Janie Fricke discography explained

Artist:Janie Fricke
Studio:24
Live:1
Compilation:10
Music Videos:7
Tribute:1
Singles:44
Option:14
Option Name:Other appearances

The discography of American country music artist Janie Fricke contains 24 studio albums, one live album, ten compilation albums, 44 singles, seven music videos, and 14 other appearances. Fricke was signed to Nashville's Columbia Records as a solo artist in 1977. Later that year, her debut single, "What're You Doing Tonight", reached the top-forty on the country songs chart.[1] The following year her debut studio album, Singer of Songs, was issued. Between 1978 and 1980, Fricke issued three studio albums which resulted in two major hits: "Please Help Me, I'm Fallin" (1978) and "I'll Love Away Your Troubles for Awhile" (1979).

With a change in musical direction, Fricke began recording ballads in 1980, strengthening the success of her singles. "Down to My Last Broken Heart" and "I'll Need Someone to Hold Me (When I Cry)" were her first pair of top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.[1] An album of the same name was also released that year, which reached the top-thirty on the Top Country Albums chart. With her sixth studio album, Fricke reached the top spot of the Billboard country chart with its second single "Don't Worry 'bout Me Baby" (1982).[2] This would start a series of number-one country singles during this period.[1] [2] It Ain't Easy (1982), her seventh studio record, reached number fifteen on the Top Country Albums list and spawned three number-one hits: "It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy", "He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)", and "Tell Me a Lie".

With the inclusion of more up-tempo material, Fricke reached the number one spot two more times in 1983 and 1984 with "Let's Stop Talkin' About It" and "Your Heart's Not in It".[1] Fricke also collaborated with Merle Haggard in 1984 on "A Place to Fall Apart", which reached number one on the country songs chart.[2] In 1986, her eleventh studio album Black and White was issued and became her highest-charting record on the Top Country Albums list. Its lead single "Always Have, Always Will" reached the number one spot also and became her final top ten hit. Fricke released three more studio albums for Columbia Records until 1989, all of which did not produce any major hits.[2] Labor of Love (1989) spawned her final-charting Billboard single called "Give 'em My Number", which peaked at number forty-three. While performing in Branson, Missouri during the 1990s, Fricke released two Gospel-inspired studio albums: (1992) and Now & Then (1993). With her own recording label, she released Bouncin' Back (2000), her nineteenth studio album. Via her own label she would issue two more studio albums in the 2000s decade[2] She has since released a live album in 2002 and a studio album of Christmas material in 2020.

Albums

Studio albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:17em;"
Album detailsPeak chart
positions
US
Cou.

[3]
CAN
Cou.

[4]
Singer of Songs
Love Notes
  • Released: March 1979
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
From the Heart
  • Released: November 1979
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP
10
Nice 'n' Easy
  • Released: October 1980
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
I'll Need Someone to Hold
Me When I Cry
  • Released: November 1980
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
28
Sleeping with Your Memory
  • Released: September 1981
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
42
It Ain't Easy
  • Released: September 1982
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
15
Love Lies
  • Released: October 1983
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
10
The First Word in Memory
  • Released: August 1984
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
17
Somebody Else's Fire
  • Released: June 1985
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
21
Black & White
  • Released: July 1986
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
1
After Midnight
  • Released: April 1987
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
29
Saddle the Wind
  • Released: July 1988
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
64
Labor of Love
  • Released: July 1989
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
64
Great Movie Themes[5] [6]
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Stonebird
  • Formats: CD
Janie Fricke
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Intersound
  • Formats: CD
  • Released: August 15, 1992
  • Label: Branson
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Now & Then
[7]
  • Released: April 15, 1993
  • Label: Branson
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Bouncin' Back
  • Released: October 10, 2000
  • Label: JMF
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Tributes to My Heroes[8]
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: JMF
  • Formats: CD
The Bluegrass Sessions
  • Released: August 17, 2004
  • Label: DM
  • Formats: CD, music download
Golden Legends: Janie Fricke
[9] [10]
  • Released: February 28, 2006
  • Label: Madacy
  • Formats: CD, music download
Roses & Lace[11]
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: JMF
  • Formats: CD
A Cowgirl Country Christmas[12]
  • Released: September 25, 2020
  • Label: Self-Released
  • Formats: CD
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

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Album details
Live at Billy Bob's Texas
  • Released: April 2, 2002
  • Label: Smith
  • Formats: CD

Compilation albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:17em;"
Album detailsPeak
chart
positions
US
Country

