The Statler Brothers discography

The discography of The Statler Brothers, an American country music group, consists of 38 albums and 69 singles. The group debuted in 1965 with "Flowers on the Wall," a number 2 country and number 4 pop hit. Although they never made top 40 on the pop charts again, The Statler Brothers continued to chart on Hot Country Songs until 1990, reaching number one with "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine" in 1978, "Elizabeth" in 1984, and "My Only Love" and "Too Much on My Heart," both in 1985.

The Statler Brothers discography
Studio albums38
Live albums2
Compilation albums5
Music videos10
Singles69
No.1 Single4

All studio albums listed have been issued on CD at some point, with the exception of Harold, Lew, Phil and Don; Short Stories; The Originals; and The Legend Goes On. The first eight Mercury titles (not counting the album released under the Lester "Roadhog" Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys moniker) were made available in a box-set release titled The Complete Original Albums Collection (2012); this marked the first CD appearance of five of those albums.

Studio albums

1960s

Title Details Peak chart
positions
US Country US
Flowers on the Wall 10 125
Sing the Big Hits
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: Columbia Records
16
How Great Thou Art
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: Columbia Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country US CAN Country
Bed of Rose's 5 126
Pictures of Moments to Remember
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: Mercury Records
16 181
Innerview
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Mercury Records
12
Country Music Then and Now
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Mercury Records
7
Country Symphonies in E Major
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: Mercury Records
11
Carry Me Back
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: Mercury Records
11
Thank You World
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: Mercury Records
36
Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown High School
(as Lester "Roadhog" Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys)
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: Mercury Records
Sons of the Motherland
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: Mercury Records
29
Holy Bible Old Testament
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: Mercury Records
26
Holy Bible New Testament
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: Mercury Records
22
Harold, Lew, Phil and Don
  • Release date: 1976
  • Label: Mercury Records
21
Country America Loves
  • Release date: 1977
  • Label: Mercury Records
10
Short Stories
  • Release date: 1977
  • Label: Mercury Records
21
Entertainers...On and Off the Record
  • Release date: 1978
  • Label: Mercury Records
5 155
The Originals
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: Mercury Records
8 183 21
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country US CAN Country
10th Anniversary
  • Release date: 1980
  • Label: Mercury Records
13 169
Years Ago
  • Release date: 1981
  • Label: Mercury Records
9 103
The Legend Goes On
  • Release date: 1982
  • Label: Mercury Records
17 201
Today
  • Release date: 1983
  • Label: Mercury Records
10 193 16
Atlanta Blue
  • Release date: 1984
  • Label: Mercury Records
8 177
Pardners in Rhyme
  • Release date: 1985
  • Label: Mercury Records
1
Four for the Show
  • Release date: 1986
  • Label: Mercury Records
7 183
Radio Gospel Favorites
  • Release date: 1986
  • Label: Mercury Records
31
Maple Street Memories
  • Release date: 1987
  • Label: Mercury Records
9
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

Title Details Peak positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
Music, Memories, and You
  • Release date: 1990
  • Label: Mercury Records
31
All American Country
  • Release date: 1991
  • Label: Mercury Records
67
Words and Music
  • Release date: 1992
  • Label: Mercury Records
Gospel Favorites
  • Release date: 1992
  • Label: Mercury Records
Home
  • Release date: 1993
  • Label: Mercury Records
Sing the Classics
  • Release date: 1995
  • Label: Heartland
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

Title Details
Showtime
  • Release date: 2001
  • Label: Crossroads
Amen
  • Release date: 2002
  • Label: Crossroads

Christmas albums

Title Details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country US
Christmas Card
  • Release date: 1978
  • Label: Mercury Records
17 183
Christmas Present
  • Release date: 1985
  • Label: Mercury Records
42
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Title Details Peak chart
positions
US Country US
Live and Sold Out
  • Release date: 1989
  • Label: Mercury Records
40
Farewell Concert
  • Release date: 2003
  • Label: Compendia
Best from the Farewell Concert
  • Release date: 2013
  • Label: Gaither Music Group
24 145
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

