| Year |
Title |
Label |
Number |
Notes |
| 1940 |
Mule Skinner Blues / Six White Horses |
Bluebird |
Bb 8568 |
– |
| 1940 |
No Letter In the Mail / Cryin’ Holy Unto My Lord |
Bluebird |
Bb 8611 |
– |
| 1940 |
Dog House Blues / Katy Hill |
Bluebird |
Bb 8692 |
– |
| 1940 |
I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do / Tennessee Blues |
Bluebird |
Bb 8813 |
– |
| 1941 |
Blue Yodel No.7 / In the Pines |
Bluebird |
Bb 8861 |
– |
| 1941 |
The Coupon Song / Orange Blossom Special |
Bluebird |
Bb 8893 |
– |
| 1941 |
Shake My Mother’s Hand For Me / Were You There |
Bluebird |
Bb 8953 |
– |
| 1941 |
Honky Tonk Swing / Back Up and Push |
Bluebird |
Bb 8988 |
– |
| 1945 |
Rocky Road Blues / Kentucky Waltz |
Columbia |
20013 |
– |
| 1945 |
True Life Blues / Footprints In the Snow |
Columbia |
20080 |
– |
| 1946 |
Mansions For Me / Mother’s Only Sleeping |
Columbia |
20107 |
– |
| 1946 |
Blue Yodel No.4 / Will You Be Loving Another Man? |
Columbia |
20189 |
– |
| 1946 |
Goodbye Old Pal / Blue Moon of Kentucky |
Columbia |
20370 |
– |
| 1946 |
Blue Grass Special / How Will I Explain About You |
Columbia |
20384 |
– |
| 1947 |
Shine Hallelujah Shine / I’m Travelin’ On and On |
Columbia |
20402 |
– |
| 1947 |
My Rose of Old Kentucky / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong |
Columbia |
20423 |
– |
| 1947 |
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Little Cabin Home On the Hill |
Columbia |
20459 |
– |
| 1947 |
That Home Above / Little Community Church |
Columbia |
20488 |
– |
| 1947 |
Summertime Is Past and Gone / Wicked Path of Sin |
Columbia |
20503 |
– |
| 1948 |
It’s Mighty Dark To Travel / When You Are Lonely |
Columbia |
20526 |
– |
| 1948 |
Toy Heart / Bluegrass Breakdown |
Columbia |
20552 |
– |
| 1948 |
The Old Cross Road / Remember the Cross |
Columbia |
20576 |
– |
| 1948 |
Heavy Traffic Ahead / Along About Daybreak |
Columbia |
20595 |
– |
| 1948 |
I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky / Molly and Tenbrooks |
Columbia |
20612 |
– |
| 1949 |
The Girl In the Blue Velvet Band / Bluegrass Stomp |
Columbia |
20648 |
– |
| 1949 |
Can’t You Hear Me Calling / Travelin’ This Lonesome Road |
Columbia |
20676 |
– |
| 1950 |
New Mule Skinner Blues / My Little Georgia Rose |
Decca |
46222 |
– |
| 1950 |
The Old Fiddler / Alabama Waltz |
Decca |
46236 |
– |
| 1950 |
I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome / Boat of Love |
Decca |
46254 |
– |
| 1950 |
Bluegrass Ramble / Memories of You |
Decca |
46266 |
– |
| 1950 |
Uncle Pen / When the Golden Leaves Begin To Fall |
Decca |
46283 |
– |
| 1951 |
On the Old Kentucky Shore / Poison Love |
Decca |
46298 |
– |
| 1951 |
Lord Protect My Soul / River of Death |
Decca |
46305 |
– |
| 1951 |
Kentucky Waltz / Prisoner’s Song |
Decca |
46314 |
– |
| 1951 |
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Angels Rock Me To Sleep |
Decca |
46325 |
– |
| 1951 |
Rotation Blues / Lonesome Truck Driver’s Blues |
Decca |
46344 |
– |
| 1951 |
I’ll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning / Get Down On Your Knees and Pray |
Decca |
46351 |
– |
| 1951 |
Highway of Sorrow / Sugar Coated Love |
