The following is the discography of American singer Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Year | Album | Chart positions | Cert. (RIAA) | Label | |
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US Country | US [1] | ||||
1956 | This Lusty Land! | 12 | Capitol Records | ||
Hymns | 2 | Platinum | |||
1957 | Spirituals | 5 | Gold | ||
Ford Favorites | |||||
Ol' Rockin' Ern' | |||||
1958 | Nearer the Cross | 5 | Gold | ||
The Star Carol | 4 | Platinum | |||
1959 | Gather 'Round | ||||
A Friend We Have | |||||
1960 | Sing a Hymn with Me | 23 | |||
Sixteen Tons | |||||
Sing a Spiritual with Me | |||||
Come to the Fair | |||||
1961 | Civil War Songs of the North | ||||
Civil War Songs of the South | |||||
Looks at Love | |||||
Hymns at Home | 67 | ||||
1962 | Mississippi Showboat | 110 | |||
I Love to Tell the Story | 43 | ||||
Book of Favorite Hymns | 71 | ||||
1963 | Long, Long Ago | ||||
We Gather Together | |||||
Story of Christmas | 14 | ||||
1964 | Great Gospel Songs | ||||
Country Hits Feelin' Blue | |||||
World's Best Loved Hymns | |||||
1965 | Let Me Walk with Thee | ||||
Sing We Now of Christmas | 31 | ||||
1966 | My Favorite Things | ||||
Wonderful Peace | |||||
God Lives | |||||
Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart | |||||
1967 | Aloha | ||||
Faith of Our Fathers | |||||
1968 | Our Garden of Hymns(w/ Marilyn Horne) | ||||
World of Pop and Country Hits | |||||
O Come All Ye Faithful | |||||
The Best of Tennessee Ernie Ford Hymns | |||||
1969 | Songs I Like to Sing | ||||
New Wave | |||||
Holy, Holy, Holy | |||||
1970 | America the Beautiful | 192 | |||
Everything Is Beautiful | |||||
1971 | Abide with Me | ||||
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S | |||||
Folk Album | |||||
1972 | Mr. Words and Music | ||||
Standin' in the Need of Prayer | |||||
1973 | Country Morning | 46 | |||
Ernie Ford Sings About Jesus | |||||
1974 | Make A Joyful Noise | 35 | |||
1975 | Ernie Sings & Glen Picks (w/ Glen Campbell) | ||||
1976 | Sing His Great Love | ||||
For the 83rd Time | |||||
1977 | He Touched Me | Word Records | |||
1978 | Swing Wide Your Golden Gate | ||||
1979 | Ramblin' Down Country Roads With Tennessee Ernie Ford | ||||
1980 | Tell Me the Old, Old Story | ||||
1982 | There's A Song In My Heart | ||||
1983 | Sunday School Songs For Children of All Ages | ||||
1984 | Keep Looking Up | ||||
2009 | 6000 Sunset Boulevard: Featuring The Billy Liebert Band | Sundazed Records | |||
2014 | Amazing Grace: 14 Treasured Hymns | 19 | 159 | Gaither Music |
Year | Single (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated | Chart positions | Album | |
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US Country | US | |||
1949 | "Tennessee Border" | 8 | Non-album track | |
"Milk 'Em in the Morning Blues" | 15 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
"Country Junction" | 14 | |||
"Philadelphia Lawyer" | Sixteen Tons | |||
"Smokey Mountain Boogie" b/w "You'll Find Her Name Written There" (non-album track) | 8 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
"Mule Train" | 1 | 9 | Sixteen Tons | |
"Anticipation Blues" | 3 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
1950 | "The Cry of the Wild Goose" b/w "The Donkey Serenade" | 2 | 15 | Sixteen Tons |
"My Hobby" b/w "I've Got to Feed 'em in the Morning" | Non-album tracks | |||
"Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own" (with Kay Starr) | 5 | 22 | ||
"I'll Never Be Free" (with Kay Starr) | 2 | 3 | ||
"What This Country Needs" b/w "The Lord's Lariat" (from Ol' Rockin' Ern) | ||||
"Cincinnati Dancing Pig" b/w "Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women" Both sides with The Starlighters | ||||
"Little Juan Pedro" b/w "Bryant's Boogie" | ||||
"The Shotgun Boogie" | 1 | 14 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | |
"I Ain't Gonna Let It Happen (No More)" | flip | |||
1951 | "Tailor Made Woman" (with Joe "Fingers" Carr) | 8 | Non-album tracks | |
"Stack-O-Lee" (with Joe "Fingers" Carr) | ||||
"Ocean of Tears" (with Kay Starr) | 15 | |||
"You're My Sugar" (with Kay Starr) | 22 | |||
"Mr. and Mississippi" b/w "She's My Baby" (from Ol' Rockin' Ern) | 2 | 18 | ||
"The Strange Little Girl" | 9 | |||
"Kentucky Waltz" | flip | |||
"Kissin' Bug Boogie" b/w "Woman Is a Five Letter Word" | 12 | |||
"Hey Good Lookin'" b/w "Cool, Cool Kisses" Both sides with Helen O'Connell | ||||
"Rock City Boogie" b/w "Streamlined Cannonball" Both sides with The Dinning Sisters | ||||
"Christmas Dinner" b/w "A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus" | ||||
1952 | "Hambone" (with Bucky Tibbs) b/w "The Gandy Dancer's Ball" | |||
"Everybody's Got a Girl but Me" [a] b/w "Put Your Arms Around Me" | ||||
"Snowshoe Thompson" b/w "Fatback Louisiana USA" | ||||
"Blackberry Boogie" b/w "Tennessee Local" (non-album track) | 6 | Ol' Rockin' Ern | ||
