Ernest Tubb was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music.
Studio albums
1940s and 1950s Title Details Ernest Tubb Souvenir Album Release date: 1947 Label: Decca Records Favorites Release date: 1952 Label: Decca Records Old Rugged Cross Release date: 1952 Label: Decca Records Songs of Jimmie Rodgers Release date: 1953 Label: Decca Records Favorites Release date: 1956 Label: Decca Records Daddy of 'Em All Release date: July 1957 Label: Decca Records The Importance of Being Ernest Release date: January 1959 Label: Decca Records
1960s Title Details Peak positions US Country Ernest Tubb Record Shop Release date: 1960 Label: Decca Records — Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours Release date: June 1960 Label: Vocalion Records — Midnight Jamboree Release date: 1960 Label: Decca Records — All Time Hits Release date: December 1960 Label: Decca Records — Golden Favorites Release date: 1961 Label: Decca Records — On Tour Release date: October 1962 Label: Decca Records — Ernest Tubb's Fabulous Texas Troubadours Release date: 1963 Label: Decca Records— Just Call Me Lonesome Release date: June 1963 Label: Decca Records — The Family Bible Release date: June 1963 Label: Decca Records — Thanks a Lot Release date: June 1964 Label: Decca Records 7 Blue Christmas Release date: 1964 Label: Decca Records — My Pick of the Hits Release date: June 1965 Label: Decca Records 15 Hittin' the Road Release date: November 1965 Label: Decca Records — Stand by Me Release date: November 1965 Label: Vocalion Records — By Request Release date: April 1966 Label: Decca Records 28 Country Hits Old and New Release date: October 1966 Label: Decca Records 35 Another Story Release date: April 1967 Label: Decca Records 6 Ernest Tubb Sings Hank Williams Release date: March 1968 Label: Decca Records 34 Country Hit Time Release date: September 1968 Label: Decca Records — Saturday Satan Sunday Saint Release date: June 1969 Label: Decca Records 34 Let's Turn Back the Years Release date: November 1969 Label: Decca Records — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
1970s Title Details Peak positions US Country Good Year for the Wine Release date: July 1970 Label: Decca Records — One Sweet Hello Release date: September 1971 Label: Decca Records — Say Something Nice to Sarah Release date: 1972 Label: Decca Records 33 Baby It's So Hard to Be Good Release date: 1972 Label: Decca Records — I've Got All the Heartaches I Can Handle Release date: 1973 Label: MCA Records — Ernest Tubb Release date: August 1975 Label: MCA Records 45 "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Collaborations Title Details Peak positions US Country Red and Ernie(with Red Foley) Release date: 1956 Label: Decca Records — Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be(with Loretta Lynn) Release date: 1965 Label: Decca Records 13 Singin' Again(with Loretta Lynn) Release date: 1967 Label: Decca Records 2 If We Put Our Heads Together(with Loretta Lynn) Release date: June 2, 1969 Label: Decca Records 19 Story(with Loretta Lynn) Release date: 1973 Label: MCA Records 43 Just You and Me, Daddy(with Justin Tubb) Release date: 1999 Label: First Generation — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Selected compilations Title Details Peak positions US Country The Ernest Tubb Story Release date: September 1959 Label: Decca Records — Ernest Tubb's Greatest Hits Release date: 1968 Label: Decca Records 44 Ernest Tubb's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Release date: 1970 Label: Decca Records — Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Release date: 1974 Label: MCA Records — The Legend and the Legacy [A] Release date: 1979 Label: Cachet Records 10 Honkey Tonk Classics Release date: 1983 Label: Rounder Records — Country Music Hall of Fame Release date: 1987 Label: MCA Records — Retrospective, Vol. 1 Release date: 1987 Label: Universal Special Products — Retrospective, Vol. 2 Release date: 1987 Label: Universal Special Products — Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello (box set) Release date: 1991 Label: Bear Family Records — Yellow Rose of Texas (box set) Release date: 1993 Label: Bear Family Records — Walking the Floor Over You (box set) Release date: 1996 Label: Bear Family Records — Another Story Release date: 1999 Label: Bear Family Records — 20th Century Masters – The MillenniumCollection: The Best of Ernest Tubb Release date: 2000 Label: MCA Records — Country Hoedown Release date: 2000 Label: Jasmine Records — There's a Little Bit of Everything in Texas Release date: 2000 Label: Jasmine Records — Early Hits of The Texas Troubadour Release date: 2000 Label: ASV/Living Era Records — The Definitive Ernest Tubb Hits Collection Release date: 2001 Label: Collectors' Choice Music — Texas Troubadour (box set) Release date: 2003 Label: Proper Records — Blue Eyed Elaine (Tubb the Songwriter) Release date: 2003 Label: Proper Records — Walking the Floor Over You (The Hits, Vol. 1) Release date: 2003 Label: Proper Records — Slippin' Around (The Hits, Vol. 2) Release date: 2003 Label: Proper Records — Time After Time (Writers Galore) Release date: 2003 Label: Proper Records — The Definitive Collection Release date: June 6, 2006 Label: MCA Nashville — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Singles
