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Ray Price, traditional country star of the '50s and '60s, who experienced pop success in the '70s and '80s. Charley Pride, the first black country music star in the 1970s and early 1980s. Best known for "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'." Jeanne Pruett, female vocalist of the 70s, best known for the song "Satin Sheets".
Sonny James achieved 16 consecutive number ones in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "More Than a Memory" by Garth Brooks was the first song to debut at number one in the history of Billboard ' s country charts. Reba McEntire spent time at number one in four different decades.
In the first issue of Billboard of 1950, Christmas songs were at number one on two charts, with "Blue Christmas" by Ernest Tubb in the top spot on the juke box chart and Gene Autry 's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" atop the jockeys chart. The number one on the best sellers chart was "Slipping Around" by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy ...
Chart history. Tom T. Hall had his first number one in 1970 with "A Week in a Country Jail". Sonny James spent fourteen weeks at number one during the year. Conway Twitty topped the chart with "Hello Darlin'", which came to be regarded as his signature song. Loretta Lynn reached number one with the autobiographical "Coal Miner's Daughter".
Craig Campbell (born 1979) Glen Campbell (1936–2017) Kate Campbell. Larry Campbell. Stacy Dean Campbell (born 1967) Cody Canada (born 1976) Melonie Cannon. Laura Cantrell (born 1967/1968) Canyon.
Outlaw country. Outlaw country[ 2] is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of iconoclastic artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.
National Barn Dance, the original country music radio show. (1924–1960) Grand Ole Opry, the most famous country music radio program, broadcasting on WSM from Nashville. (1925–present) Jamboree U-S-A, airing from WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. Spun off a popular music festival, the Jamboree in the Hills. (1933–2007).
Joe Bonsall, one of the mainstays of country music’s leading vocal group, the Oak Ridge Boys, for 51 years, died Tuesday at 76. The cause of death was complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.