1979 in country music
Encyclopedia
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1979.

Events

  • March 3 — The Public Broadcasting Service
    Public Broadcasting Service
    The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

     (PBS) would telecast an entire Saturday night live from the Grand Ole Opry
    Grand Ole Opry
    The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...

    for the very first time - the show would last until 12:30 am with a half hour break between the two shows at 9 pm CDT. The show featured many acts including Del Reeves
    Del Reeves
    Franklin Delano Reeves , better known as Del Reeves, was an American country music singer, best known for his "girl-watching" novelty songs of the 1960s including "Girl on the Billboard" and "The Belles of Southern Bell"...

    , Barbara Mandrell
    Barbara Mandrell
    Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...

    , Bill Monroe
    Bill Monroe
    William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...

    , Hank Snow
    Hank Snow
    Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...

    , Roy Acuff
    Roy Acuff
    Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...

    , Minnie Pearl
    Minnie Pearl
    Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon , known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.-Early life:Sarah Colley was born in Centerville, in Hickman County, Tennessee,...

    , Don Gibson
    Don Gibson
    Donald Eugene "Don" Gibson was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.-Biography:Don Gibson was...

     and many others. The telecast became the most popular one of the year for PBS, and was a part of their March fundraising campaigns.
  • December 21 — The Electric Horseman
    The Electric Horseman
    The Electric Horseman is a 1979 adventure and romance feature film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack. It was the third time Redford and Fonda starred together in a feature film, having previously teamed on The Chase and Barefoot in the Park .-Plot:Sonny Steele ...

    , starring Robert Redford
    Robert Redford
    Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...

     and Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an...

    , premieres. Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

     is a supporting character in the film, and he will contribute to the movie's soundtrack.

United States

(as certified by Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

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Date Single Name Artist Wks. No.1 CAN peak Spec. Note
January 6 Tulsa Time
Tulsa Time
"Tulsa Time" is a song written by Danny Flowers. Don Williams recorded and released it as a single in 1978. "Tulsa Time" would be Don Williams' eighth number one on the country chart...

Don Williams
Don Williams
Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,...

1
January 13 Lady Lay Down
Lady Lay Down
"Lady Lay Down is a 1978 single written by Rafe VanHoy and Don Cook and recorded by John Conlee. "Lady Lay Down" would be John Conlee's second country hit and his first of seven number ones on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of twelve weeks within...

John Conlee
John Conlee
John Conlee is an American country music singer. Between 1978 and 2004, Conlee charted a total of thirty-two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recorded eleven studio albums...

1 2 [A]
January 20 I Really Got the Feeling/Baby I'm Burning
Baby I'm Burning
"Baby I'm Burning" was a 1978 song written and performed by Dolly Parton that was part of a double-A-sided single "Baby I'm Burning"/"I Really Got the Feeling"....

Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

1
January 27 Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For
Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For
"Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For" is a 1978 single written by Mark True and recorded by Crystal Gayle. "Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For" would be Crystal Gayle's sixth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten...

Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle is an American country music singer best known for her 1977 country-pop hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". An award-winning singer, she accumulated 18 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s...

2
February 10 Every Which Way but Loose
Every Which Way but Loose (song)
"Every Which Way but Loose" is a song recorded by Eddie Rabbitt. The title song to the 1978 film of the same name, it spent three weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in February 1979.-Highest debut:...

Eddie Rabbitt
Eddie Rabbitt
Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974...

3
March 3 Golden Tears
Golden Tears
"Golden Tears" is a song made famous by the country music trio Dave & Sugar. The song was released in 1979 and became the group's third and final No...

Dave & Sugar
Dave & Sugar
Dave & Sugar was a pop-styled country music trio that enjoyed its peak success in the mid- to late-1970s. It consisted of lead singer Dave Rowland and initially on backing vocalists, Vicki Hackeman and Jackie Frantz...

3 2 [B]
March 24 I Just Fall in Love Again
I Just Fall in Love Again
"I Just Fall in Love Again" is a song written by Larry Herbstritt, with co-writers Steve Dorff, Harry Lloyd, and Gloria Sklerov. Herbstritt had composed the melody and chords for the chorus and a chord progression for the verse, which he took to his friend Steve Dorff. Harry Lloyd and Gloria...

Anne Murray
Anne Murray
Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....

3 [1]
April 14 (If Loving You Is Wrong)
I Don't Want to Be Right
(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
" I Don't Want to Be Right" is a soul song written by Stax Records songwriters Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson. It has been performed by many singers, most notably by Luther Ingram, whose version topped the R&B chart for four weeks and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100...

Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...

1 Cover of the Luther Ingram
Luther Ingram
Luther Ingram was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter.-Career:Born Luther Thomas Ingram in Jackson, Tennessee, his early interest in music led to him making his first record in 1965 at the age of 28. His first three recordings failed to chart but that changed when he signed for KoKo...

 hit.
April 21 All I Ever Need Is You Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...


and Dottie West
Dottie West
Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

1 2 Cover of the Sonny and Cher hit.
April 28 Where Do I Put Her Memory
Where Do I Put Her Memory
"Where Do I Put Her Memory" is a 1979 single written by Jim Weatherly and recorded by Charley Pride. "Where Do I Put Her Memory" would be Charley Pride's twenty-first number one on the country chart. "Where Do I Put Her Memory" stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of ten weeks on...

Charley Pride
Charley Pride
Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis...

1
May 5 Backside of Thirty
Backside of Thirty
"Backside of Thirty" is a 1979 single written and recorded by John Conlee. "Backside of Thirty" would be John Conlee's third country hit and second number one on the country chart...

