Jean Shepard discography

American country artist Jean Shepard released twenty-five studio albums, fifteen compilation albums, one live album, seventy-one singles, two charting B-sides, and appeared on nine albums. Signing in 1952 with Capitol Records, her second single "A Dear John Letter" (a 1953 duet with Ferlin Husky) became a breakthrough hit. It topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs for six weeks and reached the Billboard Hot 100's fourth position.[1] Shepard's solo career became successful in 1955 with the release several singles, including the top-five hits "A Satisfied Mind" and "Beautiful Lies". Shepard's debut studio album Songs of a Love Affair (1956) was the first country music "concept album" to be issued. She was commercially unsuccessful until a major comeback in 1964 with the top-five hit "Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)" and the studio album Lighthearted and Blue.[2][3] The latter was her first to reach the Top Country Albums list.[4] A series of hit singles continued for Shepard, such as "Many Happy Hangovers to You", "I'll Take the Dog", "If Teardrops Were Silver", and "Then He Touched Me".[2] Accompanying albums reached the major positions on the country albums chart, including Many Happy Hangovers, Heart, We Did All That We Could, and Best by Request.[5]

Jean Shepard discography
Jean Shepard performing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, 2007.
Studio albums25
Live albums2
Compilation albums15
Singles71
B-sides2
Other appearances9

Shepard signed a new contract with United Artists Records in 1973 and debuted her single "Slippin' Away" the same year. It reached the fourth position of the Hot Country Songs chart and was a minor hit on the Hot 100 list.[1][5] An album of the same name peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard country albums chart.[6] Shepard followed-up the success until 1975 with top-twenty hits, including "At the Time", "Poor Sweet Baby", and "The Tip of My Fingers".[7] The 1978 single "The Real Thing" was her final chart appearance, peaking in the eighty fifth position.[2] Shepard has since released new material sporadically, such as the 1981 studio album Dear John.[8]

Albums

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Album details Peak
chart
positions
US Country
[5]
Songs of a Love Affair
Lonesome Love
  • Released: December 1958
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Got You on My Mind
  • Released: February 1961
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Heartaches and Tears
  • Released: January 1962
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Lighthearted and Blue
  • Released: October 1964
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
17
It's a Man Every Time
  • Released: October 1965
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
19
Many Happy Hangovers
  • Released: May 1966
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
6
I'll Take the Dog
(with Ray Pillow)
  • Released: October 1966
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
19
Heart, We Did All That We Could
  • Released: January 1967
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
6
Your Forevers Don't Last Very Long
  • Released: July 1967
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
18
Heart to Heart
  • Released: January 1968
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
43
A Real Good Woman
  • Released: September 1968
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
32
I'll Fly Away
  • Released: February 1969
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Seven Lonely Days
  • Released: August 1969
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
42
A Woman's Hand
  • Released: August 1970
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Here and Now
  • Released: January 1971
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Just as Soon as I Get Over Loving You
  • Released: August 1971
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Just Like Walkin' in the Sunshine
  • Released: August 1972
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Slippin' Away 15
I'll Do Anything It Takes
  • Released: August 1974
  • Label: United Artists
  • Formats: Vinyl
21
Poor Sweet Baby (And Ten More Bill Anderson Songs)
  • Released: January 1975
  • Label: United Artists
  • Formats: Vinyl
42
Jean Shepard and the Second Fiddles
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Hilltop
  • Formats: Vinyl
I'm a Believer
  • Released: November 1975
  • Label: United Artists
  • Formats: Vinyl
Mercy/Ain't Love Good
  • Released: June 1976
  • Label: United Artists
  • Formats: Vinyl
37
Dear John
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Laserlight
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Album details Peak
chart
positions
US Country
[5]
This Is Jean Shepard
  • Released: September 1959
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
The Best of Jean Shepard
  • Released: September 1963
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Hello Old Broken Heart
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Hilltop
  • Formats: Vinyl
Under Your Spell Again
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: Hilltop
  • Formats: Vinyl
Best by Request
  • Released: February 1970
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
23
For the Good Times
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Jean Shepard's Greatest Hits
  • Released: December 1976
  • Label: United Artists
  • Formats: Vinyl
40
The Best of Jean Shepard
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: Vinyl
Honky Tonk Heroine: The Classic Capitol Recording (1952–1962)
  • Released: December 1995
  • Label: The Country Music Foundation
  • Formats: CD
The Melody Ranch Girl
Best of the Best
15 Gospel Hits
(with Red Sovine)
  • Released: September 19, 2005
  • Label: Gusto
  • Formats: CD, music download
Beautiful Lies – The Early Years
  • Released: June 2, 2009
  • Label: Jasmine
  • Formats: CD
Greatest Hits (All Original Recordings)
The First Lady of Country – The Early Album Collection
  • Released: August 10, 2012
  • Label: Jasmine
  • Formats: CD
Country Music: Pure And Simple
  • Released: August 12, 2016
  • Label: Humphead
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

