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As the decade progressed, the style was picked up by Floyd Tillman and Hank Williams, and by the end of the 1940s was the predominant style in country music. Hank Williams. Williams, a Butler County, Alabama native, began earning a reputation as both a songwriter and a performing artist. Using traditional honky-tonk themes, Williams grew to ...
The honky-tonk style of the 1940s and 1950s was overtaken in the 1960s by the "Nashville Sound", a smoother style with a broader appeal. [12] [13] In the 1970s, the country-pop style increasingly enabled country artists to achieve success on the pop music charts, [14] [15] and in more recent decades, some of the most successful songs have ...
Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings 1940 [ edit ] The following songs achieved the highest positions in Billboard magazine 's ' Best Sellers in Stores ' chart, monthly 'Hillbilly Hits' chart, supplemented by 'Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954' and record sales reported on the " Discography of American Historical Recordings " website, [ 1 ...
During the mid-1950s a new style of country music became popular, eventually to be referred to as rockabilly. [66] Bill Haley & His Comets in 1956 . In 1953, the first all-country radio station was established in Lubbock, Texas. [67] The music of the 1960s and 1970s targeted the American working class, and truckers in particular.
1956 in country music, Ray Price, Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton emerge, resurrect traditional country music after the influx of rock and roll threatens the heart of country music. 1957 in country music, Rock-flavored acts — Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson — dominate charts; Patsy Cline debuts on the charts.
The Barn Dance in 1940. National Barn Dance was founded by Edgar L. Bill. To him goes the credit for arranging to have a program of "down-home" tunes broadcast from radio station WLS, of which Bill was then director. Having lived on a farm, he knew how people loved the familiar sound and informal spirit of old-fashioned barn dance music.
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Trinidadian calypso, Argentinian tango and Dominican merengue and other styles influenced American popular music. Hawaiian music (especially slack-key guitar) enjoyed an early vogue in the 1910s, influencing the developing genre of country music (this is the source of the steel guitar sound that is characteristic of modern country).