The following is the discography of American singer Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Albums Year Album Chart positions Cert. Label US Country US 1956 This Lusty Land! 12 Capitol Records Hymns 2 Platinum 1957 Spirituals 5 Gold Ford Favorites Ol' Rockin' Ern'''
| rowspan="2"| 1958 | Nearer the Cross| | align="center"| 5 | Gold |- | The Star Carol| | align="center"| 4 | Platinum |- | rowspan="2"| 1959 | Gather 'Round|
| A Friend We Have|
| rowspan="4"| 1960 | Sing a Hymn with Me| | align="center"| 23
| Sixteen Tons|
| Sing a Spiritual with Me|
| Come to the Fair|
| rowspan="4"| 1961 | Civil War Songs of the North|
| Civil War Songs of the South|
| Looks at Love|
| Hymns at Home| | align="center"| 67
| rowspan="3"| 1962 | Mississippi Showboat| | align="center"| 110
| I Love to Tell the Story| | align="center"| 43
| Book of Favorite Hymns| | align="center"| 71
| rowspan="3"| 1963 | Long, Long Ago|
| We Gather Together|
| Story of Christmas| | align="center"| 14
| rowspan="3"| 1964 | Great Gospel Songs|
| Country Hits Feelin' Blue|
| World's Best Loved Hymns|
| rowspan="2"| 1965 | Let Me Walk with Thee|
| Sing We Now of Christmas| | align="center"| 31
| rowspan="4"| 1966 | My Favorite Things|
| Wonderful Peace|
| God Lives|
| Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart|
| rowspan="2"| 1967 | Aloha|
| Faith of Our Fathers|
| rowspan="4"| 1968 | Our Garden of Hymns (w/ Marilyn Horne)
| World of Pop and Country Hits|
| O Come All Ye Faithful|
| The Best of Tennessee Ernie Ford Hymns|
| rowspan="3"| 1969 | Songs I Like to Sing|
| New Wave|
| Holy, Holy, Holy|
| rowspan="2"| 1970 | America the Beautiful| | align="center"| 192
| Everything Is Beautiful|
| rowspan="3"| 1971 | Abide with Me|
| C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S|
| Folk Album|
| rowspan="2"| 1972 | Mr. Words and Music|
| Standin' in the Need of Prayer|
| rowspan="2"| 1973 | Country Morning| align="center"| 46
| Ernie Ford Sings About Jesus|
| 1974 | Make A Joyful Noise| align="center"| 35
| 1975 | Ernie Sings & Glen Picks (w/ Glen Campbell)
| rowspan="2"| 1976 | Sing His Great Love|
| For the 83rd Time|
| 1977 | He Touched Me|
| rowspan="7"| Word Records |- | 1978 | Swing Wide Your Golden Gate|
| 1979 | Ramblin' Down Country Roads With Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| 1980 | Tell Me the Old, Old Story|
| 1982 | There's A Song In My Heart|
| 1983 | Sunday School Songs For Children of All Ages|
| 1984 | Keep Looking Up|
| 2009 | 6000 Sunset Boulevard: Featuring The Billy Liebert Band|
| Sundazed Music |- | 2014 | Amazing Grace: 14 Treasured Hymns'' 19 159 Gaither Music
Singles Year Single (A-side, B-side)Both sides from same album except where indicated Chart positions Album US Country US 1949 "Tennessee Border" 8 Non-album track "Milk 'Em in the Morning Blues" 15Ol' Rockin' Ern "Country Junction" 14 "Philadelphia Lawyer" Sixteen Tons "Smokey Mountain Boogie"b/w "You'll Find Her Name Written There" (non-album track) 8 Ol' Rockin' Ern "Mule Train" 1 9 Sixteen Tons "Anticipation Blues" 3 Ol' Rockin' Ern 1950 "The Cry of the Wild Goose"b/w "The Donkey Serenade" 2 15 Sixteen Tons "My Hobby"b/w "I've Got to Feed 'em in the Morning"Non-album tracks "Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own" (with Kay Starr) 5 22 "I'll Never Be Free" (with Kay Starr) 2 3 "What This Country Needs"b/w "The Lord's Lariat" (from Ol' Rockin' Ern) "Cincinnati Dancing Pig"b/w "Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women"Both sides with The Starlighters "Little Juan Pedro"b/w "Bryant's Boogie" "The Shotgun Boogie" 1 14Ol' Rockin' Ern "I Ain't Gonna Let It Happen (No More)" flip 1951 "Tailor Made Woman" (with Joe "Fingers" Carr) 8Non-album tracks "Stack-O-Lee" (with Joe "Fingers" Carr) "Ocean of Tears" (with Kay Starr) 15 "You're My Sugar" (with Kay Starr) 22 "Mr. and Mississippi"b/w "She's My Baby" (from Ol' Rockin' Ern) 2 18 "The Strange Little Girl" 9 "Kentucky Waltz" flip "Kissin' Bug Boogie"b/w "Woman Is a Five Letter Word" 12 "Hey Good Lookin'"b/w "Cool, Cool Kisses"Both sides with Helen O'Connell "Rock City Boogie"b/w "Streamlined Cannonball"Both sides with The Dinning Sisters "Christmas Dinner"b/w "A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus" 1952 "Hambone" (with Bucky Tibbs)b/w "The Gandy Dancer's Ball" "Everybody's Got a Girl but Me"b/w "Put Your Arms Around Me" "Snowshoe Thompson"b/w "Fatback Louisiana