Helen Shapiro discography

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Helen Shapiro discography
Studio albums18
Compilation albums20
EPs7
Singles43

This is the discography of British singer Helen Shapiro.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[1]
GER
[2]
'Tops' with Me 222
Helen's Sixteen
  • Released: April 1963
  • Label: Columbia
Helen in Nashville
  • Released: October 1963
  • Label: Columbia
Helen Hits Out!
  • Released: November 1964
  • Label: Columbia
All for the Love of Music
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Decca
  • Germany-only release
Straighten Up and Fly Right
  • Released: July 1983
  • Label: Oval
Echoes of the Duke
The Quality of Mercer
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Calligraph
I Can't Get Started
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Calligraph
  • With Humphrey Lyttelton
The Pearl
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Manna Music
I Want To See You
  • Released: 23 October 1991
  • Label: Overseas
  • Japan-only release
Kadosh
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Manna Music
Nothing but the Best
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: ICC
Enter into His Gates
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Manna Music
Sing Swing Together
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Calligraph
  • With Humphrey Lyttelton
By Request
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Katalyst
Simply Shapiro
  • Released: March 2000
  • Label: Katalyst
What Wondrous Love Is This
  • Released: 10 February 2010
  • Label: Manna Music
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum details
12 Hits and a Miss
  • Released: 1 April 1963
  • Label: Capitol
  • Originally only released in Canada; released in the UK in 1965
A Teenager in Love
  • Released: October 1963
  • Label: Epic
  • US-only release
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Odeon
  • Japan-only release
The Very Best of Helen Shapiro
  • Released: August 1974
  • Label: Columbia
The Hits of Helen Shapiro
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: EMI
  • Netherlands-only release
25th Anniversary Album
The E.P. Collection
The Best of the EMI Years
  • Released: July 1991
  • Label: EMI
The Very Best of Helen Shapiro
  • Released: November 1993
  • Label: Fat Boy
Sensational – The Uncollected Helen Shapiro
  • Released: November 1995
  • Label: RPM
The Essential Collection
  • Released: 13 October 1997
  • Label: EMI
Helen Shapiro at Abbey Road 1961–1967
  • Released: 23 February 1998
  • Label: EMI
The Gospel Collection
  • Released: July 2002
  • Label: Manna Music
The Ultimate Helen Shapiro
  • Released: 21 April 2003
  • Label: EMI
A's B's & EP's
  • Released: 5 May 2003
  • Label: EMI
The Very Best of Helen Shapiro
  • Released: 2 May 2005
  • Label: EMI
The Ultimate Helen Shapiro
  • Released: 7 February 2011
  • Label: EMI
You Don't Know – All the Hits 1961–1962
  • Released: 8 January 2016
  • Label: Jasmine
The Very Best of Helen Shapiro
  • Released: 17 June 2016
  • Label: Not Now
Face The Music – The Complete Singles 1967–1984
  • Released: 28 August 2020
  • Label: Ace

