B.B. King discography

B.B. King discography
B.B. King in concert in Deauville, 1989.
Studio albums 43
Live albums 16
Singles 138

B.B. King's discography lists the recordings of B.B. King.

Albums

Studio albums

Year Original album
and alternate reissues
Peak chart positions Certifications
US US R&B US Jazz US Blues SWI
1956 Singin' the Blues
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5020)
  • Format:
1958 The Blues
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5063)
  • Format:
1959 B.B. King Wails
The Incredible Soul of B.B. King (LP, 1965)
I Love You So (LP, 1970)
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5115)
    Modern/Kent (KST-539)
    United Superior US-7711)
  • Format:










Sings Spirituals
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (LP, 1970)
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5119)
    United Superior US-7721)
  • Format:





1960 The Great B. B. King
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP–5153)
  • Format:
King of the Blues
Better than Ever (LP, 1966)
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5167)
    Modern / Kent (KST-561)
  • Format:





1961 My Kind of Blues
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5188)
  • Format:
More B.B. King
- Blues for Me (LP, 1970)
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5230)
    United Superior (US-7708)
  • Format:





1962 Twist With B.B. King
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5248)
  • Format:
Easy Listening Blues
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5286)
  • Format:
Blues in My Heart
- A Heart Full of Blues (LP, 1970)
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5309)
    United Superior (US-7703)
  • Format:





1963 B.B. King
- The Soul of B.B. King (LP, 1970)
  • Released:
  • Label: Modern / Crown (CLP-5359)
    United Superior (US-7714)
  • Format:





Mr. Blues
1966 Confessin' the Blues
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC-Paramount (528)
  • Format:
1968 Blues on Top of Blues 46
Lucille
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC / Bluesway (BLS-6016)
  • Format:
192
1969 Live & Well
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC / Bluesway (BLS-6031)
  • Format:
56 11 17
Completely Well
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC / Bluesway (BLS-6037)
  • Format:
38 5
1970 Indianola Mississippi Seeds
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (ABCS-713) / MCA (MCAD-31343)
  • Format:
26 8 7
1971 B.B. King in London
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (ABCX-730)
  • Format:
57 15
1972 L.A. Midnight
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (ABCX-743)
  • Format:
53 21
Guess Who
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (ABCX-759)
  • Format:
65 14
1973 To Know You Is to Love You
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (ABCX-794)
  • Format:
71 13
1974 Friends
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (ABCX-825)
  • Format:
153 27
1975 Lucille Talks Back
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (ABCD-898)
  • Format:
1977 King Size
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (AB-977)
  • Format:
154 34
1978 Midnight Believer
  • Released:
  • Label: ABC (AA-1061)
  • Format:
124 27
1979 Take It Home
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-3151)
  • Format:
112 22
1981 There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-5162)
  • Format:
131 26
1982 Love Me Tender
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-5307)
  • Format:
179 45
1983 Blues 'N' Jazz
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-5413)
  • Format:
172 38 21
1984 Better Than Ever
  • Released:
  • Label: Kent Legendary Blues Label (KLP-2003)
  • Format:
1985 Six Silver Strings
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-5616)
  • Format:
31 23
1986 Ambassador Of The Blues
  • Released:
  • Label: Crown (GEM-001 Mono)
  • Format:
1987 You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
  • Released:
  • Label: Kent Legendary Blues Label (KP-2004)
  • Format:
1988 King of the Blues: 1989
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-42183)
  • Format:
1991 There Is Always One More Time
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-10295)
  • Format:
76
1993 Blues Summit
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCA-10710)
  • Format:
182 64 93
1995 Lucille & Friends
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCD-33008)
  • Format:
1997 Deuces Wild
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCD-11711)
  • Format:
73 1 33
1998 Blues on the Bayou
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (MCD-11879)
  • Format:
186 2
1999 Let the Good Times Roll
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (088 1120422)
  • Format:
2
2000 Riding with the King 3 3
  • AUS: Gold[2]
  • CAN: Platinum[1]
  • US: 2x Platinum
Makin' Love Is Good for You
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (112 299-2)
  • Format:
2
2001 A Christmas Celebration of Hope
20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection: The Best of B.B. King (2003)
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (088112756-2)
    (000070702)
  • Format:
151 1
2003 Reflections
  • Released:
  • Label: MCA (000053202)
  • Format:
165 2
2005 B.B. King & Friends: 80
  • Released:
  • Label: Geffen (B000526302)
  • Format:
45 1 78
2008 One Kind Favor
  • Released:
  • Label: Geffen (B0011791-02)
  • Format:
37 1 78
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