List of extended play albums, showing all relevant details
Title Album details
On the Road
(with The Second Fiddles)
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Jewel
  • Formats: Vinyl
Live at Good Time Country
(with Special Guest Emily Reynolds)
  • Released: approx. 1974
  • Label: Birchfield Records
  • Formats: Vinyl

Singles

As lead artist

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

[9]
US
[9]
CAN
Country

[10]
"Crying Steel Guitar Waltz" 1953 This Is Jean Shepard
"The Glass That Stands Beside You" 1954
"Why Did You Wait" This Is Jean Shepard
"You'll Come Crawlin' Back"
"Don't Rush Me"
"Did You Tell Her About Me" 1955
"A Satisfied Mind" 4 This Is Jean Shepard
"Beautiful Lies" 4
"I Learned It All from You" 1956
"You're Calling Me Sweetheart Again"
"Thank You Just the Same"
"Tomorrow I'll Be Gone" 1957
"The Other Woman" This Is Jean Shepard
"Act Like a Married Man"
"I Used to Love You" 1958
"He's My Baby"
"I Want to Go Where No One Knows Me" 18
"Have Heart Will Love" 1959 30
"Jeopardy"
"Heartaches, Teardrops, and Sorrow"
"The Mysteries of Life" 1960 Songs of a Love Affair
"Did I Turn Down a Better Deal"
"For the Children's Sake"
"The Root of All Evil (Is a Man) 1961
"How Long Does It Hurt (When a Heart Breaks)" Heartaches and Tears
"I've Got to Talk to Mary"
"Two Voices, Two Shadows, Two Faces" 1962
"It's Never Too Late"
"I've Learned to Live With You" 1963
"When Your House Is Not a Home" Heart, We Did All That We Could
"Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)" 1964 5
"A Tear Dropped By" 38
"Someone's Gotta Cry" 1965 30
"It's a Man Every Time" It's a Man Every Time
"Many Happy Hangovers to You" 1966 13 Many Happy Hangovers
"If Teardrops Were Silver" 10 Heart, We Did All That We Could
"Heart, We Did All That We Could" 1967 12
"Your Forevers Don't Last Very Long" 17 Your Forevers Don't Last Very Long
"I Don't See How I Can Make It" 40 Heart to Heart
"An Old Bridge" 1968 52 A Real Good Woman
"A Real Good Woman" 32
"Everyday's a Happy Day for Fools" 62
"I'm Tied Around Your Finger" 1969 69 Seven Lonely Days
"Seven Lonely Days" 18 34
"Then He Touched Me" 8 27 A Woman's Hand
"A Woman's Hand" 1970 23
"I Want You Free" 22
"Another Lonely Night" 12 Here and Now
"With His Hand in Mine" 1971 24 43 Just as Soon as I Get Over Loving You
"Just as Soon as I Get Over Loving You" 55
"Safe in These Lovin' Arms of Mine" 55 Just Like Walkin' in the Sunshine
"Virginia" 1972 68
"Just Like Walkin' in the Sunshine" 46 65
"Slippin' Away" 1973 4 81 3 Slippin' Away
"Come on Phone" 36 28
"At the Time" 1974 13 24 I'll Do Anything It Takes
"I'll Do Anything It Takes (To Stay with You)" 17
"Poor Sweet Baby" 14 17 Poor Sweet Baby
(And Ten More Bill Anderson Songs)
"The Tip of My Fingers" 1975 16 25
"I'm a Believer (In a Whole Lotta Lovin')" 49 I'm a Believer
"Another Neon Night" 44 31
"Mercy" 1976 49 Mercy/Ain't Love Good
"Ain't Love Good" 41
"I'm Giving You Denver" 74
"Hardly a Day Goes By" 1977 82
"The Real Thing" 1978 85
"Saturday Night Sin"
"Too Many Rivers" 1981 Dear John
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

