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Hank Locklin discography

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Hank Locklin discography
Studio albums29
Compilation albums10
Singles96
Other charted songs2
Box sets2
Other album appearances1

The discography of American country singer-songwriter Hank Locklin contains 29 studio albums, 10 compilation albums, two box sets, 96 singles, two additionally-charting songs and one album appearance. He had his first hit with "The Same Sweet Girl" (1949) after signing with Four Star Records. The song reached the top ten of the Billboard country singles chart, peaking at number eight. A string of singles were released over the next several years that were not successful.[1] With a leasing agreement administered by Decca Records, he had his next hit in 1953 with the number one song, "Let Me Be the One." Disappointed by label management, he switched to RCA Victor Records in 1955. Under the production of Chet Atkins, he had his biggest success.[2] His next hit came with 1956's "Why Baby Why," which reached number nine on the country chart. Between 1957 and 1958, he had three top-ten country hits: "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On," "Geisha Girl" and "It's a Little More Like Heaven."[1] In 1958, he recorded country music's first concept albums, Foreign Love.[2] In 1960, Locklin released his biggest hit single, "Please Help Me, I'm Falling."[1] Not only did it top the Billboard country singles chart,[3] but it also reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 list.[4] It was also one of several hits Locklin had in the United Kingdom, peaking at number nine on their pop chart.[5]

Locklin had several more Billboard country hit singles in the early 1960s. This included "One Step Ahead of My Past," "Happy Birthday to Me" and "Happy Journey."[1] He also released several more concept studio albums, beginning with a tribute album to Roy Acuff and an album of Irish recordings.[2] His studio releases also began appearing on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, beginning with The Girls Get Prettier in 1966.[6] In 1968, he had his last top ten hit with "The Country Hall of Fame."[2] As the decade progressed, his singles continued charting, yet went into lower-end song positions. In 1968 and 1969 he had his final top 40 singles on the country chart.[1] His final album to peak on the country albums chart was 1969's Softly.[7] He remained with RCA records until the early 1970s and released several more studio albums.[2] This included a collaboration with Danny Davis on an album of brass instrumentation.[8] In the latter part of the 70s, he recorded studio albums for two separate labels.[9][10] In 2001, he released his first studio offering in many years titled Generations in Song. This was followed in 2006 by his final album, a collection of gospel tunes called By the Grace of God.[2]

Albums

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Studio albums

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List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, and other relevant details
Title Album details Peak
chart
positions
US
Country

[11]
Foreign Love
Please Help Me, I'm Falling
  • Released: July 1960
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Happy Journey
  • Released: January 1962
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
A Tribute to Roy Acuff: The King of Country
Music
  • Released: February 1962
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Hank Locklin
  • Released: March 1962
  • Label: RCA Camden
  • Formats: LP
This Song Is Just for You
  • Released: May 1963
  • Label: RCA Camden
  • Formats: LP
The Ways of Life
  • Released: July 1963
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Irish Songs, Country Style
  • Released: January 1964
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Hank Locklin Sings Hank Williams
  • Released: September 1964
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Hank Locklin Sings Eddy Arnold
  • Released: June 1965
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
My Kind of Country Music
  • Released: September 1965
  • Label: RCA Camden
  • Formats: LP
Once Over Lightly
  • Released: November 1965
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
The Girls Get Prettier
  • Released: May 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
26
The Gloryland Way
  • Released: August 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Send Me the Pillow You Dream On and
Other Great Country Hits
  • Released: March 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Nashville Women
  • Released: August 1967
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
36
Country Hall of Fame
  • Released: February 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
20
My Love Song for You
  • Released: August 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
40
Softly
  • Released: December 1968
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
32
Lookin' Back
  • Released: July 1969
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Hank Locklin & Danny Davis & the Nashville
Brass

(with Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass)
  • Released: March 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Bless Her Heart...I Love Her
  • Released: August 1970
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
The Mayor of McLellan, Florida
  • Released: November 1972
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Hank Locklin
  • Released: June 1975
  • Label: MGM
  • Formats: LP
There Never Was a Time
Country Hall of Fame
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Top Spin
  • Formats: LP
All Kinds of Everything
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Top Spin
  • Formats: LP
Generations in Song
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Coldwater
  • Formats: CD
By the Grace of God: The Gospel Album
  • Released: September 26, 2006
  • Label: Yell
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

