Porter Wagoner discography

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Porter Wagoner discography
Studio albums53
Live albums3
Compilation albums6
Singles80
No.1 Single3

This is a detailed discography for American country music artist Porter Wagoner.

Contents

Albums

1950s and 1960s

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
US Country US
Satisfied Mind
A Slice of Life: Songs Happy 'n' Sad
  • Release date: February 1962
  • Label: RCA Victor
Porter Wagoner and Skeeter Davis Sing Duets
(with Skeeter Davis)
  • Release date: May 1962
  • Label: RCA Victor
The Porter Wagoner Show
  • Release date: 1963
  • Label: RCA Victor
13
Y'All Come
  • Release date: 1963
  • Label: RCA Victor
17
Porter Wagoner in Person
  • Release date: 1964
  • Label: RCA Victor
5
The Bluegrass Story
  • Release date: 1965
  • Label: RCA Victor
Confessions of a Broken Man
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
6
Live on the Road
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
On the Road: The Porter Wagoner Show
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
The Grand Ole Gospel
(with the Blackwood Brothers)
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
Green, Green Grass of Home
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
More Grand Ole Gospel
(with the Blackwood Brothers)
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
Soul of a Convict & Other Great Prison Songs
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
7
The Cold Hard Facts of Life
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
4199
In Gospel Country
(with the Blackwood Brothers)
  • Release date: 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
The Bottom of the Bottle
  • Release date: 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
19
Me and My Boys
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: RCA Victor
38
The Carroll County Accident
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: RCA Victor
4161
Three Country Gentlemen
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: RCA Victor
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

TitleDetailsPeak positions
US Country
The Best 2
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
31
Skidrow Joe-Down in the Alley
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
22
You Gotta Have a License@
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
9
Porter Wagoner Sings His Own
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: RCA Victor
29
Simple as I Am
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: RCA Victor
11
Ballads of Love
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: RCA Victor
26
Experience
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: RCA Victor
37
What Ain't to Be, Just Might Happen
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: RCA Victor
29
I'll Keep On Loving You
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: RCA Victor
42
The Farmer
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: RCA Victor
34
Highway Headin' South
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: RCA Victor
28
Tore Down
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: RCA Victor
28
Sing Some Love Songs, Porter Wagoner
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: RCA Victor
48
Porter
  • Release date: 1977
  • Label: RCA Victor
Porter Wagoner Today
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: RCA Victor
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

-@ also made the Hot 100 at position 190

1980s

TitleDetailsPeak positions
US Country
A Fool Like Me
  • Release date: 1981
  • Label: Kaola Records
Not a Cloud in the Sky
  • Release date: 1981
  • Label: Kaola Records
Viva Porter Wagoner48
Sorrow on the Rocks
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

TitleDetailsPeak positions
US Country
The Best I've Ever Been
  • Release date: 2000
  • Label: Shell Point Records
Unplugged
  • Release date: 2002
  • Label: Shell Point Records
22 Grand Ole Gospel 2003
  • Release date: 2003
  • Label: TeeVee Records
Something to Brag About
(with Pamela Gadd)
  • Release date: 2004
  • Label: TeeVee Records
18 Grand Ole Gospel 2005
  • Release date: 2005
  • Label: TeeVee Records
Gospel 2006
  • Release date: 2006
  • Label: TeeVee Records
The Versatile
  • Release date: 2006
  • Label: TeeVee Records
Wagonmaster
  • Release date: 2007
  • Label: ANTI-
63
Best of Grand Old Gospel 2008
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1950s

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
US Country
1954"Company's Comin'"7Satisfied Mind
1955"A Satisfied Mind"1
"Eat, Drink and Be Merry (Tomorrow You'll Cry)"3
1956"What Would You Do? (If Jesus Came to Your House)"8The Porter Wagoner Show
"Uncle Pen"14A Slice of Life
"Tryin' to Forget the Blues"11Your Old Love Letters
1957"I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name"11A Slice of Life
1959"Me and Fred and Joe and Bill"29An Old Log Cabin for Sale

1960s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country US CAN Country
1960"The Girl Who Didn't Need Love"26Thin Man from the West Plains
"Falling Again"26Country Feeling
"An Old Log Cabin for Sale"30In Person
1961"Your Old Love Letters"10The Porter Wagoner Show
1962"Misery Loves Company"1A Slice of Life
"Cold Dark Waters"10I'm Day Dreamin' Tonight
"I've Enjoyed as Much of This as I Can Stand"7The Porter Wagoner Show
1963"My Baby's Not Here (In Town Tonight)"20In Person
"In the Shadows of the Wine"29The Bottom of the Bottle
1964"Howdy Neighbor Howdy"19In Person
"Sorrow on the Rocks"5The Thin Man from West Plains
"I'll Go Down Swinging"11
1965"I'm Gonna Feed You Now"21
"Green Green Grass of Home"4On the Road
"Skid Row Joe"3The Best
1966"I Just Came to Smell the Flowers"21Confessions of a Broken Man
"Ole Slew-Foot"48Green, Green Grass of Home
1967"The Cold Hard Facts of Life"2The Cold Hard Facts of Life
"Julie"15
"Woman Hungry"24
1968"Be Proud of Your Man"16Country
"The Carroll County Accident" [A] 2921The Carroll County Accident
1969"Big Wind"3Me and My Boys
"When You're Hot You're Hot"216You Gotta Have a License
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country US CAN Country
1970"You Gotta Have a License"4142You Gotta Have a License
"Little Boy's Prayer"43
"Jim Johnson"4142Simple as I Am
1971"The Last One to Touch Me"1813
"Charley's Picture"1511610
"Be a Little Quieter"1120Sings His Own
1972"What Ain't to Be Just Might Happen"810What Ain't to Be Just Might Happen
"A World Without Music"145Experience
"Katy Did"166
1973"Lightening the Load"5461I'll Keep On Loving You
"Wake Up, Jacob"3752The Farmer
"George Leroy Chickashea"4384Tore Down
1974"Tore Down/Nothing Between"46
"Highway Headin' South"1534Highway Headin' South
"Carolina Moonshiner"19
1975"Indian Creek"96
1976"When Lea Jane Sang"66
1977"I Haven't Learned a Thing" (with Merle Haggard)76Porter
1978"Mountain Music"6443
"Ole Slew-Foot/I'm Gonna Feed 'Em Now"3151Today
1979"I Want to Walk You Home"3443
"Everything I've Always Wanted"32
"Hold On Tight"64Porter Wagoner
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s–2000s

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country CAN Country
1980"Is It Only Cause You're Lonely"84
1982"Turn the Pencil Over"53
1983"This Cowboy's Hat"3543Viva
2007"Committed to Parkview"Wagonmaster
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Guest singles

YearSingleArtistPeak positions
US Country
1967"Chet's Tune"Some of Chet's Friends38
1985"One Big Family"Heart of Nashville61

Music videos

YearVideo
2007"Committed To Parkview"

Notes

See also

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