As a collaborative artist

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

[9]
US
[9]
"A Dear John Letter"
(with Ferlin Husky)
1953 1 4
"Forgive Me, John"
(with Ferlin Husky)
4 24
"I'll Take the Dog"
(with Ray Pillow)
1966 9 I'll Take the Dog
"Mr. Do-It Yourself"
(with Ray Pillow)
25
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other charted songs

List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Title Year Peak
chart
positions
Album Notes
US Country
[9]
"Take Possession" 1955 13 [lower-alpha 1]
"I Thought of You" 10 [lower-alpha 2]

Other appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"A Dear John Letter"[15] 1989 Red Sovine Famous Duets
"Jackson"[15]
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"[16] 1992 none Christmas in Nashville
"O Little Town of Bethlehem"[17] 1993 Faron Young Country Christmas
"The Tip of My Fingers"[18]
(also featuring Eddy Arnold, Roy Clark, and Steve Wariner)
1998 Bill Anderson Fine Wine
"I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded"[19] 1999 none Radio Days, Vol. 1
"Your Old Love Letters"[19] Jim Reeves
"The Blue Tail Fly"[20] none Made in America: Essential Folk
"Oh Come All Ye Faithful"[21] none A Country Christmas

Notes

  1. Originally released in May 1955 as the B-side to "A Satisfied Mind". It was issued through Capitol Records as a 78 RPM.[11] "Take Possession" initially did not appear on an album until 1970's Best by Request.[12]
    • Originally released in September 1955 as the B-side to "Beautiful Lies". It was issued through Capitol Records as a 45 RPM.[13] "I Thought of You" did not appear on an album until the release of the 1995 box set The Melody Ranch Girl.[14]

References

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  2. Cooper, Dan. "Jean Shepard: Biography and History". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  3. Coyne, Kevin John (29 May 2008). "100 Greatest Women, #34: Jean Shepard". Country Universe. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  4. "Lighthearted and Blue: Jean Shepard: Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  5. "Billboard chart positions > albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  6. "Slippin' Away: Jean Shepard: Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  7. Oermann, Robert K. (2008). Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain: Tales of Romance and Tragedy. Center Street. ISBN 9781931722896.
  8. "Jean Shepard -- Dear John (CD, Album)". Discogs. 1993. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  9. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  10. "Search results for "Jean Shepard" under RPM Country Singles". RPM. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
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  12. ""Take Possession": Jean Shepard: Song info". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  13. ""Beautiful Lies" / "I Thought of You" by Jean Shepard (Single, Country): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  14. ""I Thought of You": Jean Shepard: Song info". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  15. "Red Sovine – Famous Duets". Pure Country Music. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  16. "Christmas in Nashville > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  17. "Country Christmas: Various artists: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  18. Weisberger, John. "Bill Anderson – Fine Wine". Country Standard Time. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  19. "Radio Days, Vol. 1: Jim Reeves: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  20. "Made in America: Essential Folk > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
  21. "A Country Christmas: Various artists: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
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