Porter Wagoner discography

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. In his 1992 biography A Satisfied Mind: The Country Music Life of Porter Wagoner, Steve Eng estimated that Wagoner had released "at best count...more than eighty albums and numberless singles".[1] By that time Wagoner had released eighty-one Billboard-charting songs, including forty-nine songs that reached the Top 20, twenty-nine songs that reached the Top 10, and fifteen songs that reached the Top 5.[1] Wagoner's writing credits by 1992 included "about 175" songs according to Eng.[2]

Wagoner's albums were released over a span of fifty years, starting with A Satisfied Mind in 1957. After going on a hiatus in the 1990s, Wagoner returned to releasing albums in the 2000s, culminating with the 2007 release of Wagonmaster shortly before his death that same year.[3] Wagoner's material was often re-issued through budget albums released under the RCA Camden label.[4]

RCA albums (1950 - 1970s)

RCA Victor albums

Credits adapted from pages 445 - 450 of A Satisfied Mind: The Country Life of Porter Wagoner[5] and from various sections of the fifty-eight-part RCA discography published by Both Sides Now Publications.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Title Details Peak 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 —
3 Country Gentlemen
  • Release date: 1963
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
Porter Wagoner in Person
  • Release date: 1964
  • Label: RCA Victor
 5 —
The Blue Grass Story
  • Release date: 1965
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
The Thin Man from West Plains
  • Release date: 1965
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
The Grand Ole Gospel
(with the Blackwood Brothers)
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
On the Road: The Porter Wagoner Show
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
Confessions of a Broken Man
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
 6 —
Soul of a Convict and Other Great Prison Songs
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
 7 —
The Cold Hard Facts of Life
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
 4 199
More Grand Ole Gospel
(with the Blackwood Brothers)
  • Release date: 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
The Bottom of the Bottle
  • Release date: March 15, 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
 19 —
Porter Wagoner and the Blackwood Brothers Quartet in Gospel Country
(with the Blackwood Brothers)
  • Release date: 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
The Carroll County Accident
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: RCA Victor
 4 161
Me and My Boys
  • Release date: 1969
  • Label: RCA Victor
 38 —
You Got-ta Have a License
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
 9 190
Skid Row Joe - Down in the Alley
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
 22 —
Simple As I Am
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: RCA Victor
 11 —
Porter Wagoner Sings His Own
  • Release date: 1971
  • Label: RCA Victor
 29 —
What Ain't to Be, Just Might Happen
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: RCA Victor
 29 —
Ballads of Love
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: RCA Victor
 26 —
Experience
  • Release date: 1972
  • Label: RCA Victor
 37 —
I'll Keep On Lovin' You
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: RCA Victor
 42 —
The Farmer
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: RCA Victor
 34 —
Tore Down
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: RCA Victor
 28 —
Highway Headin' South
  • 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

RCA Camden albums

The following albums were released under RCA Victor's budget label, RCA Camden. These albums served as a means of reissuing material that had been previously featured on albums released under the RCA Victor label.

Credits adapted from pages 445 - 450 of A Satisfied Mind: The Country Life of Porter Wagoner[5] and from part fifty-seven of the RCA discography published by Both Sides Now Publications.[17]

Title Year
A Satisfied Mind 1963
An Old Log Cabin For Sale 1965
"Your Old Love Letters" and Other Country Hits 1966
I'm Day Dreamin' Tonight 1967
Green, Green Grass of Home 1967
Country Feeling 1969
Eddy Arnold, Bobby Bare, Don Gibson, Hank Snow, Porter Wagoner Sing Popular Country Songs 1969
Howdy, Neighbor, Howdy 1970
Porter Wagoner Country 1971
Blue Moon of Kentucky * 1971
The Silent Kind 1973

* Reissued in 1977 by Pickwick Records.

Compilation albums

Credits adapted from pages 447, 448, and 450 of A Satisfied Mind: The Country Life of Porter Wagoner[18], parts eleven and fourteen of the RCA discography published by Both Sides Now Publications,[10][13] and part two of the RCA Special Products Album Discography also published by Both Sides Now Publications.[19]

Title Details Peak chart
positions
US Country US
The Best of Porter Wagoner
  • Release date: 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
 — —
The Best of Porter Wagoner, Volume II
  • Release date: 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
 31 —
The Best of Porter Wagoner — —

1980s

Title Details Peak 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 Wagoner 48
Sorrow on the Rocks —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s

