1983 in country music

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See also: 1982 in country music, 1983 in music, other events of 1983, 1984 in country music and the List of years in Country Music

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[edit] Events

  • March — In a span of two days, two major cable networks signed on the air. Country Music Television (aka CMT) went on-the-air March 6, while The Nashville Network (TNN) came on one day later. CMT was chiefly video-oriented, while TNN offered more feature-oriented programming.

[edit] Top hits of the year

[edit] Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

Date Song Name Artist Wks. No. 1 Spec.
Note
January 8 Can't Even Get the Blues Reba McEntire 1 A
January 15 Going Where the Lonely Go Merle Haggard 1
January 22 (Lost His Love) On Our Last Date Emmylou Harris 1
January 29 Talk to Me Mickey Gilley 1
February 5 Inside Ronnie Milsap 1
February 12 Till I Gain Control Again Crystal Gayle 1
February 19 Fakin' Love T.G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks 1 B - Karen Brooks
February 26 Why Baby Why Charley Pride 1
March 5 If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do) Don Williams 1
March 12 The Rose Conway Twitty 1
March 19 I Wouldn't Change You If I Could Ricky Skaggs 1
March 26 Swingin' John Anderson 1
April 2 When I'm Away From You Bellamy Brothers 1
April 9 We've Got Tonight Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton 1
April 16 Dixieland Delight Alabama 1
April 23 American Made Oak Ridge Boys 1
April 30 You're The First Time I've Thought About Leaving Reba McEntire 1
May 7 Jose Cuervo Shelly West 1 1
May 14 Whatever Happened to Old-Fashioned Love B.J. Thomas 1
May 21 Common Man John Conlee 1
May 28 You Take Me for Granted Merle Haggard 1
June 4 Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will) Waylon Jennings 1
June 11 Our Love is on the Faultline Crystal Gayle 1
June 18 You Can't Run From Love Eddie Rabbitt 1
June 25 Fool For Your Love Mickey Gilley 1
July 2 Love is on a Roll Don Williams 1
July 9 Highway 40 Blues Ricky Skaggs 1
July 16 The Closer You Get Alabama 1
July 23 Pancho and Lefty Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard 1
July 30 I Always Get Lucky With You George Jones 1 B
August 6 Your Love's on the Line Earl Thomas Conley 1
August 13 He's a Heartache (Looking For a Place to Happen) Janie Fricke 1
August 20 Love Song The Oak Ridge Boys 1
August 27 You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation Ronnie McDowell 1
September 3 A Fire I Can't Put Out George Strait 1
September 10 I'm Only in It for the Love John Conlee 1 Written by fellow country singer Deborah Allen, her then-husband Rafe VanHoy,
and Kix Brooks, who would later become one half of the biggest-selling country duo Brooks & Dunn.
September 17 Night Games Charley Pride 1
September 24 Baby, What About You Crystal Gayle 1
October 1 New Looks From an Old Lover B.J. Thomas 1
October 8 Don't You Know How Much I Love You Ronnie Milsap 1
October 15 Paradise Tonight Charly McClain and Mickey Gilley 1
October 22 Lady Down on Love Alabama 1
October 29 Islands in the Stream Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton 2
November 12 Somebody's Gonna Love You Lee Greenwood 1
November 19 One of a Kind, Pair of Fools Barbara Mandrell 1
November 26 Holding Her and Loving You Earl Thomas Conley 1
December 3 A Little Good News Anne Murray 1
December 10 Tell Me a Lie Janie Fricke 1
December 17 Black Sheep John Anderson 1
December 24 Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You) Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers 2
  • 1 - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard magazine.
  • A - First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • B - Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

[edit] Other major hits

[edit] Top new album releases

[edit] Other top albums

[edit] Christmas Albums

  • Merry Twismas From Conway Twitty and His Friends - Conway Twitty (Warner Bros.)

[edit] On television

[edit] Regular series

[edit] Specials

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

  • October 20 – Merle Travis, 65, singer and composer of classic songs such as "Sixteen Tons", "Dark as a Dungeon", "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" and "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette." (heart attack)

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

[edit] Major Awards

[edit] Grammy awards

[edit] Academy of Country Music

  • Entertainer Of The Year -- Alabama
  • Song Of The Year -- "The Wind Beneath My Wings" - Gary Morris - Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar
  • Single Of The Year -- "Islands In The Stream" - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
  • Album Of The Year -- The Closer You Get - Alabama
  • Top Male Vocalist -- Lee Greenwood
  • Top Female Vocalist -- Janie Fricke
  • Top Vocal Duo -- Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
  • Top Vocal Group -- Alabama
  • Top New Male Vocalist -- Jim Glaser
  • Top New Female Vocalist -- Gus Hardin

[edit] Country Music Association

[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.

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