1970 in country music
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[edit] Events
[edit] Top hits of the year
[edit] Number one hits
(As certified by Billboard magazine)
- January 3 – "Baby Baby (I Know You're a Lady)" – David Houston
- January 31 – "A Week in a Country Jail" – Tom T. Hall
- February 14 – "It's Just a Matter of Time" – Sonny James
- March 14 — "The Fightin' Side of Me" – Merle Haggard
- April 4 — "The Tennessee Birdwalk" – Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan
- April 18 — "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antoné?" – Charley Pride
- May 2 — "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" – Marty Robbins
- May 9 — "The Pool Shark" – Dave Dudley
- May 16 — "My Love" – Sonny James
- June 6 — "Hello Darlin'" – Conway Twitty
- July 4 — "He Loves Me All the Way" – Tammy Wynette
- July 25 — "Wonder Could I Live There Anymore" – Charley Pride
- August 8 — "Don't Keep Me Hangin' On" – Sonny James
- September 5 — "All for the Love of Sunshine" – Hank Williams, Jr. with the The Mike Curb Congregation
- September 19 — "For the Good Times" – Ray Price
- September 26 — "There Must Be More to Love Than This" – Jerry Lee Lewis
- October 10 — "Sunday Morning Coming Down" – Johnny Cash
- October 24 — "Run, Woman, Run" – Tammy Wynette
- November 7 — "I Can't Believe That You Stopped Loving Me" – Charley Pride
- November 21 — "Fifteen Years Ago" – Conway Twitty
- November 28 — "Endlessly" – Sonny James
- December 19 — "Coal Miner's Daughter" – Loretta Lynn
- December 26 — "Rose Garden" – Lynn Anderson
[edit] Other major hits
- "After Closing Time" – David Houston and Barbara Mandrell
- "All I Have to Do is Dream" - Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
- "All My Hard Times" – Roy Drusky
- "Amos Moses" – Jerry Reed
- "Angels Don't Lie" – Jim Reeves
- "Big in Vegas" – Buck Owens
- "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" – Waylon Jennings
- "Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man" – Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
- "Everything a Man Could Ever Need" - Glen Campbell
- "Goin' Steady" – Faron Young
- "The Great White Horse" – Buck Owens and Susan Raye
- "Heart Over Mind" – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
- "Heaven Everyday" – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
- "Heavenly Sunshine" — Ferlin Husky
- "Honey Come Back" – Glen Campbell
- "How I Got to Memphis" – Bobby Bare
- "I Can't Be Myself" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
- "I Do My Swinging at Home" – David Houston
- "I Know How" – Loretta Lynn
- "I Never Once Stopped Loving You" – Connie Smith
- "I Never Picked Cotton" — Roy Clark
- "I Walked Out of Heaven" – Hank Williams Jr.