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List of albums, showing all relevant details
Title Album details
3 Country Gentlemen[12]
(with Hank Snow and Porter Wagoner)
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
The Best of Hank Locklin
  • Released: August 1966
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
That's How Much I Love You[13]
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: RCA Camden
  • Formats: LP
Wabash Cannon Ball[14]
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: RCA Camden
  • Formats: LP
Candy Kisses[15]
  • Released: November 1970
  • Label: RCA Camden
  • Formats: LP
The First Fifteen Years[16]
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP
Send Me the Pillow You Dream On[17]
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: RCA Camden
  • Formats: LP
20 of the Best[18]
The Very Best of Hank Locklin[19]
  • Released: October 21, 1996
  • Label: Hallmark
  • Formats: CD
RCA Country Legends[20]
  • Released: March 4, 2003
  • Label: RCA
  • Formats: CD

Box sets

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List of albums, showing all relevant details
Title Album details
Please Help Me I'm Falling[21]
Send Me the Pillow You Dream On[22]
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Bear Family
  • Formats: CD

Singles

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As lead artist

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List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
[23][24]
US
Coun.

[25]
AUS
[26]
NLD
[27]
UK
[28]
"Rio Grande Waltz"[1] 1948 non-album singles
"Please Come Back and Stay"[1] 1949
"I Worship You"[1]
"The Same Sweet Girl" 8
"Born to Ramble"[a]
"Send Me the Pillow You Dream On"[b]
"Our Love Will Show the Way"[1]
"Are You Treating Your Neighbor as Yourself"[c] 1950
"Midnight Tears"[d]
"Pinball Millionaire"[e]
"Come Share the Sunshine with Me"[f]
"The Holy Train"[g]
"Tho I've Lost"[h]
"Year of Time"[i]
"The Song of the Whispering Leaves"[j] 1951
"Your House of Love Won't Stand"[k]
"Send Me the Pillow You Dream On #2"[1]
"Crazy Over You"[1]
"Stumpy Joe"[1]
"Tomorrow's Just Another Day to Cry"[1] 1952
"Down Texas Way"[1]
"Harvest Is Ripe"[1]
"Who Is Knocking at My Heart"[1]
"Golden Wristwatch"[1] 1953
"I Like to Play with Your Kisses"[1]
"Crazy Over You"[1]
"I Can't Run Away"[1]
"Let Me Be the One"[1] 1
"Mysteries of Life"[1] 1954
"Baby You Can Count on Me"[1]
"Your Heart Is an Island"[1] 1955 My Kind of Country Music
"Let Me Confess"[1] non-album singles
"Who Am I to Cast the First Stone"[1]
"Empty Bottle, Empty Bottle"[1]
"Why Baby Why"[1] 9
"A Good Woman's Love"[1] 1956 Hank Locklin (1962)
"Seven or Eleven"[1]
"She's Better Than Most"[1]
"Fourteen Karat Gold"[1] 1957
"(I'm So Tired Of) Goin' Home All By Myself"[1] non-album single
"Geisha Girl" 66 4 Foreign Love
"Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" [l] 77 5 4 Please Help Me, I'm Falling
"It's a Little More Like Heaven" 1958 3
"The Upper Room"[1] The Gloryland Way
"I Gotta Talk to Your Heart"[1] This Song Is Just for You
"Foreign Car"[1] 1959 Please Help Me, I'm Falling
"Border of the Blues"[1] This Song Is Just for You
"Blues In Advance"[1] Please Help Me, I'm Falling
"Please Help Me, I'm Falling" 1960 8 1 22 9 9
"One Step Ahead of My Past" 14 This Song Is Just for You
"From Here to There to You" 1961 12 44 Hank Locklin (1962)
"You're the Reason" [m] 14 66 Happy Journey
"Happy Journey" 10
"We're Gonna Go Fishin'" 1962 14 18 The Ways of Life
"Wabash Cannonball"[1] A Tribute to Roy Acuff: The King of
Country Music
"Flyin' South" 1963 23 non-album single
"Wooden Soldier" 41 My Kind of Country Music
"Followed Closely by My Teardrops" 1964 15 non-album single
"I Was Coming Home to You"[1] My Kind of Country Music
"I'm Blue"[1] 1965
"Forty Nine, Fifty One" 32 non-album single
"The Girls Get Prettier (Every Day)" 35 The Girls Get Prettier
"Insurance" 1966 48 non-album single
"There's More Pretty Girls Than One"[1] The Girls Get Prettier
"The Best Part of Loving You" 69 Nashville Women
"Hasta Luego (See You Later)" 1967 41
"Nashville Women" 73
"The Country Hall of Fame" 8 Country Hall of Fame (1968)
"Love Song for You" 1968 40 My Love Song for You
"Everlasting Love" 57 non-album single
"Lovin' You (The Way I Do)" 62 My Love Song for You
"Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold
of the Day
"
1969 35 Softly
"Jeannie"[1] The Mayor of McLellan, Florida
"Bless Her Heart...I Love Her" 1970 68 Bless Her Heart...I Love Her
"She's as Close as I Get to Loving You" 1971 61 The Mayor of McLellan, Florida
"Only a Fool"[1]
"Softly"[1] non-album singles
"Love Has a Mind of Its Own"[1] 1972
"I Forgot to Live Today"[1]
"Goodbye Dear Ole Ryman"[1]
"Before My Time"[1] 1973
"Jonas P. Jones"[1]
"Sweet Inspiration"[1] 1974
"Send Me Your Coffee Cup"[1] Hank Locklin (1975)
"The Sweetest Mistake"[1] 1975
"Irish Eyes"[1]
"Baby I Need You"[1] 1976 There Never Was a Time
"Daytime Love Affair"[1]
"You Love Me Don't 'Cha"[1]
"There Never Was a Time"[1] 1977
"The Upper Room"[30] 1978 All Kinds of Everything
"Turning Point in Life"[31] 1992 non-album single
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

