Jean Shepard singles discography

Jean Shepard discography

Jean Shepard performing at a benefit event (2006).
Releases
↙Singles	72
↙B-sides	2
↙Collaborations	2

The singles discography of Jean Shepard, an American country music artist, consists of seventy two singles, two B-sides, and five other album appearances. After being discovered by country artist Hank Thompson, he helped her secure a recording contract with Capitol Records in 1953.^[1] Her first chart appearance came with her second single entitled "A Dear John Letter", a duet with Ferlin Husky. The single topped the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Songs chart in 1953, while also becoming a No. 4 hit on the Billboard Pop chart.^[2] Its follow-up single, "Forgive Me, John" (also a duet with Ferlin Husky) was a top ten single the same year.^[3] Both singles established Shepard as one of country music's first female artists.^[2] In 1955, the singles "A Satisfied Mind" and "Beautiful Lies" became her first solo hits, both peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard country chart.^[1][2] The flip side of "A Satisfied Mind" entitled, "Take Possession" reached No. 13 on the country chart, and the flip side of "Beautiful Lies" called, "I Thought of You", peaked at No. 10 around the same time.^[3]

For almost ten full years, almost all of Shepard's singles remained absent from the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.^[3] However, in 1964 she scored a comeback with the song "Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)", which reached No. 5 on the Hot Country Songs chart and became her first charting single since 1959.^[2] The song begun a string of major hits that would run through the remainder of the decade,^[1] including a string of fifteen Top 40 singles between 1965 and 1970.^[3] In 1966 she had three Top 20 hits with "Many Happy Hangovers to You" (#13), "If Teardrops Were Silver" (#10), and "Heart, We Did All We Could" (#12). From her 1966 collaborative album with Ray Pillow, I'll Take the Dog, she had a top ten single with the title track.^[1] In 1970 her single, "Then He Touched Me", from her album A Woman's Hand, reached No. 8 on the Billboard country chart, which was followed later in the year by "Another Lonely Night" (#12), which was spawned from the album Here and Now.^[2] After signing with United Artists Records in 1973, her debut single from the label entitled, "Slippin' Away" became Shepard's biggest hit single since the fifties.^[1] The song went to No. 4 on the Billboard country songs chart and No. 81 on the Billboard Hot 100, her first solo appearance on the latter chart. Shepard continued to have hit singles until 1975 with the songs, "At the Time" (#13), "I'll Do Anything It Takes (To Stay with You)" (#17), "Poor Sweet Baby" (#14), and "The Tip of My Fingers" (#16). In 1978 her single, "The Real Thing", released through GRT Records, became her final single to chart on the Billboard country chart, peaking at #85.^[3]

Singles

1950s

1960s

1970s and 1980s

Collaborative singles

Charting b-sides

References