John Conlee 1 5
May 12 Don't Take It Away
Don't Take It Away
"Don't Take It Away" is a 1979 single written by Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes and recorded by Conway Twitty. "Don't Take It Away" was Conway Twitty's 21st number one country hit. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of nine weeks on the country chart .-Chart...

Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...

1
May 19 If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body
Would You Hold It Against Me
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me
"If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" is a song made famous by the country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. Written by David Bellamy, the song was released in 1979 and became their first No. 1 hit on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart that spring.Overall,...

The Bellamy Brothers 3 24 [A]
June 9 She Believes in Me Kenny Rogers 2
June 23 Nobody Likes Sad Songs
Nobody Likes Sad Songs
"Nobody Likes Sad Songs" is a 1979 single written by Bob McDill and Wayland Holyfield and recorded by Ronnie Milsap. "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" would be Ronnie Milsap's twelfth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of twelve weeks on...

Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country’s most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s...

1
June 30 Amanda Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

3
July 21 Shadows in the Moonlight
Shadows in the Moonlight (song)
"Shadows in the Moonlight" is a song recorded by country and pop music singer Anne Murray. Released in 1979, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that July, and was one of three chart-toppers for her during the year. "Shadows in the Moonlight" was Murray's third No...

Anne Murray 1
July 28 You're the Only One Dolly Parton 2
August 11 Suspicions
Suspicions (Eddie Rabbitt song)
"Suspicions" is a country music song. It was originally recorded and released as a single in 1979 by Eddie Rabbitt from his album Loveline; his version was a Number One hit on the Billboard country music charts and a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100...

Eddie Rabbitt 1
August 18 Coca-Cola Cowboy Mel Tillis
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....

1 3
August 25 The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is a song written and performed by the Charlie Daniels Band and released on their 1979 album Million Mile Reflections....

The Charlie Daniels Band 1 [C]
September 1 Heartbreak Hotel
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by American rock and roll musician Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27, 1956, Presley's first on his new record label RCA Victor. His first number-one pop record, "Heartbreak Hotel" topped Billboards Top 100 chart, became his first...

Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...


and Leon Russell
Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....

1 [C] - Leon Russell
Cover of the Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

 hit.
September 8 I May Never Get To Heaven
I May Never Get To Heaven
"I May Never Get To Heaven" is a 1979 single written by Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen and recorded by Conway Twitty. "I May Never Get To Heaven" was Conway Twitty's 22nd number one hit on the country chart. "I May Never Get To Heaven" stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of...

Conway Twitty 1
September 15 You're My Jamaica
You're My Jamaica
"You're My Jamaica" is a 1979 single written by Kent Robbins and recorded by Charley Pride. "You're My Jamaica" would become Charley Pride's twenty-second number one country hit. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country chart .-Chart performance:...

Charley Pride 1
September 22 Just Good Ol' Boys
Just Good Ol' Boys
"Just Good Ol' Boys" is a 1979 novelty single by the duo of Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley. "Just Good Ol' Boys" would be a number one single and the most successful collaboration of Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the...

Moe Bandy
Moe Bandy
Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy– is a country music singer...

 and
Joe Stampley
Joe Stampley
Joe Stampley is an American country music singer.-Biography:He was born to R.C. Stampley, Jr. , and Mary E. Stampley...

1 8 [A] - Moe Bandy
[B] - Joe Stampley
September 29 It Must Be Love
It Must Be Love (Don Williams song)
"It Must Be Love" is a single by American country music artist Don Williams. Released in 1979, the single became Don's ninth Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles charts.-Chart performance:-Alan Jackson version:...

Don Williams 1 2
October 6 Last Cheater's Waltz
Last Cheater's Waltz
"Last Cheater's Waltz" is the title track from Sonny Throckmorton's 1978 album. Throckmorton released the song as a double-A-side with "Smooth Sailin'" and charted at number 47 on the Hot Country Songs charts that year....

T. G. Sheppard
T. G. Sheppard
T. G. Sheppard is an American country music singer, who had 14 number one hits during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:...

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October 20 All the Gold in California
All the Gold in California
"All the Gold in California" is a 1979 single by Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band. "All the Gold in California" was written by Larry Gatlin and would be the first of two number one singles for Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent...

Larry Gatlin and
the Gatlin Brothers
Larry Gatlin
Larry Wayne Gatlin is an American country music singer/songwriter. He is perhaps best known for teaming up with his brothers Steve and Rudy in the late 1970s, becoming one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s. Gatlin has had a total of 33 Top 40 singles...

2 2
November 3 You Decorated My Life
You Decorated My Life
"You Decorated My Life" is the title of a song written by Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1979 as the lead single from his album Kenny. It was a number-one hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart and peaked at...

Kenny Rogers 2
November 17 Come with Me
Come with Me (Waylon Jennings song)
"Come with Me" is a 1979 single written by Chuck Howard and recorded by Waylon Jennings. "Come with Me" would become Waylon Jennings' eighth No. 1 on the Country chart as a solo artist. The single stayed at No. 1 for two weeks and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the Country chart.-Chart...

Waylon Jennings 2
December 1 Broken Hearted Me
Broken Hearted Me
"Broken Hearted Me" is a country and adult contemporary song recorded by Canadian singer Anne Murray. Released in 1979, the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in December, and was the third chart-topper for her during the year....

Anne Murray 1
December 8 I Cheated Me Right Out of You
I Cheated Me Right Out of You
"I Cheated Me Right Out of You" is a 1979 single written by Bobby Barker and recorded by Moe Bandy. "I Cheated Me Right Out of You" would be Moe Bandy's only number one country hit as a solo artist. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country...