Title Details Peak 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

Year Single Peak positions Album
US Country
1954 "Company's Comin'" 7 Satisfied 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)" 8 The Porter Wagoner Show
"Uncle Pen" 14 A Slice of Life
"Tryin' to Forget the Blues" 11 Your Old Love Letters
1957 "I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name" 11 A Slice of Life
1959 "Me and Fred and Joe and Bill" 29 An Old Log Cabin for Sale

1960s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country US CAN Country
1960 "The Girl Who Didn't Need Love" 26 — — Thin Man from the West Plains
"Falling Again" 26 — — Country Feeling
"An Old Log Cabin for Sale" 30 — — In Person
1961 "Your Old Love Letters" 10 — — The Porter Wagoner Show
1962 "Misery Loves Company" 1 — — A Slice of Life
"Cold Dark Waters" 10 — — I'm Day Dreamin' Tonight
"I've Enjoyed as Much of This as I Can Stand" 7 — — The Porter Wagoner Show
1963 "My Baby's Not Here (In Town Tonight)" 20 — — In Person
"In the Shadows of the Wine" 29 — — The Bottom of the Bottle
1964 "Howdy Neighbor Howdy" 19 — — In Person
"Sorrow on the Rocks" 5 — — The Thin Man from West Plains
"I'll Go Down Swinging" 11 — —
1965 "I'm Gonna Feed You Now" 21 — —
"Green Green Grass of Home" 4 — — On the Road
"Skid Row Joe" 3 — — The Best
1966 "I Just Came to Smell the Flowers" 21 — — Confessions of a Broken Man
"Ole Slew-Foot" 48 — — Green, Green Grass of Home
1967 "The Cold Hard Facts of Life" 2 — — The Cold Hard Facts of Life
"Julie" 15 — —
"Woman Hungry" 24 — — —
1968 "Be Proud of Your Man" 16 — — Country
"The Carroll County Accident"[A] 2 92 1 The Carroll County Accident
1969 "Big Wind" 3 — — Me and My Boys
"When You're Hot You're Hot" 21 — 6 You Gotta Have a License
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country US CAN Country
1970 "You Gotta Have a License" 41 — 42 You Gotta Have a License
"Little Boy's Prayer" 43 — —
"Jim Johnson" 41 — 42 Simple as I Am
1971 "The Last One to Touch Me" 18 — 13
"Charley's Picture" 15 116 10
"Be a Little Quieter" 11 — 20 Sings His Own
1972 "What Ain't to Be Just Might Happen" 8 — 10 What Ain't to Be Just Might Happen
"A World Without Music" 14 — 5 Experience
"Katy Did" 16 — 6
1973 "Lightening the Load" 54 — 61 I'll Keep On Loving You
"Wake Up, Jacob" 37 — 52 The Farmer
"George Leroy Chickashea" 43 — 84 Tore Down
1974 "Tore Down/Nothing Between" 46 — —
"Highway Headin' South" 15 — 34 Highway 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) 76 — — Porter
1978 "Mountain Music" 64 — 43 —
"Ole Slew-Foot/I'm Gonna Feed 'Em Now" 31 — 51 Today
1979 "I Want to Walk You Home" 34 — 43 —
"Everything I've Always Wanted" 32 — —
"Hold On Tight" 64 — — Porter Wagoner
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s–2000s

Year Single Peak 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" 35 43 Viva
2007 "Committed to Parkview" — — Wagonmaster
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Guest singles

Year Single Artist Peak positions
US Country
1967 "Chet's Tune" Some of Chet's Friends 38
1985 "One Big Family" Heart of Nashville 61

Music videos

Year Video
2007 "Committed To Parkview"

Notes

  • A^ "The Carroll County Accident" also peaked at number 80 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada.

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Eng 1992, pp. 14.
  2. ^ Eng 1992, pp. 15.
  3. ^ Dan Cooper. "Porter Wagoner Biography by Dan Cooper". AllMusic. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
  4. ^ Eng 1992, pp. 133.
  5. ^ a b Eng 1992, pp. 445–450.
  6. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 5" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  7. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 8" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  8. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 9" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  9. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 10" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  10. ^ a b David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 11" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  11. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 12" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  12. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 13" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  13. ^ a b David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 14" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  14. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 15" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  15. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 17" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  16. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 18" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  17. ^ David Edwards; Mike Callahan; Patrice Eyries (2018). "RCA Discography Part 57" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.
  18. ^ Eng 1992, pp. 447, 448, and 450.
  19. ^ Mike Callahan; Dave Edwards; Michel Ruppli (September 13, 2019). "RCA Special Products Album Discography, Part 2 Consolidated Series (1973-1996)". Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved January 2, 2025.

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