1970 in country music
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[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.