Moe Bandy 1 [B]
December 15 Happy Birthday Darlin'
Happy Birthday Darlin'
"Happy Birthday Darlin is a 1979 single written by Chuck Howard and recorded by Conway Twitty. "Happy Birthday Darlin'" would be Conway Twitty's 23rd number one on the country chart as solo artist...

Conway Twitty 3 13

^ No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

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  • A^ First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • B^ Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • C^ Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.


Canada

(as certified by RPM
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

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Date Single Name Artist Wks. No.1 U.S. peak Spec. Note
January 13 Burgers and Fries
Burgers and Fries
"Burgers and Fries" is a single by American country music artist Charley Pride. Released in October 1978, it was the second single from his album Burgers and Fries. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in...

Charley Pride
Charley Pride
Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis...

1 2
January 20 Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's
Done Got Out of Hand
Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand
"Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Gone Out of Hand" is a single by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. Released in October 1978, it was the second single from his album I've Always Been Crazy. The song peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached...

Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

1 5
January 27 Tulsa Time
Tulsa Time
"Tulsa Time" is a song written by Danny Flowers. Don Williams recorded and released it as a single in 1978. "Tulsa Time" would be Don Williams' eighth number one on the country chart...

Don Williams
Don Williams
Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,...

1
February 3 Your Love Had Taken Me That High
Your Love Had Taken Me That High
"Your Love Had Taken Me That High" is a single by American country music artist Conway Twitty. Released in November 1978, it was the second single from his album Conway. The song peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart...

Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...

1 3
February 10 I Really Got the Feeling/Baby I'm Burning
Baby I'm Burning
"Baby I'm Burning" was a 1978 song written and performed by Dolly Parton that was part of a double-A-sided single "Baby I'm Burning"/"I Really Got the Feeling"....

Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

1
February 17 Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For
Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For
"Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For" is a 1978 single written by Mark True and recorded by Crystal Gayle. "Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For" would be Crystal Gayle's sixth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten...

Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle is an American country music singer best known for her 1977 country-pop hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". An award-winning singer, she accumulated 18 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s...

1
February 24 Every Which Way but Loose
Every Which Way but Loose (song)
"Every Which Way but Loose" is a song recorded by Eddie Rabbitt. The title song to the 1978 film of the same name, it spent three weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in February 1979.-Highest debut:...

Eddie Rabbitt
Eddie Rabbitt
Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974...

3
March 17 Back on My Mind Again
Back on My Mind Again
"Back on My Mind Again" is a single by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. Released in 1979, it was the third single from his album Only One Love in My Life. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.-Chart performance:...

Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country’s most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s...

1 2
March 24 You Made My Day Tonight
You Made My Day Tonight
"You Made My Day Tonight" is a single by Canadian country music group Canadian Zephyr. Released in 1978, it was a single from their album The Best of Canadian Zephyr. The song reached number one on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in March 1979....

Canadian Zephyr
Canadian Zephyr
Canadian Zephyr was a Canadian country music group. Twenty of their singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts, including the number one singles "You Made My Day Tonight" and "Guess I Went Crazy." They released two albums for United Artists and three albums for RCA.-Albums:-Singles:...

1 [A]
March 31 I Just Fall in Love Again
I Just Fall in Love Again
"I Just Fall in Love Again" is a song written by Larry Herbstritt, with co-writers Steve Dorff, Harry Lloyd, and Gloria Sklerov. Herbstritt had composed the melody and chords for the chorus and a chord progression for the verse, which he took to his friend Steve Dorff. Harry Lloyd and Gloria...

Anne Murray
Anne Murray
Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....

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April 14 It's a Cheating Situation
It's a Cheating Situation
"It's a Cheating Situation" is a single by American country music artist Moe Bandy with Janie Fricke. Released in January 1979, it was the first single from his album It's a Cheating Situation. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the...

Moe Bandy
Moe Bandy
Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy– is a country music singer...

 with
Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s....

1 2 [A] - Moe Bandy
[A] - Janie Fricke
April 21 Sweet Memories
Sweet Memories (song)
"Sweet Memories" is a single by American country music artist Willie Nelson. Released in January 1979, it was the second single from his album Sweet Memories. The song peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in...

Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

1 4
April 28 (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
" I Don't Want to Be Right" is a soul song written by Stax Records songwriters Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson. It has been performed by many singers, most notably by Luther Ingram, whose version topped the R&B chart for four weeks and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100...

Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...

1
May 5 Where Do I Put Her Memory
Where Do I Put Her Memory
"Where Do I Put Her Memory" is a 1979 single written by Jim Weatherly and recorded by Charley Pride. "Where Do I Put Her Memory" would be Charley Pride's twenty-first number one on the country chart. "Where Do I Put Her Memory" stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of ten weeks on...

Charley Pride 2
May 19 Don't Take It Away
Don't Take It Away
"Don't Take It Away" is a 1979 single written by Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes and recorded by Conway Twitty. "Don't Take It Away" was Conway Twitty's 21st number one country hit. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of nine weeks on the country chart .-Chart...

Conway Twitty 1
May 26 I'm Getting High Remembering
I'm Getting High Remembering
"I'm Getting High Remembering" is a single by Canadian country music artist Carroll Baker. Released in 1979, it was the second single from her album If It Wasn't for You. The song reached number one on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in May 1979....

Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker (singer)
Carroll Baker, CM , , is a Juno Award winning Canadian country music singer and songwriter.-Biography:Carroll Baker was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia...