USA" "Blackberry Boogie"b/w "Tennessee Local" (non-album track) 6 Ol' Rockin' Ern "Hog-Tied over You"b/w "False Hearted Girl"Both sides with Ella Mae MorseNon-album tracks 1953 "I Don't Know"b/w "Sweet Temptation" "Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker"b/w "Three Things (A Man Must Do)" 8 "Don't Start Courtin' in a Hot Rod Ford"b/w "We're a-Growin' Up"Both sides with Molly Bee "Kiss Me Big"Ol' Rockin' Ern "Catfish Boogie"flip 1954 "Honeymoon's Over"b/w "This Must Be the Place"Both sides with Betty Hutton 16 Non-album tracks "River of No Return"b/w "Give Me Your Word" 9 Ford Favorites "Ein Zwei Drei"b/w "Losing You"Non-album tracks "Somebody Bigger Than You or I"b/w "There Is Beauty in Everything" 1955 "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"b/w "Farewell" 4 5 "His Hands"b/w "I Am a Pilgrim" 13 Spirituals "Sixteen Tons" 1 1 Ford Favorites 1956 "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" 78 "That's All"b/w "Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women" (from Sixteen Tons) 12 17 "Rovin' Gambler"b/w "John Henry" 60This Lusty Land! "Rock and Roll Boogie"b/w "Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart" (from Ford Favorites) Non-album track "First Born"b/w "Have You Seen Her" 46 Ford Favorites 1957 "Watermelon Song" 87 "One Suit" 93 "False Hearted Girl"b/w "Lonely Man" (from Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart!) This Lusty Land! "In the Middle of an Island" 23 Non-album track "Ivy League"Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart! 1958 "Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart"b/w "Down Deep" "Sunday Barbeque"b/w "Love Makes the World Go Round" 97 "Glad Rags"b/w "Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed" (non-album track) 100 1959 "Black-Eyed Susie"b/w "Code of the Mountains" I Love You So Much It Hurts Me "Love Is the Only Thing"b/w "Sunny Side of Heaven" Non-album track 1960 "O Mary Don't You Weep"b/w "Joshua Fit the Battle" Sing a Spiritual with Me "Little Klinker"b/w "Jingle-o-the-Brownie" Non-album tracks "Bless This Land"b/w "Lord of All Creation" 1961 "Dark as a Dungeon"b/w "His Love (Makes the World Go Round)" (non-album track) This Lusty Land! "Little Red Rockin' Hood"b/w "I Gotta Have My Baby Back" (from Ernie Looks at Love) Non-album track 1962 "Take Your Girlie to the Movies"b/w "There'll Be No New Piano Tunes on This Old Piano" Here Comes the Tennessee Ernie Ford Mississippi Showboat "Work Song"b/w "Rags and Old Iron" (from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me) Everything Is Beautiful "How Great Thou Art"b/w "Eternal Life" (from God Lives!) I Love to Tell the Story 1965 "Hicktown"b/w "Sixteen Tons" (from Sixteen Tons) 9 Non-album tracks "Girl Don't You Know"b/w "Now It's All Over" (from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me) "Sing We Now of Christmas"b/w "The Little Drummer Boy" Sing We Now of Christmas 1966 "God Lives"b/w "How Great Thou Art" God Lives 1967 "Lahaina Luna"b/w "Pearly Shells" Aloha from Tennessee Ernie Ford "The Road"b/w "Hand-Me-Down Things" Non-album tracks 1968 "Talk to the Animals"b/w "What a Wonderful World" World of Pop and Country Hits 1969 "Honey-Eyed Girl (That's You That's You)"b/w "Good Morning, Dear" 54 The New Wave 1970 "Rainy Night In Georgia"b/w "Let the Lovelight in Your Eyes Lead Me On" Everything Is Beautiful 1971 "Happy Songs of Love"b/w "Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By" (from 25th Anniversary Yesterday–Today) 58 Non-album track 1972 "Pea-Pickin' Cook"b/w "The Song" (non-album track) It's a Ford 1973 "Printers Alley Stars"b/w "Baby" 66 Country Morning "Farther Down the River (Where the Fishin's Good)"b/w "You've Still Got Love All Over You" 73 "Colorado Country Morning"b/w "Daddy Usta Say" 70 1974 "Sweet Child of Sunshine"b/w "She Picked Up the Pieces" (non-album track) "I've Got Confidence"b/w "I'd Like to Be" (from Country Morning) Make a Joyful Noise 1975 "Come On Down"b/w "Bits and Pieces of Life" (non-album track) 52 "Baby"b/w "I'd Like to Be"Both sides with Andra Willis 63 Country Morning "The Devil Ain't a Lonely Woman's Friend"b/w "Smokey Taverns, Bar Room Girls" 96 Non-album tracks 1976 "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train"b/w "Baby's Home" (non-album track) 95 For the 83rd Time "Sweet Feelins"b/w "Dogs and Sheriff John"
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