Mills Brothers discography explained

The following is a discography of the jazz/swing vocal group The Mills Brothers.

Albums

Singles

YearSingleChart positions
US
[1]
US C/B
[2]
US R&B
US A/C
US Country
UK
[3]
1931"Tiger Rag"1
"Nobody's Sweetheart"4
"Gems from George White's Scandals" (with Bing Crosby & Boswell Sisters)3
1932"Dinah" (with Bing Crosby)1
"You Rascal, You"3
"Baby Won't You Please Come Home"20
"I Heard"3
"Good-bye, Blues"4
"Rockin' Chair"4
"Shine" (with Bing Crosby)7
"Chinatown, My Chinatown"10
"St. Louis Blues"2
"Sweet Sue"8
"Bugle Call Rag"2
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"7
1934"I've Found a New Baby"19
"Swing It, Sister"2
"Money in My Pockets"12
"Sleepy Head"2
1937"Dedicated to You" (with Ella Fitzgerald)19
"Big Boy Blue" (with Ella Fitzgerald)20
"Darling Nelly Gray" (with Louis Armstrong)19
1938"Flat Foot Floogee" (with Louis Armstrong)19
"Sixty Seconds Got Together"8
1939"Sweet Adeline"10
"You Tell Me Your Dreams, I'll Tell You Mine"14
1940"Old Black Joe"30
"W.P.A." (with Louis Armstrong)26
1942"Paper Doll"20
1943"Paper Doll" (re-entry)12
"I'll Be Around"17
1944"You Always Hurt the One You Love"15
"Till Then"81
1945"I Wish"64
"Put Another Chair at the Table"144
1946"Don't Be a Baby, Baby"123
"I Don't Know Enough About You"7
"There's No One But You"22
"I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home"12
1947"Across the Alley from the Alamo" (lyrics by Joe Greene)22
"Dream, Dream, Dream"5
"OhMy Achin' Heart"21
"When You Were Sweet Sixteen"15
1948"Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)"10
"S-H-I-N-E"10
"Gloria"17
1949"I Love You So Much It Hurts Me"88
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"9
"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)"5
"Who'll Be the Next One (To Cry Over You)"24
1950"Daddy's Little Girl"5
"Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)"4
1952"Be My Life's Companion"7
"The Glow-Worm"1110
"Lazy River"22
1953"Twice as Much"1427
"Say "Si Si""1219
"Pretty Butterfly"21
"Who Put the Devil in Evelyn's Eyes"23
"The Jones Boy"1511
1954"She Was Five and He Was Ten"2727
"You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me (So Why Do You Want Me Now)"22
"A Carnival in Venice"2632
"Go In and Out the Window"41
"How Blue?"2537
1955"Suddenly There's a Valley"45
"Opus One"29
"Smack Dab in the Middle"29
1956"All the Way 'Round the World"63
"Standing on the Corner"57
1957"Queen of the Senior Prom"3941
1958"Get a Job"21
1959"Yellow Bird"7084
1968"Cab Driver"23213
"My Shy Violet"73734
"The Ol' Race Track"837816
1969"The Jimtown Road"13113
"Dream"111
1970"It Ain't No Big Thing"64
1972"Sally Sunshine"118
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Mills Brothers Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography. Music VF. November 21, 2022.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel. The Comparison Book Billboard/Cash Box/Record World 1954-1982. Sheridan Books. 2015. 978-0-89820-213-7.
  3. Web site: MILLS BROTHERS - full Official Chart History. Official Charts Company. November 21, 2022.