Marty Robbins discography

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Marty Robbins discography
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Exhibit at Ryman Auditorium
Studio albums52
Compilation albums13
Singles100
No.1 Single17

The discography of American country music singer Marty Robbins consists of 52 studio albums, 13 compilation albums, and 100 singles. In his career, Robbins has charted 17 Number One singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, as well as 82 Top 40 singles.

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Robbins' highest-charting album is 1959's Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs . It charted to #6 on the all-genre Billboard 200, and was also certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album's first single, "El Paso", become a hit on both the country and pop charts, charting to Number One on the Hot Country Songs as well as the Billboard Hot 100. While that was his only pop Number One, in 1957, "A White Sport Coat" charted to #2, and in 1961, "Don't Worry" charted to #3.

Since his death in 1982, four posthumous studio albums have been released, although they did not make an impact on the charts.

His final Top 10 single was "Honkytonk Man" in 1982, which is the title of the film Robbins had starred in. However, he died shortly before the release of the film.

Studio albums

1950s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[1]
UK
[2]
Rock'n Roll'n Robbins
The Song of Robbins
  • Release date: 1957
  • Label: Columbia Records
Song of the Islands
  • Release date: 1957
  • Label: Columbia Records
Marty Robbins
  • Release date: 1958
  • Label: Columbia Records
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
  • Release date: September 1959
  • Label: Columbia Records
620
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1960s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
  • Release date: 1960
  • Label: Columbia Records
21
Just a Little Sentimental
  • Release date: 1961
  • Label: Columbia Records
Marty After Midnight
  • Release date: 1962
  • Label: Columbia Records
Portrait of Marty
  • Release date: 1962
  • Label: Columbia Records
Devil Woman
  • Release date: 1962
  • Label: Columbia Records
35
Hawaii's Calling Me
  • Release date: 1963
  • Label: Columbia Records
Return of the Gunfighter
  • Release date: 1963
  • Label: Columbia Records
6
Island Woman
  • Release date: 1964
  • Label: Columbia Records
R.F.D.
  • Release date: 1964
  • Label: Columbia Records
4
Turn the Lights Down Low
  • Release date: 1965
  • Label: Columbia Records
Saddle Tramp
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: Columbia Records
What God Has Done
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: Columbia Records
26
The Drifter
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: Columbia Records
6
My Kind of Country
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: Columbia Records
9
Tonight Carmen
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: Columbia Records
4
By the Time I Get to Phoenix
  • Release date: 1968
  • Label: Columbia Records
8
The Bend In The River
  • Release date: 1968
  • Label: Columbia Musical Treasury
I Walk Alone
  • Release date: 1968
  • Label: Columbia Records
2160
Singing the Blues
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: Columbia Records
Country
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: Columbia Records
20
It's a Sin
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: Columbia Records
6194
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
CAN Country
[4]
Story of My Life
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: Columbia Records
El Paso
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: Columbia Records
My Woman, My Woman, My Wife
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: Columbia Records
2117
From the Heart
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: Columbia Records
Today
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: Columbia Records
15175
The World
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: Columbia Records
32
Own Favorites
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
Bound for Old Mexico
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
32
I've Got Woman's Love
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
32
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
45
This Much a Man 3
Marty Robbins
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: MCA Records
22
Good'n Country
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: MCA Records
7
Two Gun Daddy
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: MCA Records
No Signs of Loneliness Here
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: Columbia Records
31
El Paso City
  • Release date: 1976
  • Label: Columbia Records
1
Adios Amigo
  • Release date: 1977
  • Label: Columbia Records
5
Don't Let Me Touch You
  • Release date: 1977
  • Label: Columbia Records
24
The Performer
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: Columbia Records
477
All Around Cowboy
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: Columbia Records
45
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US Country
[1]
CAN Country
[4]
CAN
[4]
With Love
  • Release date: 1980
  • Label: Columbia Records
5
Everything I've Always Wanted
  • Release date: 1981
  • Label: Columbia Records
Come Back to Me
  • Release date: 1982
  • Label: Columbia Records
25
Some Memories Just Won't Die
  • Release date: 1983
  • Label: Columbia Records
2530
Lifetime of Song
  • Release date: 1983
  • Label: Columbia Records
36
Twentieth Century Drifter
  • Release date: 1983
  • Label: MCA Records
Long Long Ago
  • Release date: 1984
  • Label: CBS Records (CBS 39575)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
Marty's Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 1959
  • Label: Columbia Records
More Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 1961
  • Label: Columbia Records
Greatest Hits 3
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: Columbia Records
5143
All-Time Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
25
Greatest Hits 4
  • Release date: 1978
  • Label: Columbia Records
44
Encore
  • Release date: 1981
  • Label: Columbia Records
The Legend
  • Release date: 1981
  • Label: Columbia Records
Biggest Hits
  • Release date: 1982
  • Label: Columbia Records
17170
A Lifetime of Song 1951-1982
  • Release date: 1983
  • Label: Columbia Records
Super Hits
  • Release date: 1985
  • Label: TRC
The Essential Marty Robbins: 1951-1982
  • Release date: 1991
  • Label: Sony Columbia
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Reissue

[5]