1
June 2 Sail Away
Sail Away (The Oak Ridge Boys song)
"Sail Away" is the title of a song written by Rafe VanHoy and recorded by the American country music band The Oak Ridge Boys. It was the first single from their 1979 album The Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived. The song spent thirteen weeks on the Hot Country Songs charts and peaked at number two...

The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...

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June 30 Nobody Likes Sad Songs
Nobody Likes Sad Songs
"Nobody Likes Sad Songs" is a 1979 single written by Bob McDill and Wayland Holyfield and recorded by Ronnie Milsap. "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" would be Ronnie Milsap's twelfth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of twelve weeks on...

Ronnie Milsap 1
July 7 She Believes in Me Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

1
July 14 Amanda Waylon Jennings 1
July 21 You're the Only One Dolly Parton 4 [1], [2]
  • Fell to #2 on the week of August 4.
August 4 Shadows in the Moonlight
Shadows in the Moonlight (song)
"Shadows in the Moonlight" is a song recorded by country and pop music singer Anne Murray. Released in 1979, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that July, and was one of three chart-toppers for her during the year. "Shadows in the Moonlight" was Murray's third No...

Anne Murray 1
August 11 (Ghost) Riders in the Sky Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

1 2
September 1 Suspicions
Suspicions (Eddie Rabbitt song)
"Suspicions" is a country music song. It was originally recorded and released as a single in 1979 by Eddie Rabbitt from his album Loveline; his version was a Number One hit on the Billboard country music charts and a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100...

Eddie Rabbitt 1
September 8 The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is a song written and performed by the Charlie Daniels Band and released on their 1979 album Million Mile Reflections....

Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

2 [C]
September 22 'Til I Can Make It on My Own
'Til I Can Make It on My Own
"Til I Can Make It on My Own" is a 1976 single by Tammy Wynette. "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" would be Tammy Wynette's fifteenth number one on the country charts. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country charts. Kenny Rogers and Dottie West...

Kenny Rogers and
Dottie West
Dottie West
Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

1 3 [B] - Dottie West
September 29 Heartbreak Hotel
Heartbreak Hotel
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by American rock and roll musician Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27, 1956, Presley's first on his new record label RCA Victor. His first number-one pop record, "Heartbreak Hotel" topped Billboards Top 100 chart, became his first...

Willie Nelson and
Leon Russell
Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....

1 [C] - Leon Russell
October 6 You're My Jamaica
You're My Jamaica
"You're My Jamaica" is a 1979 single written by Kent Robbins and recorded by Charley Pride. "You're My Jamaica" would become Charley Pride's twenty-second number one country hit. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country chart .-Chart performance:...

Charley Pride 1
October 13 I May Never Get To Heaven
I May Never Get To Heaven
"I May Never Get To Heaven" is a 1979 single written by Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen and recorded by Conway Twitty. "I May Never Get To Heaven" was Conway Twitty's 22nd number one hit on the country chart. "I May Never Get To Heaven" stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of...

Conway Twitty 1
October 20 Before My Time
Before My Time
"Before My Time" is a single by American country music artist John Conlee. Released in 1979, it was the first single from the album Forever. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

John Conlee
John Conlee
John Conlee is an American country music singer. Between 1978 and 2004, Conlee charted a total of thirty-two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recorded eleven studio albums...

1 2 [A]
October 27 Stolen Moments R. Harlan Smith and
Chris Nielsen
1 [B] - R. Harlan Smith
[C] - Chris Nielsen
November 3 Dream On
Dream On (The Oak Ridge Boys song)
"Dream On" is the title of a song written by Rafe VanHoy and recorded by the American country music band The Oak Ridge Boys. It was the third single from their 1979 album The Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived. It features bass singer Richard Sterban on lead vocals.The song spent thirteen weeks within the...

The Oak Ridge Boys 1 7
November 10 You Decorated My Life
You Decorated My Life
"You Decorated My Life" is the title of a song written by Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1979 as the lead single from his album Kenny. It was a number-one hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart and peaked at...

Kenny Rogers 2
November 24 Broken Hearted Me
Broken Hearted Me
"Broken Hearted Me" is a country and adult contemporary song recorded by Canadian singer Anne Murray. Released in 1979, the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in December, and was the third chart-topper for her during the year....

Anne Murray 1
December 1 Come with Me
Come with Me (Waylon Jennings song)
"Come with Me" is a 1979 single written by Chuck Howard and recorded by Waylon Jennings. "Come with Me" would become Waylon Jennings' eighth No. 1 on the Country chart as a solo artist. The single stayed at No. 1 for two weeks and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the Country chart.-Chart...

Waylon Jennings 1
December 8 Half the Way
Half The Way
"Half the Way" is the name of Country-Pop crossover single, Crystal Gayle's third crossover Pop hit, released in 1979.After recently achieving major Country crossover success in 1977 with "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." , followed by a Top 20 Pop hit and No...

Crystal Gayle 1 2
December 15 I Cheated Me Right Out of You
I Cheated Me Right Out of You
"I Cheated Me Right Out of You" is a 1979 single written by Bobby Barker and recorded by Moe Bandy. "I Cheated Me Right Out of You" would be Moe Bandy's only number one country hit as a solo artist. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country...

Moe Bandy 1
December 22 Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound (song)
"Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Hank Williams, Jr.. It was released in September 1979 as the first single from his 1979 album of the same name. It peaked at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and reached...

Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.
Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...

