Thelma Houston discography

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Thelma Houston discography
Studio albums17
Live albums1
Compilation albums5
Singles56

This is the discography of American singer Thelma Houston.

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
US R&B
[2]
AUS
[3]
GER
[4]
CAN
[5]
SWE
[6]
Sunshower 50
Thelma Houston
  • Released: July 1972
  • Label: MoWest
  • Formats: LP
I've Got the Music in Me
  • Released: December 1975
  • Label: Sheffield Lab
  • Formats: LP
  • With Pressure Cooker
Any Way You Like It
  • Released: October 28, 1976
  • Label: Tamla
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
11 5 18 25 9 21
Thelma & Jerry 53 20
The Devil in Me
  • Released: October 18, 1977
  • Label: Tamla
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
64 29 64
Two to One
  • Released: June 1978
  • Label: Motown
  • Formats: LP, MC
  • With Jerry Butler
Ready to Roll
  • Released: October 20, 1978
  • Label: Tamla
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
74
Ride to the Rainbow
  • Released: May 22, 1979
  • Label: Tamla
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
Breakwater Cat
  • Released: January 1980
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP, MC
Never Gonna Be Another One
  • Released: May 1981
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
144 51
Reachin' All Around
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Motown
  • Formats: LP
Thelma Houston
  • Released: March 1983
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP, MC
Qualifying Heat
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: MCA
  • Formats: LP, MC
30
Throw You Down
  • Released: October 1990
  • Label: Reprise
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Thelma Houston
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Fonit Cetra
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • Italy-only release
A Woman's Touch
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums[edit]

Title Album details
Divas of Disco: Live

Compilation albums[edit]

Title Album details
Thelma Houston
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Motown
  • Formats: LP, MC
Best of Thelma Houston
  • Released: May 1991
  • Label: Motown
  • Formats: CD, MC
Don't Leave Me This Way
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Spectrum
  • Formats: CD
The Best of Thelma Houston
  • Released: August 1998
  • Label: Spectrum Music
  • Formats: CD
The Best of Thelma Houston

Singles[edit]

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
[7][8]
US Dance
[9]
US R&B
[10]
AUS
[3][11]
BEL (FL)
[12]
BEL (WA)
[13]
CAN
[14]
NL
[15]
NZ
[16]
UK
[17][18]
"Baby Mine" 1966 Non-album singles
"Don't Cry My Soldier Boy" 1967
"If This Was the Last Song" 1969 Sunshower
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
"Save the Country" 74 74 Non-album singles
"I Just Wanna Be Me" (UK-only release) 1970
"Ride, Louie, Ride"
"I Want to Go Back There Again" 1971
"Me and Bobby McGee" 1972 Thelma Houston
"No One's Gonna Be a Fool Forever" 56[A]
"Piano Man" 1973 44 Non-album singles
"Do You Know Where You're Going To" (New Zealand-only release)
"You've Been Doing Wrong for So Long" 1974 64
"The Bingo Long Song (Steal on Home)" 1976
"One Out of Every Six"
"Don't Leave Me This Way" 1 1[B] 1 6 7 1 4 4 17 13 Any Way You Like It
"If It's the Last Thing I Do" 1977 47 12 81
"Anyway You Like It" (Netherlands and France-only release) 1[B]
"It's a Lifetime Thing" (with Jerry Butler) 84 Thelma & Jerry
"I'm Here Again" 18 21 49 The Devil in Me
"I Can't Go On Living Without Your Love" 1978
"Don't Know Why I Love You" (Netherlands and Germany-only release) Any Way You Like It
"I'm Not Strong Enough to Love You Again" Two to One
"Don't Pity Me" (UK-only release)
"Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" 1979 34 33 19 38 14 Ride to the Rainbow
"Suspicious Minds" 1980 Breakwater Cat
"If You Feel It" 1981 6 35 19 42 48 Never Gonna Be Another One
"96 Tears" 22 76
"Working Girl" 1983 46 Thelma Houston
"Just Like All the Rest" 80
"(I Guess) It Must Be Love" 1984 59 80 Qualifying Heat
"You Used to Hold Me So Tight" 7 13 49
"I'd Rather Spend the Bad Times with You Than Spend the Good Times with Someone New" 1985 4
"Fantasy and Heartbreak"
"Lean on Me" (with the Winans) 1989 73 Lean on Me (soundtrack)
"High" 1990 66 Throw You Down
"Out of My Hands" 82
"Throw You Down" 5
"Hold On" Non-album singles
"Keep the Candle Burning" (Mathou featuring Thelma Houston) 1993
"Don't Leave Me This Way" (remix) 1994 19 83 35 Thelma Houston
"I Need Somebody Tonight" 1996 195 Non-album singles
"All of That"
"Don't Leave Me This Way" (Soultans featuring Thelma Houston) 2002
"I Need Somebody" (Sessomatto featuring Thelma Houston) 2003
"Brand New Day" 2007 A Woman's Touch
"Regrets" 2011 Summer Nights
"Slippin' Up Slippin' Around"
"Gliding on Love" Non-album singles
"Enemy" (with Janitor) 2013
"Leave My Baby" (Joe T. Vannelli featuring Thelma Houston) 2017
"I Still Love You" (featuring Rodney Houston) 2019
"Oh Happy Day" (with CeCe Peniston & Phoebe Snow)
"Turn Your World Around" (with Bimbo Jones) 2020 7
"Someone Is Standing Outside" (featuring Jimmy Webb)
"I Still Love You" (featuring E. White) 2021
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Chart position is from the UK "Breakers List".
  2. ^ a b "Don't Leave Me This Way" and "Anyway You Like It" jointly topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Thelma Houston – Billboard 200". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Albums 1965–1998. Record Research. p. 89. ISBN 0898201349.
  3. ^ a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 142. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. ^ "Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  5. ^ Peak positions for Thelma Houston's albums in Canada:
  6. ^ "swedishcharts.com - Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  7. ^ "Thelma Houston – The Hot 100". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–1981. Record Research. p. 86. ISBN 9780898200478.
  9. ^ "Thelma Houston – Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  10. ^ "Thelma Houston – Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  11. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 132.
  12. ^ "ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  13. ^ "ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  14. ^ Peak positions for Thelma Houston's singles in Canada:
  15. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  16. ^ "charts.org.nz - New Zealand charts portal". charts.nz. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  17. ^ "THELMA HOUSTON | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  18. ^ "Chart Log UK: H & Claire- Hysterix". www.zobbel.de. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2022.