Loretta Lynn singles discography
American country artist Loretta Lynn has released seventy singles (plus seven collaborative singles), two B-sides, three other singles, and ten music videos. Her debut single was "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" (1960) via Zero Records. Promoting the song with her husband by driving to each radio station, the effort paid off when it peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.[1] Arriving in Nashville, Tennessee that year, she signed a recording contract with Decca Records.[2] In 1962, "Success" reached the sixth position on the country songs chart, starting a series of top ten hits including "Wine Women and Song" and "Blue Kentucky Girl".[1][3] She began collaborating with Ernest Tubb in 1964 and recorded four hit singles with him, including "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be".[4] Lynn's popularity greatly increased in 1966 when she began releasing her own compositions as singles. Among the first was "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" which reached the second position on the country songs list.[3] She then reached the number one spot with "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" (1967). This was followed by "Fist City" (1968) and "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" (1969).[2]
| Loretta Lynn singles discography | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Lynn performing in Austin, Texas in 2016. | |
| Music videos | 11 |
| Singles | 100[lower-alpha 1] |
| B-sides | 4[lower-alpha 2] |
| Collaborations | 7 |
| Other singles | 5 |
Lynn released the autobiographical single "Coal Miner's Daughter" in 1970, topping the Billboard country songs survey and becoming her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 at number eight three.[5] The following year, "I Wanna Be Free" also charted among the Hot 100 and reached the third position on the Hot Country Songs list.[6] The same year, "One's on the Way" became Lynn's fifth number one single, later followed by "Rated "X"" (1972), "Love Is the Foundation" (1973), and "Trouble in Paradise" (1974).[2] "The Pill" (1975) reached number five on the country songs chart and was her highest-charting solo single on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number seventy.[2][6] "Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)" reached the top of the country songs chart in 1976 and she reached the same position with "She's Got You" (1977), a cover of Patsy Cline's original single.[2] The title track from Out of My Head and Back in My Bed (1978) was Lynn's final single to peak at the number one spot.[6][7]
Lynn's singles in the 1980s reached lower chart positions as the country music industry changed.[1] Her 1982 single "I Lie" became her final top ten hit on the Billboard country chart.[6] In 1985, "Heart Don't Do This to Me" became her final top-twenty and final top-forty hit.[1][6] After charting with the single "Who Was That Stranger" (1988), Lynn's recording career went into hiatus.[2] She briefly returned in 1993 to collaborate with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette on the studio album Honky Tonk Angels.[1] The project's only single "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" reached number sixty eight on the Billboard country chart.[8] "Country in My Genes" was spawned from Still Country (2000), Lynn's first studio album following the death of her husband.[2] The single reached number seventy two on the Hot Country Songs chart.[9] Lynn collaborated with Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert in 2010 to re-record "Coal Miner's Daughter", which was released as a single in September.[10]
Singles
1960s
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [11] |
CAN Country [12] | |||
| "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" | 1960 | 14 | — | Non-album single |
| "Heartaches Meet Mr. Blues" | — | — | Here's Loretta Lynn | |
| "The Darkest Day" | — | — | ||
| "I Walked Away from the Wreck" | 1961 | — | — | Loretta Lynn Sings |
| "Success" | 1962 | 6 | — | |
| "World of Forgotten People" | — | — | ||
| "The Other Woman" | 1963 | 13 | — | |
| "Before I'm Over You" | 4 | — | Before I'm Over You | |
| "Wine, Women, and Song" | 1964 | 3 | — | |
| "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" (with Ernest Tubb) |
11 | 4 | Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be | |
| "Happy Birthday" | 3 | — | Songs from My Heart.... | |
| "Blue Kentucky Girl" | 1965 | 7 | — | Blue Kentucky Girl |
| "Our Hearts Are Holding Hands" (with Ernest Tubb) |
24 | — | Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be | |
| "The Home You're Tearing Down" | 10 | — | I Like 'em Country | |
| "Dear Uncle Sam" | 1966 | 4 | — | |
| "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" | 2 | — | You Ain't Woman Enough | |
| "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" |
1 | — | Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) | |
| "To Heck with Ole Santa Claus" | — | — | Country Christmas | |
| "Sweet Thang" (with Ernest Tubb) |
1967 | 45 | — | Singin' Again |
| "If You're Not Gone Too Long" | 7 | — | Singin' with Feelin' | |
| "What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)" | 5 | 6 | Fist City | |
| "Fist City" | 1968 | 1 | 1 | |
| "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)" |
2 | — | Your Squaw Is on the Warpath | |
| "Your Squaw Is on the Warpath" | 3 | 17 | ||
| "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" | 1969 | 1 | — | Woman of the World / To Make a Man |
| "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" (with Ernest Tubb) |
18 | — | If We Put Our Heads Together | |
| "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" | 3 | 4 | Woman of the World / To Make a Man | |
| "If We Put Our Heads Together" (with Ernest Tubb) |
— | — | If We Put Our Heads Together | |
| "Wings Upon Your Horns" | 11 | 3 | Wings Upon Your Horns | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||
1970s
1980s
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [11] |
CAN Country [12] | |||
| "Pregnant Again" | 1980 | 35 | 13 | Loretta |
| "Naked in the Rain" | 30 | 11 | ||
| "Cheatin' on a Cheater" | 20 | 21 | Lookin' Good | |