Title Details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country US
The World of the Statler Brothers
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: Columbia Records
The Best of the Statler Bros.
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: Mercury Records
2 121
Holy Bible: The Old and New Testaments
  • Release date: 1978
  • Label: Mercury Records
44
The Best of the Statler Bros.
Rides Again Volume II
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: Mercury Records
4
The Statlers' Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 1988
  • Label: Mercury Records
21
30th Anniversary Celebration
  • Release date: 1994
  • Label: Mercury Records
The Complete Lester "Roadhog" Moran & The Cadillac Cowboys
  • Release date: 1994
  • Label: Mercury Records
Legendary Country Singers
  • Release date: 1995
  • Label: Time Life Music
The Gospel Spirit
  • Release date: August 24, 2004
  • Label: Mercury Nashville
20th Century Masters – The Christmas Collection: The Best of the Statler Brothers
  • Release date: September 21, 2004
  • Label: Mercury Nashville
The Definitive Collection
  • Release date: April 19, 2005
  • Label: Mercury Nashville
Gold
  • Release date: January 10, 2006
  • Label: Mercury Nashville
The Gospel Music of
the Statler Brothers Volume 1
  • Release date: May 18, 2010
  • Label: Gaither Music Group
16 113
The Gospel Music of
the Statler Brothers Volume 2
  • Release date: May 18, 2010
  • Label: Gaither Music Group
17 116
Icon
  • Release date: November 2, 2010
  • Label: Mercury Nashville
The Complete Original Albums Collection
  • Release date: 2012
  • Label: Reader's Digest Music
The Complete Mercury Christmas Recordings
  • Release date: November 4, 2014
  • Label: Real Gone Music
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1960s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[14]
US
[14]
CAN
1964 "The Wreck of the Old 97" N/A
"I Still Miss Someone" Flowers on the Wall
1965 "Flowers on the Wall" 2 4 1
"My Darling Hildegard" 110 58
1966 "Green Grass" N/A
"The Right One" 30
"That'll Be the Day" 37
1967 "Ruthless" 10 Sing the Big Hits
"You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith, Too" 10
1968 "Jump for Joy" 60 N/A
"Sissy" 75
1969 "I'm the Boy" 60
"Oh Happy Day" How Great Thou Art
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[14]
US
[14]
CAN Country CAN
1970 "Bed of Rose's" 9 58 3 86 Bed of Rose's
1971 "New York City" 19 34
"Pictures" 13 27 Pictures of Moments to Remember
"You Can't Go Home" 23 36
1972 "Do You Remember These" 2 105 Innerview
"The Class of '57" 6 3 Country Music Then and Now
1973 "Monday Morning Secretary" 20 10 Country Symphonies in E Major
"Woman Without a Home" 29 22
"Carry Me Back" 26 9 Carry Me Back
1974 "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott" 22 32
"Thank You World" 31 45 Thank You World
"Susan When She Tried" 15 18 Sons of the Motherland
1975 "All American Girl" 31 36
"I'll Go to My Grave Loving You" 3 93 1 The Best of the Statler Brothers
1976 "How Great Thou Art" 39 29 Holy Bible New Testament
"Your Picture in the Paper" 13 19 Harold, Lew, Phil and Don
"Thank God I've Got You" 10 Country America Loves
1977 "The Movies" 10 15
"I Was There" 8 8
"Silver Medals and Sweet Memories" 18 10 Short Stories
"Some I Wrote" 17 45
1978 "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine" 1 5 Entertainers...On and Off the Record
"Who Am I to Say" 3 60
"The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell" 5 7
1979 "How to Be a Country Star" 7 18 The Originals
"Here We Are Again" 11 28
"Nothing as Original as You" 10 33
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[14]
CAN Country
1980 "(I'll Even Love You) Better Than I Did Then" 8 8 The Best of the Statler Brothers
Rides Again Volume II
"Charlotte's Web" 5 27 10th Anniversary
"Don't Forget Yourself" 13
1981 "In the Garden" 35 Years Ago
"Don't Wait on Me" 5 36
"Years Ago" 12
1982 "You'll Be Back (Every Night in My Dreams)" 3
"Whatever" 7 13 The Legend Goes On
"A Child of the Fifties" 17
1983 "Oh Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely)" 2 26 Today
"Guilty" 9 16
"Elizabeth" 1 12
1984 "Atlanta Blue" 3 2 Atlanta Blue
"One Takes the Blame" 8 20
"My Only Love" 1 3
1985 "Hello Mary Lou" 3 3 Pardners in Rhyme
"Too Much on My Heart" 1 1
1986 "Sweeter and Sweeter" 8 34
"Count On Me" 5 4 Four for the Show
"Only You" 36
"Forever" 7 11
1987 "I'll Be the One" 10 24 Maple Street Memories
"Maple Street Memories" 42
1988 "The Best I Know How" 15 33
"Am I Crazy?" 27
"Let's Get Started If We're Gonna Break My Heart" 12 * Greatest Hits
1989 "Moon Pretty Moon" 36 *
"More Than a Name on a Wall" 6 13
"Don't Wait on Me" (live) 67 Live and Sold Out
"A Hurt I Can't Handle" 56 64
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
* denotes unknown peak positions

