Barbara Mandrell discography
| Barbara Mandrell discography | |
|---|---|
 Barbara Mandrell in 1986. | |
| Studio albums | 25 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 7 |
| Singles | 68 |
| B-sides | 1 |
| Other appearances | 3 |
| No. 1 Singles (USA) | 6 |
| No. 1 Singles (Overall) | 7 |
The discography of Barbara Mandrell, an American country artist, consists of twenty five studio albums, one live album, seven compilation albums, sixty eight singles, and one B-side. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee after high school and signed a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1969.[1]
Mandrell's debut album Treat Him Right was released in September 1971, which composed of Country Soul songs. It included her 1969 debut single, a cover of Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" and three singles that reached the Top 20 on the Billboard country singles chart: "Playin' Around with Love", "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man", and the title track. In 1971 she partnered with country artist, David Houston for the single, "After Closing Time" and eventually issued the album, A Perfect Match (1972).[2] Her 1973 single, "The Midnight Oil" peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The success of the single brought Columbia to issue an album of the same name that year. After releasing This Time I Almost Made It (1974), Columbia dropped Mandrell due to her limited success.[1]
Mandrell's 1975 single, "Standing Room Only" was released on Dot Records and reached #5 on the Billboard chart. The following year, she released the studio albums This Is Barbara Mandrell and Midnight Angel, which were composed of a more commercial country pop sound. From her 1977 album, Love's Ups and Downs, she had two Top 5 country hits and the over the next three years, she had three number one singles on that chart: "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed", "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right", and "Years". After releasing 1980's Love Is Fair, Mandrell recorded her first live album, Barbara Mandrell Live (1981). It spawned the number one single, "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" and the #2 hit, "Wish You Were Here" (which peaked on December 31, 1981). Her twelfth studio album, In Black and White was released in 1982 and spawned the number one single, "Till You're Gone". Her thirteenth studio album, Spun Gold spawned her sixth and final number one, "One of a Kind Pair of Fools". Mandrell released four more studio albums under MCA, including Meant for Each Other with country artist, Lee Greenwood. The album released two major hit singles.
In 1987 she recorded Sure Feels Good for EMI America Records, which only produced the hit single "Child Support". She signed with Capitol Records one year later and released I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight. Although the album spawned the #5 hit "I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today", it only peaked at #35 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. In 1990 Mandrell released Morning Sun and No Nonsense under Capitol, both of which did not produce any charting singles. Key's in the Mailbox (1991) followed similar suit and peaked at #62 on the Country albums chart. Six years later, Mandrell issued her latest studio album to date entitled It Works for Me under Razor & Tie. Barbara Mandrell has had two gold selling albums (500,000 copies) according to the Recording Industry Association of America.[3]
Studio albums
1970s albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [4] |
US [4] |
CAN Country [5] | ||
| Treat Him Right |
|
44 | — | — |
| The Midnight Oil |
|
8 | — | — |
| This Time I Almost Made It |
|
41 | — | — |
| This Is Barbara Mandrell |
|
26 | — | — |
| Midnight Angel |
|
24 | — | — |
| Lovers, Friends and Strangers |
|
26 | — | — |
| Love's Ups and Downs |
|
29 | — | — |
| Moods |
|
8 | 132 | 3 |
| Just for the Record |
|
9 | 166 | 4 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
1980s albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [4] |
US [4] |
CAN Country [5] | ||
| Love Is Fair |
|
6 | 175 | 12 |
| ...In Black and White |
|
7 | 153 | — |
| He Set My Life to Music |
|
59 | — | — |
| Spun Gold |
|
5 | 140 | — |
| Clean Cut |
|
8 | 204 | — |
| Get to the Heart |
|
