Charles Brown

Biography

Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1949 and 1952, Brown had seven Top 10 hits in the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. His best-selling recordings included "Driftin' Blues×Driftin' Blues1989 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Driftin'4:002Our Day Will Come3:073Go Away Little Girl4:394Days of Wine and Roses3:325My Silent Love3:266Throught the Courtesy of Love4:087Since I Fell for You4:118More (Theme From Mondo Cane)2:339So Long2:5910You Are My First Love2:5211To You My Love3:4312Not in My Wildest Dreams3:16", "Merry Christmas Baby×Merry Christmas Baby1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby3:432Please Come Home for Christmas2:333Christmas in Heaven2:174Just a Blessing3:345The Bells3:046Christmas in Vietnam3:117Lonesome Christmas, Part 13:048Christmas Blues2:149Saint Nick3:2010Santa Claus, Santa Claus3:2511Happy Holiday4:3612Lonesome Christmas, Part 22:3313Bing Bong2:59" and "Please Come Home for Christmas×Please Come Home for Christmas1988 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Please Come Home for Christmas2:472Christmas in Heaven2:333Christmas Blues2:534I'll Be Home for Christmas2:275It's Christmas Time2:496Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package2:117Blue Christmas3:238Christmas Questions2:339Merry Christmas Baby3:2210Bringing in a Brand New Year2:0811The Christmas Song3:0412Christmas Comes but Once a Year2:2013It's Christmas All Year Round2:5914Christmas With No One to Love3:1015Winter Wonderland2:3116Let's Make Every Day a Christmas Day2:26".
For his contribution in blues genere, Brown was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame (1996) and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999). Through his career, Brown received three Grammy Award nominations for Best Traditional Blues Album for the albums All My Life×All My Life1990 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Early in the Morning4:422Fool's Paradise4:533Bad Bad Whiskey3:204When the Sun Comes Out5:005Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen3:086That's a Pretty Good Love3:347A Virus Called the Blues6:538Seven Long Days3:589Joyce's Boogie2:3110Trouble Blues3:0811Tell Me Who2:3412All My Life4:1213Too Late4:33 (1990), Someone To Love×Someone to Love1992 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 9 tracks1Someone to Love4:452I Wonder How She Knows7:393Don't Drive Me Away4:004Not So Far6:305Tell Me You'll Wait for Me4:536Be Sharp You'll See6:007Every Little Bit Hurts4:368I Want to Go Home3:489I Don't Want to Get Adjusted4:09 (1992) and Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues×Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues1994 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby4:492Santa's Blues3:263Blue Holiday4:364Silent Night4:565Christmas Comes but Once a Year4:206Please Come Home for Christmas3:197A Song for Christmas6:208Stay With Me4:479To Someone That I Love4:5110Christmas in Heaven4:0011Bringing in a Brand New Year5:31 (1996), and won three Blues Music Awards.

Early life

Brown was born in Texas City, Texas, United States. His mother died shortly after Brown's birth and he was raised by his grandparents. As a child he loved music and received classical music training on the piano. He graduated from Central High School in Galveston, Texas, in 1939 and Prairie View A&M College in 1942 with a degree in chemistry. He then became a chemistry teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Baytown, Texas, a mustard gas worker at the Pine Bluff Arsenal at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and an apprentice electrician at a shipyard in Richmond, California, before settling in Los Angeles in 1943.

