Diana Trask discography

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Diana Trask discography
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Diana Trask, 1974.
Studio albums16
EPs1
Compilation albums6
Singles33
Other charted songs1

The discography of Australian singer Diana Trask contains 16 studio albums, six compilation albums, one extended play (EP), 33 singles and one other charting song. The Columbia label issued her first two albums in 1961: Diana Trask on TV and an eponymous studio LP. It was followed in 1965 by the CBS International LP, Just for You. The label also issued several singles, including the songs "A Guy Is a Guy" and "Our Language of Love". Both made the top 60 in Australia in 1961. In the country field, the 1968 single "Lock, Stock and Teardrops" reached the top 70 on the US Hot Country Songs chart. Her version of "I Fall to Pieces" made the US country top 40 in 1969. It was issued on her second studio album with the Dot label called From the Heart (1969). The LP reached number 32 on the US Top Country Albums chart.

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The Dot label issued two more studio albums by Trask through 1972: Diana's Country and Diana Trask Sings About Loving . The LP's produced three charting singles including a pair of US top 40 country songs: "It Meant Nothing to Me" and "We've Got to Work It Out Between Us". Her next four singles made the US country songs top 20 between 1973 and 1974: "Say When", "It's a Man's World (If You Had a Man Like Mine)", "When I Get My Hands on You" and "Lean It All on Me". Additionally, "Say When" reached number eight on the RPM country chart in Canada. The songs were included on the studio albums It's a Man's World and Lean It All on Me . Her 1974 single "Oh Boy" rose into the US country top 30, the Canadian country top 20 and number ten on Australia's Kent Music Report chart.

Four more of Trask's singles made the US country songs chart through 1981. The Hammard label issued two studio albums of her material in the 1980s, including 1981's One Day at a Time, which was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association. Both One Day at a Time and its follow-up, Footprints, reached the Australian albums chart in the early 1980s. A collaborative compilation album with Allison Durbin titled Nothing But the Very Best reached the Australian albums top 100 in 1982. It was not until 2010 that Trask released her next studio album titled Country Lovin'. She has since released two more studio albums and an EP since 2017.

Albums

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
TitleAlbum detailsPeak
chart
positions
Certifications
AUS
[1]
US
Cou.

[2]
Diana Trask
Diana Trask on TV
(with Mitch Miller's Sing Along Chorus)
  • Released: November 1961
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
Just for You [3]
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: CBS
  • Formats: LP
Miss Country Soul
  • Released: February 1969
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
34
From the Heart
  • Released: September 1969
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
32
Diana's Country
  • Released: May 1971
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
Diana Trask Sings About Loving
  • Released: July 1972
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
It's a Man's World
  • Released: December 1973
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
25
Lean It All on Me
  • Released: May 1974
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP, cassette
34
The Mood I'm In
  • Released: June 1975
  • Label: ABC–Dot
  • Formats: LP, cassette
65
Believe Me Now or Believe Me Later
  • Released: May 1976
  • Label: ABC
  • Formats: LP
One Day at a Time
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Hammard
  • Formats: LP
50
Footprints
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Hammard
  • Formats: LP
64
Country Lovin' [5] [6]
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Trask
  • Formats: CD, digital
Daughter of Australia [7] [8]
  • Released: March 21, 2014
  • Label: Trask
  • Formats: CD, digital
Memories Are Made of This [9] [10]
  • Released: September 23, 2016
  • Label: Trask
  • Formats: CD, digital
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

Compilation albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
TitleAlbum detailsPeak
chart
positions
AUS
[1]
US
Cou.

[2]
Diana Trask's Greatest Hits
  • Released: October 1974
  • Label: ABC–Dot
  • Formats: LP
32
Diana Trask's Greatest Hits [11]
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Ember
  • Formats: LP
The ABC Collection [12]
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: ABC
  • Formats: LP
Join the Country Club [13]
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: ABC Dot/MCA
  • Formats: LP, cassette
Nothing But the Very Best
(with Allison Durbin)
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Hammard
  • Formats: LP, cassette
88
Country Bumpkin [14]
  • Released: December 1986
  • Label: Hammard
  • Formats: LP, cassette
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

Extended plays

List of EPs, showing all relevant details
TitleAlbum details
Duets
(with Dave Owens) [15]
  • Released: May 19, 2017
  • Label: Trask
  • Formats: Digital

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
TitleYearPeak chart positions Certifications Album
AUS
[16]
CAN
Cou.

[17]
US
Bub.

[18]
US
Cou.

[2]
"Going Steady" [19] 1958
"Soldier Won't You Marry Me"195954
"A Guy Is a Guy"196059
"Long Ago Last Summer"26
"Our Language of Love"48
"Waltzing Matilda" [20] 1961Diana Trask on TV
"Too Young" [21] 1964Just for You
"The Road to Gundagai" [22] 1965
"Lock, Stock and Teardrops"196870
"Hold What You've Got"59Miss Country Soul
"You Got What It Takes" [23] 1969
"Children"58From the Heart
"I Fall to Pieces"291437
"Beneath Still Waters"19705038
"The Last Person to See Me Alive" [24] 1971Diana's Country
"The Chokin' Kind"59
"We've Got to Work It Out Between Us"197230Diana Trask Sings About Loving
"It Meant Nothing to Me"33
"Say When"1973815It's a Man's World
"It's a Man's World (If You Had a Man Like Mine)"2220
"When I Get My Hands on You"2516
"Lean It All on Me"1974121113Lean It All on Me
"(If You Wanna Hold on) Hold to Your Man"32
"Oh Boy"101421The Mood I'm In
"There Has to Be a Loser"197582
"Cry"99Diana Trask's Greatest Hits
"Let's Get Down to Business" [26] 1976Believe Me Now or Believe Me Later
"Waltzing Matilda" [27] 1977
"Rising Above It All" [28] 1980
"Mothers and Daddies" [29]
"This Must Be My Ship"198162
"Stirrin' Up Feelings"74
"Never Gonna Be Alright" [30]
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

Other charted songs

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbumNotes
AUS
[16]
"Lover Is Another Name for Fool"195956 [lower-alpha 1]

Notes

  1. Appeared as the B-side to "Soldier Won't You Marry Me". [31]

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