Year Album Peak chart positions
US US R&B US Blues US Jazz
1965 Live at the Regal 78
1967 The Kings' Jam (Live Bootleg) (with Jimi Hendrix Live from the Generation Club, NY)
1970 The Incredible Soul of B.B. King 193
1971 Live in Cook County Jail 25 1 3
1974 B.B. King and Bobby Bland Together for the First Time... Live 43 2
1976 Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live 73 9
1980 Now Appearing at Ole Miss 162 45 21
1982 Royal Jam 144
1990 Live at San Quentin
1991 Live at the Apollo
1999 Live in Japan
2007 Forever Gold: B.B. King Live 11
2008 Live at the BBC 1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Notable compilations

Year Album
1968 His Best – The Electric B. B. King
1973 The Best of B.B. King
1983 Why I Sing the Blues
1992 King of the Blues
My Sweet Little Angel
1995 Lucille & Friends
Jazz & Blues Collection
1998 Greatest Hits
1999 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of B.B. King
His Definitive Greatest Hits
2005 The Ultimate Collection
2007 The Best of the Early Years
2012 Ladies and Gentlemen...Mr. B.B. King

Singles

Year Title Peak chart position Album
US R&B US US Rock UK
[3]
1951 "3 O'Clock Blues" 1 N/A
1952 "Shake It Up and Go"
"Story from My Heart and Soul" 9
1953 "Woke Up This Morning" 3
"Please Love Me" 1
"Please Hurry Home" 4
1954 "The Woman I Love" 31
"When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer" 8
"You Upset Me Baby" 1
1955 "Sneaking Around" 14
"Every Day I Have the Blues"[4] 8 Singin' the Blues
"Ten Long Years"[5] 9
1956 "Crying Won't Help You" 15
"Sweet Little Angel" 6
"Bad Luck"[6] 3
1957 "I Want to Get Married" 14 N/A
"Troubles, Troubles, Troubles"[7] 13
"Be Careful with a Fool"[8] 95
1958 "Please Accept My Love" 9
"You've Been an Angel"[9] 16
1959 "Sugar Mama"
1960 "Sweet Sixteen, Pt. I" 2
"Walking Dr. Bill" 23 My Kind of Blues
1961 "Someday" 16
"Peace of Mind"[10] 7 More
1962 "My Sometime Baby" 24 Blues in My Heart
1963 "The Road I Travel" Sings Spirituals
1964 "How Blue Can You Get" (ABC) 21 97[11] Blues in My Heart
"You're Gonna Miss Me" (Kent) 107
"Beautician Blues" 15 82 Rock Me Baby
"Help the Poor" (ABC) 24 98[11]
"The Worst Thing in My Life" (Kent)
"Rock Me Baby" 12 34[11]
"Never Trust a Woman" 29 90[11] N/A
"Please Send Me Someone to Love" Confessin' the Blues
1965 "I Need You"
"Blue Shadows" (Kent) 25 97 Rock Me Baby
1966 "Eyesight to the Blind" 31
"Ain't Nobody's Business" N/A
"Don't Answer the Door, Pt. I" (ABC) 2 72 Blues Is King
"I Stay in the Mood" (Kent) 45
"Waitin' for You" (ABC)
1967 "It's a Mean World" (Kent) 49 N/A
"The Jungle" 17 94 The Jungle
1968 "I Don't Want You Cuttin' Off Your Hair" (Bluesway) His Best – The Electric B. B. King
"Paying the Cost to Be the Boss" (Bluesway) 10 39
"I'm Gonna Do What They Do to Me" 26 74 Blues on Top of Blues
"The B. B. Jones" 98 His Best – The Electric B. B. King
"You Put It on Me"[12] 25 82
"The Woman I Love" 31 94
1969 "I Want You So Bad" 34 127 Live & Well
"Get Off My Back Woman"[13] 32 74
"Why I Sing the Blues" 13 61
"Just a Little Love" 15 76
1970 "The Thrill Is Gone" 3 15 Completely Well
"So Excited" 14 54
"Hummingbird" 25 48 Indianola Mississippi Seeds
"Worried Life" 48
"Ask Me No Questions" (ABC) 18 40
"Chains and Things" 6 45
1971 "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother"
"Help the Poor" (re-recording) 36 90 L.A. Midnight
"Ghetto Woman" 25 68 N/A
"The Evil Child" 34 97
1972 "Sweet Sixteen" (re-recording) 37 93 L.A. Midnight
"I Got Some Help I Don't Need" 28 92
"Ain't Nobody Home" 28 46 B. B. King in London
"Guess Who" 21 62 Guess Who
1973 "To Know You Is to Love You" 12 38 To Know You Is to Love You
1974 "I Like to Live the Love" 6 28
"Who Are You" 27 78
"Philadelphia" 19 64 Friends
1975 "My Song"
"Friends"[14] 34
1976 "Let the Good Times Roll" 20 101 Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live
1977 "Slow and Easy" 88 King Size
1978 "Never Make a Move Too Soon" 19 102 Midnight Believer
"I Just Can't Leave Your Love Alone" 90
1979 "Better Not Look Down" 30 110 Take It Home
1981 "There Must Be a Better World Somewhere" 91 There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
1985 "Into the Night" 15 107 Six Silver Strings
"Big Boss Man" 62
1988 "When Love Comes to Town" (with U2) 68 2[15] 6 Rattle and Hum
1992 "The Blues Come Over Me" 63 There is Always One More Time
"Since I Met You Baby" (with Gary Moore) 59 After Hours
2000 "Riding with the King" (with Eric Clapton) 26 Riding with the King
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Other appearances

