Don Williams discography

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Don Williams discography
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Don Williams performing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on November 5, 2006
Studio albums25
Live albums2
Compilation albums13
Music videos7
Singles62
#1 Singles21

This is a detailed discography for American country music singer-songwriter Don Williams that includes information on all of his studio albums, singles, greatest hits compilations and live albums. Don Williams was active from 1967 until his death in 2017. [1] He was one of the best-selling male vocalists in country music in the 1970s and early 1980s. [2]

Contents

Studio albums

1970s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US Country
[3]
US
[3]
AUS [4] CAN Country
Don Williams Volume One 5
Don Williams Volume Two
  • Release date: January 1974
  • Label: JMI Records
  • Formats: LP
13
Don Williams Vol. III 3
You're My Best Friend
  • Release date: April 1975
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
5
Harmony
  • Release date: April 5, 1976
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
1
Visions
  • Release date: January 17, 1977
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
498
Country Boy
  • Release date: September 13, 1977
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
911
Expressions
  • Release date: August 23, 1978
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
21611
Portrait
  • Release date: October 19, 1979
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
11
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[3]
US
[3]
AUS [4] CAN Country
I Believe in You
  • Release date: August 4, 1980
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
257473
Especially for You
  • Release date: June 26, 1981
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
5109
Listen to the Radio
  • Release date: March 26, 1982
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
6166
Yellow Moon
  • Release date: March 25, 1983
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
1244
Cafe Carolina
  • Release date: May 14, 1984
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
131
New Moves 29
Traces
  • Release date: October 14, 1987
  • Label: Capitol Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
One Good Well
  • Release date: April 28, 1989
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
54
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak
positions
US Country
[3]
True Love
  • Release date: August 7, 1990
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, cassette
56
Currents
  • Release date: March 10, 1992
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Borrowed Tales
  • Release date: August 8, 1995
  • Label: American Harvest Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Flatlands
  • Release date: October 8, 1996
  • Label: American Harvest Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
I Turn the Page
  • Release date: October 27, 1998
  • Label: Giant Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
69
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s and 2010s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
US Country
[3]
US
[3]
My Heart to You
And So It Goes 20100
Reflections
  • Release date: March 11, 2014
  • Label: Sugar Hill Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
19124

Live albums

TitleAlbum details
An Evening with Don Williams: Best Of Live
  • Release date: May 27, 1994
  • Label: American Harvest Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Live Greatest Hits, Volume Two
  • Release date: April 17, 2001
  • Label: Row Music Group
  • Formats: CD
Don Williams in Ireland
  • Release date: April 15, 2016
  • Label: Don Williams Music Group
  • Formats: CD, LP


Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[3]
AUS [4] CAN Country
Greatest Hits, Volume One
  • Release date: September 22, 1975
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
5
The Best of Don Williams, Volume II
  • Release date: April 23, 1979
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
72
  • CAN: Gold
  • US: Gold [5]
Now & Then
  • Release date: 1982
  • Label: J&B Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
31
The Best of Don Williams, Volume III
  • Release date: February 13, 1984
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
18
Greatest Hits Volume IV
  • Release date: November 11, 1985
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
60
Lovers and Best Friends
  • Release date: September 22, 1986
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
20 Greatest Hits
  • Release date: February 16, 1987
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
14
Greatest Country Hits
  • Release date: September 10, 1990
  • Label: Curb Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
The Best of Don Williams
  • Release date: May 23, 1995
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, cassette
20th Century Masters:
The Millennium Collection
74
Gold
20th Century Masters:
The Millennium Collection, Vol. 2
  • Release date: September 25, 2001
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD
The Definitive Collection
  • Release date: June 22, 2004
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD
48
Icon: Don Williams
  • Release date: August 31, 2010
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD
43
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1970s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
[6]
US Bubbling
[6]
AUS
[4]
CAN Country UK
[7]
1973"The Shelter of Your Eyes"14Don Williams Volume One
"Come Early Morning"12
"Amanda"3365
1974"Atta Way to Go"1357Don Williams Volume Two
"We Should Be Together"5
"Down the Road I Go"6250
"I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me"110Don Williams Vol. III
"The Ties That Bind"42
1975"You're My Best Friend"150135You're My Best Friend
"(Turn Out the Light And) Love Me Tonight"15
"'Til the Rivers All Run Dry"1Harmony
1976"Say It Again"14
"I Recall a Gypsy Woman"13Don Williams Volume One
"She Never Knew Me"232Harmony
1977"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend"186Visions
"I'm Just a Country Boy"110157 [upper-alpha 1] Country Boy
1978"I've Got a Winner in You"710
"Rake and Ramblin' Man"32
"Tulsa Time"161Expressions
1979"Lay Down Beside Me"3882
"It Must Be Love"12
"Love Me Over Again"11Portrait
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
[6]
US
[6]
US AC
[8]
AUS
[4]
CAN Country CAN AC
1980"Good Ole Boys Like Me"23Portrait
"I Believe in You"12482017I Believe in You
1981"Falling Again"6393
"Miracles"4322Especially for You
"Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good"11
1982"Listen to the Radio"31Listen to the Radio
"Mistakes"33
"If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)"11
1983"Love Is on a Roll"11Yellow Moon
"Nobody but You"21
"Stay Young"13
1984"That's the Thing About Love"11Cafe Carolina
"Maggie's Dream"1113
1985"Walkin' a Broken Heart"23
"It's Time for Love"2049
1986"We've Got a Good Fire Goin'"32New Moves
"Heartbeat in the Darkness"12
"Then It's Love"34
1987"Señorita"912
"I'll Never Be in Love Again"415
"I Wouldn't Be a Man"97Traces
1988"Another Place, Another Time"5
"Desperately"75
1989"Old Coyote Town"52
"One Good Well"43One Good Well
"I've Been Loved by the Best"411
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s and beyond

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[6]
CAN Country
1990"Just as Long as I Have You"411One Good Well
"Maybe That's All It Takes"2247
"Back in My Younger Days"21True Love
1991"True Love"45
"Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy"717
1992"It's Who You Love"73Currents
"Too Much Love"72
"Catfish Bates" [9]
1995"Fever"Borrowed Tales
"Games People Play"
1998"Cracker Jack Diamond"87I Turn the Page
"Pretty Little Baby Child"
2004"My Heart to You"My Heart to You
2012"I Just Come Here for the Music" (with Alison Krauss)And So It Goes
2014"I'll Be Here in the Morning" [10] Reflections
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

YearSingleArtistPeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[6]
CAN Country
1981"If I Needed You" Emmylou Harris 31 Cimarron

Promotional singles

YearSinglePeak
positions
Album
US Country
[6]
1980"Could You Ever Really Love a Poor Boy"97

Music videos

YearVideoDirector
1986"Heartbeat in the Darkness" Sherman Halsey
1989"I've Been Loved by the Best"Phil Olsman
1995"Fever"Bob Gabrielsen
2004"My Heart to You"John Donegan
2012"Imagine That" (with Keith Urban)David McClister
2014"I'll Be Here in the Morning" [11] Bill Filipiak
"Sing Me Back Home" [12]

See also

Notes

  1. Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".

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