||
| 1965 | Let Me Walk with Thee | ||||
| Sing We Now of Christmas | 31 | ||||
| 1966 | My Favorite Things | ||||
| Wonderful Peace | |||||
| God Lives | |||||
| Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart | |||||
| 1967 | Aloha | ||||
| Faith of Our Fathers | |||||
| 1968 | Our Garden of Hymns (w/ Marilyn Horne) | ||||
| World of Pop and Country Hits | |||||
| O Come All Ye Faithful | |||||
| The Best of Tennessee Ernie Ford Hymns | |||||
| 1969 | Songs I Like to Sing | ||||
| New Wave | |||||
| Holy, Holy, Holy | |||||
| 1970 | America the Beautiful | 192 | |||
| Everything Is Beautiful | |||||
| 1971 | Abide with Me | ||||
| C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S | |||||
| Folk Album | |||||
| 1972 | Mr. Words and Music | ||||
| Standin' in the Need of Prayer | |||||
| 1973 | Country Morning | 46 | |||
| Ernie Ford Sings About Jesus | |||||
| 1974 | Make A Joyful Noise | 35 | |||
| 1975 | Ernie Sings & Glen Picks (w/ Glen Campbell) | ||||
| 1976 | Sing His Great Love | ||||
| For the 83rd Time | |||||
| 1977 | He Touched Me | Word Records | |||
| 1978 | Swing Wide Your Golden Gate | ||||
| 1979 | Ramblin' Down Country Roads With Tennessee Ernie Ford | ||||
| 1980 | Tell Me the Old, Old Story | ||||
| 1982 | There's A Song In My Heart | ||||
| 1983 | Sunday School Songs For Children of All Ages | ||||
| 1984 | Keep Looking Up | ||||
| 2009 | 6000 Sunset Boulevard: Featuring The Billy Liebert Band | Sundazed Music | |||
| 2014 | Amazing Grace: 14 Treasured Hymns | 19 | 159 | Gaither Music | |
Singles
| Year | Single (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated |
Chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | |||
| 1949 | "Tennessee Border" | 8 | Non-album track | |
| "Milk 'Em in the Morning Blues" | 15 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
| "Country Junction" | 14 | |||
| "Philadelphia Lawyer" | Sixteen Tons | |||
| "Smokey Mountain Boogie" b/w "You'll Find Her Name Written There" (non-album track) |
8 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
| "Mule Train" | 1 | 9 | Sixteen Tons | |
| "Anticipation Blues" | 3 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
| 1950 | "The Cry of the Wild Goose" b/w "The Donkey Serenade" |
2 | 15 | Sixteen Tons |
| "My Hobby" b/w "I've Got to Feed 'em in the Morning" |
Non-album tracks | |||
| "Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own" (with Kay Starr) | 5 | 22 | ||
| "I'll Never Be Free" (with Kay Starr) | 2 | 3 | ||
| "What This Country Needs" b/w "The Lord's Lariat" (from Ol' Rockin' Ern) |
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| "Cincinnati Dancing Pig" b/w "Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women" Both sides with The Starlighters |
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| "Little Juan Pedro" b/w "Bryant's Boogie" |
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| "The Shotgun Boogie" | 1 | 14 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | |
| "I Ain't Gonna Let It Happen (No More)" | flip | |||
| 1951 | "Tailor Made Woman" (with Joe "Fingers" Carr) | 8 | Non-album tracks | |
| "Stack-O-Lee" (with Joe "Fingers" Carr) | ||||
| "Ocean of Tears" (with Kay Starr) | 15 | |||
| "You're My Sugar" (with Kay Starr) | 22 | |||
| "Mr. and Mississippi" b/w "She's My Baby" (from Ol' Rockin' Ern) |
2 | 18 | ||
| "The Strange Little Girl" | 9 | |||
| "Kentucky Waltz" | flip | |||
| "Kissin' Bug Boogie" b/w "Woman Is a Five Letter Word" |
12 | |||
| "Hey Good Lookin'" b/w "Cool, Cool Kisses" Both sides with Helen O'Connell |
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| "Rock City Boogie" b/w "Streamlined Cannonball" Both sides with The Dinning Sisters |
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| "Christmas Dinner" b/w "A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus" |
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| 1952 | "Hambone" (with Bucky Tibbs) b/w "The Gandy Dancer's Ball" |
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| "Everybody's Got a Girl but Me"[a] b/w "Put Your Arms Around Me" |
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| "Snowshoe Thompson" b/w "Fatback Louisiana USA" |
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| "Blackberry Boogie" b/w "Tennessee Local" (non-album track) |
6 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
| "Hog-Tied over You" b/w "False Hearted Girl" Both sides with Ella Mae Morse |
Non-album tracks | |||
| 1953 | "I Don't Know" b/w "Sweet Temptation" |
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| "Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker" b/w "Three Things (A Man Must Do)" |
8 | |||
| "Don't Start Courtin' in a Hot Rod Ford" b/w "We're a-Growin' Up" Both sides with Molly Bee |
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| "Kiss Me Big" | Ol' Rockin' Ern | |||
| "Catfish Boogie" | flip | |||
| 1954 | "Honeymoon's Over" b/w "This Must Be the Place" Both sides with Betty Hutton |