Early success with Johnny Moore

In Los Angeles, an influx of African Americans from the South during World War II created an integrated nightclub scene in which black performers tended to minimize the rougher blues elements of their style. The blues-club style of a light rhythm bass and right-hand tinkling of the piano and smooth vocals became popular, epitomized by the jazz piano of Nat King Cole. When Cole left Los Angeles to perform nationally, his place was taken by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, featuring Brown's gentle piano and vocals.
The Three Blazers signed with Exclusive Records, and their 1945 recording of "Drifting Blues×Drifting Blues2015 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 18 tracks1Drifting Blues2Seven Kisses Mambo3Fools Paradise4Please Don't Drive Me Away5By the Bend of the River6I'm Saving My Love for You7Nite After Nite8Rising Sun9My Heart Is Mended10Rolling Like a Pebble in the Sand11Evening Shadows12Honeysipper13Get Yourself Another Fool14Trouble Blues15In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down16Black Nite17Seven Long Days18Merry Christmas, Baby", with Brown on piano and vocals, stayed on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart for six months, putting Brown at the forefront of a musical evolution that changed American musical performance. Brown led the group in a series of further hits for Aladdin over the next three years, including "New Orleans Blues" and the original version of "Merry Christmas Baby×Merry Christmas Baby1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby3:432Please Come Home for Christmas2:333Christmas in Heaven2:174Just a Blessing3:345The Bells3:046Christmas in Vietnam3:117Lonesome Christmas, Part 13:048Christmas Blues2:149Saint Nick3:2010Santa Claus, Santa Claus3:2511Happy Holiday4:3612Lonesome Christmas, Part 22:3313Bing Bong2:59" (both in 1947) and "More Than You Know" (1948). Brown's style dominated the influential Southern California club scene on Central Avenue, in Los Angeles, during that period. He influenced such performers as Floyd Dixon, Cecil Gant, Ivory Joe Hunter, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Ace and Ray Charles.

Solo success

In the late 1940s, a rising demand for blues was driven by a growing audience among white teenagers in the South, which quickly spread north and west. Blues singers such as Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris and Roy Brown were getting much of the attention, but what writer Charles Keil dubs "the postwar Texas clean-up movement in blues" was also beginning to have an influence, driven by blues artists such as T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn and Brown. Their singing was lighter and more relaxed, and they worked with bands and combos that had saxophone sections and played from arrangements.
Brown left the Three Blazers in 1948 and formed his own trio with Eddie Williams (bass) and Charles Norris (guitar). He signed with Aladdin Records and had immediate success with "Get Yourself Another Fool" and then had one of his biggest hits, "Trouble Blues×Trouble Blues2000 · Album · CompilationSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 25 tracks1Pasadena2Tonight I'm Alone3Driftin' Blues4Rate Track Blues5Rocks in My Bed6So Long7You Won't Let Me Go8More Than You Know9Sail on Blues10Vlue Because I Love You11When Your Love Has Gone12Sunny Road13Bobby Box Blues14Juke Box Lil15Changeable Woman Blues16(original) Merry Christmas Blues17Don't Get Salty Sugar18Money' Getting Cheaper19Goovy Movie Blues20Snuff Dippin' Mama21R & O Blues22My Last Affair23Get Yourself Another Fool24In the Evening25Trouble Blues", in 1949, which stayed at number one on the Billboard R&B chart for 15 weeks in the summer of that year. He followed with "In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down", "Homesick Blues", and "My Baby's Gone", before having another R&B chart-topping hit with "Black Night", which stayed at number one for 14 weeks from March to June 1951.
His final hit for several years was "Hard Times" in 1951. Brown's approach was too mellow to survive the transition to the harsher rhythms of rock and roll, despite his recording in Cosimo Matassa's New Orleans studio in 1956, and he faded from national attention. Though he was unable to compete with the more aggressive sound that was increasing in popularity, he had a small, devoted audience, and his songs were covered by the likes of John Lee Hooker and Lowell Fulson.
His "Please Come Home for Christmas×Please Come Home for Christmas1988 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Please Come Home for Christmas2:472Christmas in Heaven2:333Christmas Blues2:534I'll Be Home for Christmas2:275It's Christmas Time2:496Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package2:117Blue Christmas3:238Christmas Questions2:339Merry Christmas Baby3:2210Bringing in a Brand New Year2:0811The Christmas Song3:0412Christmas Comes but Once a Year2:2013It's Christmas All Year Round2:5914Christmas With No One to Love3:1015Winter Wonderland2:3116Let's Make Every Day a Christmas Day2:26", a hit for King Records in 1960, remained seasonally popular. "Please Come Home for Christmas" had sold over one million copies by 1968 and was awarded a gold disc in that year.
In the 1960s Brown recorded two albums for Mainstream Records.

