1970 in country music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top hits of the year 2.1 Number one hits 2.2 Other major hits 3 #1 Billboard Albums 4 Notable new album releases 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 8 Major Awards 8.1 Grammy awards 8.2 Academy of Country Music 8.3 Country Music Association 9 Further reading 10 Other links 11 External links

[edit] Events

• September – That Good Ole Nashville Music debuts in syndication. The series will run until 1985.

[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 — "Tennessee Birdwalk" – Jack Blanchard & 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
• "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" – Waylon Jennings
• "Camelia" - Marty Robbins
• "Commercial Affection" - Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
• "Country Girl" - Jeannie C. Riley
• "Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man" – Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
• "Don't Cry Daddy" - Elvis Presley
• "Everything a Man Could Ever Need" - Glen Campbell
• "Everything is Beautiful" - Ray Stevens
• "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 Can't Seem to Say Goodbye" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "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 On Heaven" – Hank Williams Jr.
• "I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You" – Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely
• "I Wouldn't Live in New York City (If They Gave Me the Whole Dang Town)" - Buck Owens
• "I'll See Him Through" – Tammy Wynette
• "I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter)" - Skeeter Davis
• "I've Been Everywhere" - Lynn Anderson
• "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
• "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" - Bobby Bare
• "Right or Left at Oak Street" — Roy Clark
• "Rise and Shine" – Tommy Cash
• "Rocky Top" - Lynn Anderson
• "Salute to a Switchblade" - Tom T. Hall
• "She Goes Walkin' Through My Mind" - Billy Walker
• "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
• "Thinkin' About You, Babe" - Billy Walker
• "Togetherness" - Buck Owens and Susan Raye
• "Tomorrow is Forever" - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
• "We're Gonna Get Together" - Buck Owens and Susan Raye
• "When a Man Loves a Woman (The Way That I Love You)" - Billy Walker
• "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone" – Bill Anderson
• "Willy Jones" - Susan Raye
• "Wings Upon Your Horns" - Loretta Lynn
• "The Wonder of You" - Elvis Presley
• "Wonders of the Wine" — David Houston
• "You Wanna Give Me a Lift" - Loretta Lynn
• "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

• March 14 – Kristian Bush, member of Sugarland.
• 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 From 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.

[edit] Other links

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

[edit] External links

• Country Music Hall of Fame