Greatest Hits
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette
34
The Very Best of Janie
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
33
I Love Country[13]
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: CBS
  • Formats: LP
17 Greatest Hits[14]
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD
Celebration
  • Released: October 1987
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
63
Sweet and Sassy[15]
  • Released: December 1, 1995
  • Label: Sony
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Pure Country[16]
  • Released: August 25, 1998
  • Label: Sony
  • Formats: CD
Super Hits[17]
  • Released: March 2, 1999
  • Label: Columbia/Sony
  • Formats: Cassette, CD
Anthology[18]
  • Released: March 16, 1999
  • Label: Renaissance
  • Formats: CD
The Essential Janie Fricke[19]
  • Released: December 28, 2018
  • Label: Legacy
  • Formats: Music download
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Singles

As lead artist

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart
positions
Album
US
Coun.

[20] [21]
CAN
Coun.

[22]
"What're You Doing Tonight"197721 14Singer of Songs
"Baby It's You"197821 19
"Please Help Me, I'm Falling (In Love With You)"12 4
"Playin' Hard to Get"22 30Love Notes
"I'll Love Away Your Troubles for Awhile"197914 7
"Let's Try Again"28 52
"But Love Me"26 From the Heart
"Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)"198022 18
"He's Out of My Life" 17 20Nice 'n Easy
"Down to My Last Broken Heart"2 2I'll Need Someone to Hold Me When I Cry
"Pride"198112 1
"I'll Need Someone to Hold Me (When I Cry)"4 1
"Do Me with Love"4 1Sleeping with Your Memory
"Don't Worry 'bout Me Baby"19821 8
"It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy"1 1It Ain't Easy
"You Don't Know Love"19834 3
"He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to
Happen)
"
1 1
"Tell Me a Lie"1 1Love Lies
"Let's Stop Talkin' About It"19841 1
"If the Fall Don't Get You"8 6
"Your Heart's Not in It"1 1The First Word in Memory
"The First Word in Memory Is Me"7 5
"She's Single Again"19852 2Somebody Else's Fire
"Somebody Else's Fire"4 4
"Easy to Please"19865 15
"Always Have, Always Will"1 1Black and White
"When a Woman Cries"20 10
"Are You Satisfied?"198732 25After Midnight
"Baby You're Gone"63 45
"Where Does Love Go (When It's Gone)"198854 47Saddle the Wind
"I'll Walk Before I Crawl"50
"The Heart"64
"Love Is One of Those Words"198956 63Labor of Love
"Give 'em My Number"43 54
"You Never Crossed My Mind"[23] 1991Janie Fricke
"I Want to Grow Old with You"74
"The Followers"[24] 2020A Cowgirl Country Christmas
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

As a featured artist

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
Cou.

CAN
Cou.

NZ
[25]
"Come a Little Bit Closer"
19774 2 Come a Little Bit Closer
"On My Knees"
19781 2 8Take Me
"A Place to Fall Apart"
19841 1 It's All in the Game
"From Time to Time (It Feels Like Love Again)"
198721 22 Partners
"Couldn't See the Gold"
199019 The Anniversary Sessions
"Dispatch the Angels"
[26]
2021
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Music videos

Title! scope="col"
YearDirector(s)
"Natural High"1984
"The First Word in Memory Is Me"1985[27]
"She's Single Again"[28]
"Always Have, Always Will"1986Larry Boothby[29]
"You Never Crossed My Mind"1991Michael Merriman
"I Want to Grow Old with You"
"You Don't Know Love"2004Deryck Ragoonanan[30]

Other appearances

Title! scope="col"
YearOther artist(s)Album
"It's a Cheating Situation"[31] 1979Moe BandyCheating Situation
"All I Want to Do in Life"[32] 1984George JonesLadies' Choice
"Natural High"[33] Merle HaggardIt's All in the Game
"Who Cares"[34] Ray CharlesFriendship
"What Child Is This"[35] 1986The Nashville Christmas Album
"Angels We Have Heard on High"[36] 1992Christmas in Nashville
"Two Good People with a Love Gone Bad"[37] 1993Vern GosdinNickels and Dimes and Love
"Jingle Bells"[38] Country Christmas
"Christmas Is"Johnny Paycheck
"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"[39] 1995The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
"The Foggy Dew"[40] 1999Made in America: Folk Favorites
"Pride"[41] 2001Ralph EmeryRalph Emery and Friends
"Field of Dreams"[42] 2003Charley PrideComfort of Her Wings
"A Place to Fall Apart" (live)[43] 2004Merle HaggardLive at Billy Bob's Texas: 'Ol Country Singer

