The discography of American country artist Gail Davies consists of thirteen studio albums, one compilation, one live album, and twenty-five singles. In 1974, she recorded and released one single with A&M Records before signing with Lifesong Records in 1978. Her self-titled debut album was released in November 1978, spawning three singles. The album's first single, a cover Webb Pierce's "No Love Have I", peaked at number twenty six on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It was the third single entitled "Someone Is Looking for Someone Like You" that became Davies' first major hit, reaching the top fifteen on the Billboard country chart in 1979. Dissatisfied with her first album's production techniques, Davies produced her second studio album, The Game. With the album's released in 1980, Davies became the first female country artist to produce her own recordings entirely by herself. "Blue Heartache" was the project's lead single, becoming her first top-ten hit in 1980.
I'll Be There (1981) was her third studio album and became the most commercially successful, peaking at number twenty-seven on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Spawning three singles, "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)", "It's a Lovely, Lovely World", and "Grandma's Song", became top-ten hits on the Hot Country Singles chart. Her next studio album Givin' Herself Away was issued in February 1982. It included the top-ten single, "Round the Clock Lovin'" and a cover of Marty Robbins' "Singing the Blues", which reached the country top twenty. What Can I Say (1983) was her fifth studio release and final recording for Warner Bros. Records, reaching number forty-eight on the country albums chart in 1983. Signing with RCA Nashville in 1984, Where Is a Woman to Go was released on the label that November, reaching a peak of number fifty-seven. The album spawned a total of four singles, including the major hits "Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" and "Break Away". Pretty Words was issued in 1989 on MCA Records, spawning two minor Billboard country singles. While becoming a staff producer for Capitol Nashville in 1990, Davies released her next studio album, The Other Side of Love, through the same label. In the 1990s, she formed her own record label entitled Little Chickadee, releasing three studio albums on the company: Eclectic (1995) and Greatest Hits and Love Ain't Easy (1998). Her 2005 studio album release The Songwriter Sessions compiled forty-five original tracks recorded by Davies throughout her career.
Albums
Studio albums + List of albums, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details Title Album details Peak chartpositionsUS Country Gail Davies Released: November 1978 Label: Lifesong Formats: LP, cassette — The Game Released: January 1980 Label: Warner Bros. Formats: LP, cassette 40 I'll Be There Released: January 1981 Label: Warner Bros. Formats: LP, cassette 27 Givin' Herself Away Released: February 1982 Label: Warner Bros. Formats: LP, cassette 41 What Can I Say Released: November 1983 Label: Warner Bros. Formats: LP, cassette 48 Where Is a Woman to Go Released: November 1984 Label: RCA Nashville Formats: LP, cassette 57 Pretty Words Released: March 1989 Label: MCA Formats: LP, CD, cassette — The Other Side of Love Released: May 10, 1990 Label: Capitol Nashville Formats: Cassette, CD — Eclectic Released: July 18, 1995 Label: Little Chickadee Formats: CD — Greatest Hits Release date: June 16, 1998 Label: Little Chickadee Formats: CD — Love Ain't Easy Released: 1998 Label: Little Chickadee Formats: CD — The Songwriter Sessions Release date: 2003 Label: Little Chickadee Formats: CD — Since I Don't Have You Released: February 24, 2014 Label: Little Chickadee Formats: CD — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Live albums + List of live albums, showing other relevant details Title Album details Live and Unplugged at the Station Inn Release date: September 25, 2001 Label: Little Chickadee Formats: CD
Compilation albums + List of compilation albums, showing all relevant details Title Album details The Best of Gail Davies Release date: February 1, 1991 Label: Liberty Formats: Cassette, CD
Singles + List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing other relevant details Title Year Peak chartpositions AlbumUSCou.CANCou. "Party in My Heart" 1974 — — "No Love Have I" 1978 26 — Gail Davies "Poison Love" 27 — "Someone Is Looking for Someone Like You" 1979 11 — "Blue Heartache" 7 49 The Game "Like Strangers" 1980 21 52 "Good Lovin' Man" 21 — "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" 4 8 I'll Be There "It's a Lovely, Lovely World" 1981 5 11 "Grandma's Song" 9 17 "Round the Clock Lovin'" 1982 9 13 Givin' Herself Away "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" 17 7 "Hold On" 24 — "Singing the Blues" 1983 17 19 "You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)" 18 20 What Can I Say "Boys like You" 1984 19 26 "It's You Alone" 55 — "Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" 20 38 Where Is a Woman to Go "Nothing Can Hurt Me Now" 1985 37 50 "Unwed Fathers" 56 — "Break Away" 15 — "Waiting Here for You" 1989 50 — Pretty Words "Hearts in the Wind" 69 — "Happy Ever After (Comes One Day at a Time)" 1990 — — The Other Side of Love "The Other Side of Love" — 89 "Your Mamma Works So Hard" 1995 — — Eclectic "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Appearances on other artist's albums Year Artist Album 1974 Michael Dinner The Great Pretender 1975 Hoyt Axton Southbound 1976 Tom Pachero Swallowed Up 1977 Hoyt Axton Road Songs 1982 Lacy J. Dalton Dream Baby 1985 Neil Young Old Ways Emmylou Harris The Ballad of Sally Rose 1987 The Whites Greatest Hits 1996 Hugh Moffat The Life of a Minor Poet Emmylou Harris Portraits 1998 Paul Craft Brother Jukebox 2001 Rosie Flores Speed of Sound 2002 Ralph Stanley Clinch Mountain Sweethearts 2003 Ron Davies Where Does the Time Go
Music videos Year Title 1985 "Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" "The Trouble with Love" "Break Away"
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