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^ No. 1 song of the year, as determined by RPM
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

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  • 2^ Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
  • A^ First RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • B^ Last RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • C^ Only RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.


Singles released by American artists

US CAN Single Artist
16 16 Alibis Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez is an American country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish....

16 32 All-Around Cowboy Marty Robbins
Marty Robbins
Martin David Robinson , known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...

10 4 Are You Sincere Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

12 14 As Long as I Can Wake Up in Your Arms Kenny O'Dell
Kenny O'Dell
Kenny O'Dell is an American country music singer and songwriter.Early in his career he worked with guitar legand,Duane Eddy,and his own band, Guys and Dolls. He is best known for writing the country hit "Behind Closed Doors", which Charlie Rich recorded, and "Mama He's Crazy" for The Judds...

9 21 Barstool Mountain Moe Bandy
Moe Bandy
Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy– is a country music singer...

6 16 Blind in Love Mel Tillis
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....

6 7 Blue Kentucky Girl
Blue Kentucky Girl (song)
"Blue Kentucky Girl" is a single by American country music artist Loretta Lynn. Released in 1965, it was the first single and title track from the album Blue Kentucky Girl...

Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

25 17 Buenos Dias Argentina Marty Robbins
3 3 Come On In
Come On In (The Oak Ridge Boys song)
"Come On In" is the title of a song written by Michael Clark and recorded by the American country music band The Oak Ridge Boys. It was the second and final single from their 1978 album Room Service. The song spent fifteen weeks on the Hot Country Songs charts between December 1978 and early 1979,...

The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...

16 10 Crazy Arms Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

17 Crazy Blue Eyes Lacy J. Dalton
Lacy J. Dalton
Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ...

14 25 Daddy Donna Fargo
Donna Fargo
Donna Fargo is an American country music singer-songwriter, who is best-known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s...

18 36 Darlin' David Rogers
David Rogers (singer)
David Rogers was an American country music artist. Between 1968 and 1984, Rogers charted thirty-seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, reaching Top Ten with the hits "Need You" and "Loving You Has Changed My Life," both at #9...

17 Della and the Dealer Hoyt Axton
Hoyt Axton
Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well...

5 3 Do You Ever Fool Around Joe Stampley
Joe Stampley
Joe Stampley is an American country music singer.-Biography:He was born to R.C. Stampley, Jr. , and Mary E. Stampley...

10 Don't Let Me Cross Over
Don't Let Me Cross Over
"Don't Let Me Cross Over" is a song made famous as a duet by Carl Butler and Pearl, a husband-and-wife country music duo. Originally released in November 1962, the song needed just four weeks to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Country Singles chart...

Jim Reeves
Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves , better known as Jim Reeves, was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well-known for being a practitioner of the Nashville sound...

 with Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...

6 13 Down on the Rio Grande Johnny Rodriguez
16 60 Down to Earth Woman Kenny Dale
Kenny Dale
Kenneth Dale Eoff is an American country music artist, known professionally as Kenny Dale. Activein the 1970s, he recorded two albums for Capitol Records and charted several country hits. His biggest hit was a cover version of Gene Pitney's "Only Love Can Break a Heart", which peaked at #7...

14 7 Everlasting Love Narvel Felts
Narvel Felts
Narvel Felts is an American country music singer. Known for his soaring tenor and high falsetto, Felts enjoyed his greatest success during the 1970s, most famously 1975's "Reconsider Me."-Career:...

10 11 Fall in Love with Me Tonight Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow is an American country music artist. Between 1976 and 1983, he released four albums, including three for Republic Records. In the same time span, he charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country singles charts, including a string of four songs in a row which all reached...

4 16 Family Tradition
Family Tradition (Hank Williams, Jr. song)
"Family Tradition" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Hank Williams, Jr.. It was released in May 1979 as the fourth and final single from his 1978 album of the same name...

Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams, Jr.
Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...

5 9 Farewell Party
Farewell Party
"Farewell Party" is a single by American country music artist Gene Watson. Released in 1979, it was the second single from the album Reflections. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

Gene Watson
Gene Watson
Gary Gene Watson is an American country singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit "Love in the Hot Afternoon," his 1982 hit "Fourteen Carat Mind," and his signature song "Farewell Party." Watson's long career has notched six number ones, 23 top tens and over 75 charted singles.-Biography:Watson...

19 22 Feet Ray Price
Ray Price (musician)
Ray Price is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music...

4 5 Fooled by a Feeling
Fooled by a Feeling
"Fooled by a Feeling" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell. It was released in July 1979 as the second single from the album Just for the Record The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...

3 14 Fools Jim Ed Brown
Jim Ed Brown
Jim Ed Brown is an American country music singer who achieved fame in the 1950s with his two sisters as a member of The Browns. He later had a successful solo career from 1965 to 1974, followed by a string of major duet hits with Helen Cornelius through 1981...

 and Helen Cornelius
Helen Cornelius
Helen Cornelius is an American country singer-songwriter and actress, best remembered for a series of hit duets with Jim Ed Brown, many of which reached the U.S...

17 44 Fools for Each Other Johnny Rodriguez
14 21 Gimme Back My Blues Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...

8 6 Happy Together
Happy Together (song)
"Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's only chart-topper. "Happy Together" reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart in...

T. G. Sheppard
T. G. Sheppard
T. G. Sheppard is an American country music singer, who had 14 number one hits during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:...

11 28 Here We Are Again The Statler Brothers
25 11 Hound Dog Man Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...