1930s and 1940s Year Single Peak chartpositions US Country US 1936 "The Passing of Jimmie Rodgers" — — "This TB Is Whipping Me" — — 1940 "Blue Eyed Elaine" — — "I'll Get Along Somehow" — — "I'll Never Cry Over You" — — 1941 "I Cared For You More Than You Know" — — "Walking the Floor Over You" — 23 "Mean Mama Blues" — — 1943 "You Nearly Lose Your Mind" — — 1944 "Try Me One More Time" 2 18 "Soldier's Last Letter" 1 16 "Yesterday's Tears" 4 29 1945 "Keep My Mem'ry in Your Heart" 6 — "Tomorrow Never Comes" 3 — "Careless Darlin'" 3 — "It's Been So Long Darling" 1 — 1946 "Rainbow at Midnight" 1 — "Filipino Baby" 2 — "Drivin' Nails in My Coffin" 5 — 1947 "Don't Look Now (But Your Broken Heart Is Showing)" 4 — "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" 5 — "I'll Step Aside" 4 — 1948 "Seaman's Blues" 5 — "You Nearly Lose Your Mind" 15 — "Forever Is Ending Today" 5 30 "That Wild and Wicked Look in Your Eye" 9 — "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" 2 — "Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello" 5 — 1949 "Till the End of the World" 4 — "Daddy, When Is Mommy Coming Home" 15 — "Mean Mama Blues" 6 — "Slippin' Around" 1 17 "My Filipino Rose" 6 — "Warm Red Wine" 8 — "My Tennessee Baby" 10 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
1950s Year Single Peak chartpositions US Country US1950 "Letters Have No Arms" 2 — "I'll Take a Back Seat for You" 8 — "I Love You Because" 2 — "Unfaithful One" 8 — "Throw Your Love My Way" 3 — "Give Me a Little Old Fashioned Love" 9 — "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" 10 — "(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You" 5 — 1951 "Don't Stay Too Long" 9 — "Hey La La" 6 — "Driftwood on the River" 7 — 1952 "Missing in Action" 3 — "Somebody's Stolen My Honey" 9 — "Fortunes in Memories" 5 — 1953 "Divorce Granted" 9 — "I'll Miss You When You Go" — 22 "Counterfeit Kisses" — 25 1954 "Two Glasses, Joe" 11 — 1955 "The Yellow Rose of Texas" 7 — "Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)" 7 — 1957 "Don't Forbid Me/God's Eyes" – — 1958 "House of Glass" 13 — "Half a Mind" 8 — "The Blues" 21 — 1959 "What Am I Living For" 19 — "I Cried a Tear" 12 — "Next Time" 14 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
1960s Year Single Peak positions US Country 1960 "Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool" 16 1961 "Thoughts of a Fool" 16 "Through That Door" 14 1962 "I'm Looking High and Low for My Baby" 16 "Show Her Lots of Gold" 30 1963 "Mr. Juke Box" 28 "Thanks a Lot" 3 1964 "Be Better to Your Baby" 26 "Pass the Booze" 15 1965 "Do What You Do Do Well" 29 1966 "Another Story" 16 1968 "Too Much of Not Enough" 55 "I'm Gonna Make Like a Snake" 69 1969 "Saturday Satan Sunday Saint" 43
1970s Year Single Peak chartpositions US Country CAN Country 1973 "I've Got All the Heartaches I Can Handle" 93 — 1977 "Sometimes I Do" 79 — "Half My Heart's in Texas" flip — 1979 "Waltz Across Texas" (re-release) 56 31 "Walking the Floor Over You" (w/ Merle Haggard) 31 18 "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Other singles
Collaborations Year Single Artist Peak chartpositions US Country US 1949 "I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You" The Andrews Sisters 2 30 "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" 6 — "Tennessee Border No. 2" Red Foley 2 — 1950 "Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age" 7 — "Goodnight Irene" Red Foley & The Sunshine Trio 1 10 "Hillbilly Fever No. 2" Red Foley 9 — 1951 "The Strange Little Girl" Red Foley & Anita Kerr 9 — 1952 "Too Old to Cut the Mustard" Red Foley 5 — 1953 "No Help Wanted #2" 7 — 1957 "Mister Love" The Wilburn Brothers 8 — 1958 "Hey, Mr. Bluebird" 9 — 1964 "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be"[B] Loretta Lynn 11 —1965 "Our Hearts Are Holding Hands" 24 — "Waltz Across Texas" His Texas Troubadours 34 —1966 "It's for God, and Country, and You Mom(That's Why I'm Fighting in Viet Nam)" 48 — "Till My Getup Has Gotup and Gone" 32 — 1967 "Sweet Thang" Loretta Lynn 45 — 1969 "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" 18 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Guest singles Year Single Artist Peak chartpositions US Country CAN Country 1983 "Leave Them Boys Alone" Hank Williams, Jr. & Waylon Jennings 6 7
Christmas singles Year Single Peak chartpositions US Country US 1949 "Blue Christmas" 1 21 "White Christmas" 7 — 1950 "Blue Christmas" (re-entry) 9 — 1952 "Blue Christmas" (re-entry) 5 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Notes
A^ The Legend and the Legacy also peaked at number 2 on the RPM Country Albums chart in Canada. B^ "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" reached number 4 on the RPM Country Tracks in Canada.
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