Decca |
46369 |
– |
| 1951 |
Brakeman’s Blues / Travelin’ Blues |
Decca |
46380 |
– |
| 1951 |
Christmas Time’s A-Coming / The First Whippoorwill |
Decca |
46386 |
– |
| 1952 |
Raw Hide / Letter From My Darling |
Decca |
46392 |
– |
| 1952 |
I’m On My Way To the Old Home / The First Whippoorwill |
Decca |
28045 |
– |
| 1952 |
When the Cactus Is In Bloom / Sailor’s Plea |
Decca |
28183 |
– |
| 1952 |
Pike County Breakdown / A Mighty Pretty Waltz |
Decca |
28356 |
– |
| 1952 |
Footprints In the Snow / In the Pines |
Decca |
28416 |
– |
| 1953 |
You’re Drifting Away / Walking In Jerusalem |
Decca |
28608 |
– |
| 1953 |
Cabin of Love / Country Waltz |
Decca |
28749 |
– |
| 1954 |
Memories of Mother and Dad / The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake |
Decca |
28878 |
– |
| 1954 |
I Hope You Have Learned / Wishing Waltz |
Decca |
29009 |
– |
| 1954 |
Y’all Come / Changing Partners |
Decca |
29021 |
– |
| 1954 |
Get Up John / White House Blues |
Decca |
29141 |
– |
| 1954 |
Happy On My Way / He Will Set Your Fields On Fire |
Decca |
29196 |
– |
| 1955 |
Blue Moon of Kentucky / Close By |
Decca |
29289 |
– |
| 1955 |
I’m Working On A Building / A Voice From On High |
Decca |
29348 |
– |
| 1955 |
Cheyenne / Roanoke |
Decca |
29406 |
– |
| 1955 |
Wait A Little Longer, Please Jesus / Let the Light Shine Down On Me |
Decca |
29436 |
– |
| 1956 |
Put My Little Shoes Away / Wheel Hoss |
Decca |
29645 |
– |
| 1956 |
On and On / I Believed In You Darling |
Decca |
29886 |
– |
| 1957 |
You’ll Find Her Name Written There / Sitting Alone In the Moonlight |
Decca |
30178 |
– |
| 1957 |
A Fallen Star / Four Walls |
Decca |
30327 |
– |
| 1958 |
Molly and Tenbrooks / I’m Sitting On the Top of the World |
Decca |
30486 |
– |
| 1958 |
Sally-Jo / Brand New Shoes |
Decca |
30647 |
– |
| 1959 |
Panhandle Country / Scotland |
Decca |
30739 |
– |
| 1959 |
Gotta Travel On / No One But My Darlin’* |
Decca |
30809 |
– |
| 1959 |
Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone / Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day |
Decca |
30944 |
– |
| 1960 |
Lonesome Wind Blues / Come Go With Me |
Decca |
31031 |
– |
| 1961 |
Precious Memories / Jesus Hold My Hand |
Decca |
31107 |
– |
| 1961 |
Linda Lou / Put My Rubber Doll Away |
Decca |
31218 |
– |
| 1961 |
Blue Grass Part 1 / Flowers of Love |
Decca |
31346 |
– |
| 1962 |
Toy Heart / Danny Boy |
Decca |
31409 |
– |
| 1963 |
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / How Will I Explain About You |
Decca |
31456 |
– |
| 1963 |
There Was Nothing We Could Do / Big Sandy River |
Decca |
31487 |
– |
| 1963 |
New John Henry Blues / Devil’s Dream |
Decca |
31540 |
– |
| 1964 |
Darlin’ Corey / Salt Creek |
Decca |
31596 |
– |
| 1964 |
Shenandoah Breakdown / Mary At the Home Place |
Decca |
31658 |
– |
| 1965 |
Jimmie Brown, the Newsboy / Cindy |
Decca |
31802 |
– |
| 1965 |
I Live In the Past / There’s An Old, Old House |
Decca |
31878 |
– |
| 1966 |
Going Home / Master Builder |
Decca |
31943 |
– |
| 1967 |
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again / Pretty Fair Maiden In the Garden |
Decca |