7 18 How to Be a Country Star The Statler Brothers
10 18 I Ain't Got No Business Doin' Business Today Razzy Bailey
Razzy Bailey
Razzy Bailey is an American country music artist.-Early life:Bailey was raised on a farm in La Fayette, Alabama. Bailey got his first experience of musical performance as a member of his high school's Future Farmers of America string band...

3 2 I Can't Feel You Anymore Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...

16 33 I Don't Do Like That No More The Kendalls
The Kendalls
The Kendalls was an American country music duo, consisting of Royce Kendall and his daughter Jeannie Kendall . Between the 1960s and 1990s, they released sixteen albums on various labels, including five on Mercury Records...

12 21 I Don't Lie Joe Stampley
5 4 I Had a Lovely Time The Kendalls
16 65 I Hate the Way I Love It Johnny Rodriguez and Charly McClain
Charly McClain
Charlotte Denise McClain is an American country music singer, best-known for series of Country hits during the 1980s....

5 5 I Just Can't Stay Married to You Cristy Lane
Cristy Lane
Eleanor Johnston, known by her professional name as Cristy Lane is an American country music and gospel music singer, best known for a number of major country hits in the late 70s and the early 1980s, including her cover version of the song, "One Day at a Time".Lane's career began to take shape in...

10 12 I Know a Heartache When I See One Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...

26 10 I Lost My Head Charlie Rich
Charlie Rich
Charles Rich was an American country music singer and musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver...

18 40 I Love How You Love Me
I Love How You Love Me
"I Love How You Love Me" was an American 1961 Top Ten hit for the Paris Sisters which inaugurated a string of elaborately produced classic hits by Phil Spector...

Lynn Anderson
Lynn Anderson
Lynn Rene Anderson is an American country music singer and equestrian known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably her Grammy Award-winning, worldwide mega-hit, " Rose Garden." Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most...

21 9 I Will Survive
I Will Survive
"I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris...

Billie Jo Spears
Billie Jo Spears
Billie Jo Spears is an American country music singer. She reached the top-10 of the Country music charts five times between 1969 and 1977, her biggest hit being "Blanket on the Ground", which, in 1975, became her only number one...

20 55 I'd Rather Go on Hurtin' Joe Sun
Joe Sun
James Joseph Paulsen is an American country music singer, songwriter of Danish descent, known professionally as Joe Sun. Recording for the Ovation and Elektra Records labels, Sun charted fourteen singles on the Hot Country Songs charts...

14 7 I'll Love Away Your Troubles for Awhile Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s....

3 2 I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home Charlie Rich
13 8 I'm Gonna Love You Glen Campbell
18 6 I'm the Singer, You're the Song Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...

14 16 I've Been Waiting for You All of My Life Con Hunley
Con Hunley
Conard Logan "Con" Hunley is a country music singer.Hunley was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. After graduating from Central High School in Knoxville, Hunley began playing with local bands, maturing musically and gaining his first fans. Hunley joined the Air Force in 1965 and spent most of his...

7 5 I've Done Enough Dying Today Larry Gatlin
Larry Gatlin
Larry Wayne Gatlin is an American country music singer/songwriter. He is perhaps best known for teaming up with his brothers Steve and Rudy in the late 1970s, becoming one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s. Gatlin has had a total of 33 Top 40 singles...

5 2 I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind Loretta Lynn
13 12 If Everyone Had Someone Like You Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold
Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...

4 8 If I Could Write a Song (As Beautiful as You) Billy "Crash" Craddock
18 If I Fell in Love with You Rex Allen, Jr.
Rex Allen, Jr.
Rex Allen, Jr. is an American country music singer, who started singing at the age of six; he had followed in the footsteps of his father, Rex Allen, a singing cowboy and the narrator of many Walt Disney films. Rex Allen, Jr...

10 45 If I Give My Heart to You
If I Give My Heart to You
"If I Give My Heart to You" is a popular song written by Jimmy Brewster, Jimmie Crane, and Al Jacobs.The most popular versions of the song were recorded by Doris Day and Denise Lor; both charted in 1954. Anne Shelton recorded a version for the UK market, but it lost out to the Day version, as well...

Margo Smith
Margo Smith
Margo Smith is an American Country Music Singer. In the 1970s, she was a popular female Country vocalist, acquiring two No. 1 hits on the Country charts during that time, "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While", both Country music remakes of previous Pop music...

6 33 If Love Had a Face Razzy Bailey
6 9 In No Time at All
In No Time at All
"In No Time at All" is a single by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. Released in August 1979, it was the second single from his album Images. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.-Chart performance:...

Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country’s most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s...

10 7 Isn't It Always Love Lynn Anderson
12 13 It's Time We Talk Things Over Rex Allen, Jr. and The Byrds
The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...

11 4 Just Like Real People The Kendalls
10 10 Just Long Enough to Say Goodbye Mickey Gilley
Mickey Gilley
Mickey Leroy Gilley is an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as...

9 21 The Lady in the Blue Mercedes Johnny Duncan
3 2 Lay Down Beside Me
Lay Down Beside Me
"Lay Down Beside Me" is a single written and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. Released in 1979, it was the second single from the album Expressions. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....

Don Williams
Don Williams
Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,...

14 17 Liberated Woman John Wesley Ryles
John Wesley Ryles
John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records.Ryles later recorded one album, Reconsider Me, for the Plantation label,...

16 25 Lovin' On The Bellamy Brothers
2 3 Lying in Love with You Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
7 4 Maybelline George Jones
George Jones
George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....

 and Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck was the legal name of Donald Eugene Lytle , a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It"...

