Tennessee Ernie Ford discography

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The following is the discography of American singer Tennessee Ernie Ford.

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Albums

YearAlbumChart positionsCert.
(RIAA)
Label
US Country US
[1]
1956This Lusty Land!12 Capitol Records
Hymns 2Platinum
1957Spirituals5Gold
Ford Favorites
Ol' Rockin' Ern'
1958Nearer the Cross5Gold
The Star Carol4Platinum
1959Gather 'Round
A Friend We Have
1960Sing a Hymn with Me23
Sixteen Tons
Sing a Spiritual with Me
Come to the Fair
1961Civil War Songs of the North
Civil War Songs of the South
Looks at Love
Hymns at Home67
1962Mississippi Showboat110
I Love to Tell the Story43
Book of Favorite Hymns71
1963Long, Long Ago
We Gather Together
Story of Christmas14
1964Great Gospel Songs
Country Hits Feelin' Blue
World's Best Loved Hymns
1965Let Me Walk with Thee
Sing We Now of Christmas31
1966My Favorite Things
Wonderful Peace
God Lives
Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart
1967Aloha
Faith of Our Fathers
1968Our Garden of Hymns(w/ Marilyn Horne)
World of Pop and Country Hits
O Come All Ye Faithful
The Best of Tennessee Ernie Ford Hymns
1969Songs I Like to Sing
New Wave
Holy, Holy, Holy
1970America the Beautiful192
Everything Is Beautiful
1971Abide with Me
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
Folk Album
1972Mr. Words and Music
Standin' in the Need of Prayer
1973Country Morning46
Ernie Ford Sings About Jesus
1974Make A Joyful Noise35
1975 Ernie Sings & Glen Picks (w/ Glen Campbell)
1976Sing His Great Love
For the 83rd Time
1977He Touched Me Word Records
1978Swing Wide Your Golden Gate
1979Ramblin' Down Country Roads With Tennessee Ernie Ford
1980Tell Me the Old, Old Story
1982There's A Song In My Heart
1983Sunday School Songs For Children of All Ages
1984Keep Looking Up
20096000 Sunset Boulevard: Featuring The Billy Liebert Band Sundazed Records
2014Amazing Grace: 14 Treasured Hymns19159Gaither Music

Singles

YearSingle (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Chart positionsAlbum
US Country US
1949"Tennessee Border"8Non-album track
"Milk 'Em in the Morning Blues"15Ol' Rockin' Ern
"Country Junction"14
"Philadelphia Lawyer"Sixteen Tons
"Smokey Mountain Boogie"
b/w "You'll Find Her Name Written There" (non-album track)
8Ol' Rockin' Ern
"Mule Train"19Sixteen Tons
"Anticipation Blues"3Ol' Rockin' Ern
1950"The Cry of the Wild Goose"
b/w "The Donkey Serenade"
215Sixteen 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)522
"I'll Never Be Free" (with Kay Starr)23
"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"114Ol' Rockin' Ern
"I Ain't Gonna Let It Happen (No More)"flip
1951"Tailor Made Woman" (with Joe "Fingers" Carr)8Non-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)
218
"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" [lower-alpha 1]
b/w "Put Your Arms Around Me"
"Snowshoe Thompson"
b/w "Fatback Louisiana USA"
"Blackberry Boogie"
b/w "Tennessee Local" (non-album track)
6Ol' 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
16Non-album tracks
"River of No Return"
b/w "Give Me Your Word"
9Ford 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"
45
"His Hands"
b/w "I Am a Pilgrim"
13Spirituals
"Sixteen Tons"11Ford 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)
1217
"Rovin' Gambler"
b/w "John Henry"
60This 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"
46Ford 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"23Non-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 z 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)
9Non-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" [lower-alpha 2]
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"
54The 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)
58Non-album track
1972"Pea-Pickin' Cook"
b/w "The Song" (non-album track)
It's a Ford
1973"Printers Alley Stars"
b/w "Baby"
66Country Morning
"Farther Down the River (Where the Fishin's Good)"
b/w "You've Still Got Love All Over You"
73
"Colorado Country Morning" [lower-alpha 3]
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
63Country Morning
"The Devil Ain't a Lonely Woman's Friend"
b/w "Smokey Taverns, Bar Room Girls"
96Non-album tracks
1976"I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train"
b/w "Baby's Home" (non-album track)
95For the 83rd Time
"Sweet Feelins"
b/w "Dogs and Sheriff John"
  1. "Everybody's Got a Girl But Me" peaked at No. 2 on the Capitol Records' "Top Country & Hillbilly" best sellers list in 1952
  2. "Sing We Now of Christmas" peaked at No. 2 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada
  3. "Colorado Country Morning" peaked at No. 85 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada

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