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The Bachelors discography

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The Bachelors discography
Studio albums19
EPs4
Live albums1
Compilation albums10
Singles38

This is the discography of Irish group the Bachelors.

Albums

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Studio albums (UK)

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
The Bachelors
  • Released: May 1963
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
The Bachelors + 16 Great Songs
  • Released: June 1964
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
2
More Great Song Hits
  • Released: September 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
15
Hits of the 60's
  • Released: June 1966
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
12
Bachelors' Girls
  • Released: October 1966
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
24
The Bachelors Sing the Golden All Time Hits
  • Released: June 1967
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
19
Under and Over
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Stage and Screen Spectacular – 16 Great Songs (with Patricia Cahill)
  • Released: January 1972
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
Answer Me (as the Fabulous Bachelors)
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Contour
  • Formats: LP
Bachelors '74
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP
Bachelors' Singalong – 32 Favourite Songs
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Philips
  • Formats: LP
Now & Then (as the New Bachelors)
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: CBS
  • Formats: LP, MC
Renaissance
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Juicy
  • Formats: CD, MC
Christmas with the Bachelors
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Music Digital
  • Formats: CD, MC
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Studio albums (US and Canada)

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[2]
Presenting: The Bachelors
  • Released: May 1964
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP
70
Back Again
  • Released: September 1964
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP
142
No Arms Can Ever Hold You
  • Released: February 1965
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP, 4-track
136
Marie
  • Released: July 1965
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP, 4-track
89
Hits of the 60's
  • Released: April 1966
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP
Bachelors' Girls
  • Released: October 1966
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP
The Golden All Time Hits
  • Released: August 1967
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP
Bachelors '68
  • Released: February 1968
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP
Under and Over
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: London
  • Formats: LP
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

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Title Album details
Live at the Talk of the Town
  • Released: August 1971
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP

Compilation albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
The World of the Bachelors
  • Released: November 1968
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
8
The World of the Bachelors Vol. 2
  • Released: August 1969
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
11
The World of the Bachelors Vol. 3
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
The World of the Bachelors Vol. 4
  • Released: 1970
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
The World of the Bachelors Vol. 5
  • Released: 1970
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
The Very Best of the Bachelors
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: 2xLP
25 Golden Greats
  • Released: October 1979
  • Label: Warwick
  • Formats: LP
38
The Best of the Bachelors
  • Released: September 1981
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: LP
The Very Best of the Bachelors
'I Believe' – The Very Best of the Bachelors 7
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

EPs

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Title EP details Peak chart positions
UK
[3]
The Bachelors
  • Released: June 1963
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: 7"
5
The Bachelors Volume 2
  • Released: February 1964
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: 7"
7
The Bachelors' Hits
  • Released: October 1964
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: 7"
1
Bachelors Hits Vol. 2
  • Released: October 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Formats: 7"
9

