1969 in country music

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 No dates 2 Top hits of the year 2.1 Number one hits 2.2 Other major hits 3 Top new album releases 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 7 Major Awards 7.1 Grammy awards 7.2 Academy of Country Music 7.3 Country Music Association 8 Further reading 9 Further reading 10 Other links 11 External links

[edit] Events

• October - The Country Music Association airs its awards progam live for the first time. The annual awards show - at the time airing in October on NBC - quickly becomes one of country music's most eagerly anticipated events of the year.

[edit] No dates

• Dolly Parton joins the Grand Ole Opry.
• Tammy Wynette becomes the first female country artist to sell over one million copies of a single recording with her Tammy's Greatest Hits collection.

[edit] Top hits of the year

[edit] Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

• January 4 – "Daddy Sang Bass" – Johnny Cash
• February 15 – "Until My Dreams Come True" – Jack Greene
• March 1 – "To Make Love Sweeter For You" – Jerry Lee Lewis
• March 8 – "Only the Lonely" – Sonny James
• March 29 – "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
• April 12 – "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" – Loretta Lynn
• April 19 – "Galveston" – Glen Campbell
• May 10 – "Hungry Eyes" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• May 17 – "My Life (Throw it Away if I Want To)" – Bill Anderson
• May 31 – "Singing My Song" – Tammy Wynette
• June 14 – "Running Bear" – Sonny James
• July 5 – "Statue of a Fool" – Jack Greene
• July 19 – "I Love You More Today" – Conway Twitty
• July 26 – "Johnny B. Goode" – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
• August 9 – "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" – Charley Pride
• August 16 – "Workin' Man Blues" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• August 23 – "A Boy Named Sue" – Johnny Cash
• September 27 – "Tall Dark Stranger" – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
• October 4 – "Since I Met You Baby" – Sonny James
• October 25 – "The Ways to Love a Man" – Tammy Wynette
• November 8 – "To See My Angel Cry" – Conway Twitty
• November 15 – "Okie From Muskogee" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• December 13 – "I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again" – Charley Pride

[edit] Other major hits

• "All For the Love of a Girl" - Claude King
• "April's Fool" - Ray Price
• "Are You From Dixie ('Cause I'm From Dixie Too)" - Jerry Reed
• "Back in the Arms of Love" - Jack Greene
• "Ballad of Forty Dollars" – Tom T. Hall
• "Be Glad" - Del Reeves
• "Big in Vegas" – Buck Owens
• "Big Wind" - Porter Wagoner
• "But You Know I Love You" – Bill Anderson
• "Cajun Baby" – Hank Williams Jr.
• "The Carroll County Accident" – Porter Wagoner
• "Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie" – Conway Twitty
• "Don't Let Me Cross Over" - Jerry Lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis
• "Games People Play" – Freddy Weller
• "George and the North Woods" - Dave Dudley
• "The Girl Most Likely" - Jeannie C. Riley
• "Good Time Charlies" - Del Reeves
• "Homecoming" – Tom T. Hall
• "I Can't Say Goodbye" - Marty Robbins
• "I Love You Because" - Carl Smith
• "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am" - Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• "I'd Rather Be Gone" – Hank Williams Jr.
• "I'll Share My World With You" – George Jones
• "I'm Down to My Last 'I Love You'" - David Houston
• "If Not For You" - George Jones
• "It's a Sin" - Marty Robbins
• "Invitation to Your Party" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Just Someone I Used to Know" - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
• "Kaw-Liga" - Charley Pride
• "Kay" - John Wesley Ryles
• "Let it Be Me" - Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
• "MacArthur Park" - Waylon Jennings with the Kimberlys
• "(Margie's at) The Lincoln Park Inn" – Bobby Bare
• "Me and Bobby McGee" - Roger Miller
• "My Woman's Good to Me" - David Houston
• "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Please Don't Go" - Eddy Arnold
• "Please Let Me Prove My Love For You" - Dave Dudley
• "Raining in My Heart" - Ray Price
• "Ribbon of Darkness" - Connie Smith
• "Rings of Gold" – Don Gibson and Dottie West
• "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)" – Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
• "Rueben James" - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
• "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Smoky the Bar" - Hank Thompson
• "Such a Fool" - Roy Drusky
• "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley
• "Sweet Thang and Cisco" - Nat Stuckey
• "Sweetheart of the Year" - Ray Price
• "That's a No-No" - Lynn Anderson
• "There Never Was a Time" – Jeannie C. Riley
• "There Won't Be a Lonely Heart in Town" - Del Reeves
• "These are Not My People" - Freddy Weller
• "These Lonely Hands of Mine" - Mel Tillis
• "They Don't Make Love Like They Used To" - Eddy Arnold
• "This Thing" - Webb Pierce
• "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" - Loretta Lynn
• "True Grit" - Glen Campbell
• "Try a Little Kindness" - Glen Campbell
• "When the Grass Grows Over Me" - George Jones
• "When Two Worlds Collide" - Jim Reeves
• "Where the Blue and Lonely Go" - Roy Drusky
• "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" - Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn
• "Who's Julie" - Mel Tillis
• "Wine Me Up" - Faron Young
• "Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You" - Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely
• "Yesterday When I Was Young" – Roy Clark
• "You and Your Sweet Love" - Connie Smith
• "You Gave Me a Mountain" – Johnny Bush
• "Young Love" - Connie Smith and Nat Stuckey
• "Your Time's Comin'" - Faron Young
• "Yours Love" - Waylon Jennings
• "Yours Love" - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton

[edit] Top new album releases

• The Carroll County Accident – Porter Wagoner (RCA)
• It's A Sin - Marty Robbins (Columbia)
• My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy - Dolly Parton (RCA)
• Songs That Made Country Girls Famous - Lynn Anderson (Chart)
• Yearbooks and Yesterdays - Jeannie C. Riley (Plantation)

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

• Gene Autry (1907-1998)
• Bill Monroe (1911-1996)

[edit] Major Awards

[edit] Grammy awards

[edit] Academy of Country Music

• Single Of The Year -- "Okie From Muskogee" - Merle Haggard
• Album Of The Year -- Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
• Top Male Vocalist -- Merle Haggard
• Top Female Vocalist -- Tammy Wynette
• Top Vocal Duo -- Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens
• Top Vocal Group -- Kimberleys
• Top New Male Vocalist -- Freddy Weller
• Top New Female Vocalist -- Donna Fargo

[edit] Country Music Association

• Entertainer of the Year --
• Male Vocalist of the Year --
• Female Vocalist of the Year --
• Instrumental Group of the Year –-
• Comedian of the Year –-
• Vocal Group of the Year --
• Vocal Duo of the Year --
• Single of the Year --
• Song of the Year --
• Album of the Year --
• Instrumentalist of the Year --

[edit] Further reading

[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.

[edit] Other links

• Country Music Association
• Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

[edit] External links

• Country Music Hall of Fame