| Year of release |
Title |
Label |
Number |
| 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 |
40006 |
| 1973 |
"Down Yonder" / "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" |
40220 |
| 1977 |
"My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling" / "Monroe's Blues" |
MCA |
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 |
5023 |
Japanese issue |
| 1974 |
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1950-60 |
MCA |
9224-27 |
4 vol.; Japanese issue - |
| 1975 |
The Best of |
MCA |
2 4090 |
Double album |
| 1975 |
Bluegrass Special Vol.1 |
BS |
1 |
French issue |
| 1976 |
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 1950-72 |
MCA |
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 |
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 |
VIM 4068 |
Japanese issue |
| 1981 |
Singles Collection Vol.2 |
MCA |
VIM 4069 |
Japanese issue |
| 1981 |
Singles Collection Vol.3 |
MCA |
VIM 4070 |
Japanese issue |
| 1981 |
Singles Collection Vol.4 |
MCA |
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 |
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 |
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 |
088170109-2 |
|
| 1999 |
The Best of |
MCA |
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 |
088112982-2 |
Reissued as The Definitive Collection |
| 2003 |
All the Classic Releases 1937-49 |
JSP |
7712 |
4 vol.; UK issue |
| 2003 |
Gotta Travel On |
MCA |
MCLD 19403 |
|
| 2003 |
Bill Monroe Anthology 1950-81 |
MCA |
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 |
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 |