9 Me and My Broken Heart Rex Allen, Jr.
19 3 Mississippi
Mississippi (Charlie Daniels song)
"Mississippi", is the title of a song co-written and performed by the Charlie Daniels Band. It was released in September 1979 as the second single from their 1979 album Million Mile Reflections. It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and at #3 on the Canadian RPM...

Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

20 65 Mr. Jones Big Al Downing
Al Downing (musician)
Al Downing , later known as Big Al Downing, was an entertainer, singer, songwriter, and pianist. He received the Billboard's New Artist of the Year and the Single of the Year Award in 1979. He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and was a frequent performer at the Grand Ole Opry...

11 20 My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller which was a #1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960.-1960 hit:...

Debby Boone
Debby Boone
Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer and stage actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent a then record ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year...

4 4 My Own Kind of Hat
My Own Kind of Hat
"My Own Kind of Hat" is a single by American country music artist Merle Haggard. Released in September 1979, it was the second single from the album Serving 190 Proof. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart....

Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...

8 62 My Silver Lining Mickey Gilley
4 7 My World Begins and Ends with You Dave & Sugar
Dave & Sugar
Dave & Sugar was a pop-styled country music trio that enjoyed its peak success in the mid- to late-1970s. It consisted of lead singer Dave Rowland and initially on backing vocalists, Vicki Hackeman and Jackie Frantz...

17 13 Next Best Feeling Mary K. Miller
10 Nickels and Dimes Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...

17 38 No Memories Hangin' Around Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....

 with Bobby Bare
Bobby Bare
Robert Joseph Bare is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician.-Early career:...

7 5 No One Else in the World Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....

10 33 Nothing as Original as You The Statler Brothers
5 7 The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell The Statler Brothers
17 The One Thing My Lady Never Puts Into Words Mel Street
Mel Street
King Malachi Street , commonly known as Mel Street, was an American country music singer.-Biography:Street was born in Rowe, Virginia to a coal mining family...

7 20 Only Love Can Break a Heart
Only Love Can Break a Heart
"Only Love Can Break a Heart" is the title of a popular song from 1962 by the American singer-songwriter Gene Pitney. The song was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach and appears on Pitney's second album Only Love Can Break a Heart.Pitney had enjoyed some success as a songwriter prior to...

Kenny Dale
5 2 Pick the Wildwood Flower
Pick the Wildwood Flower
"Pick the Wildwood Flower" is a single by American country music artist Gene Watson. Released in 1979, it was the third single from the album Reflections. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

Gene Watson
11 44 Play Together Again, Again Buck Owens
Buck Owens
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"Since I Fell for You" is a jazz and pop standard. The blues ballad was composed by Buddy Johnson in 1945 and was first popularized by his sister, Ella Johnson, with Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra. The biggest hit version was recorded by Lenny Welch in 1963, reaching number four on the U.S...

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"Texas " is a single by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. Released in 1978, it was the first single from the album TNT The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

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Jacky Ward is an American country music artist. Between 1972 and 1982, he recorded four albums for Mercury Records, and charted more than fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Jacky Ward (born November 18, 1946 in Groveton, Texas) is an American country music artist. Between 1972...

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12 28 You Pick Me Up (And Put Me Down)
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Dallas Harms is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Twenty of Harms' singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts, including the number one single "Honky Tonkin' ." Harms was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989.-Albums:-Singles:-References:...

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12 High on You Dick Damron
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6 Rachel I'm Just Not That Strong David Thompson
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19 Some Kind of Woman The Good Brothers
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  • You're My Jamacia - Charley Pride
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    Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis...

     (RCA)

Christmas albums

  • Light of the Stable - Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

     (Reprise)
  • Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

     (CBS)

Births

  • February 1 — Julie Roberts
    Julie Roberts
    Julie Roberts is an American country music singer. Signed to Mercury Nashville in 2004, Roberts made her debut that year with the single "Break Down Here", a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts and the first track from her self-titled debut album...

    , country music singer-songwriter.
  • April 24 — Rebecca Lynn Howard
    Rebecca Lynn Howard
    Rebecca Lynn Howard is an American country music artist. She has charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and has released three studio albums...

    , pop-styled singer-songwriter of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Deaths

  • January 8 — Sara Carter
    Sara Carter
    Sara Carter was an American Country music musician. Known for her deep and distinctive singing voice, she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s....

    , 80, lead singer and member of the pioneering Carter Family
    Carter Family
    The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country...

    .
  • February 21 — Carl T. Sprague
    Carl T. Sprague
    Carl T. "Doc" Sprague was an American country musician. He was often dubbed "The Original Singing Cowboy". Sprague was one of the first country musicians on record, recording in the early 1920s.-Biography:...

    , 83, "The Original Singing Cowboy," active mainly in the 1920s.
  • May 11 — Lester Flatt
    Lester Flatt
    Lester Raymond Flatt was a bluegrass musician and guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his membership in the Bluegrass duo The Foggy Mountain Boys, also known as "Flatt and Scruggs," with banjo picker Earl Scruggs. Flatt's career spanned multiple decades; besides his work with Scruggs, he...

    , 64, early bluegrass
    Bluegrass music
    Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

     pioneer who, with Earl Scruggs
    Earl Scruggs
    Earl Eugene Scruggs is an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger banjo-picking style that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music...

    , formed the Foggy Mountain Boys
    Foggy Mountain Boys
    The Foggy Mountain Boys were an influential bluegrass band founded by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs in 1948, shortly after leaving Bill Monroe’s band. They recorded and performed together up until 1969.-Biography:...

