Don Williams discography

Don Williams discography
Don Williams performing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on November 5, 2006
Studio albums	25
Live albums	2
Compilation albums	13
Singles	62
Music videos	7
#1 Singles	21

This is a detailed discography for American country music singer 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]

Studio albums

See also: List of songs written by Don Williams

1970s

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country [3]	US [3]	AUS [4]	CAN Country
Don Williams Volume One	Release date: June 1973 Label: JMI Records Formats: LP	5	—	—	—
Don Williams Volume Two	Release date: January 1974 Label: JMI Records Formats: LP	13	—	—	—
Don Williams Vol. III	Release date: September 25, 1974 Label: ABC/Dot Records Formats: LP	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	4	—	98	—
Country Boy	Release date: September 13, 1977 Label: ABC/Dot Records Formats: LP, cassette	9	—	—	11
Expressions	Release date: August 23, 1978 Label: ABC/Dot Records Formats: LP, cassette	2	161	—	1
Portrait	Release date: October 19, 1979 Label: MCA Records Formats: LP, cassette	11	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Title	Album details	Peak 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	2	57	47	3	CAN: Gold US: Platinum [5]
Especially for You	Release date: June 26, 1981 Label: MCA Records Formats: LP, cassette	5	109	—	—
Listen to the Radio	Release date: March 26, 1982 Label: MCA Records Formats: LP, cassette	6	166	—	—
Yellow Moon	Release date: March 25, 1983 Label: MCA Records Formats: LP, cassette	12	44	—	—
Cafe Carolina	Release date: May 14, 1984 Label: MCA Records Formats: LP, cassette	13	—	—	1
New Moves	Release date: January 17, 1986 Label: Capitol Records Formats: LP, cassette	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

Title	Album details	Peak 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

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country [3]	US [3]
My Heart to You	Release date: April 27, 2004 Label: Vanguard Records Formats: CD	—	—
And So It Goes	Release date: June 19, 2012 Label: Sugar Hill Records Formats: CD, music download	20	100
Reflections	Release date: March 11, 2014 Label: Sugar Hill Records Formats: CD, music download	19	124

Live albums

Title	Album 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

Title	Album details	Peak 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	7	—	2	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	—	—	US: Gold [5]
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	Release date: May 9, 2000 Label: MCA Nashville Formats: CD	74	—	—
Gold	Release date: October 17, 2000 Label: Hip-O Records Formats: CD	—	—	—
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