25 | — | — |
| Moments |
|
53 | — | — |
| Sure Feels Good |
|
24 | — | — |
| I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight |
|
35 | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
1990s albums
| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country [4] | ||
| Morning Sun |
|
— |
| No Nonsense |
|
72 |
| Key's in the Mailbox |
|
62 |
| Acoustic Attitude |
|
— |
| It Works for Me |
|
— |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||
Christmas albums
| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country [4] | ||
| Christmas at Our House |
|
31 |
Live albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
Certifications (sales threshold) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [4] |
US [4] | |||
| Barbara Mandrell Live |
|
4 | 86 | |
Collaboration albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [4] |
US [4] | ||
| A Perfect Match (with David Houston) |
|
38 | — |
| Meant for Each Other (with Lee Greenwood) |
|
5 | 89 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
Compilation albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [4] |
US [4] |
CAN Country [5] | |||
| The Best of Barbara Mandrell |
|
37 | — | — | |
| The Best of Barbara Mandrell |
|
13 | 170 | 9 |
|
| Looking Back |
|
— | — | — | |
| Greatest Hits |
|
27 | 210 | — | |
| Greatest Country Hits |
|
— | — | — | |
| The Best of Barbara Mandrell |
|
— | — | — | |
| The Barbara Mandrell Collection |
|
— | — | — | |
| Super Hits |
|
— | — | — | |
| 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection |
|
— | — | — | |
| Ultimate Collection |
|
— | — | — | |
| This Time I Almost Made It: The Lost Columbia Masters |
|
— | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Singles
1960s and 1970s
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [6] |
US [6] |
US AC [6] |
CAN Country [7] |
CAN AC [7] | |||
| 1963 | "Queen for a Day" | — | — | — | — | — | N/A |
| 1969 | "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" | 55 | — | — | — | — | Treat Him Right |
| 1970 | "Playing Around with Love" | 18 | — | — | 48 | — | |
| "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" | 17 | 128 | — | — | — | ||
| 1971 | "Treat Him Right" | 12 | — | — | — | — | |
| "Tonight My Baby's Coming Home" | 10 | — | — | 34 | — | The Midnight Oil | |
| 1972 | "Show Me" | 11 | — | — | 48 | — | |
| "Holdin' on (To the Love I Got)" | 27 | — | — | 38 | — | ||
| 1973 | "Give a Little, Take a Little" | 24 | — | — | 29 | — | |
| "The Midnight Oil" | 7 | — | — | 5 | — | ||
| 1974 | "This Time I Almost Made It" | 12 | — | — | — | — | This Time I Almost Made It |
| 1975 | "Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home" | 39 | — | — | — | — | |
| "Standing Room Only" | 5 | — | — | 37 | — | This Is Barbara Mandrell | |
| 1976 | "That's What Friends Are for" | 16 | — | — | 27 | — | |
| "Love Is Thin Ice" | 24 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Midnight Angel" | 16 | — | — | 31 | — | Midnight Angel | |
| 1977 | "Married, But Not to Each Other" | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | Lovers, Friends and Strangers |
| "Hold Me" | 12 | — | — | 14 | — | ||
| "Woman to Woman" | 4 | 92 | 49 | 5 | — | Love's Ups and Downs | |
| 1978 | "Tonight" | 5 | 103 | — | 25 | — | |
| "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" | 1 | 102 | — | 1 | — | Moods | |
| 1979 | "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"[A] | 1 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 31 | |
| "Fooled by a Feeling" | 4 | 89 | 26 | 5 | 3 | Just for the Record | |
| "Years" | 1 | 102 | 38 | 1 | 1 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||
1980s
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [6] |
US AC [6] |
CAN Country [7] | |||
| 1980 | "Crackers"[B] | 3 | — | 6 | Love Is Fair |
| "The Best of Strangers" | 6 | — | 9 | ||
| 1981 | "Love Is Fair" | 13 | — | 7 | |
| "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" | 1 | — | 14 | Barbara Mandrell Live | |
| "Wish You Were Here" | 2 | 40 | 11 | ||
| 1982 | "'Till You're Gone"[C] | 1 | 25 | 3 | In Black and White |
| "Operator, Long Distance Please" | 9 | — | 9 | ||
| 1983 | "In Times Like These" | 4 | — | 6 | Spun Gold |
| "One of a Kind Pair of Fools" | 1 | — | 1 | ||
| 1984 | "Happy Birthday Dear Heartache" | 3 | — | 18 | Clean Cut |
| "Only a Lonely Heart Knows" | 2 | — | 1 | ||
