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  2. List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1980 - Wikipedia

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    Contents. List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1980. The Oak Ridge Boys (pictured in 2013) had two number one singles in 1980. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1980, 43 different singles topped the chart, then published under the title ...

  3. 1980 in country music - Wikipedia

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    January 25 — At age 84, octogenarian comedian George Burns becomes by far the oldest performer (to that time) to have a single in the top 40 of Billboard ' s Hot Country Singles chart with "I Wish I Was 18 Again." The song peaks at No. 15 in March. March 2 — The Public Broadcasting Company (PBS) telecasts the Grand Ole Opry for the third ...

  4. List of Billboard number-one country songs - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of country performers by era - Wikipedia

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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 ".

  6. Gary Morris - Wikipedia

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    Gary Gwyn Morris (born December 7, 1948) [2] is an American singer and stage actor who charted a string of hits on the country music charts throughout the 1980s.. Morris is known for the 1983 ballad "The Wind Beneath My Wings", although his credits include more than twenty-five other chart singles on the Billboard country charts, including five No. 1 hits.

  7. List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1981 - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Mandrell topped the chart with "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool", which came to be regarded as her signature song. [1] Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1981, 48 different singles topped the chart, then published under the title ...

  8. Sylvia (singer) - Wikipedia

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    https://sylviamusic.com. Sylvia Jane Kirby (December 9, 1956 [ 1 ]), known mononymously as Sylvia, is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter. [ 2 ] Her biggest hit (a crossover chart topper), was her single " Nobody " in 1982. [ 3 ] It reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 5 on the Billboard Adult ...

  9. Outlaw country - Wikipedia

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    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.