Bill Anderson albums discography

The albums discography of American country singer-songwriter Bill Anderson contains 45 studio albums, three live albums, 12 compilation albums, four extended plays and one box set. He first signed with Decca Records in 1958 and started releasing singles which became major hits.[1] However, Anderson's first album was not released until 1962. Entitled Bill Anderson Sings Country Heart Songs, the package was a compilation release containing his major hits up to that point.[2] His debut studio release, Still, followed upon the success of its title track in 1963.[3] The release peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart[2] and number 36 on the Billboard 200, his only album to chart the latter survey.[4] Over the next decade, Anderson released several albums per year, many of which reached the top ten on the Billboard country albums chart.[2] His second studio release, Bill Anderson Sings (1964), reached number seven on the chart for example.[5] In 1966, his fifth studio album, I Love You Drops, reached number one the country albums list.[6] In 1967, Anderson recorded his first album of gospel music called I Can Do Nothing Alone, which reached number 23 on the country albums survey.[7] His eighth studio record, For Loving You (1968), was a collaborative project with Jan Howard. It reached number six on the country albums chart.[8]

Bill Anderson albums discography
Bill Anderson, 2006.
Studio albums45
Live albums3
Compilation albums12
EPs4
Box sets1
Other album appearances16

Anderson continued releasing several albums per year into the 1970s. In the early half of the decade, only three studio projects reached the country albums top ten: Love Is a Sometimes Thing (1970), Bill and Jan (Or Jan and Bill) (1972), and Don't She Look Good (1972). By this period, he had released his second greatest hits package as well.[2] In 1973, his label was renamed to MCA Records and his first album on the label was Bill, which reached number 15 on the Top Country Albums chart.[9] In 1976, he collaborated on the first of two albums with Mary Lou Turner.[2] Anderson's sound shifted towards a Countrypolitan style in the late 1970s.[1] His studio releases Love...& Other Sad Stories (1978) and Ladies Choice (1979) were his final charting records on the country albums survey.[2] Anderson continued releasing studio albums on independent labels in the 1980s, before recording Fine Wine (1998) for Warner Bros. Records. He then developed his own label, TWI, where he has been releasing new music since. His most recent studio record is 2020's The Hits Re-Imagined.[1]

Studio albums

As lead artist

List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US
[10]
US
Country

[11]
CAN
Country

[12]
Still
  • Released: June 1963
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
3610
Bill Anderson Sings
  • Released: February 1964
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
7
Showcase
  • Released: November 1964
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
I Love You Drops
  • Released: August 1966
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
1
Get While the Gettin's Good
  • Released: February 1967
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
8
I Can Do Nothing Alone
  • Released: June 1967
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
23
Wild Weekend
  • Released: May 1968
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
10
Happy State of Mind
  • Released: September 1968
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
24
My Life/But You Know I Love You
  • Released: July 1969
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
4
Christmas
  • Released: November 1969
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Love Is a Sometimes Thing
  • Released: June 1970
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
10
Where Have All Our Heroes Gone
  • Released: December 1970
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
27
Always Remember
  • Released: April 1971
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
13
Bill Anderson Sings for "All the Lonely
Women in the World"
  • Released: May 1972
  • Label: Deca
  • Formats: LP
14
Don't She Look Good
  • Released: November 1972
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
10
Bill
  • Released: July 1973
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
15
"Whispering" Bill Anderson
  • Released: June 1974
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
17
Every Time I Turn the Radio On/
Talk to Me Ohio
  • Released: January 1975
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
22
Peanuts and Diamonds and Other Jewels
  • Released: September 1976
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
12
Scorpio
  • Released: April 1977
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
21
Love...& Other Sad Stories
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP, cassette
375
Ladies Choice
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP, cassette
44
Nashville Mirrors
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP, cassette
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Swanee
  • Formats: LP
A Place in the Country
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Po Folks
  • Formats: LP
Country Music Heaven
  • Released: February 1993
  • Label: Curb
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Greatest Songs
  • Released: November 19, 1996
  • Label: Curb
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Fine Wine
  • Released: August 25, 1998
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
A Lot of Things Different
No Place Like Home on Christmas
  • Released: October 15, 2002
  • Label: Varèse Sarabande
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Softly & Tenderly
  • Released: June 1, 2004
  • Label: Madacy/TWI
  • Formats: CD
The Way I Feel
  • Released: June 2005
  • Label: TWI/Varèse Sarabande
  • Formats: CD, music download
Whisperin' Bluegrass
  • Released: October 23, 2007
  • Label: Madacy
  • Formats: CD, music download
Songwriter
  • Released: May 2010
  • Label: TWI
  • Formats: CD, music download
Life!
  • Released: March 4, 2014
  • Label: TWI
  • Formats: CD, music download
Anderson
  • Released: September 14, 2018
  • Label: TWI
  • Formats: CD, music download
The Hits Re-Imagined
  • Released: July 24, 2020
  • Label: TWI
  • Formats: CD, music download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