Holiday albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak positions
US
[1]
Christmas with Marty Robbins
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: Columbia Records
Christmas Chart#21
Joy of Christmas featuring Marty Robbins And His Friends
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
Christmas to Remember
  • Release date: 1986
  • Label: Columbia Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1952–1960

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
[6]
US
[6]
UK
[2]
AU CAN
[7]
1952"I'll Go On Alone"1
1953"I Couldn't Keep from Crying"5
1954"Pretty Words"12
"Call Me Up (And I'll Come Calling on You)"14
1955"Time Goes By"14
"That's All Right"7Rock'n Rollin' Robbins
"Maybellene"924
1956"Singing the Blues"117Marty's Greatest Hits
1957"Knee Deep in the Blues"3
"A White Sport Coat"1217
"Please Don't Blame Me"115222
"The Story of My Life"11522Marty's Greatest Hits
1958"Just Married (song)"126238
"She Was Only Seventeen (He Was One Year More)"42727Marty's Greatest Hits
"Ain't I the Lucky One"237231
1959"The Hanging Tree"153833
"Cap and Gown"45
"El Paso"1119181Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
1960"Big Iron"526486710
"Is There Any Chance"318620More Greatest Hits
"Five Brothers"26748729More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
"Ballad of the Alamo"342912More Greatest Hits
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1961–1970

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
[6]
US
[6]
US AC
[6]
CAN Country
[8]
CAN
[8]
CAN AC
[8]
UK
[2]
AU
1961"Don't Worry"136 [9] 17More Greatest Hits
"I Told the Brook"811991
"Jimmy Martinez"245124 [10] 42
"It's Your World"35112
1962"Sometimes I'm Tempted"12109
"Love Can't Wait"126918
"Devil Woman"1164 [11] 54Devil Woman
"Ruby Ann"118414 [12] 2421
1963"Cigarettes and Coffee Blues"1493
"Not So Long Ago"13115
"Begging to You"174
1964"Girl from Spanish Town"15106Island Woman
"The Cowboy in the Continental Suit"3103356Saddle Tramp
"One of These Days"8105
1965"Turn the Lights Down Low"6Turn the Lights Down Low
"Ribbon of Darkness"1103
"Old Red"50Return of the Gunfighter
"While You're Dancing"21
1966"Count Me Out"14
"The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight"3
"Mr. Shorty"16The Drifter
1967"No Tears Milady"16
"Tonight Carmen"1114Tonight Carmen
"(The Girl With) Gardenias in Her Hair"91
1968"Love Is in the Air"1011By the Time I Get to Phoenix
"I Walk Alone"165396I Walk Alone
1969"It's a Sin"51It's a Sin
"I Can't Say Goodbye"85
"Camelia"102
1970"My Woman, My Woman, My Wife"142231353898My Woman, My Woman, My Wife
"Jolie Girl"71087Greatest Hits 3
"Padre"51133
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1971–1980

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
[6]
US
[6]
CAN Country
[8]
1971"The Chair"71216Today
"Early Morning Sunshine"912
1972"The Best Part of Living"66I've Got a Woman's Love
"I've Got a Woman's Love"3233
"This Much a Man"1112This Much a Man
1973"Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)"6044
"Walking Piece of Heaven"65Marty Robbins
"A Man and a Train"4040
"Love Me"93
1974"Twentieth Century Drifter"109Good'n Country
"Don't You Think"1213
"Two Gun Daddy"39Two Gun Daddy
1975"Life"2338
"Shotgun Rider"55
1976"El Paso City"11El Paso City
"Among My Souvenirs"13
1977"Adios Amigo"43Adios Amigo
"I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)"101087
"Don't Let Me Touch You"65Don't Let Me Touch You
1978"Return to Me"68
"Please Don't Play a Love Song"1717Performer
1979"Touch Me with Magic"1518
"All Around Cowboy"1632All Around Cowboy
"Buenos Dias Argentina"2517
1980"She's Made of Faith"3735With Love
"One Man's Trash (Is Another Man's Treasure)"72
"An Occasional Rose"28Everything I've Always Wanted
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1981–1983

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[6]
CAN Country
[8]
1981"Completely Out of Love"4738Everything I've Always Wanted
"Jumper Cable Man"83The Legend
"Teardrops in My Heart"45
1982"Some Memories Just Won't Die"101Come Back to Me
"Tie Your Dream to Mine"2417
"Honkytonk Man"102Some Memories Just Won't Die
1983"Change of Heart"48
"Love Me" (re-issue; with Jeanne Pruett)58
"What If I Said I Love You"57Some Memories Just Won't Die
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

B-sides

YearB-sidePeak chart
positions
Original A-side
US Country
[6]
US
[6]
AU CAN
[13]
1956"I Can't Quit (I've Gone Too Far)"7"Singing the Blues"
1957"The Same Two Lips"14"Knee Deep in the Blues"
"Teen-Age Dream"155216"Please Don't Blame Me"
1958"Stairway of Love"2688131"Just Married"
"Sittin' In a Tree House"27"She Was Only Seventeen (He Was One Year More)"
1966"Private Wilson White"21"While You're Dancing"
1967"Fly Butterfly Fly"34"No Tears Milady"
1971"Seventeen Years"flip"The Chair"
1973"Crawling on My Knees"flip"Love Me"
1975"It Takes Faith"76"Life"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

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