Later career

In the 1980s Brown made a series of appearances at the New York City nightclub Tramps. As a result of these appearances he signed a recording contract with Blue Side Records and recorded One More for the Road in three days. Blue Side Records closed soon after, but distribution of its records was picked up by Alligator Records. Soon after the success of One More for the Road, Bonnie Raitt helped usher in a comeback tour for Brown.
He began a recording and performing career again, under the musical direction of the guitarist Danny Caron, to greater success than he had achieved since the 1950s. Other members of Charles's touring ensemble included Clifford Solomon on tenor saxophone, Ruth Davies on bass and Gaylord Birch on drums. Several records received Grammy Award nominations. In the 1980s Brown toured widely as the opening act for Raitt.

Tributes and awards

Brown was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1996 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. He was a recipient of a 1997 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States.
Brown was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album three times: in 1991 for All My Life×All My Life1990 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Early in the Morning4:422Fool's Paradise4:533Bad Bad Whiskey3:204When the Sun Comes Out5:005Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen3:086That's a Pretty Good Love3:347A Virus Called the Blues6:538Seven Long Days3:589Joyce's Boogie2:3110Trouble Blues3:0811Tell Me Who2:3412All My Life4:1213Too Late4:33, 1992 for Someone To Love×Someone to Love1992 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 9 tracks1Someone to Love4:452I Wonder How She Knows7:393Don't Drive Me Away4:004Not So Far6:305Tell Me You'll Wait for Me4:536Be Sharp You'll See6:007Every Little Bit Hurts4:368I Want to Go Home3:489I Don't Want to Get Adjusted4:09 and 1995 for Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues. Between 1987 and 2005, he was nominated for seventeen Blues Music Awards (formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards) in multiple categories, with a win in the Blues Instrumentalist: Piano/Keyboard category in 1991, and wins in the Male Blues Vocalist category in 1993 and 1995.

Death

Brown died of congestive heart failure in 1999 in Oakland, California. He was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, in Inglewood, California.

As leader

Mood Music (Aladdin, 1952) [10" LP]
Drifting Blues (Score, 1957)
Sings Christmas Songs (King, 1961)
The Great Charles Brown That Will Grip Your Heart (King, 1963)
Boss of the Blues (Mainstream, 1964)
Ballads My Way (Mainstream, 1965)
Legend! (ABC-Bluesway, 1970)
Blues 'n' Brown (Jewel, 1972)
Great Rhythm & Blues Oldies, Volume 2: Charles Brown (Blues Spectrum, 1974)
Merry Christmas Baby (Big Town, 1977)
Music, Maestro, Please (Big Town, 1978)
Please Come Home for Christmas (King/Starday/Gusto, 1978)
One More for the Road (Blue Side, 1986; Alligator, 1989)
All My Life (Bullseye Blues/Rounder, 1990)
Someone to Love (Bullseye Blues, 1992)
Blues and Other Love Songs (Muse, 1992; 32 Jazz, 2000)
These Blues (Gitanes/Verve, 1994)
Just a Lucky So and So (Bullseye Blues, 1994)
Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues (Bullseye Blues, 1994)
Live (Charly Blues Legends Live, Vol. 8) (Charly Blues, 1995)
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz With Guest: Charles Brown (TJA/The Jazz Alliance, 1995)
Honey Dripper (Gitanes/Verve, 1996)
So Goes Love (Gitanes/Verve, 1998)
In a Grand Style (Bullseye Blues, 1999)

