Mills Brothers discography

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

Albums

  • Famous Barber Shop Ballads Volume One (Decca, 1946)
  • Famous Barber Shop Ballads Volume Two (Decca, 1949)
  • Souvenir Album (Decca, 1950)
  • Wonderful Words (Decca, 1951)
  • Meet the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1953)
  • Four Boys and a Guitar (Decca, 1954)
  • Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1954)
  • Singin' and Swingin' (Decca, 1956)
  • Memory Lane (Decca, 1956)
  • One Dozen Roses (Decca, 1957)
  • The Mills Brothers in Hi-Fi: Barbershop Ballads (Decca, 1958)
  • In a Mellow Tone (Vocalion, 1958)
  • Mmmm...The Mills Brothers (Dot, 1958)
  • Great Hits (Dot, 1958)
  • Sing (London, 1959)
  • Merry Christmas (Dot, 1959)
  • Greatest Barbershop Hits (Dot, 1959)
  • Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Dot, 1959)
  • Glow with the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1959)
  • Harmonizin' With (Decca, 1959)
  • Barbershop Harmony (Decca, 1960)
  • Our Golden Favorites (Decca, 1960)
  • San Antonio Rose (Dot, 1961)
  • Yellow Bird (Dot, 1961)
  • Great Hawaiian Hits (Dot, 1961)
  • Sing Beer Barrel Polka and Other Golden Hits (Dot, 1962)
  • The End of the World (Dot, 1963)
  • Say Si Si (Dot, 1964)
  • Gems by the Mills Brothers (Dot, 1964)
  • Sing for You (Hamilton, 1964)
  • The Mills Brothers Today! (Dot, 1965)
  • The Mills Brothers in Tivoli (Dot, 1966)
  • These Are the Mills Brothers (Dot, 1966)
  • Anytime! (Pickwick, 1967)
  • The Board of Directors with Count Basie (Dot, 1967)
  • London Rhythm (Ace of Clubs, 1967)
  • The Board of Directors Annual Report with Count Basie (Dot, 1968)
  • My Shy Violet (Dot, 1968)
  • Fortuosity with Sy Oliver (Dot, 1968)
  • Dream a Little Dream of Me (Pickwick, 1968)
  • Till We Meet Again (Pickwick, 1968)
  • Dream (Dot, 1969)
  • The Mills Brothers in Motion (Dot, 1969)
  • Cab Driver, Paper Doll, My Shy Violet (Pickwick, 1969)
  • No Turnin' Back (Paramount, 1970)
  • What a Wonderful World (Paramount, 1972)
  • A Donut and a Dream (Paramount, 1972)
  • Louis and the Mills Brothers (MCA Coral, 1973)
  • Half a Sixpence with Count Basie (Vogue, 1973)
  • Opus One (Rediffusion, 1973)
  • Cab Driver (Ranwood, 1974)
  • Inspiration (ABC Songbird, 1974)
  • 50th Anniversary (Ranwood, 1976)
  • The Mills Brothers (Pickwick, 1976)

Singles

Year Single Chart positions
US
[1]
US C/B
[2]
US R&B
[1]
US A/C
[1]
US Country
[1]
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) 1 — 2 — — —
"I'll Be Around" 17 — — — — —
1944 "You Always Hurt the One You Love" 1 — 5 — — —
"Till Then" 8 — 1 — — —
1945 "I Wish" 6 — 4 — — —
"Put Another Chair at the Table" 14 — 4 — — —
1946 "Don't Be a Baby, Baby" 12 — 3 — — —
"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) 2 — 2 — — —
"Dream, Dream, Dream" — — 5 — — —
"Oh! My 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" 8 — 8 — — —
"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" 1 1 — — — 10
"Lazy River" 22 — — — — —
1953 "Twice as Much" 14 27 — — — —
"Say "Si Si"" 12 19 — — — —
"Pretty Butterfly" 21 — — — — —
"Who Put the Devil in Evelyn's Eyes" 23 — — — — —
"The Jones Boy" 15 11 — — — —
1954 "She Was Five and He Was Ten" 27 27 — — — —
"You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me (So Why Do You Want Me Now)" 22 — — — — —
"A Carnival in Venice" 26 32 — — — —
"Go In and Out the Window" 41 — — — —
"How Blue?" 25 37 — — — —
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" 39 41 — — — —
1958 "Get a Job" 21 — — — — —
1959 "Yellow Bird" 70 84 — — — —
1968 "Cab Driver" 23 21 — 3 — —
"My Shy Violet" 73 73 — 4 — —
"The Ol' Race Track" 83 78 — 16 — —
1969 "The Jimtown Road" — 131 — 13 — —
"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.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "The Mills Brothers Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography". Music VF. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2015). The Comparison Book Billboard/Cash Box/Record World 1954-1982. Sheridan Books. ISBN 978-0-89820-213-7.
  3. ^ "MILLS BROTHERS - full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 21, 2022.