Don Williams discography

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Don Williams discography
Don Williams when he was in concert in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 5th, 2006
Studio albums29
Compilation albums6
Singles55
No.1 Single21

This is a detailed discography for American country music artist Don Williams.

Studio albums

1970s albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
CAN Country
Volume 1
  • Release date: 1973
  • Label: JMI
  • Formats: LP
5
Volume 2
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: JMI
  • Formats: LP
13
Volume 3
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
3
You're My Best Friend
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
5
Harmony
  • Release date: 1976
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
1
Visions
  • Release date: 1976
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
4
Country Boy
  • Release date: 1977
  • Label: Dot
  • Formats: LP
9 11
Expressions
  • Release date: 1978
  • Label: ABC
  • Formats: LP
2 161 1
Portrait
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
11
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
CAN Country
I Believe in You
  • Release date: 1980
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
2 57 3
Especially for You
  • Release date: 1981
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
5 109
Listen to the Radio
  • Release date: 1982
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
6 166
Yellow Moon
  • Release date: 1983
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
12 44
Cafe Carolina
  • Release date: 1984
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
13 1
New Moves
  • Release date: 1986
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: CD
29
Traces
  • Release date: 1987
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: CD
One Good Well
  • Release date: 1989
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD
54
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s albums

Title Album details Peak positions
US Country
[1]
True Love
  • Release date: 1990
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD
56
Currents
  • Release date: 1992
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD
An Evening with Don Williams (live)
  • Release date: 1994
  • Label: American Harvest
  • Formats: CD
Borrowed Tales
  • Release date: 1995
  • Label: American Harvest
  • Formats: CD
Flatlands
  • Release date: 1996
  • Label: American Harvest
  • Formats: CD
I Turn the Page
  • Release date: 1998
  • Label: Giant
  • Formats: CD
69
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s albums

Title Album details
Live Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (live)
  • Release date: 2001
  • Label: Row Music Group
  • Formats: CD
My Heart to You
  • Release date: 2004
  • Label: Compendia
  • Formats: CD

2010s albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US Country
[1]
US
[1]
And So It Goes
  • Release date: June 19, 2012
  • Label: Sugar Hill
  • Formats: CD
20 100
Reflections[3]
  • Release date: March 11, 2014
  • Label: Sugar Hill
  • Formats: CD
19 124

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[1]
CAN Country
Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: ABC
  • Formats: LP
5
The Best of Don Williams Volume II
  • Release date: 1979
  • Label: ABC
  • Formats: LP
7 2
  • CAN: Gold
  • US: Gold[2]
The Best of Don Williams Volume III
  • Release date: 1984
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP
18
Greatest Hits Volume IV
  • Release date: 1986
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
60
Lovers and Best Friends
  • Release date: 1986
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
20 Greatest Hits
  • Release date: 1987
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
The Millennium Collection
  • Release date: 2000
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
74
The Definitive Collection
  • Release date: 2004
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
48
Icon: Don Williams
  • Release date: 2010
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: CD
43
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1970s

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country
[4]
US Bubbling
[4]
CAN Country UK
[5]
1973 "Shelter of Your Eyes" 14 Don Williams Vol. 1
"Come Early Morning" 12
1974 "Atta Way to Go" 13 57 Don Williams Vol. 2
"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. 3
"The Ties That Bind" 4 2
1975 "You're My Best Friend" 1 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 Vol. 2
"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 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 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
[4]
US
[4]
CAN Country CAN AC
1980 "Good Ole Boys Like Me" 2 3 Portrait
"I Believe in You" 1 24 1 7 I Believe in You
1981 "Falling Again" 6 3
"Miracles" 4 2 Especially for You
"If I Needed You" (with Emmylou Harris) 3 1
"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
"Walkin' a Broken Heart" 2 3
1985 "It's Time for Love" 20 49
"We've Got a Good Fire Goin'" 3 2 New Moves
1986 "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 *
"Old Coyote Town" 5 2
1989 "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 2010s

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[4]
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
"Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy" 7 17
1992 "It's Who You Love" 73 Currents
"Too Much Love" 72
1998 "Cracker Jack Diamond" 87 I Turn the Page
"Pretty Little Baby Child"
2012 "I Just Come Here for the Music" (with Alison Krauss) And So It Goes
2014 "I'll Be Here in the Morning"[6] Reflections
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

B-sides

Year B-side Peak positions Original A-side
US Country
[4]
1973 "Amanda" 33 "Come Early Morning"

Music videos

Year Video Director
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"[7] Bill Filipiak
"Sing Me Back Home"[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Artist Chart History – Don Williams". Billboard. Retrieved 2010-12-02. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ a b c "Gold & Platinum Database Search: Don Williams". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-12-02.
  3. ^ Wyland, Sarah (January 13, 2014). "Don Williams to Release Reflections March 11". Great American Country. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 463–464. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
  5. ^ "UK Singles Chart history for Don Williams". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  6. ^ "Future Releases for Country Radio Stations". All Access Music Group. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27.
  7. ^ "CMT : Videos : Don Williams : I'll be Here in the Morning". Country Music Television. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
  8. ^ "CMT : Videos : Don Williams : Sing Me Back Home". Country Music Television. Retrieved August 10, 2014.

See also