"Hog-Tied over You" b/w "False Hearted Girl" Both sides with Ella Mae Morse | Non-album tracks | |||
1953 | "I Don't Know" b/w "Sweet Temptation" | |||
"Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker" b/w "Three Things (A Man Must Do)" | 8 | |||
"Don't Start Courtin' in a Hot Rod Ford" b/w "We're a-Growin' Up" Both sides with Molly Bee | ||||
"Kiss Me Big" | Ol' Rockin' Ern | |||
"Catfish Boogie" | flip | |||
1954 | "Honeymoon's Over" b/w "This Must Be the Place" Both sides with Betty Hutton | 16 | Non-album tracks | |
"River of No Return" b/w "Give Me Your Word" | 9 | Ford Favorites | ||
"Ein Zwei Drei" b/w "Losing You" | Non-album tracks | |||
"Somebody Bigger Than You or I" b/w "There Is Beauty in Everything" | ||||
1955 | "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" b/w "Farewell" | 4 | 5 | |
"His Hands" b/w "I Am a Pilgrim" | 13 | Spirituals | ||
"Sixteen Tons" | 1 | 1 | Ford Favorites | |
1956 | "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" | 78 | ||
"That's All" b/w "Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women" (from Sixteen Tons) | 12 | 17 | ||
"Rovin' Gambler" b/w "John Henry" | 60 | This Lusty Land! | ||
"Rock and Roll Boogie" b/w "Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart" (from Ford Favorites) | Non-album track | |||
"First Born" b/w "Have You Seen Her" | 46 | Ford Favorites | ||
1957 | "Watermelon Song" | 87 | ||
"One Suit" | 93 | |||
"False Hearted Girl" b/w "Lonely Man" (from Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart!) | This Lusty Land! | |||
"In the Middle of an Island" | 23 | Non-album track | ||
"Ivy League" | Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart! | |||
1958 | "Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart" b/w "Down Deep" | |||
"Sunday Barbeque" b/w "Love Makes the World Go Round" | 97 | |||
"Glad Rags" b/w "Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed" (non-album track) | 100 [2] | |||
1959 | "Black-Eyed Susie" b/w "Code of the Mountains" | I Love You So Much It Hurts Me | ||
"Love Is the Only Thing" b/w "Sunny Side of Heaven" | Non-album track | |||
1960 | "O Mary Don't You Weep" b/w "Joshua Fit the Battle" | Sing a Spiritual with Me | ||
"Little Klinker" b/w "Jingle-o-the-Brownie" | Non-album tracks | |||
"Bless This Land" b/w "Lord of All Creation" | ||||
1961 | "Dark as a Dungeon" b/w "His Love (Makes the World Go Round)" (non-album track) | This Lusty Land! | ||
"Little Red Rockin' Hood" b/w "I Gotta Have My Baby Back" (from Ernie Looks at Love) | Non-album track | |||
1962 | "Take Your Girlie to the Movies" b/w "There'll Be No New Piano Tunes on This Old Piano" | Here Comes the Tennessee Ernie Ford Mississippi Showboat | ||
"Work Song" b/w "Rags and Old Iron" (from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me) | Everything Is Beautiful | |||
"How Great Thou Art" b/w "Eternal Life" (from God Lives!) | I Love to Tell the Story | |||
1965 | "Hicktown" b/w "Sixteen Tons" (from Sixteen Tons) | 9 | Non-album tracks | |
"Girl Don't You Know" b/w "Now It's All Over" (from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me) | ||||
"Sing We Now of Christmas" [b] b/w "The Little Drummer Boy" | Sing We Now of Christmas | |||
1966 | "God Lives" b/w "How Great Thou Art" | God Lives | ||
1967 | "Lahaina Luna" b/w "Pearly Shells" | Aloha from Tennessee Ernie Ford | ||
"The Road" b/w "Hand-Me-Down Things" | Non-album tracks | |||
1968 | "Talk to the Animals" b/w "What a Wonderful World" | World of Pop and Country Hits | ||
1969 | "Honey-Eyed Girl (That's You That's You)" b/w "Good Morning, Dear" | 54 | The New Wave | |
1970 | "Rainy Night In Georgia" b/w "Let the Lovelight in Your Eyes Lead Me On" | Everything Is Beautiful | ||
1971 | "Happy Songs of Love" b/w "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By" (from 25th Anniversary Yesterday–Today) | 58 | Non-album track | |
1972 | "Pea-Pickin' Cook" b/w "The Song" (non-album track) | It's a Ford | ||
1973 | "Printers Alley Stars" b/w "Baby" | 66 | Country Morning | |
"Farther Down the River (Where the Fishin's Good)" b/w "You've Still Got Love All Over You" | 73 | |||
"Colorado Country Morning" [c] b/w "Daddy Usta Say" | 70 | |||
1974 | "Sweet Child of Sunshine" b/w "She Picked Up the Pieces" (non-album track) | |||
"I've Got Confidence" b/w "I'd Like to Be" (from Country Morning) | Make a Joyful Noise | |||
1975 | "Come On Down" b/w "Bits and Pieces of Life" (non-album track) | 52 | ||
"Baby" b/w "I'd Like to Be" Both sides with Andra Willis | 63 | Country Morning | ||
"The Devil Ain't a Lonely Woman's Friend" b/w "Smokey Taverns, Bar Room Girls" | 96 | Non-album tracks | ||
1976 | "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" b/w "Baby's Home" (non-album track) | 95 | For the 83rd Time | |
"Sweet Feelins" b/w "Dogs and Sheriff John" |
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