Julie London discography

The discography of American jazz singer Julie London consists of 29 studio albums, one live album, six compilation albums, two additional albums, and 29 singles. After a moderately successful film career, London signed a recording contract with the newly formed Liberty Records in 1955. Her debut single "Cry Me a River" reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1955.[1] In June 1957, it would also peak at number twenty-two on the UK Singles Chart.[2] "Cry Me a River" became London's most successful and highest-selling single of her musical career.[3] The single would sell three million copies in total. Her debut studio album Julie Is Her Name was issued in December 1955 and reached the second position on the Billboard 200 albums chart. London's next three studio releases, Lonely Girl (1956), Calendar Girl (1956), and About the Blues (1957), reached the top-twenty of the Billboard 200 survey as well.[1]

Julie London discography
Julie London in 1958
Studio albums29
Live albums1
Compilation albums5
Singles29
Other albums2

Although London did not have further success, she continued releasing material. Her 1950s studio albums received attention due to the sexuality of her album covers.[3] This can be seen on the covers of Make Love to Me (1957) and London by Night (1958). In 1959 she recorded two studio albums of Traditional Pop material: Swing Me an Old Song and Your Number Please. In 1960 she recorded a studio album at her home in California entitled Julie...At Home.[4] London's 1961 studio album Whatever Julie Wants featured her naked, wearing a fur coat over her body.[5] Her nineteenth studio record The End of the World (1963) became her first in six years to chart the Billboard 200, reaching the one hundred twenty seventh position. The Wonderful World of Julie London, her twentieth studio release, also reached the Billboard 200 chart.[1] London issued her first live album in 1964 titled In Person at the Americana. In 1965 she released an album of music dedicated to Cole Porter. London continued recording for the Liberty label until 1969. She released her final studio album Yummy, Yummy, Yummy in 1968.[4] The title track also became London's final appearance on a Billboard chart, reaching the twenty fifth position on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, showing selected chart positions and other relevant details
Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US
[1]
CAN
[6]
Julie Is Her Name 2
Lonely Girl
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
16
Calendar Girl
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
18
About the Blues
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
15
Make Love to Me
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Julie
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Julie Is Her Name, Volume II
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
London by Night
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Swing Me an Old Song
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Your Number Please
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Julie...At Home
  • Released: 1960
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Around Midnight
  • Released: 1960
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Send for Me
  • Released: 1961
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Whatever Julie Wants
  • Released: 1961
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Sophisticated Lady
  • Released: 1962
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Love Letters
  • Released: 1962
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Love on the Rocks
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Latin in a Satin Mood
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
The End of the World
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
127
The Wonderful World of Julie London
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
136
Julie London
  • Released: 1964
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Our Fair Lady
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
11
Feeling Good
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
All Through the Night: Julie London
Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
For the Night People
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
With Body & Soul
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Easy Does It
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended play

List of EP's, showing relevant details
Title Album details"
Julie London
Julie Is Her Name (Part One)
  • Released: 1955
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Julie Is Her Name (Part Two)
  • Released: 1955
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Julie Is Her Name (Part Three)
  • Released: 1955
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Cry Me a River
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Lonely Girl (Part One)
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Lonely Girl (Part Two)
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Lonely Girl (Part Three)
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Calendar Girl (Part One)
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Calendar Girl (Part Two)
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Calendar Girl (Part Three)
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
About the Blues (Part One)
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
About the Blues (Part Two)
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
About the Blues (Part Three)
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Julie Sings Film Songs
Make Love to Me (Part One)
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: London Records
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Make Love to Me (Part Two)
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: London Records
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Make Love to Me (Part Three)
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: London Records
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Julie (Part One)
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: London Records
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Julie (Part Two)
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: London Records
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download
Julie (Part Three)
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: London Records
  • Formats: Vinyl, music download

Other albums

List of other albums, showing relevant details
Title Album details
In Person at the Americana
  • Released: 1964
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
By Myself
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, showing relevant details
Title Album details
The Best of Julie
  • Released: 1962
  • Label: Liberty
  • Formats: Vinyl
The Very Best of Julie London
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: Vinyl, CD, music download
Time for Love: The Best of Julie London
Ultra Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' –
The Artist Collection Vol. 5
  • Released: June 29, 1999
  • Label: Capitol
  • Formats: CD, music download
The Very Best of Julie London
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: EMI (Europe) / Capitol (USA)
  • Formats: CD(x2), music download
The Ultimate Collection
  • Released: July 10, 2006
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details
Year Title Peak chart positions Album
US
[7]
US
AC

[7]
ITA
[8]
UK
[9]
1955 "Cry Me a River" 9 46 22 Julie Is Her Name
"Baby, Baby, All the Time" About the Blues
1956 "Lonely Girl" Lonely Girl
"Tall Boy" Non-album tracks
1957 "The Meaning of the Blues" About the Blues
"Dark" About the Blues
"Saddle the Wind"
1958 "It's Easy"
"Blue Moon" Julie Is Her Name, Volume II
1959 "My Strange Affair" Non-album track
"Must Be Catchin'" Julie's Golden Greats
"Makin' Whoopee" Your Number Please
"Cry Me a River" Julie Is Her Name
1960 "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" Around Midnight
1961 "Send for Me" Send for Me
"Sanctuary" Non-album tracks
"My Darling, My Darling"
1962 "Desafinado" 110 The End of the World
1963 "I'm Coming Back to You" 118 The Wonderful World of Julie London
1964 "I Want to Find Out for Myself" Julie London
"The Boy from Ipanema" Non-album tracks
"You're Free to Go"
1965 "Girl Talk" Feeling Good
1966 "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" For the Night People
1967 "Mickey Mouse March" Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
1968 "Yummy Yummy Yummy" 125 Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
"Louie Louie"
1969 "Too Much of a Man" Non-album tracks
"Like to Get to Know You" 15 Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

References

  1. "Julie London: Awards: Allmusic". Allmusic. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  2. "UK Singles Chart Runs -- Julie London". Polyhex. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  3. Henderson, Alex. "Julie London: Biography: Allmusic". Allmusic. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  4. "Albums by Julie London". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  5. Dedina, Nick. "Whatever Julie Wants: Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  6. "Search results for "Julie London"". Collections Canada. RPM. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  7. Whitburn, Joel (2007). Top Pop Singles 1955–2006. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7.
  8. "Song titler 626 -- "Cry Me a River"". Archive.org. Archived from the original on December 23, 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. "UK Singles – Chart Archive – Julie London". The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
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