Aladdin releases

3020 "Get Yourself Another Fool" (RR609) b/w "Ooh! Ooh! Sugar" (RR608), 1948, released 1949 (Billboard R&B chart No. 4)
3021 "A Long Time" (RR617) (Billboard R&B chart No. 9) b/w "It's Nothing" (RR612), 1949 (Billboard R&B chart No. 13)
3024 "Trouble Blues×Trouble Blues2000 · Album · CompilationSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 25 tracks1Pasadena2Tonight I'm Alone3Driftin' Blues4Rate Track Blues5Rocks in My Bed6So Long7You Won't Let Me Go8More Than You Know9Sail on Blues10Vlue Because I Love You11When Your Love Has Gone12Sunny Road13Bobby Box Blues14Juke Box Lil15Changeable Woman Blues16(original) Merry Christmas Blues17Don't Get Salty Sugar18Money' Getting Cheaper19Goovy Movie Blues20Snuff Dippin' Mama21R & O Blues22My Last Affair23Get Yourself Another Fool24In the Evening25Trouble Blues" (RR613) b/w "Honey Keep Your Mind on Me" (RR600), 1949 (Billboard R&B chart No. 1, 15 weeks)
3030 "In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down" (RR611) b/w "Please Be Kind" (RR616), 1949 (Billboard R&B chart No. 4)
3039 "Homesick Blues" (RR603) b/w "Let's Have a Ball" (RR677), 1949 (billed as Charles Brown & His Smarties) (Billboard R&B chart No. 5)
3044 "Tormented" (RR673) b/w "Did You Ever Love a Woman" (RR679), 1949, released 1950
3051 "My Baby's Gone" (RR1521) b/w "I Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home" (RR604), 1950 (Billboard R&B chart No. 6)
3060 "Repentance Blues" (RR1522) b/w "I've Got That Old Feeling" (RR1529), 1950
3066 "I've Made Up My Mind" (RR1528) b/w "Again" (RR1520), 1950
3071 "Texas Blues" (RR1525) b/w "How High the Moon" (RR607), 1950
3076 "Black Night" (RR1619) b/w "Once There Lived a Fool" (RR1623), 1950, released 1951 (Billboard R&B chart No. 1, 14 weeks)
3091 "I'll Always Be in Love with You" (RR1621) b/w "The Message" (RR1648), 1950, released 1951 (Billboard R&B chart No. 7)
3092 "Seven Long Days" (RR1620) b/w "Don't Fool with My Heart" (RR1527), 1950, released 1951 (Billboard R&B chart No. 2)
3116 "Hard Times" (RR1752) b/w "Tender Heart" (RR1750), 1951, released 1952 (Billboard R&B chart No. 7)
3120 "Still Water" (RR1751) b/w "My Last Affair" (RR602), 1951, released 1952
3138 "Gee" (RR1523) b/w "Without Your Love (RR1531), 1950, released 1952
3157 "Rollin' Like a Pebble in the Sand" (RR2018) b/w "Alley Batting" (RR674), 1952
3163 "Evening Shadows" (RR2017) b/w "Moonrise" (RR1650), 1952
3176 "Rising Sun" (RR2019) b/w "Take Me" (RR676), 1952, released 1953
3191 "I Lost Everything" (UN2125) b/w "Lonesome Feeling" (UN2127), 1953
3200 "Don't Leave Poor Me" (UN2126) b/w "All My Life×All My Life1990 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Early in the Morning4:422Fool's Paradise4:533Bad Bad Whiskey3:204When the Sun Comes Out5:005Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen3:086That's a Pretty Good Love3:347A Virus Called the Blues6:538Seven Long Days3:589Joyce's Boogie2:3110Trouble Blues3:0811Tell Me Who2:3412All My Life4:1213Too Late4:33" (RR1649), not released
3209 "Cryin' and Driftin' Blues" (RR2212) b/w "P.S. I Love You" (RR2215), 1953 (billed as Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers)
3220 "Everybody's Got Troubles (RR2254) b/w "I Want to Fool Around with You" (RR2257), 1953, released 1954 (billed as Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers)
3235 "Let's Walk" (RR2253) b/w "Cryin' Mercy" (RR2214), 1953, released 1954 (billed as Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers)
3235 "Let's Walk" (RR2253) b/w "Blazer's Boogie" (111B) (re-release) 1953, released 1954 (billed as Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers)
3254 "My Silent Love (RR2255) b/w "Foolish" (RR601), 1953, released 1954 (billed as Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers)
3272 "Honey Sipper" (RR2328) b/w "By the Bend of the River" (RR2329), 1954
3284 "Nite After Nite" (RR2331) b/w "Walk with Me" (RR2332), 1954, released 1955
3290 "Fool's Paradise" (CAP2486) b/w "Hot Lips and Seven Kisses (Mambo)" (CAP2484), 1955 (billed as Charles Brown with Ernie Freeman's Combo)
3296 "My Heart Is Mended" (CAP2483) b/w "Trees, Trees" (CAP2487), 1955 (billed as Charles Brown with Ernie Freeman's Combo)
3316 "Please Don't Drive Me Away" (CAP2489) b/w "One Minute to One" (CAP2488), 1955, released 1956 (billed as Charles Brown with Ernie Freeman's Combo)
3339 "I'll Always Be in Love with You" (NO2725) (re-recording) b/w "Soothe Me" (NO2726), 1956
3342 "Confidential" (NO2754) b/w "Trouble Blues" (reissue), 1956
3348 "Merry Christmas Baby×Merry Christmas Baby1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby3:432Please Come Home for Christmas2:333Christmas in Heaven2:174Just a Blessing3:345The Bells3:046Christmas in Vietnam3:117Lonesome Christmas, Part 13:048Christmas Blues2:149Saint Nick3:2010Santa Claus, Santa Claus3:2511Happy Holiday4:3612Lonesome Christmas, Part 22:3313Bing Bong2:59" (NO2730) (re-recording) b/w "Black Night" (reissue), 1956
3348 "Black Night" (reissue) b/w "Ooh! Ooh! Sugar" (reissue), 1957 (post-Christmas re-release)
3366 "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" (NO2727) b/w "Please Believe Me" (NO2728), 1956, released 1957
3422 "Hard Times" (reissue) b/w "Ooh! Ooh! Sugar" (reissue), 1958

