Connie Smith albums discography
The albums discography of Connie Smith, an American country artist, consists of 39 studio albums, one live album, 14 compilation albums, three box sets, and 26 other appearances. After the success of her 1964 single "Once a Day", Smith's self-titled debut album was released in March 1965 on RCA Victor Records. The album reached number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums, spending thirty weeks on the chart, while also becoming her only album to reach the Billboard 200 list (#105).[1] Smith's next two secular albums, Cute 'n' Country and Miss Smith Goes to Nashville went to number one and number two respectively between 1965 and 1966. In September 1966 Smith released her fifth studio album, Born to Sing, which was her third album to reach the top spot on the Billboard country albums chart.[2] Due to Smith's popularity, RCA Victor issued five albums between 1967 and 1968 including Downtown Country (1967), Connie Smith Sings Bill Anderson (1967), and I Love Charley Brown (1968). In 1969, Smith collaborated with country artist Nat Stuckey on the album Young Love.[3]
Connie Smith discography | |
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Studio albums | 39 |
Live albums | 1 |
Compilation albums | 14 |
Box sets | 3 |
Other appearances | 26 |
In the early 70s, Smith released a series of albums including I Never Once Stopped Loving You (1970), Just One Time (1971), Ain't We Havin' Us a Good Time (1972), and If It Ain't Love and Other Great Dallas Frazier Songs.[3] In addition, Smith released her third Gospel album in 1971 entitled Come Along and Walk with Me. After signing with Columbia Records in 1973, Smith released A Lady Named Smith, which peaked at #31 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.[4] In 1974 she released the albums That's the Way Love Goes and I Never Knew (What That Song Meant Before), the latter of which went to #22 on the Billboard country albums chart.[5] Before departing Columbia in 1977, Smith released three more studio releases including 1975's Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel and 1976's I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore.[3] In 1977 Smith moved to Monument Records where she recorded two albums. Taking a twenty-year break to raise her five children, Smith returned in 1998 with a self-titled album on Warner Bros. Records.[6] In 2003 she collaborated with Barbara Fairchild and Sharon White on the Gospel album Love Never Fails.[7] In August 2011, Smith released her thirty-sixth solo studio album on the Sugar Hill label entitled Long Line of Heartaches.[8]
Studio albums
As lead artist
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
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US [9] |
US Cou. [10] | ||
Connie Smith |
|
105 | 1 |
Cute 'n' Country |
|
— | 1 |
Miss Smith Goes to Nashville |
|
— | 2 |
Connie Smith Sings Great Sacred Songs |
|
— | 19 |
Born to Sing |
|
— | 1 |
Downtown Country |
|
— | 5 |
Connie in the Country |
|
— | — |
Connie Smith Sings Bill Anderson |
|
— | 11 |
Soul of Country Music |
|
— | 7 |
I Love Charley Brown |
|
— | 14 |
Sunshine and Rain |
|
— | 32 |
Connie's Country |
|
— | 14 |
Back in Baby's Arms |
|
— | 12 |
I Never Once Stopped Loving You |
|
— | 15 |
Where Is My Castle |
|
— | 39 |
Just One Time |
|
— | 20 |
Come Along and Walk with Me |
|
— | — |
Ain't We Havin' Us a Good Time |
|
— | 25 |
If It Ain't Love and Other Great Dallas Frazier Songs |
|
— | 14 |
A Lady Named Smith |
|
— | 31 |
God Is Abundant |
|
— | 20 |
That's the Way Love Goes |
|
— | 41 |
I Never Knew (What That Song Meant Before) |
|
— | 22 |
I Got a Lot of Hurtin' Done Today/ I Got My Baby on My Mind |
|
— | 30 |
Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel |
|
— | 47 |
Joy to the World |
|
— | — |
The Song We Fell in Love To |
|
— | 34 |
I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore |
|
— | 33 |
Pure Connie Smith |
|
— | — |
New Horizons |
|
— | — |
The Best of Connie Smith | — | — | |
By Request[11] |
|
— | — |
Clinging to a Saving Hand[12] |
|
— | — |
Connie Smith |
|
— | — |
Long Line of Heartaches |
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— | — |
The Cry of the Heart |
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—[lower-alpha 1] | — |
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
As a collaborative artist
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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US Country [10] | ||
Young Love (with Nat Stuckey) |
|
29 |
Sunday Morning with Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith (with Nat Stuckey)[lower-alpha 2] |
|
— |
Love Never Fails (with Barbara Fairchild and Sharon White) |
|
— |
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Compilation albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
---|---|---|
US Country [10] | ||
The Best of Connie Smith |
|
22 |
The Best of Connie Smith Volume II |
|
26 |
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own[15] |
|
— |
City Lights: Country Favorites[16] |
|
— |
Love Is the Look You're Looking For |
|
24 |
Dream Painter |
|
39 |
Connie Smith's Greatest Hits, Vol. I |
|
39 |
Connie Smith Now |
|
40 |
The Best of Connie Smith[17] |
|
— |
Greatest Hits on Monument |
|
— |
The Essential Connie Smith |
|
— |
Connie Smith Sings Her Hits[18] |
|
— |
All American Country[19] |
|
— |
The Lost Tapes[20] |
|
— |
The Essential Connie Smith[21] |
|
— |
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Live albums
Title | Album details |
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Live in Branson, MO, USA |
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Box sets
Title | Album details |
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Born to Sing[22] |
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Just for What I Am[23] |
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The Latest Shade of Blue: The Columbia Recordings 1973–1976[24] |
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Other appearances
Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album |
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"Silent Night, Holy Night"[25] | 1986 | Willie Nelson | The Nashville Christmas Album |
"We've Got Love"[26] | 1991 | Tommy Cash | The 25th Anniversary Album |
"What Child Is This" (live)[27] | 1995 | — | Christmas in Branson |
