Don Williams discography

Don Williams discography
Don Williams performing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on November 5, 2006
Studio albums25
Live albums2
Compilation albums13
Singles62
Music videos7
#1 Singles21

This is a detailed discography for American country music singer-songwriter Don Williams that includes information on all of his studio albums, singles, greatest hits compilations and live albums. Don Williams was active from 1967 until his death in 2017.[1] He was one of the best-selling male vocalists in country music in the 1970s and early 1980s.[2]

Studio albums

See also: List of songs written by Don Williams

1970s

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US Country
[3] 		US
[3] 		AUS[4] CAN Country
Don Williams Volume One 5 — — —
Don Williams Volume Two
  • Release date: January 1974
  • Label: JMI Records
  • Formats: LP
 13 — — —
Don Williams Vol. III 3 — — —
You're My Best Friend
  • Release date: April 1975
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 5 — — —
Harmony
  • Release date: April 5, 1976
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 1 — — —
Visions
  • Release date: January 17, 1977
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 4 — 98 —
Country Boy
  • Release date: September 13, 1977
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 9 — — 11
Expressions
  • Release date: August 23, 1978
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 2 161 — 1
Portrait
  • Release date: October 19, 1979
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 11 — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[3] 		US
[3] 		AUS[4] CAN Country
I Believe in You
  • Release date: August 4, 1980
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 2 57 47 3
Especially for You
  • Release date: June 26, 1981
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 5 109 — —
Listen to the Radio
  • Release date: March 26, 1982
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 6 166 — —
Yellow Moon
  • Release date: March 25, 1983
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 12 44 — —
Cafe Carolina
  • Release date: May 14, 1984
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 13 — — 1
New Moves
  • Release date: January 17, 1986
  • Label: Capitol Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 29 — — —
Traces
  • Release date: October 14, 1987
  • Label: Capitol Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
 — — — —
One Good Well
  • Release date: April 28, 1989
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
 54 — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

Title Album details Peak
positions
US Country
[3]
True Love
  • Release date: August 7, 1990
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 56
Currents
  • Release date: March 10, 1992
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 —
Borrowed Tales
  • Release date: August 8, 1995
  • Label: American Harvest Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 —
Flatlands
  • Release date: October 8, 1996
  • Label: American Harvest Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 —
I Turn the Page
  • Release date: October 27, 1998
  • Label: Giant Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 69
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s and 2010s

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US Country
[3] 		US
[3]
My Heart to You — —
And So It Goes 20 100
Reflections
  • Release date: March 11, 2014
  • Label: Sugar Hill Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
 19 124

Live albums

Title Album details
An Evening with Don Williams: Best Of Live
  • Release date: May 27, 1994
  • Label: American Harvest Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Live Greatest Hits, Volume Two
  • Release date: April 17, 2001
  • Label: Row Music Group
  • Formats: CD
Don Williams in Ireland
  • Release date: April 15, 2016
  • Label: Don Williams Music Group
  • Formats: CD, LP


Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions 		Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[3] 		AUS[4] CAN Country
Greatest Hits, Volume One
  • Release date: September 22, 1975
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 5 — —
The Best of Don Williams, Volume II
  • Release date: April 23, 1979
  • Label: ABC/Dot Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 7 — 2
  • CAN: Gold
  • US: Gold[5]
Now & Then
  • Release date: 1982
  • Label: J&B Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
 — 31 —
The Best of Don Williams, Volume III
  • Release date: February 13, 1984
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
 18 — —
Greatest Hits Volume IV
  • Release date: November 11, 1985
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
 60 — —
Lovers and Best Friends
  • Release date: September 22, 1986
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
 — — —
20 Greatest Hits
  • Release date: February 16, 1987
  • Label: MCA Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, cassette
 14 — —
Greatest Country Hits
  • Release date: September 10, 1990
  • Label: Curb Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 — — —
The Best of Don Williams
  • Release date: May 23, 1995
  • Label: RCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 — — —
20th Century Masters:
The Millennium Collection 		74 — —
Gold — — —
20th Century Masters:
The Millennium Collection, Vol. 2
  • Release date: September 25, 2001
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD
 — — —
The Definitive Collection
  • Release date: June 22, 2004
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD
 48 — —
Icon: Don Williams
  • Release date: August 31, 2010
  • Label: MCA Nashville
  • Formats: CD
 43 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1970s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[6] 		US Bubbling
[6] 		AUS
[4] 		CAN Country UK
[7]
1973 "The Shelter of Your Eyes" 14 — — — — Don Williams Volume One
"Come Early Morning" 12 — — — —
"Amanda" 33 — 65 — —
1974 "Atta Way to Go" 13 — — 57 — Don Williams Volume Two
"We Should Be Together" 5 — — — —
"Down the Road I Go" 62 — — 50 —
"I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me" 1 — — 10 — Don Williams Vol. III
"The Ties That Bind" 4 — — 2 —
1975 "You're My Best Friend" 1 — 50 1 35 You're My Best Friend
"(Turn Out the Light And) Love Me Tonight" 1 — — 5 —
"'Til the Rivers All Run Dry" 1 — — — — Harmony
1976 "Say It Again" 1 — — 4 —
"I Recall a Gypsy Woman" — — — — 13 Don Williams Volume One
"She Never Knew Me" 2 3 — 2 — Harmony
1977 "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" 1 8 — 6 — Visions
"I'm Just a Country Boy" 1 10 — 1 57[A] Country Boy
1978 "I've Got a Winner in You" 7 — — 10 —
"Rake and Ramblin' Man" 3 — — 2 —
"Tulsa Time" 1 6 — 1 — Expressions
1979 "Lay Down Beside Me" 3 — 88 2 —
"It Must Be Love" 1 — — 2 —
"Love Me Over Again" 1 — — 1 — Portrait
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[6] 		US
[6] 		US AC
[8] 		AUS
[4] 		CAN Country CAN AC
1980 "Good Ole Boys Like Me" 2 — — — 3 — Portrait
"I Believe in You" 1 24 8 20 1 7 I Believe in You
1981 "Falling Again" 6 — 39 — 3 —
"Miracles" 4 — 32 — 2 — Especially for You
"Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good" 1 — — — 1 —
1982 "Listen to the Radio" 3 — — — 1 — Listen to the Radio
"Mistakes" 3 — — — 3 —
"If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)" 1 — — — 1 —
1983 "Love Is on a Roll" 1 — — — 1 — Yellow Moon
"Nobody but You" 2 — — — 1 —
"Stay Young" 1 — — — 3 —
1984 "That's the Thing About Love" 1 — — — 1 — Cafe Carolina
"Maggie's Dream" 11 — — — 13 —
1985 "Walkin' a Broken Heart" 2 — — — 3 —
"It's Time for Love" 20 — — — 49 —
1986 "We've Got a Good Fire Goin'" 3 — — — 2 — New Moves
"Heartbeat in the Darkness" 1 — — — 2 —
"Then It's Love" 3 — — — 4 —
1987 "Señorita" 9 — — — 12 —
"I'll Never Be in Love Again" 4 — — — 15 —
"I Wouldn't Be a Man" 9 — — — 7 — Traces
1988 "Another Place, Another Time" 5 — — — — —
"Desperately" 7 — — — 5 —
1989 "Old Coyote Town" 5 — — — 2 —
"One Good Well" 4 — — — 3 — One Good Well
"I've Been Loved by the Best" 4 — — — 11 —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s and beyond

Year Single Peak chart
positions 		Album
US Country
[6] 		CAN Country
1990 "Just as Long as I Have You" 4 11 One Good Well
"Maybe That's All It Takes" 22 47
"Back in My Younger Days" 2 1 True Love
1991 "True Love" 4 5
"Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy" 7 17
1992 "It's Who You Love" 73 — Currents
"Too Much Love" 72 —
"Catfish Bates"[9] — —
1995 "Fever" — — Borrowed Tales
"Games People Play" — —
1998 "Cracker Jack Diamond" — 87 I Turn the Page
"Pretty Little Baby Child" — — —
2004 "My Heart to You" — — My Heart to You
2012 "I Just Come Here for the Music" (with Alison Krauss) — — And So It Goes
2014 "I'll Be Here in the Morning"[10] — — Reflections
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Year Single Artist Peak chart
positions 		Album
US Country
[6] 		CAN Country
1981 "If I Needed You" Emmylou Harris 3 1 Cimarron

Promotional singles

Year Single Peak
positions 		Album
US Country
[6]
1980 "Could You Ever Really Love a Poor Boy" 97 —

Music videos

Year Video Director
1986 "Heartbeat in the Darkness" Sherman Halsey
1989 "I've Been Loved by the Best" Phil Olsman
1995 "Fever" Bob Gabrielsen
2004 "My Heart to You" John Donegan
2012 "Imagine That" (with Keith Urban) David McClister
2014 "I'll Be Here in the Morning"[11] Bill Filipiak
"Sing Me Back Home"[12]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".

References

  1. ^ Don Williams, Country's 'Gentle Giant,' Dead at 78. Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 8, 2017
  2. ^ Roslyn Sulcas (September 8, 2017). "Don Williams, Singer of Plain-Spoken Country Songs, Dies at 78". New York Times. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Artist Chart History – Don Williams". Billboard. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 338. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ a b c "Gold & Platinum Database Search: Don Williams". RIAA. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 463–464. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  7. ^ "UK Singles Chart history for Don Williams". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Adult Songs 1961–2006. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-169-7.
  9. ^ "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. August 22, 1992.
  10. ^ "Future Releases for Country Radio Stations". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013.
  11. ^ "CMT : Videos : Don Williams : I'll be Here in the Morning". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  12. ^ "CMT : Videos : Don Williams : Sing Me Back Home". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2014.