Year Song Album
1968 "You Put It On Me", The B. B. Jones", "Messy But Good" (with Quincy Jones) For Love of Ivy OST
2001 "Three O'Clock Blues" (with Jimmy Smith) Dot Com Blues[16]
2010 "The Thrill Is Gone" (with Stevie Wonder) The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts[17]
2012 "Praying Man" (with Big K.R.I.T.) Live from the Underground
2014 "On the Way" The Art of McCartney[18]

References

  1. 1 2 Gold and Platinum Search
  2. ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2000 Albums Archived June 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. British Hit Singles & Albums 19th Edition. HIT Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. "Everyday I Have the Blues" was the b-side to "Sneaking Around."
  5. "Ten Long Years" was the b-side to "What Can I Do (Just Sing the Blues)."
  6. "Bad Luck" was the b-side to "Sweet Little Angel."
  7. "Troubles, Troubles, Troubles" was the b-side to "I Want to Get Married."
  8. "Be Careful with a Fool" was the b-side to "(I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby."
  9. "You've Been an Angel" was the b-side to "Please Accept My Love."
  10. "Peace of Mind" was the b-side of "Someday Baby."
  11. 1 2 3 4 Billboard Magazine did not publish an R&B Singles chart between November 1963 and January 1965.
  12. "You Put It On Me" was the b-side of "The B.B. Jones."
  13. "Get Off My Back Woman" was the b-side of "I Want You So Bad."
  14. "Friends" was the b-side of "My Song."
  15. "When Love Comes to Town" was the first B.B. King single to chart on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
  16. "Dot Com Blues". Allmusic. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
  17. "The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concerts (4CD)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
  18. Grow, Kory. "Paul McCartney Tribute Comp: Bob Dylan, Kiss and More Cover the Beatle". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
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