Year	Single	Peak chart positions					Album
		US Country [6]	US Bubbling [6]	AUS [4]	CAN Country	UK [7]
1973	"The Shelter of Your Eyes"	14	—	—	—	—	Don Williams Volume One
	"Come Early Morning"	12	—	—	—	—
	"Amanda"	33	—	65	—	—
1974	"Atta Way to Go"	13	—	—	57	—	Don Williams Volume Two
	"We Should Be Together"	5	—	—	—	—
	"Down the Road I Go"	62	—	—	50	—
	"I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me"	1	—	—	10	—	Don Williams Vol. III
	"The Ties That Bind"	4	—	—	2	—
1975	"You're My Best Friend"	1	—	50	1	35	You're My Best Friend
	"(Turn Out the Light And) Love Me Tonight"	1	—	—	5	—
	"'Til the Rivers All Run Dry"	1	—	—	—	—	Harmony
1976	"Say It Again"	1	—	—	4	—
	"I Recall a Gypsy Woman"	—	—	—	—	13	Don Williams Volume One
	"She Never Knew Me"	2	3	—	2	—	Harmony
1977	"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend"	1	8	—	6	—	Visions
	"I'm Just a Country Boy"	1	10	—	1	57 [A]	Country Boy
1978	"I've Got a Winner in You"	7	—	—	10	—
	"Rake and Ramblin' Man"	3	—	—	2	—
	"Tulsa Time"	1	6	—	1	—	Expressions
1979	"Lay Down Beside Me"	3	—	88	2	—
	"It Must Be Love"	1	—	—	2	—
	"Love Me Over Again"	1	—	—	1	—	Portrait
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Year	Single	Peak chart positions						Album
		US Country [6]	US [6]	US AC [8]	AUS [4]	CAN Country	CAN AC
1980	"Good Ole Boys Like Me"	2	—	—	—	3	—	Portrait
	"I Believe in You"	1	24	8	20	1	7	I Believe in You
1981	"Falling Again"	6	—	39	—	3	—
	"Miracles"	4	—	32	—	2	—	Especially for You
	"Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good"	1	—	—	—	1	—
1982	"Listen to the Radio"	3	—	—	—	1	—	Listen to the Radio
	"Mistakes"	3	—	—	—	3	—
	"If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)"	1	—	—	—	1	—
1983	"Love Is on a Roll"	1	—	—	—	1	—	Yellow Moon
	"Nobody but You"	2	—	—	—	1	—
	"Stay Young"	1	—	—	—	3	—
1984	"That's the Thing About Love"	1	—	—	—	1	—	Cafe Carolina
	"Maggie's Dream"	11	—	—	—	13	—
1985	"Walkin' a Broken Heart"	2	—	—	—	3	—
	"It's Time for Love"	20	—	—	—	49	—
1986	"We've Got a Good Fire Goin'"	3	—	—	—	2	—	New Moves
	"Heartbeat in the Darkness"	1	—	—	—	2	—
	"Then It's Love"	3	—	—	—	4	—
1987	"Señorita"	9	—	—	—	12	—
	"I'll Never Be in Love Again"	4	—	—	—	15	—
	"I Wouldn't Be a Man"	9	—	—	—	7	—	Traces
1988	"Another Place, Another Time"	5	—	—	—	—	—
	"Desperately"	7	—	—	—	5	—
1989	"Old Coyote Town"	5	—	—	—	2	—
	"One Good Well"	4	—	—	—	3	—	One Good Well
	"I've Been Loved by the Best"	4	—	—	—	11	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s and beyond

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
		US Country [6]	CAN Country
1990	"Just as Long as I Have You"	4	11	One Good Well
	"Maybe That's All It Takes"	22	47
	"Back in My Younger Days"	2	1	True Love
1991	"True Love"	4	5
	"Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy"	7	17
1992	"It's Who You Love"	73	—	Currents
	"Too Much Love"	72	—
	"Catfish Bates" [9]	—	—
1995	"Fever"	—	—	Borrowed Tales
	"Games People Play"	—	—
1998	"Cracker Jack Diamond"	—	87	I 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

Featured singles

Year	Single	Artist	Peak chart positions		Album
			US Country [6]	CAN Country
1981	"If I Needed You"	Emmylou Harris	3	1	Cimarron

Promotional singles

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
		US Country [6]
1980	"Could You Ever Really Love a Poor Boy"	97	—

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
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

• Pozo-Seco Singers
• JMI Records
• Bob McDill
• Allen Reynolds

Notes

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

References

1. Don Williams, Country's 'Gentle Giant,' Dead at 78. Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 8, 2017
2. Roslyn Sulcas (September 8, 2017). "Don Williams, Singer of Plain-Spoken Country Songs, Dies at 78". New York Times. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
3. "Artist Chart History – Don Williams". Billboard . Retrieved December 2, 2010.
4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 338. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
5. "Gold & Platinum Database Search: Don Williams". RIAA. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
6. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 463–464. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
7. "UK Singles Chart history for Don Williams". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
8. Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Adult Songs 1961–2006. Record Research, Inc. ISBN   978-0-89820-169-7.
9. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard . August 22, 1992.
10. "Future Releases for Country Radio Stations". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013.
11. "CMT : Videos : Don Williams : I'll be Here in the Morning". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
12. "CMT : Videos : Don Williams : Sing Me Back Home". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2014.