    . (heart failure)
  • November 29 — Jimmie Tarlton
    Darby and Tarlton
    Darby and Tarlton was an early country music duo, who achieved some level of success in the late 1920s. The duo consisted of Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton, .-Biography:Tarlton grew up on a farm in Chesterfield County, South Carolina...

    , 87, one half of Darby and Tarlton, an early country music duo.

Grammy Awards

  • Best Female Country Vocal PerformanceBlue Kentucky Girl, Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

  • Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "The Gambler
    The Gambler (song)
    "The Gambler" is the title of a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in 1980. Bobby Bare had...

    ," Kenny Rogers
    Kenny Rogers
    Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

  • Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "The Devil Went Down to Georgia
    The Devil Went Down to Georgia
    "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is a song written and performed by the Charlie Daniels Band and released on their 1979 album Million Mile Reflections....

    ," Charlie Daniels Band
    Charlie Daniels
    Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

  • Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Big Sandy/Leather Britches," Doc Watson
    Doc Watson
    Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...

     and Merle Watson
  • Best Country Song — "You Decorated My Life
    You Decorated My Life
    "You Decorated My Life" is the title of a song written by Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1979 as the lead single from his album Kenny. It was a number-one hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart and peaked at...

    ," Debbie Hupp and Bob Morrison (Performer: Kenny Rogers)

Juno Awards

  • Country Male Vocalist of the YearRonnie Prophet
    Ronnie Prophet
    Ronald Lawrence Victor Prophet is a Canadian-born country musician and comedy performer.In his childhood, Ronnie Prophet lived in Calumet, Quebec and began performing at local venues in his youth. His successful musical career in the United States began in the mid-1960s...

  • Country Female Vocalist of the YearCarroll Baker
    Carroll Baker (singer)
    Carroll Baker, CM , , is a Juno Award winning Canadian country music singer and songwriter.-Biography:Carroll Baker was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia...

  • Country Group or Duo of the YearThe Good Brothers
    The Good Brothers
    The Good Brothers are a Canadian country, bluegrass and folk music group originating from Richmond Hill, Ontario. The band's core members are Brian Good , his twin brother Bruce Good and younger brother Larry Good ....


Academy of Country Music

  • Entertainer of the YearWillie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

  • Song of the Year — "It's a Cheatin' Situation," Sonny Throckmorton
    Sonny Throckmorton
    James Fron "Sonny" Throckmorton is an American country music singer and songwriter. Known primarily for his songwriting, Throckmorton has had more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by various country singers...

     and Curly Putman
    Curly Putman
    Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr. is an American songwriter, based in Nashville. His biggest success was "Green, Green Grass of Home" , which was covered by Elvis Presley, Johnny Darrell, Gram Parsons, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roberto Leal, Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, Joe Tex, Nana...

     (Performer: Moe Bandy
    Moe Bandy
    Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy– is a country music singer...

    )
  • Single of the Year — "All the Gold in California," Larry Gatlin
    Larry Gatlin
    Larry Wayne Gatlin is an American country music singer/songwriter. He is perhaps best known for teaming up with his brothers Steve and Rudy in the late 1970s, becoming one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s. Gatlin has had a total of 33 Top 40 singles...

  • Album of the YearStraight Ahead, Larry Gatlin
  • Top Male Vocalist — Larry Gatlin
  • Top Female VocalistCrystal Gayle
    Crystal Gayle
    Crystal Gayle is an American country music singer best known for her 1977 country-pop hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". An award-winning singer, she accumulated 18 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s...

  • Top Vocal DuoJoe Stampley
    Joe Stampley
    Joe Stampley is an American country music singer.-Biography:He was born to R.C. Stampley, Jr. , and Mary E. Stampley...

     and Moe Bandy
    Moe Bandy
    Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy– is a country music singer...

  • Top New Male Vocalist — R. C. Bannon
  • Top New Female VocalistLacy J. Dalton
    Lacy J. Dalton
    Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ...


Country Music Association

  • Entertainer of the YearWillie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

  • Song of the Year — "The Gambler
    The Gambler (song)
    "The Gambler" is the title of a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1978 as the title track from his album The Gambler which won him the Grammy award for best male country vocal performance in 1980. Bobby Bare had...

    ," Don Schlitz
    Don Schlitz
    Donald Alan "Don" Schlitz, Jr. is a country music songwriter. For his songwriting efforts, Schlitz has earned two Grammys, as well as four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards...

     (Performer: Kenny Rogers
    Kenny Rogers
    Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

    )
  • Single of the Year — "The Devil Went Down to Georgia
    The Devil Went Down to Georgia
    "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is a song written and performed by the Charlie Daniels Band and released on their 1979 album Million Mile Reflections....

    ," Charlie Daniels Band
    Charlie Daniels
    Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

  • Album of the YearThe Gambler
    The Gambler (album)
    The Gambler is the sixth studio album by Kenny Rogers', released by United Artists in 1978. One of his most popular, it has established Rogers' status as one of the most successful artists of the 1970s and 1980s...

    , Kenny Rogers
  • Male Vocalist of the Year — Kenny Rogers
  • Female Vocalist of the YearBarbara Mandrell
    Barbara Mandrell
    Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...

  • Vocal Duo of the Year — Kenny Rogers and Dottie West
    Dottie West
    Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

  • Vocal Group of the Year — The Statler Brothers
  • Instrumentalist of the Year — Charlie Daniels
  • Instrumental Group of the Year — Charlie Daniels Band

Further reading

  • Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
  • Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
  • Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.
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