As a collaboration

List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Album details Peak
chart
positions
US Country
[11]
Bright Lights and Country Music
(with The Po' Boys)
  • Released: November 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
6
For Loving You
(with Jan Howard)
  • Released: February 1968
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
6
If It's All the Same to You
(with Jan Howard)
  • Released: March 1970
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
25
Bill and Jan (Or Jan and Bill)
(with Jan Howard)
  • Released: January 1972
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
9
Singing His Praise
(with Jan Howard)
  • Released: March 1972
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Sometimes
(with Mary Lou Turner)
  • Released: January 1976
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
6
Billy Boy & Mary Lou
(with Mary Lou Turner)
  • Released: June 1977
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
39
Southern Fried
(with The Po' Folks)
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Southern Tracks
  • Formats: LP
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Album details Peak
chart
positions
US Country
[11]
Bill Anderson Sings Country Heart Songs
  • Released: January 1962
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
From This Pen
  • Released: June 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
7
Bill Anderson's Greatest Hits
  • Released: October 1967
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
6
Bill Anderson's Country Style
  • Released: March 1968
  • Label: Vocalion
  • Formats: LP
The Bill Anderson Story: His Greatest Hits
  • Released: March 1969
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
43
Bill Anderson's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  • Released: September 1971
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
18
Just Plain Bill
  • Released: June 1972
  • Label: Vocalion
  • Formats: LP
Best of Bill Anderson
  • Released: February 1991
  • Label: Curb
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Varese Vintage
  • Formats: CD
Greatest Hits, Volume Two
  • Released: October 7, 1997
  • Label: Varese Vintage
  • Formats: CD
The Definitive Collection
  • Released: June 6, 2006
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, music download
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
  • Released: July 25, 2006
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, music download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other albums

Live albums

List of albums, showing relevant details
Title Album details
Live from London
  • Released: October 1975
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
On the Road with Bill Anderson
  • Released: November 26, 1980
  • Label: Stallion
  • Formats: LP
Bill Anderson Hosts Backstage at the
Grand Ole Opry
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: LP

Box sets

List of albums, showing relevant details
Title Album details
The First Ten Years: 1956–1966
  • Released: November 15, 2011
  • Label: Bear Family
  • Formats: CD

Extended plays

List of albums, showing relevant details
Title Album details
Country and Western Hitparade, Vol. 1[13]
(with Webb Pierce)
Still[14]
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Still[15]
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Festival
  • Formats: LP
Me[16]
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP

Other album appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Other artist(s) Album Ref.
"The First Noel" 1997 N/A Country Christmas: Stars of Nashville [17]
"Loving Arms of Tennessee" Jimmy Sturr Living on Polka Time [18]
"Too Country" 2001 Brad Paisley
Buck Owens
George Jones
Part II [19]
"The Old Village Church on the Hill" 2002 N/A 36 Greatest Gospel Memories: A Loving Tribute to Albert E. Brumley [20]
"Blue Shades" 2002 Elizabeth Cook Hey Y'all [21]
"We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" 2005 Michelle Nixon What More Should I Say? [22]
"Too Country"
(Live)
2006 Brad Paisley Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall [23]
"Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday"
(as the "Kung Pao Buckaroos")
Brad Paisley Christmas [24]
"I'll Go Down Swinging" 2007 Justin Trevino Take One as Needed for Pain [25]
"Chip Chip" 2008 Rustie Blue Stronger Than Steel [26]
"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" 2010 George Hamilton IV Old Fashioned Hymns and Gospel Songs... for Those Who Miss Them! [27]
"The Guitar Song" Jamey Johnson The Guitar Song [28]
"Twelve Days of Christmas" 2015 Rhonda Vincent Christmas Time [29]
"Dying to See Her" 2017 Brad Paisley Love and War [30]
"You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd" 2018 John Anderson,
Bellamy Brothers,
Roy Clark,
Larry Gatlin,
Bobby Goldsboro,
Jan Howard,
Brenda Lee,
Roger Miller,
Tanya Tucker
King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller [31]
"When Two Worlds Collide" 2020 Jeannie Seely An American Classic [32]

References

  1. Huey, Steve. "Bill Anderson: Biography & History". Allmusic. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1997). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Albums: 1967-1997. Record Research Inc. ISBN 0898201241.
  3. "Still: Bill Anderson: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  4. "Still chart history (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  5. "Bill Anderson Sings chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  6. "I Love You Drops chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  7. "I Can Do Nothing Alone chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  8. "For Loving You chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  9. "Bill chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  10. "Bill Anderson Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  11. "Bill Anderson: Country Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  12. "Search results for "Bill Anderson" -- Country Albums/CDs". RPM. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  13. "Webb Pierce / Bill Anderson -- Country and Western Hitparade (1962, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  14. "Bill Anderson -- Still (Vinyl, EP, Decca)". Discogs. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  15. "Bill Anderson -- Still (1963, Vinyl, Festival)". Discogs. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  16. "Bill Anderson -- Me (1965, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  17. Campbell, Al. "Country Christmas: Stars of Nashville: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  18. "Living on Polka Time: Jimmy Sturr: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  19. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Part II: Brad Paisley: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  20. Loftus, Johnny. "36 Greatest Gospel Memories: A Loving Tribute to Albert E. Brumley: Songs, Reviews Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  21. Doerschuk, Robert L. "Hey Y'all: Elizabeth Cook: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  22. "What More Should I Say?: Michelle Nixon: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  23. "Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  24. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Brad Paisley Christmas: Brad Paisley: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  25. "Take One as Needed for Pain: Album by Justin Trevino". Spotify. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  26. "Stronger Than Steel: Rustie Blue: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  27. "Old Fashioned Hymns and Gospel Songs... for Those Who Miss Them! by George Hamilton IV". Apple Music. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  28. Jurek, Thom. "The Guitar Song: Jamey Johnson: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  29. "Christmas Time -- Album by Rhonda Vincent". Spotify. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  30. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Love and War: Brad Paisley: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  31. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miler -- various artists -- songs, reviews, credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  32. Robertson, Sherod. "Opry Legend Jeannie Seely Announces New Album On 80th Birthday". Music Row. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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