EPs

Title [upper-alpha 1] DetailsPeak chart
positions
UK
[3] [4]
Helen
  • Released: November 1961
  • Label: Columbia
1
Helen's Hit Parade
  • Released: January 1962
  • Label: Columbia
1
More Hits from Helen
  • Released: August 1962
  • Label: Columbia
12
A Teenager Sings the Blues
  • Released: September 1962
  • Label: Columbia
15
Even More Hits from Helen
  • Released: November 1962
  • Label: Columbia
'Tops' with Me (No. 1)
  • Released: 1 March 1963
  • Label: Columbia
'Tops' with Me (No. 2)
  • Released: May 1963
  • Label: Columbia
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsLabelAlbum
UK
[1]
AUS
[5]
BEL (FL)
[6]
BEL (WA)
[7]
GER
[2]
IRE
[8]
NL
[9]
NOR
[10]
NZ
[11]
US
[12]
"Don't Treat Me Like a Child"
b/w "When I'm with You"
196139064 Columbia Non-album singles
"You Don't Know"
b/w "Marvellous Lie"
15074121
"Walkin' Back to Happiness"
b/w "Kiss 'n' Run"
16213301331100
"Goody Goody" (France and Belgium-only release)
b/w "After You've Gone"
1962 Helen (EP)
"Tell Me What He Said"
b/w "I Apologise"
2463031354Non-album singles
"When I'm with You" (Japan-only release)
b/w "The Young Ones" (by Cliff Richard and the Shadows)
"Let's Talk About Love"
b/w "Sometime Yesterday"
2331
"Sweet Nothin's" (Japan-only release)
b/w "Little Devil"
'Tops' with Me
"Little Miss Lonely"
b/w "I Don't Care"
82879Non-album singles
"Keep Away from Other Girls"
b/w "Cry My Heart Out"
4042
"A Teenager Sings the Blues" (Netherlands-only release)
b/w "Blues in the Night"
1963
"Queen for Tonight"
b/w "Daddy Couldn't Get Me One of Those"
3397
"Woe Is Me"
b/w "I Walked Right In (With My Eyes Wide Open)"
3591Helen in Nashville
"Not Responsible"
b/w "No Trespassing"
1
"Look Who It Is"
b/w "Walking in My Dreams" (from Helen's Sixteen)
473344Non-album singles
"Schlafen kann ich nie (I Cried Myself To Sleep Last Night)" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Glaube mir, Jonny (Tearaway Johnny)"
"Fever"
b/w "Ole Father Time"
196438
"Look Over Your Shoulder"
b/w "You Won't Come Home"
"Shop Around"
b/w "He Knows How to Love Me" (Non-album track)
Helen Hits Out!
"I Wish I'd Never Loved You"
b/w "I Was Only Kidding"
Non-album singles
"Tomorrow Is Another Day"
b/w "It's So Funny I Could Cry"
1965
"Here in Your Arms"
b/w "Only Once"
"Sag, daß es schön ist" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Rote Rosen und Vergißmeinnicht"
"Something Wonderful"
b/w "Just a Line"
"Forget About the Bad Things"
b/w "Wait a Little Longer"
1966
"Ich such mir meinen Bräutigam alleine aus" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Ein Weg zu deinem Herzen (Wait a Little Longer)"
"In My Calendar"
b/w "Empty House"
"Make Me Belong to You"
b/w "The Way of the World"
1967
"She Needs Company"
b/w "Stop and You Will Become Aware"
"You'll Get Me Loving You"
b/w "Silly Boy (I Love You)"
1968 Pye
"Today Has Been Cancelled"
b/w "Face the Music"
196949
"You've Guessed"
b/w "Take Me for a While"
98
"Take Down a Note Miss Smith"
b/w "Couldn't You See"
1970
"Das ist nicht die feine englische Art" (Germany-only release)
b/w "Ein Weg zu deinem Herzen (Wait a Little Longer)"
"Waiting on the Shores of Nowhere"
b/w "A Glass of Wine"
"The Prophet" (both sides by Ella Stone (Helen Shapiro) and Moss (Al Saxon)
b/w "Now or Never"
1972Phoenix
"You're a Love Child"
b/w "That's the Reason I Love You"
1975 DJM
"If You Feel He Cares" (recorded under the pseudonym "Sweet Thing")
b/w "It Only Hurts When I Love"
1976 Magnet
"Can't Break the Habit"
b/w "For All the Wrong Reasons"
1977 Arista All for the Love of Music
"Every Little Bit Hurts"
b/w "Touchin' Wood"
1978
"Let Yourself Go"
b/w "Funny"
1983OvalStraighten Up and Fly Right
"Brickyard Blues"
b/w "Just Another Weekend"
1984Non-album singles
"Walking Back to Happiness" (both sides re-recordings)
b/w "Let's Talk About Love"
1989Calligraph
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. This is a list of EPs released in the UK. Various other EPs were released elsewhere.

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References

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