16 | Non-album tracks | |
| "River of No Return" b/w "Give Me Your Word" |
9 | Ford Favorites | ||
| "Ein Zwei Drei" b/w "Losing You" |
Non-album tracks | |||
| "Somebody Bigger Than You or I" b/w "There Is Beauty in Everything" |
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| 1955 | "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" b/w "Farewell" |
4 | 5 | |
| "His Hands" b/w "I Am a Pilgrim" |
13 | Spirituals | ||
| "Sixteen Tons" | 1 | 1 | Ford Favorites | |
| 1956 | "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" | 78 | ||
| "That's All" b/w "Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women" (from Sixteen Tons) |
12 | 17 | ||
| "Rovin' Gambler" b/w "John Henry" |
60 | This Lusty Land! | ||
| "Rock and Roll Boogie" b/w "Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart" (from Ford Favorites) |
Non-album track | |||
| "First Born" b/w "Have You Seen Her" |
46 | Ford Favorites | ||
| 1957 | "Watermelon Song" | 87 | ||
| "One Suit" | 93 | |||
| "False Hearted Girl" b/w "Lonely Man" (from Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart!) |
This Lusty Land! | |||
| "In the Middle of an Island" | 23 | Non-album track | ||
| "Ivy League" | Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart! | |||
| 1958 | "Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart" b/w "Down Deep" |
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| "Sunday Barbeque" b/w "Love Makes the World Go Round" |
97 | |||
| "Glad Rags" b/w "Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed" (non-album track) |
100[2] | |||
| 1959 | "Black-Eyed Susie" b/w "Code of the Mountains" |
I Love You So Much It Hurts Me | ||
| "Love Is the Only Thing" b/w "Sunny Side of Heaven" |
Non-album track | |||
| 1960 | "O Mary Don't You Weep" b/w "Joshua Fit the Battle" |
Sing a Spiritual with Me | ||
| "Little Klinker" b/w "Jingle-o-the-Brownie" |
Non-album tracks | |||
| "Bless This Land" b/w "Lord of All Creation" |
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| 1961 | "Dark as a Dungeon" b/w "His Love (Makes the World Go Round)" (non-album track) |
This Lusty Land! | ||
| "Little Red Rockin' Hood" b/w "I Gotta Have My Baby Back" (from Ernie Looks at Love) |
Non-album track | |||
| 1962 | "Take Your Girlie to the Movies" b/w "There'll Be No New Piano Tunes on This Old Piano" |
Here Comes the Tennessee Ernie Ford Mississippi Showboat | ||
| "Work Song" b/w "Rags and Old Iron" (from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me) |
Everything Is Beautiful | |||
| "How Great Thou Art" b/w "Eternal Life" (from God Lives!) |
I Love to Tell the Story | |||
| 1965 | "Hicktown" b/w "Sixteen Tons" (from Sixteen Tons) |
9 | Non-album tracks | |
| "Girl Don't You Know" b/w "Now It's All Over" (from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me) |
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| "Sing We Now of Christmas"[b] b/w "The Little Drummer Boy" |
Sing We Now of Christmas | |||
| 1966 | "God Lives" b/w "How Great Thou Art" |
God Lives | ||
| 1967 | "Lahaina Luna" b/w "Pearly Shells" |
Aloha from Tennessee Ernie Ford | ||
| "The Road" b/w "Hand-Me-Down Things" |
Non-album tracks | |||
| 1968 | "Talk to the Animals" b/w "What a Wonderful World" |
World of Pop and Country Hits | ||
| 1969 | "Honey-Eyed Girl (That's You That's You)" b/w "Good Morning, Dear" |
54 | The New Wave | |
| 1970 | "Rainy Night In Georgia" b/w "Let the Lovelight in Your Eyes Lead Me On" |
Everything Is Beautiful | ||
| 1971 | "Happy Songs of Love" b/w "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By" (from 25th Anniversary Yesterday–Today) |
58 | Non-album track | |
| 1972 | "Pea-Pickin' Cook" b/w "The Song" (non-album track) |
It's a Ford | ||
| 1973 | "Printers Alley Stars" b/w "Baby" |
66 | Country Morning | |
| "Farther Down the River (Where the Fishin's Good)" b/w "You've Still Got Love All Over You" |
73 | |||
| "Colorado Country Morning"[c] b/w "Daddy Usta Say" |
70 | |||
| 1974 | "Sweet Child of Sunshine" b/w "She Picked Up the Pieces" (non-album track) |
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| "I've Got Confidence" b/w "I'd Like to Be" (from Country Morning) |
Make a Joyful Noise | |||
| 1975 | "Come On Down" b/w "Bits and Pieces of Life" (non-album track) |
52 | ||
| "Baby" b/w "I'd Like to Be" Both sides with Andra Willis |
63 | Country Morning | ||
| "The Devil Ain't a Lonely Woman's Friend" b/w "Smokey Taverns, Bar Room Girls" |
96 | Non-album tracks | ||
| 1976 | "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" b/w "Baby's Home" (non-album track) |
95 | For the 83rd Time | |
| "Sweet Feelins" b/w "Dogs and Sheriff John" |
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References
- ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top LP's, 1945-1972. Record Research. 1973. ISBN 9780898200096.
Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001. Record Research. 2001. ISBN 9780898201475. - ↑ "Billboard Database".
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