List of number-one country hits of 1946 (U.S.)

These are the U.S. number-one country songs of 1946

1946 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1946.-Number one hits:* January 5 - "You Will Have To Pay" - Tex Ritter...

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Most Played Juke Box Folk Records

Hot Country Songs

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Note that for the Issue Dates (January 5, February 2, May 18) multiple number ones were certified by Billboard

Issue date	Title	Artist
January 5	Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight "Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" is a 1945 song by Bob Wills. The song would be Bob Wills' third number one on the Juke Box Folk Record chart where it spent three weeks at the top with a total of fourteen weeks on the chart . The song was the B-side of " the instrumental, "Texas Playboy...	Bob Wills Bob Wills James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
January 5	White Cross on Okinawa White Cross on Okinawa "White Cross on Okinawa" is 1945 song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. The song was Bob Wills' fourth number one on the Juke Box Folk chart where it spent a single week at the top and a total of five weeks on the chart ....
January 5	You Will Have to Pay You Will Have to Pay "You Will Have To Pay" is a 1945 song by Tex Ritter. "You Will Have To Pay" would be Tex Ritter's final number one on Juke Box Folk chart, staying at the top for three weeks . The B-side of the song entitled, "Christmas Carols By the Old Corral" would hit number two on the same chart....	Tex Ritter Tex Ritter Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...
January 12	It's Been So Long Darling It's Been So Long Darling "It's Been So Long Darling" is a 1945 song by Ernest Tubb. "It's Been So Long Darling" was Ernest Tubb seventh chart entry on the country charts and his second to make it to number one, where it stayed for four weeks and a total of thirteen weeks on the chart....	Ernest Tubb Ernest Tubb Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
January 19	You Will Have to Pay	Tex Ritter
January 26	Sioux City Sue Sioux City Sue "Sioux City Sue" is a 1945 song by Dick Thomas. The song was Thomas' first chart entry on the Juke Box Folk Records chart and was also his most successful release: "Sioux City Sue" spent four weeks at number one and a total of twenty-three weeks on the charts....	Dick Thomas Dick Thomas (singer) Richard Thomas Goldhahn , known professionally as Dick Thomas, was an American singing cowboy and actor. He was best known for his 1945 single "Sioux City Sue," a Number One country hit and #16 pop hit that year which later became a country music standard and was included in a Gene Autry movie...
February 2
February 2	Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight	Bob Wills
February 2	You Will Have to Pay	Tex Ritter
February 2	Guitar Polka Guitar Polka "Guitar Polka" is a 1946 instrumental song by Al Dexter and His Troopers. "Guitar Polka" would spend sixteen weeks at number one on the Juke Box Folk charts and a total of twenty-nine weeks on the chart....	Al Dexter Al Dexter Al Dexter was an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for "Pistol Packin' Mama," a 1944 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years and later became a hit again with a cover by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters.-Biography:Born Clarence Albert...
February 9	Sioux City Sue	Dick Thomas
February 16	Guitar Polk	Al Dexter
February 23
March 2
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30
April 6
April 13
April 20
April 27
May 4
May 11
May 18
May 18	New Spanish Two Step New Spanish Two Step "New Spanish Two Step" is a Western swing standard based on a traditional fiddle tune,"Spanish Two Step," which was one of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys signature songs. Wills and his vocalist, Tommy Duncan, added lyrics to reflect the title:-Bibliography:...	Bob Wills
May 25	Guitar Polka	Al Dexter
June 1	New Spanish Two Step	Bob Wills
June 8
June 15
June 22
June 29
July 6
July 13
July 20
July 27
August 3
August 10
August 17
August 24
August 31
September 7
Septemper 14	Wine, Woman and Song	Al Dexter
Septemper 21
September 28
October 5
October 12	Divorce Me C.O.D. Divorce Me C.O.D. "Divorce Me C.O.D." is a 1946 song by Merle Travis. The song was Merle Travis' first release to make it to number one on the Folk Juke Box charts where it stayed for fourteen weeks and a total of twenty-three weeks on the chart...	Merle Travis Merle Travis Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
October 19	Wine, Woman and Song	Al Dexter
October 26	Divorce Me C.O.D.	Merle Travis
November 2
November 9
November 16
November 23
November 30
December 7
December 14
December 21
December 28

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