Singles

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Title
(A-side, B-side)
Year Peak chart positions UK Album US Album
IRE
[4]
AUS
[5]
CAN
[6][7]
NOR
[8]
NZ
[9]
UK
[1]
US
[10]
US AC
[11]
"Charmaine"
b/w "Old Bill"
1962 8 6 The Bachelors Presenting: The Bachelors
"Faraway Places"
b/w "Is There a Chance"
1963 36 Non-album single Non-album single
"Whispering"
b/w "No Light in the Window"
18 A: The Bachelors
B: Non-album track
A: Presenting: The Bachelors
B: Non-album track
"Long Time Ago"
b/w "The Angel and the Stranger"
9 Non-album single Non-album single
"Diane"
b/w "The Stars Will Remember"
1964 2 3 8 2 1 10 3 A: The Bachelors + 16 Great Songs
B: Non-album track
A: Presenting: The Bachelors
B: Non-album track
"I Believe"
b/w "Happy Land" (UK); "Sweet Lullabies" (US)
2 24 31 1 2 33 7 A: The Bachelors + 16 Great Songs
UK B & US B: Non-album tracks
A: Presenting: The Bachelors
UK B & US B: Non-album tracks
"Ramona"
b/w "Sweet Lullabies"
6 38 9 6 4 Non-album singles A: Back Again
B: Non-album track
"I Wouldn't Trade You for the World"
b/w "Beneath the Willow Tree"
1 7 5 4 69 13
"No Arms Can Ever Hold You"
b/w "Oh, Samuel Don't Die"
8 35 10 7 27 3 A: No Arms Can Ever Hold You
B: Non-album track
"True Love for Evermore"
b/w "Far Far Away"
1965 34 A: More Great Song Hits
B: Non-album track
A: Non-album track
B: No Arms Can Ever Hold You
"Marie"
b/w "You Can Tell"
39 11 9 15 3 Non-album singles A: Marie
B: Non-album track
"In the Chapel in the Moonlight"
b/w "The Old Wishing Well"
89 24 27 32 2 Non-album single
"Hello, Dolly!"
b/w "There's No Room in My Heart"
38 A: Bachelors' Girls
B: Non-album track
A: Bachelors' Girls
B: Non-album track
"The Sound of Silence"
b/w "Love Me with All Your Heart"
1966 9 3 Hits of the 60's Hits of the 60's
"Love Me with All Your Heart" (US and Canada-only release)
b/w "There's No Room in My Heart"
46 38 3 A: Hits of the 60's
B: Non-album track
A: Hits of the 60's
B: Non-album track
"Can I Trust You"
b/w "Who Can I Turn To" (UK); "My Girl" (US)
43 66 26 49 12 A & US B: Non-album track
UK B: Hits of the 60's
A & US B: Non-album track
UK B: Hits of the 60's
"Walk with Faith in Your Heart"
b/w "Molly Malone"
74 21 83 26 Non-album singles A: Bachelors '68
B: Non-album track
"Oh How I Miss You"
b/w "Ghost Mountain"
1967 30 Non-album single
"Marta"
b/w "My World" (UK); "Oh How I Miss You" (US)
20 A: The Golden All Time Hits
UK B: Bachelors '68
US B: Non-album track
"Three O'Clock Flamingo Street"
b/w "Learn to Live Without You"

28

Bachelors '68
"If Ever I Would Leave You"
b/w "Cabaret"
1968 55[A] Non-album singles
"The Unicorn"
b/w "You've Got to Say We're Through"
40
"I'll Walk with God"
b/w "I Can't Wish You Any More"
"Turn Around, Look at Me"
b/w "Lovers Such as I"
"Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)"
b/w "Caterina"
1969
"Punky's Dilemma"
b/w "Arrivederci Maria" (UK); "It's a Beautiful Day" (US)
"Everybody's Talkin'"
b/w "Blaydon Races"
"My First Love"
b/w "Phil the Fluter"
"(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings"
b/w "This Love (You Have Given Me)"
1970
"Love Is All" (US-only release)
b/w "The Colours of Love"
"Diamonds Are Forever"
b/w "Where There's a Heartache"
1971 A: Stage and Screen Spectacular – 16 Great Songs
B: Non-album track
"The Land of the Other Way Round"
b/w "Children at Play"
1972 Non-album single
"Suffer Little Children"
b/w "Dear Father in Heaven"
1973 59[A] Bachelors '74
"Sing Me a Song to Make Me Happy"
b/w "Oh How I Miss You"
1974 Non-album singles
"Roxie"
b/w "Cigarettes, Whusky and Wild Wild Women"
1975
"Torn Between Two Lovers"
b/w "Old Fashioned "B" Side"
1977
"Save the Last Dance for Me"
b/w "Children and Flowers"
"Travellin' Home"
b/w "We Don't Have Those Feelings (Anymore)"
1979
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".

References

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  1. ^ a b c "BACHELORS". Official Charts. 30 January 1963. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 51. ISBN 0898201179.
  3. ^ "everyHit.com - UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". www.everyhit.com. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  4. ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  5. ^ Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  6. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade Week of April 27, 1964". 27 April 1964. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Results: RPM Weekly". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  8. ^ "norwegiancharts.com - Norwegian charts portal". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  9. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search lever". www.flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  10. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2009). Top Pop Singles 1955–2008. Record Research. ISBN 9780898201802.
  11. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs (1961–2006). Record Research. p. 16. ISBN 9780898201697.