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Named artist of the decade (1960–1969) by the Academy of Country Music; Jeannie C. Riley, sexy girl in a miniskirt who socked it to the pop charts with "Harper Valley PTA." Kenny Rogers, unique-voiced storyteller who also recorded love ballads and more rock material. He defined what was known as country crossover and became one of the biggest ...
No dates. Just four songs – five, if one counts " El Paso " by Marty Robbins, which spent five of its seven weeks at No. 1 in 1960 – ascend to the No. 1 spot on Billboard ' s Hot C&W Sides chart. Those songs – listed below – would spend 14, 14, 12 and 10 weeks at No. 1, compared to 10 No. 1 songs in 1959 and eight for all of 1961.
Contents. List of Hot C&W Sides number ones of 1960. Hank Locklin spent 14 consecutive weeks at number one with " Please Help Me, I'm Falling ". Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1960, five different songs topped the chart, which at the time ...
This is an alphabetical list of country music performers. It includes artists who played country music at some point in their ... (1891–1960) Anita Carter (1933 ...
The Amboy Dukes. Ambrose Slade. Amen Corner. The American Breed. The Ames Brothers. The Andrew Oldham Orchestra. Andromeda. Andy Kim. Andy Williams.
Capitol, Decca, Columbia Records, Reprise, United Artists. Franklin Delano Reeves (July 14, 1932 – January 1, 2007) [1] was an American country music singer, best known for his "girl-watching" novelty songs of the 1960s including "Girl on the Billboard" and "The Belles of Southern Bell". He is also known for his 1968 trucker 's anthem ...
Solo music artists make up 60 of the members, seven of whom have mostly retired from performing (Stu Phillips, Barbara Mandrell, Jeanne Pruett, Randy Travis, Ricky Van Shelton, Patty Loveless and Ronnie Milsap), but may make occasional appearances. Two of the members are stand-up comedians (Henry Cho and Gary Mule Deer).
Smith was the only solo female vocalist to appear at number one on the country listing in 1965; the only other female artist to reach the top spot during the year was Priscilla Mitchell, who topped the chart with " Yes, Mr. Peters ", a duet with Roy Drusky. Buck Owens, one of the most successful recording artists of the mid-1960s, [ 4 ] spent ...