Imperial releases

5830 "Fool's Paradise" (reissue) b/w "Lonesome Feeling" (reissue), 1962
5902 "Merry Christmas Baby×Merry Christmas Baby1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby3:432Please Come Home for Christmas2:333Christmas in Heaven2:174Just a Blessing3:345The Bells3:046Christmas in Vietnam3:117Lonesome Christmas, Part 13:048Christmas Blues2:149Saint Nick3:2010Santa Claus, Santa Claus3:2511Happy Holiday4:3612Lonesome Christmas, Part 22:3313Bing Bong2:59" (reissue) b/w "I Lost Everything" (reissue), 1962
5905 "Drifting Blues×Drifting Blues2015 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 18 tracks1Drifting Blues2Seven Kisses Mambo3Fools Paradise4Please Don't Drive Me Away5By the Bend of the River6I'm Saving My Love for You7Nite After Nite8Rising Sun9My Heart Is Mended10Rolling Like a Pebble in the Sand11Evening Shadows12Honeysipper13Get Yourself Another Fool14Trouble Blues15In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down16Black Nite17Seven Long Days18Merry Christmas, Baby" (reissue) b/w "Black Night" (reissue), 1963
5961 "Please Don't Drive Me Away" (reissue) b/w "I'm Savin' My Love for You" (RR2330), 1963

East West (Atlantic subsidiary) release

106 "When Did You Leave Heaven" (EW-2753) b/w "We've Got a Lot in Common" (EW-2755), 1957, released 1958

Ace releases

561 "I Want to Go Home" (with Amos Milburn) (S-253) b/w "Educated Fool" (with Amos Milburn) (S-254), 1959
599 "Sing My Blues Tonight" (S-843) b/w "Love's Like a River" (S-844), 1960

Teem (Ace subsidiary) release

1008 "Merry Christmas Baby×Merry Christmas Baby1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby3:432Please Come Home for Christmas2:333Christmas in Heaven2:174Just a Blessing3:345The Bells3:046Christmas in Vietnam3:117Lonesome Christmas, Part 13:048Christmas Blues2:149Saint Nick3:2010Santa Claus, Santa Claus3:2511Happy Holiday4:3612Lonesome Christmas, Part 22:3313Bing Bong2:59" (A-1113-63) b/w "Christmas Finds Me Oh So Sad (Please Come Home for Christmas)" (A-1114-63), 1961, released 1963