32075 |
– |
| 1968 |
Train 45 / Is the Blue Moon Still Shining |
Decca |
32245 |
– |
| 1968 |
The Gold Rush / Virginia Darlin’ |
Decca |
32404 |
– |
| 1969 |
I Haven’t Seen Mary In Years / Crossing the Cumberlands |
Decca |
32502 |
– |
| 1969 |
Fireball Mail / With Body and Soul |
Decca |
32574 |
– |
| 1970 |
Bonny / Sweet Mary and the MIles In Between |
Decca |
32645 |
– |
| 1970 |
Walk Softly On My Heart / McKinley’s March |
Decca |
32654 |
– |
| 1971 |
Going Up Caney / Tallahassee |
Decca |
32827 |
– |
| 1972 |
My Old Kentucky and You / Lonesome Moonlight Waltz |
Decca |
32966 |
– |
| 1973 |
Foggy Mountain Top / Tall Pines |
MCA Records |
40006 |
– |
| 1973 |
Down Yonder / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot |
MCA Records |
40220 |
– |
| 1977 |
My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling / Monroe’s Blues |
MCA Records |
40675 |
– |
| Year |
Title |
Label |
Number |
Notes |
| 1961 |
The Great Bill Monroe |
Harmony |
HL 7290 |
– |
| 1962 |
My All Time Country Favorites |
Decca |
DL 4327 |
Reissued in Japan as Decca 5086 |
| 1962 |
The Father of Bluegrass Music |
RCA Camden |
CAL 719 |
Reissued as RCA ACL 7059 |
| 1964 |
Bill Monroe’s Best |
Harmony |
HL 7315 |
– |
| 1964 |
Songs With the Bluegrass Boys |
Vocalion |
VL 3702 |
Reissued as Coral CB 20099 |
| 1965 |
Bluegrass Instrumentals |
Decca |
DL 4601 |
Reissued as MCA 104 |
| 1965 |
The Original Bluegrass Sound |
Harmony |
HL 7338 |
– |
| 1965 |
Bluegrass Style |
Vocalion |
VL7 3870 |
Reissued as Coral CB 20077 |
| 1966 |
The High Lonesome Sound |
Decca |
DL 4780 |
Reissued as MCA 110 |
| 1968 |
Greatest Hits |
Decca |
DL7 5010 |
Reissued as MCA 17 |
| 1969 |
Bill Monroe & Charlie Monroe |
Decca |
DL7 5066 |
Reissued as MCA 124 |
| 1969 |
A Voice From On High |
Decca |
DL7 5135 |
Reissued as MCA 131 |
| 1970 |
16 All-time Greatest Hits |
Columbia |
CS 1065 |
– |
| 1970 |
Kentucky Bluegrass |
Decca |
DL7 5213 |
Reissued as MCA 136 |
| 1971 |
Country Music Hall of Fame |
Decca |
DL7 5281 |
Reissued as MCA 140 |
| 1973 |
Greatest Hits |
MCA Records |
5023 |
Japanese issue |
| 1974 |
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1950-60 |
MCA Records |
9224-27 |
4 vol.; Japanese issue – |
| 1975 |
The Best of |
MCA Records |
2 4090 |
Double album |
| 1975 |
Bluegrass Special Vol.1 |
BS |
1 |
French issue |
| 1976 |
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1950-72 |
MCA Records |
9269-71 |
3 vol; Japanese issue – |
| 1976 |
Bluegrass Special Vol.2 |
BS |
3 |
French issue |
| 1976 |
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Vol.1 |
CBS Sony |
20AP11 |
Japanese issue |
| 1976 |
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Vol.2 |
CBS Sony |
20AP12 |
Japanese issue |
| 1976 |
New Greatest Hits |
CBS Sony |
20AP27 |
Japanese issue |
| 1977 |
Sings Bluegrass, Body and Soul |
MCA Records |
2251 |
Reissued as MCA 708 |
| 1978 |
With Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs |
Rounder |
SS 06 |
– |
| 1980 |
Classic Bluegrass Recordings Vol.1 |
County |
CCS 104 |
– |
| 1980 |
Classic Bluegrass Recordings Vol.2 |
County |
CCS 105 |
– |
| 1980 |
Country Hall of Fame |