| "Somebody Led Me Away" | 1981 | 20 | 38 | |
| "I Lie" | 1982 | 9 | 9 | I Lie |
| "Making Love from Memory" | 19 | 41 | Making Love from Memory | |
| "Breakin' It" | 1983 | 39 | 32 | |
| "Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You" | 53 | — | Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You | |
| "Walking with My Memories" | 59 | — | ||
| "Heart Don't Do This to Me" | 1985 | 19 | 42 | Just a Woman |
| "Wouldn't It Be Great" | 72 | — | ||
| "Just a Woman" | 1986 | 81 | — | |
| "Who Was That Stranger" | 1988 | 57 | — | Who Was That Stranger |
| "Fly Away" | — | 88 | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||
1990s–2020s
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [11] | |||
| "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette) |
1993 | 68 | Honky Tonk Angels |
| "We Need to Make More Memories" | 1994 | — | Making More Memories |
| "Country in My Genes" | 2000 | 72 | Still Country |
| "I Can't Hear the Music" | — | ||
| "Table for Two" | 2001 | — | |
| "Miss Being Mrs." | 2004 | — | Van Lear Rose |
| "Portland Oregon" (featuring Jack White) |
— | ||
| "Coal Miner's Daughter" (with Sheryl Crow & Miranda Lambert) |
2010 | 55 | Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn |
| "Everything It Takes" (featuring Elvis Costello) |
2016 | — | Full Circle |
| "Who's Gonna Miss Me?" | — | ||
| "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" | — | ||
| "Lay Me Down" (featuring Willie Nelson) | — | ||
| "Country Christmas" | — | White Christmas Blue | |
| "Half a Mind" | 2018 | — | King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller |
| "Wouldn't It Be Great?" | — | Wouldn't It Be Great | |
| "Ruby's Stool" | — | ||
| "Ain't No Time to Go" | — | ||
| "I Fall to Pieces" | 2020 | — | Non-album single |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Honky Tonk Angels Medley" (k.d. lang featuring Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, and Kitty Wells) |
1988 | Shadowland |
Charted B-sides
| Title | Year | Peak chart position |
A-side |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [11] | |||
| "A Man I Hardly Know" | 1967 | 72 | "If You're Not Gone Too Long" |
| "There's All Kinds of Smoke (In the Barroom)" | 1983 | 39 | "Breakin' It" |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||
Music videos
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Honky Tonk Angels Medley" (k.d. lang with Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, and Kitty Wells) |
1987 | David Hogan | [14] |
| "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette) | 1993 | Deaton-Flanigen | [15] |
| "We Need to Make More Memories" | 1994 | Kenny Starr | |
| "Country in My Genes" (Version 1) | 2000 | Bobby Boyd, Kim Christian | [16] |
| "I Can't Hear the Music" (Live) | 2000 | N/A | [17] |
| "Country in My Genes" (Version 2) | 2004 | N/A | [18] |
| "Miss Being Mrs." | 2004 | Trey Fanjoy | [14] |
| "Portland Oregon" (featuring Jack White) (Unreleased Version) | Oliver Gondry | [14] | |
| "Portland Oregon" (featuring Jack White) | Sophie Muller | [14] | |
| "Coal Miner's Daughter" (with Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert) | 2010 | Deaton-Flanigen | [19] |
| "Lay Me Down" (featuring Willie Nelson) | 2016 | David McClister | [20] |
| "Country Christmas" | N/A | [21] | |
| "Ain't No Time to Go" | 2018 | David McClister | [22] |
Notes
- This total includes duet singles released with Conway Twitty, which are listed on the Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty discography page.
- This total includes duet b-sides released with Conway Twitty, which are listed on the Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty discography page.
- "Love Is the Foundation" did not enter the Hot 100, but peaked at number 2 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, which acts as a 25-song extension of the Hot 100.[11]
References
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- "Loretta Lynn Biography". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- "Loretta Lynn -- Songwriter, Singer". Biography. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- Vinopal, David. "Ernest Tubb Bio". Country Music Television. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- "Coal Miner's Daughter: Loretta Lynn: Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- "Loretta Lynn: Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed: Loretta Lynn: Songs, Reviews, Credits". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- "Honky Tonk Angels: Dolly Parton: Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- "Still Country: Loretta Lynn: Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ""Coal Miner's Daughter" (Feat. Sheryl Crow and Miranda Lambert) by Loretta Lynn (Single, Country)". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.
- "Search results for "Loretta Lynn" under Country Singles". RPM. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- "Search results for "Loretta Lynn" under Top Singles". RPM. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- "Loretta Lynn artist videography". Music Video Database. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- "Tammy Wynette: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles": Music Video". MTV. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ""Country in My Genes" by Loretta Lynn: Music Video". Vh1. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- "Loretta lynn - I Can't Hear the Music (Live)". Artist Direct. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- "Loretta Lynn - Still Country". Discogs. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- "Loretta Lynn: "Coal Miner's Daughter": Music Video". Country Music Television. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- Vinson, Christina. "Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson Reunite for 'Lay Me Down' Music Video". The Boot. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- Betts, Stephen L. "Watch Loretta Lynn's Nostalgic 'Country Christmas' Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- Tingle, Lauren. "Loretta Lynn Shines in "Ain't No Time To Go"". Country Music Television. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