As a collaborative artist

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List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Year Peak
chart
positions
Album
US
Country

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"Chet's Tune"
(credited as "Some of Chet's Friends")
1967 38 non-album single
"Please Help Me, I'm Falling"
(with Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass)
1969 68 Hank Locklin & Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass
"Flying South"
(with Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass)
1970 56
"Hello Dolly"[1]
(with Carol Channing and Jimmy C. Newman)
1977 non-album single
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other charted songs

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List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Year Peak chart
positions
Album Notes
US
Coun.

[25]
UK
[28]
"Happy Birthday to Me" 1961 7 Happy Journey [n]
"I Feel a Cry Coming On" 1966 29 Nashville Women [o]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other album appearances

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List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Other artist(s) Album Ref.
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1973 Christmas in the Country [32]

Notes

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  1. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  2. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  3. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  4. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  5. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  6. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  7. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  8. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  9. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  10. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  11. ^ Credited as "Hank Locklin and the Rocky Mountain Playboys."[1]
  12. ^ "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" was re-recorded when Locklin was contracted under RCA Victor Records. The 1957 version was the hit single.[1]
  13. ^ "You're the Reason" peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart, a list which acts as a 25-song extension of the Hot 100.[29]
  14. ^ "Happy Birthday to Me" was released as the B-side to the 1961 single, "You're the Reason."[1]
  15. ^ "I Feel a Cry Coming On" was released originally as the B-side to the 1966 single, "Insurance," which charted in the United States.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Erlewine, Michael. "Hank Locklin: Biography & History". Allmusic. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  3. ^ ""Please Help Me, I'm Falling" chart history (Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  4. ^ ""Please Help Me, I'm Falling" chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  5. ^ Guinness World Records British Hit Singles 15th Edition. London, UK: Guinness World Records Limited. 2002. p. 301. ISBN 0-85112-187-X.
  6. ^ "The Girls Get Prettier chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Softly chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Hank Locklin -- Hank Locklin & Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass". Discogs. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Hank Locklin -- There Never Was a Time (1977, LP)". Discogs. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  10. ^ "Hank Locklin -- Hank Locklin (1975, LP)". Discogs. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Hank Locklin chart history (Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  12. ^ "Hank Locklin, Hank Snow and Porter Wagoner -- 3 Country Gentlemen (1963)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  13. ^ "Hank Locklin -- That's How Much I Love You (1968)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  14. ^ "Hank Locklin -- Wabash Cannon Ball (1969)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Hank Locklin -- Candy Kisses (1970)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  16. ^ "Hank Locklin - The First Fifteen Years (1971)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  17. ^ "Hank Locklin -- Send Me the Pillow You Dream On (1973)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  18. ^ "Hank Locklin -- 20 of the Best (1982)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  19. ^ "Hank Locklin -- The Very Best of Hank Locklin (1996)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  20. ^ "Hank Locklin -- RCA Country Legends (2003)". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  21. ^ "Please Help Me I'm Falling [Box Set] -- Hank Locklin (1995)". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  22. ^ "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On -- Hank Locklin (1997)". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  23. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Joel Whitburn's Billboard Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Record Research. ISBN 978-0898201727.
  24. ^ "Hank Locklin chart history (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  25. ^ a b c "Hank Locklin chart history (Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  26. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  27. ^ "Hank Locklin -- Dutch Charts". dutch charts.nl. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  28. ^ a b "Hank Locklin: Full chart history". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  29. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2005). Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100: 1959-2004. Record Research. ISBN 978-0898201628.
  30. ^ "Hank Locklin -- "The Upper Room" (1978, LP Single)". Discogs. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  31. ^ "Hank Locklin -- "Turning Point in Life" (1992, Cassette Single)". Discogs. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  32. ^ "Christmas in the Country: Releases". Discogs. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
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