1945 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1945.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

• February 3 - "I'm Losing My Mind Over You" - Al Dexter
• March 17 - "There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder" - Jimmie Davis
• March 31 - "Shame on You" - Spade Cooley
• April 14 - "Smoke on the Water" - (Bob Wills)
• May 19 - "At Mail Call Today" - Gene Autry
• July 7 - "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
• July 28 - "Oklahoma Hills" - Jack Guthrie
• August 25 - "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" - Tex Ritter
• October 27 - "With Tears in My Eyes" - Wesley Tuttle
• November 17 - "Sioux City Sue" - Dick Thomas
• November 24 - "Shame on You" - Lawrence Welk Orchestra with Red Foley
• December 8 - "It's Been So Long Darling" - Ernest Tubb
• December 15 - "Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Other Major Hits

• Careless Darlin' - Ernest Tubb
• Christmas Carols At The Old Corral - Tex Ritter
• Don't Fence Me In - Gene Autry
• Don't Hang Around Me Anymore - Gene Autry
• Each Minute Seems A Million Years - Eddy Arnold
• Each Night At Nine - Floyd Tillman
• Hang Your Head In Shame - Bob Wills
• Hang Your Head In Shame - Red Foley
• Headin' Down The Wrong Highway - Ted Daffan
• Hitler's Last Letter To Hirohito - Carson Robinson
• I Never Let You Worry My Mind - Red Foley
• I'll Wait For You Dear - Al Dexter
• I'm A Branding My Darling With My Heart - Jack Guthrie
• I'm A Convict With Old Glory In My Heart - Elton Britt
• I'm Gonna Build A Big Fence Around Texas - Gene Autry
• I'm Lost Without You - Al Dexter
• I've Taken All I'm Gonne Take - Gene Autry
• Jealous Heart - Tex Ritter
• Keep My Memory In Your Heart - Ernest Tubb
• Mexico Joe - Ivie Anderson
• A Pair Of Broken Hearts - Spade Cooley
• Shadow On Your Heart - Ted Daffan
• Smoke On The Water - Boyd Heath
• Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima - Sons Of The Pioneers
• Texas Playboy Rag - Bob Wills
• Time Won't Heal My Broken Heart - Ted Daffan
• Tomorrow Never Comes - Ernest Tubb
• Triflin' Gal - Al Dexter
• You Don't Care What Happens To Me - Bob Wills
• You're Breaking My Heart - Ted Daffan
• ″I′ll Be Back″ — Gene Autry
• ″I Want To Be Sure″ — Gene Autry
• ″Don′t Live a Lie″ — Gene Autry

Births

• January 16 — Ronnie Milsap, blind, blue-eyed soul-styled singer who became one of country music's most popular entertainers of the 1970s and 1980s.
• March 14 — Michael Martin Murphey, Western-styled singer-songwriter who enjoyed mainstream success in the 1980s as a country-pop performer.
• May 23 - Misty Morgan, singer-songwriter who, with husband Jack Blanchard, had a string of animal-themed hit recordings in the 1970s.
• June 5 — Don Reid, lead singer and main songwriter of The Statler Brothers.
• June 20 — Anne Murray, Canadian vocalist who became one of that country's most successful country music performers during the 1970s and 1980s.

Further reading

• 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.