"Beautiful Star of Bethlehem"[28] | 1998 | Ralph Stanley | Clinch Mountain Country |
"So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"[29] | 1999 | John Prine | In Spite of Ourselves |
"Loose Talk"[29] | |||
"Unmitigated Gal"[30] | 2002 | Dawn Sears | Dawn Sears |
"Meet Me in Heaven"[31] | Janette Carter, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Earl Scruggs, Marty Stuart, Darrin Vincent |
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash | |
"I Love You So Much It Hurts Me"[32] | 2003 | Floyd Tillman | The Influence |
"It Ain't That Way"[33] | 2004 | George Hamilton IV | Songs of Faith and Inspiration |
"Big Foot"[34] | 2005 | Marty Stuart | Badlands: Ballads of the Lakota |
"Over the Next Hill We'll Be Home"[35] | 2006 | — | Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South |
"The Prayer of Drunkard's Little Girl"[36] | 2007 | — | Always Life Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed |
"A Good Place to Turn Around"[37] | Gene Watson | In a Perfect World | |
"Hearts Like Ours"[38] | Marty Stuart | Compadres: An Anthology of Duets | |
"Happy Birthday"[39] | 2008 | Loretta Lynn | Loretta Lynn Singing Her Early Hits, Live! |
"What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul"[40] | 2009 | Bobby Osborne, Marty Stuart |
Bluegrass & Beyond |
"I Run to You"[41] | 2010 | Marty Stuart | Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions |
"Workin' on a Road"[42] | Jeff & Sheri Easter, Marty Start, Eddie Stubbs |
Expecting Good Things | |
"Talk to Me Lonesome Heart"[43] | Larry Stephenson, Marty Stuart |
20th Anniversary | |
"Just for What I Am"[44] | 2011 | Anna Wilson | Countrypolitan Duets |
"Didn't We Shine"[45] | George Jones, Lorrie Morgan, Joe Stampley, Randy Travis, Gene Watson |
Anniversary Celebration | |
"There Will Be Peace in the Valley for Me"[46] | 2012 | — | Opry Legends: Gospel Favorites |
"Great Judgement Morning"[47] | 2013 | Jessi Colter, George Jones, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Travis Tritt |
Amazing Grace |
"Walking Up My Lord to Calvary's Hill" (live)[48] | 2014 | Marty Stuart | The Gospel Music of Marty Stuart |
"Senses"[49] | 2017 | Jeannie Seely Marty Stuart |
Written in Song |
Notes
References
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- Coyne, Kevin John. "100 Greatest Women of Country Music -- Connie Smith (#24)". Country Universe. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
- Escott, Colin (2001). Born to Sing [Liner Notes]. Bear Family Records. pp. 28–30.
- "A Lady Named Smith > Charts". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
- "I Never Knew > charts". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
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- "Connie Smith - Connie Smith by Request". AllMusic. 1995. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
- "Connie Smith - Clinging to a Saving Hand". AllMusic. 1995. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
- "The Cry of the Heart chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- Stuckey, Nat; Smith, Connie (June 11, 2002). "God Will (CD Liner Notes and Album Information)". Music Row Talent Records. AMS-CD-11050.
- Smith, Connie (May 1971). "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own (LP Liner Notes and Album Information)". RCA Camden. CAS-2495.
- Smith, Connie (April 1972). "City Lights: Country Favorites (LP Liner Notes and Album Information)". RCA Camden. CAS-2550.
- Smith, Connie (April 1977). "The Best of Connie Smith (LP Liner Notes and Album Information)". Columbia Records. C-34877.
- Smith, Connie (1997). "Connie Smith Sings Her Hits (CD/Cassette Liner Notes and Album Information)". Sony Special Products. A-28467/BT28467.
- "All American Country: Connie Smith: Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- "The Lost Tapes - Connie Smith". AllMusic. May 19, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- "The Essential Connie Smith: Connie Smith: Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- "Born to Sing: Connie Smith: Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- "Just for What I Am: Connie Smith: Releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- Smith, Connie (November 5, 2021). "The Latest Shade of Blue: The Columbia Recordings 1973–1976 (CD Information and Liner Notes)". Bear Family Records. BCD-17609.
- "The Nashville Christmas Album > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "The 25th Anniversary Album". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "Christmas in Branson > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "Clinch Mountain Country: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- "In Spite of Ourselves > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "Dawn Sears music". Dawn Sears. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- "Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "Floyd Tillman: The Influence". CD Baby. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- "Songs of Faith and Inspiration: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- "Baldlands > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "Voice of the Spirit, Gospel of the South > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "Always Life Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "In a Perfect World > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- "Compadres: An Anthology of Duets: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- "Loretta Singing Her Early Hits Live: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- "Bluegrass & Beyond > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
- Jurek, Thom. "Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- "Expecting Good Things: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- "20th Anniversary: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- "Countrypolitan Duets: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- "Anniversary Celebration > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- "Opry Legends: Gospel Favorites: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- "Amazing Grace: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ""The Gospel Music of Marty Stuart": Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- Seely, Jeannie (January 13, 2017). "Written in Song (CD Liner Notes and Album Information)". Cheyenne Records. 7282.