| "Crossword Puzzle" | 11 | — | 10 | ||
| 1985 | "There's No Love in Tennessee" | 7 | — | 24 | Greatest Hits |
| "Angel in Your Arms" | 8 | — | 22 | Get to the Heart | |
| "Fast Lanes and Country Roads" | 4 | — | 2 | ||
| 1986 | "When You Get to the Heart" (with The Oak Ridge Boys) | 20 | — | 33 | |
| "No One Mends a Broken Heart Like You" | 6 | — | 5 | Moments | |
| 1987 | "Sure Feels Good" | 48 | — | 41 | Sure Feels Good |
| "Child Support" | 13 | — | 14 | ||
| 1988 | "Angels Love Bad Men" (featuring Waylon Jennings) | 49 | — | 40 | |
| "I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today" | 5 | — | * | I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight | |
| 1989 | "My Train of Thought" | 19 | — | 15 | |
| "Mirror, Mirror" | 49 | — | 56 | ||
| "You Wouldn't Know Love (If It Looked You in the Eye)" | — | — | 81 | Morning Sun | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart * denotes unknown peak positions | |||||
1990s
| Year | Single | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | "You've Become the Dream" | Morning Sun |
| "The Nearness of You" | ||
| "Men and Trains" | No Nonsense | |
| "I'll Leave Something Good Behind" | ||
| 1991 | "Feed the Fire" | |
| "Where Are the Pieces of My Heart" | ||
| "Key's in the Mailbox" | The Key's in the Mailbox | |
| "When a Man Loves a Woman" | ||
| 1992 | "I Love You Because" | |
| "Try Gettin' Over You" | ||
| 1997 | "Ten Pound Hammer" | It Works for Me |
| "Get Here" | ||
Other singles
Collaborations
| Year | Single | Artist | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [6] |
US AC [6] |
CAN Country [7] | ||||
| 1970 | "After Closing Time" | David Houston | 6 | — | 4 | A Perfect Match |
| 1971 | "We've Got Everything But Love" | 20 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | "A Perfect Match" | 24 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | "I Love You, I Love You' | 6 | — | 18 | ||
| 1974 | "Lovin' You Is Worth It" | 40 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | "To Me" | Lee Greenwood | 3 | 24 | 5 | Meant for Each Other |
| 1985 | "It Should Have Been Love by Now" | 19 | 35 | 12 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||
Guest singles
| Year | Single | Artist | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [6] |
CAN Country [7] | ||||
| 1974 | "The Ten Commandments of Love" | David Houston | 14 | 9 | A Man Needs Love |
B-sides
| Year | B-side | Peak chart positions |
Original A-side | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [6] |
US AC [6] | |||
| 1981 | "Sometime, Somewhere, Somehow" | flip | 26 | "Love Is Fair" |
Other appearances
| Year | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | "The Ten Commandments of Love" (with David Houston) | A Man Needs Love[8] |
| 1984 | "My Rose of Old Kentucky" (with Bill Monroe) | Bill Monroe and Friends[9] |
| 1984 | "Daisy Chain" (with George Jones) | Ladies' Choice[10] |
| 1991 | "I'd Give Anything" (with Lee Greenwood) | A Perfect 10[11] |
Notes
- A^ "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" also peaked at number 25 on the Canadian Singles Chart.
- B^ "Crackers" also peaked at number 5 on the U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart
- C^ "'Till You're Gone" also peaked at number 20 on the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in Canada.
References
- 1 2 Coyne, Kevin John. "100 Greatest Women - #14: Barbara Mandrell". Country Universe. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Barbara Mandrell > Biography". allmusic. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- 1 2 3 "RIAA Gold & Platinum - Barbara Mandrell". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Billboard chart positions > albums". allmusic. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- 1 2 3 "Search results for "Barbara Mandrell albums"". RPM. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Billboard chart positions > singles". allmusic. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Search results for "Barbara Mandrell"". RPM. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- ↑ "A Man Needs Love > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- ↑ "Bill Monroe & Friends > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- ↑ "Ladies' Choice > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- ↑ "A Perfect 10 track listing". Amazon. Retrieved 4 January 2010.