King releases

5405 Charles Brown, "Please Come Home for Christmas×Please Come Home for Christmas1988 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Please Come Home for Christmas2:472Christmas in Heaven2:333Christmas Blues2:534I'll Be Home for Christmas2:275It's Christmas Time2:496Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package2:117Blue Christmas3:238Christmas Questions2:339Merry Christmas Baby3:2210Bringing in a Brand New Year2:0811The Christmas Song3:0412Christmas Comes but Once a Year2:2013It's Christmas All Year Round2:5914Christmas With No One to Love3:1015Winter Wonderland2:3116Let's Make Every Day a Christmas Day2:26" (K4912) b/w Amos Milburn, "Christmas Comes but Once a Year" (K4913), 1960
5439 "Baby Oh Baby" (K4992) b/w "Angel Baby" (K4993), 1961
5464 "I Wanna Go Back Home" (with Amos Milburn) (K10607) b/w "My Little Baby" (with Amos Milburn) (K10608), 1961
5523 "This Fool Has Learned" (K10892) b/w "Butterfly" (K10893), 1961
5530 "It's Christmas All Year Round" (K10897) b/w "Christmas in Heaven" (K10947), 1961
5570 "Without a Friend" (K10983) b/w "If You Play with Cats" (K10984), 1961
5722 "I'm Just a Drifter" (K11405) b/w "I Don't Want Your Rambling Letters" (K11406), 1963
5726 "It's Christmas Time" (K10898) b/w "Christmas Finds Me Lonely Wanting You" (K10950), 1961, released 1963
5731 "Christmas Questions" (K10954) b/w "Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package" (K10956), 1961, released 1963
5802 "If You Don't Believe I'm Crying (Take a Look at My Eyes)" (K11687) b/w "I Wanna Be Close" (K11689), 1964
5825 "Lucky Dreamer" (K11688) b/w "Too Fine for Crying" (K11690), 1964
5852 "Come Home" (K11691) b/w "Blow Out All the Candles (Happy Birthday to You)" (K11692), 1964
5946 "Christmas Blues" (K10948) b/w "My Most Miserable Christmas" (K10955), 1961, released 1964
5947 "Christmas Comes but Once a Year" (K10951) b/w "Bringing In a Brand New Year" (K10949), 1961, released 1964

Mainstream release

607 "Pledging My Love" (R5KM-7389) b/w "Tomorrow Night" (R5KM-7390), 1965

Ace release

775 "Please Come Home for Christmas×Please Come Home for Christmas1988 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1Please Come Home for Christmas2:472Christmas in Heaven2:333Christmas Blues2:534I'll Be Home for Christmas2:275It's Christmas Time2:496Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package2:117Blue Christmas3:238Christmas Questions2:339Merry Christmas Baby3:2210Bringing in a Brand New Year2:0811The Christmas Song3:0412Christmas Comes but Once a Year2:2013It's Christmas All Year Round2:5914Christmas With No One to Love3:1015Winter Wonderland2:3116Let's Make Every Day a Christmas Day2:26" (92772-A) (reissue) b/w "Merry Christmas Baby×Merry Christmas Baby1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby3:432Please Come Home for Christmas2:333Christmas in Heaven2:174Just a Blessing3:345The Bells3:046Christmas in Vietnam3:117Lonesome Christmas, Part 13:048Christmas Blues2:149Saint Nick3:2010Santa Claus, Santa Claus3:2511Happy Holiday4:3612Lonesome Christmas, Part 22:3313Bing Bong2:59" (92772-1B) (reissue), 1966

King releases

6094 "Regardless" (K12330) b/w "The Plan" (K12331), 1967
6192 "Hang On a Little Longer" (K12723) b/w "Black Night" (K12724) (re-recording), 1968
6194 "Merry Christmas Baby×Merry Christmas Baby1996 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Merry Christmas Baby3:432Please Come Home for Christmas2:333Christmas in Heaven2:174Just a Blessing3:345The Bells3:046Christmas in Vietnam3:117Lonesome Christmas, Part 13:048Christmas Blues2:149Saint Nick3:2010Santa Claus, Santa Claus3:2511Happy Holiday4:3612Lonesome Christmas, Part 22:3313Bing Bong2:59" (K12725) (re-recording) b/w "Let's Make Every Day a Christmas Day" (K10946), 1968
6420 "For the Good Times" (K14276) b/w "Lonesome and Driftin'" (K14277), 1973