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Huey. Steve. Janie Fricke: Biography. Allmusic. 6 December 2014.
  2. Web site: Coyne. Kevin John. 100 Greatest Women of Country -- Janie Fricke (#46). Country Universe. 6 December 2014.
  3. Janie Fricke chart history (Country Albums) . . 2 January 2022.
  4. Search results for "Janie Fricke" under Country Albums/CD's. RPM. 27 November 2012.
  5. Fricke . Janie . Great Movie Themes (CD Liner Notes) . Stonebird Records . 1991 . NA.
  6. Web site: Songs of the Silver Screen - Great Movie Themes . Janie Fricke.com . 9 January 2022.
  7. Fricke . Janie . Now & Then (CD Liner Notes and Album Information) . . April 15, 1993 . BRD-9304.
  8. Fricke . Janie . Tributes to My Heroes (CD Liner Notes) . JFR . 2003 . JFR-0002.
  9. Fricke . Janie . Golden Legends: Janie Fricke [New stereo recordings by the original artists] (CD Album Information) . . February 28, 2006 . 251894.
  10. Web site: Golden Legends: Janie Fricke (Re-recorded versions) by Janie Fricke . . 15 January 2022.
  11. Fricke . Janie . Roses & Lace (CD Liner Notes and Album Information) . JMF Records . 2008 . JMF-2008.
  12. Web site: A Cowgirl Country Christmas . Janie Fricke . 28 December 2021.
  13. Fricke . Janie . I Love Country (LP Liner Notes and Information) . . 1986 . LC-11.
  14. Fricke . Janie . 17 Greatest Hits (CD, LP and Cassette Liner Notes and Information) . . 1986 . CK-40165/FCT-40165.
  15. Fricke . Janie . Sweet and Sassy (CD/Cassette Liner Notes and Album Information) . . December 1, 1995 . 22116.
  16. Fricke . Janie . Pure Country (CD Liner Notes and Album Information) . . August 25, 1998 . 34187.
  17. Fricke . Janie . Super Hits (CD/Cassette Liner Notes and Album Information) . Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment . March 2, 1999 . 69785.
  18. Fricke . Janie . Anthology (CD Liner Notes and Album Information) . . March 16, 1999 . 206.
  19. Web site: The Essential Janie Fricke by Janie Fricke . . 30 December 2021.
  20. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc.. 2008. 978-0-89820-177-2.
  21. Janie Fricke chart history (Country Songs) . . 29 December 2021.
  22. Search results for "Janie Fricke" under Country Singles. RPM. 26 November 2012.
  23. Fricke . Janie . "You Never Crossed My Mind" (CD Single) . . 1991 . CDI-9105-A.
  24. News: Holt . Jo Ann . Janie Fricke Releases A Cowgirl Country Christmas Album . 29 December 2021 . . September 30, 2020.
  25. Web site: New Zealand charts portal -- Janie Fricke . 26 November 2012 .
  26. Web site: "Dispatch the Angels" (feat. Janie Fricke) by Moore & Moore . . 15 January 2022.
  27. Country . . January 12, 1985 . 43 . 30 December 2021.
  28. Morris . Edward . Janie Fricke, Reluctant No More, Keeping Busy . . July 27, 1985 . 30 December 2021.
  29. New Videoclips. Billboard. July 12, 1986.
  30. Fricke . Janie . The Bluegrass Sessions (CD/DVD Liner Notes and Album Information) . DM Records . August 17, 2004 . DMR-41375.
  31. Web site: Cjeating Situation: Overview. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  32. Web site: Ladies' Choice: Overview. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  33. Web site: It's All in the Game: Merle Haggard: Songs, reviews, credits . . 28 December 2021.
  34. Web site: Friendship: Overview. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  35. Web site: Nashville Christmas Album: Overview. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  36. Web site: Christmas in Nashville. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  37. Web site: Vern Gosdin -- Nickels and Dimes and Love (CD, Album). Discogs. 7 December 2014.
  38. Web site: Country Christmas: Overview. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  39. Web site: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Overview. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  40. Web site: Made in America: Folk Favorites. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.
  41. Web site: Ralph Emery and Friends: Overview. Allmusic.
  42. Web site: Comfort of Her Wings: Overview. AllMusic. 7 December 2014.
  43. Web site: Live at Billy Bob's Texas: 'Ol Country Singer. Allmusic. 7 December 2014.