Coral |
CDL 8505 |
UK issue |
| 1981 |
Singles Collection Vol.1 |
MCA Records |
VIM 4068 |
Japanese issue |
| 1981 |
Singles Collection Vol.2 |
MCA Records |
VIM 4069 |
Japanese issue |
| 1981 |
Singles Collection Vol.3 |
MCA Records |
VIM 4070 |
Japanese issue |
| 1981 |
Singles Collection Vol.4 |
MCA Records |
VIM 4071 |
Japanese issue |
| 1983 |
Bill Monroe 1950-54 |
Collector’s Classics |
CC 18 |
German issue |
| 1984 |
Bill Monroe |
Columbia |
FC 38904 |
– |
| 1985 |
Classic Bluegrass Instrumentals |
Rebel |
850 |
Canadian issue |
| 1987 |
In the Pines |
Rebel |
853 |
Canadian issue reissued as County CCS 114 |
| 1989 |
At His Best |
Hollywood |
HCD 409 |
Reissued on Classic World Production as Greatest Hits |
| 1989 |
Bluegrass 1950-1958 |
Bear Family |
BCD 15423 |
4 vol; German issue |
| 1991 |
Bill Monroe |
MCA Records |
D 10082 |
Part of the Country Music Hall of Fame series |
| 1991 |
Mule Skinner Blues |
RCA Victor |
2494-2-R |
Reissued as Country Legends |
| 1991 |
Bluegrass 1959-1969 |
Bear Family |
BCD 15529 |
4 vol; German issue |
| 1992 |
The Essential |
Columbia |
C2K 52478 |
Double album |
| 1994 |
The Music of Bill Monroe 1936-94 |
MCA Records |
D4 11048 |
4 vol. |
| 1994 |
Bluegrass 1970-1979 |
Bear Family |
BCD 15606 |
4 vol; German issue |
| 1996 |
16 gems |
Columbia |
CK 53908 |
– |
| 1997 |
Bluegrass Breakdown |
Javelin |
PRACD 4003 |
– |
| 1997 |
The Father of Bluegrass Music |
RCA Victor |
BVCP 7464 |
Japanese issue |
| 1998 |
The Early Years |
Vanguard |
VCD 79518 |
– |
| 1999 |
The Best of |
MCA Records |
088170109-2 |
– |
| 1999 |
The Best of |
MCA Records |
MCF 2696 |
– |
| 1999 |
Blue Grass Special Memories |
Raintree |
RR 599 |
– |
| 1999 |
Lookin’ Back |
Silver Eagle |
SEA 70007 |
– |
| 1999 |
Father of Bluegrass: the Early Years |
ASV |
AJA 5298 |
1940-47; UK issue |
| 2000 |
American Traveler |
County |
CCS 119 |
– |
| 2000 |
The Father of Bluegrass |
Castle Pulse |
PLS 359 |
UK issue |
| 2001 |
Mansions For Me |
Music Mill Entertainment |
MME 71007 |
– |
| 2001 |
36 All-time favorites |
Universal Music |
– |
3 vol. |
| 2002 |
The Very Best of |
MCA Records |
088112982-2 |
Reissued as The Definitive Collection |
| 2003 |
All the Classic Releases 1937-1949 |
JSP |
7712 |
4 vol.; UK issue |
| 2003 |
Gotta Travel On |
MCA Records |
MCLD 19403 |
– |
| 2003 |
Bill Monroe Anthology 1950-81 |
MCA Records |
088113207-2 |
– |
| 2003 |
Blue Moon of Kentucky 1936-49 |
Bear Family |
BCD 16399 |
6 vol; German issue |
| 2003 |
Blue…Blue…Bluegrass |
Black Cat |
BCCD 0074 |
Czech issue |
| 2004 |
The King and the Father |
Music Mill Entertainment |
MME 70048 |
– |
| 2004 |
The Gospel Spirit |
MCA Records |
290702 |
– |
| 2004 |
Far Across the Blue Water |
Bear Family |
BCD 16624 |
4 vol; German issue |
| 2005 |
Shady Grove |
Fruit Tree |
FT 843 |
Italian issue |
| 2005 |
Nine Pound Hammer |
Tomato |
TMT 2154 |
– |
| 2005 |
I Saw the Light |
Universal Music |
B0004618-02 |
– |
| 2007 |
My Last Days On Earth 1981-84 |
Bear Family |
BCD 16637 |
4 vol; German issue |
| 2009 |
Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys |
JSP |
77119 |
4 vol.; UK issue |