- "I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You" – Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely
- "I'll See Him Through" – Tammy Wynette
- "I've Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes" – Crystal Gayle
- "If I Ever Fall in Love (With a Honky Tonk Girl)" – Faron Young
- "If I Were a Carpenter" – Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
- "If It's All the Same to You" – Bill Anderson and Jan Howard
- "It's Only Make-Believe" - Glen Campbell
- "Jesus Take a Hold" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
- "Jolie Girl" – Marty Robbins
- "The Kansas City Song" - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
- "Kentucky Rain" – Elvis Presley
- "Long Long Texas Road" – Roy Drusky
- "Love is a Sometimes Thing" – Bill Anderson
- "Morning" — Jim Ed Brown
- "Mule Skinner Blues" – Dolly Parton
- "Occasional Wife" — Faron Young
- "Once More With Feeling" – Jerry Lee Lewis
- "One Song Away" – Tommy Cash
- "Right or Left at Oak Street" — Roy Clark
- "Rise and Shine" – Tommy Cash
- "Salute to a Switchblade" - Tom T. Hall
- "She's a Little Bit Country" — George Hamilton IV
- "She's Mine" – George Jones
- "Shoeshine Man" - Tom T. Hall
- "Six White Horses" – Tommy Cash
- "Snowbird" – Anne Murray
- "Someday We'll Be Together" – Bill Anderson and Jan Howard
- "Stay There Til I Get There" – Lynn Anderson
- "Street Singer" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
- "The Taker" – Waylon Jennings
- "Thank God and Greyhound" — Roy Clark
- "That's When She Started to Stop Loving You" – Conway Twitty
- "Then He Touched Me" – Jean Shepard
- "There's a Story Goin' Round" – Don Gibson and Dottie West
- "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone" – Bill Anderson
- "Willy Jones" - Susan Raye
- "Wonders of the Wine" — David Houston
- "You Wouldn't Know Love" – Ray Price
[edit] #1 Billboard Albums
- Okie From Muskogee Merle Haggard (Capitol)
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash Johnny Cash (Columbia)
- Just Plain Charley Charley Pride (RCA)
- Tammy's Touch Tammy Wynette (Epic)
- Charley Pride's 10th Album (RCA)
- Hello Darlin' Conway Twitty (Decca)
- The Fightin' Side of Me Merle Haggard (Capitol)
- For the Good Times – Ray Price (Columbia)
- The Johnny Cash Show (Columbia)
[edit] Notable new album releases
- A Real Live Dolly - Dolly Parton (RCA)
- Coal Miner's Daughter - Loretta Lynn (Decca)
- Husband Hunting - Liz Anderson (RCA)
- Skid Row Joe: Down in the Alley – Porter Wagoner (RCA)
- Snowbird – Anne Murray (Capitol)
- Uptown Country Girl - Lynn Anderson (Chart)
- We're Gonna Get Together - Buck Owens and Susan Raye (Capitol)
- Wings Upon Your Horns - Loretta Lynn (Decca)
[edit] Births
- October 25 – Chely Wright, country singer of the late 1990s and 2000s.
[edit] Deaths
- April 1 — Paul Cohen, 62, pioneering record producer at Decca Records.
[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
- The Original Carter Family – (A. P. Carter (1891–1960); Sara Carter (1898–1979); and Mother Maybelle Carter (1909–1978))
[edit] Major Awards
[edit] Grammy awards
- Best Country Vocal Performance, Female -- "Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson
- Best Country Vocal Performance, Male -- "For The Good Times" - Ray Price
- Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group -- "If I Were A Carpenter" - Johnny Cash and June Carter
- Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Me And Jerry" - Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins
- Best Country Song -- "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" - Marty Robbins
[edit] Academy of Country Music
- Entertainer Of The Year -- Merle Haggard
- Song Of The Year -- "For The Good Times" - Ray Price - Kris Kristofferson
- Single Of The Year -- "For The Good Times" - Ray Price
- Album Of The Year -- For The Good Times - Ray Price
- Top Male Vocalist -- Merle Haggard
- Top Female Vocalist -- Lynn Anderson
- Top Vocal Group -- Kimberleys
- Top New Male Vocalist -- Buddy Alan Owens
- Top New Female Vocalist -- Sammi Smith
[edit] Country Music Association
- Entertainer of the Year -- Merle Haggard
- Male Vocalist of the Year -- Merle Haggard
- Female Vocalist of the Year -- Tammy Wynette
- Instrumental Group of the Year –- Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass
- Comedian of the Year – Roy Clark
- Vocal Group of the Year -- Tompall Glaser and the Glaser Brothers
- Vocal Duo of the Year -- Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
- Single of the Year -- "Okie Fom Muskogee", Merle Haggard
- Song of the Year -- "Sunday Morning Coming Down", Kris Kristofferson
- Album of the Year -- Okie From Muskogee, Merle Haggard
- Instrumentalist of the Year -- Jerry Reed
[edit] 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.