1990s and 2000s

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[14]
CAN Country
1990 "Walking Heartache in Disguise" A Live and Sold Out
"Small Small World" 54 36 Music, Memories and You
"Nobody Else"[15]
1991 "Remember Me"[16] All American Country
"You've Been Like a Mother to Me"[17]
"There's Still Times"[18]
"Put It on the Card"[19]
1992 "Nobody Loves Here Anymore"[20] Words and Music
"Same Way Everytime"
1993 "What We Love to Do" Home
2001 "It Should Have Been Me" Showtime
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes:

  • A "Walking Heartache in Disguise" did not chart on Hot Country Songs, but peaked at No. 8 on Hot Country Radio Breakouts.[21]

Other singles

Christmas singles

Year Single Album
1978 "I Believe in Santa's Cause" Christmas Card
1981 "I Never Spend a Christmas That I Don't Think of You"
1985 "Christmas Eve (Kodia's Theme)" Christmas Present

Music videos

Year Song title
1982 "Whatever"
1983 "Guilty"
1984 "Elizabeth"
"Atlanta Blue"
1985 "My Only Love"
"Sweeter and Sweeter"
"Christmas Eve"
1986 "Only You"
1987 "Maple Street Memories"
1988 "Let's Get Started If We're Gonna Break My Heart"
1990 "Small, Small World"
"Nobody Else"
1991 "You've Been Like a Mother to Me"
1994 "What We Love to Do"

Notes

1.^ "Green Grass" was quickly withdrawn at the request of the song's publisher to make way for Gary Lewis' recording.[22][23] The single was reissued with the same catalog number (Columbia 4-43624), but with "The Right One" replacing the song in question.
2.^ Members of the Western Writers of America chose 1974's "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[24]

References

  1. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Holy Bible-Old Testament". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  2. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Holy Bible-New Testament". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  3. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Entertainers...on and Off the Record". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  4. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – The Originals". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  5. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – 10th Anniversary". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  6. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Today". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  7. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Atlanta Blue". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  8. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Partners in Rhyme". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  9. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Gospel Favorites". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  10. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – Christmas Card". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  11. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – The Best of the Statler Brothers". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  12. "Canadian album certifications – The Statler Brothers – The Best of the Statler Brothers". Music Canada.
  13. "American album certifications – Statler Brothers – The Best of the Statler Brothers Rides Again". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  14. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 399–400. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
  15. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. November 17, 1990.
  16. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. March 30, 1991.
  17. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. June 22, 1991.
  18. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. August 17, 1991.
  19. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. November 9, 1991.
  20. "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. July 18, 1992.
  21. "Hot Country Radio Breakouts" (PDF). Billboard. March 31, 1990.
  22. Holtin, Alice (1997). The Statler Brothers Discography. Westport,Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 24. ISBN 0-313-29663-4.
  23. Reid, Don; Reid, Harold (2007). Random Memories. Nashville,Tenn.: Yell Publishing Company. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-9800883-0-4.
  24. Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
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