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He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin'."
March 26 — Ronnie McDowell, male vocalist of the 1970s and 1980s, who first rose to fame with his Elvis Presley tribute "The King Is Gone". August 7 — Rodney Crowell, singer-songwriter who enjoyed mainstream fame in the late 1980s before becoming a leader in the alternative country movement; ex-husband of Rosanne Cash.
Billboard also ranked the year's top artists as follows: (1) Red Foley, (2) Ernest Tubb, (3) Hank Williams, (4) Eddy Arnold, and (5) Hank Snow (retail)/Moon Mullican (juke box). [ 2 ] The Decca Records label released 11 of the songs included on the year-end lists, followed by RCA Victor with nine, and Capitol with six.
Country USA was a 23-volume series issued by Time-Life Music during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting country music of the 1950s through early 1970s. Each volume in the series chronicled a specific year in country music, from 1950 through 1972, and was issued on a double-length compact disc or cassette , or two vinyl albums .
Carl Milton Smith (March 15, 1927 – January 16, 2010) was an American country singer. [1] [2] [3] Known as "Mister Country", he was one of the genre's most successful male artists during the 1950s, scoring 30 top-10 Billboard hits (21 of which were consecutive). Smith's success continued well into the 1970s, when he had a charting single ...
The Inglewood resident was one of very few Black men to have success in country music in the 1970s, ... epicenter of country music. From the mid-1950s until its closure in 1995, icons such as Buck ...
Brad Cotter (born 1970) Neal Coty (born 1964) The Country Gentlemen; Court Yard Hounds; Bucky Covington (born 1977) Cowboy Copas (1913–1963) Cowboy Crush; Cowboy Junkies; Cowboy Troy (born 1970) Don Cox (born 1964) The Cox Family; Billy "Crash" Craddock (born 1939) Adam Craig; Floyd Cramer (1933–1997) Crawford/West; Roger Creager; Creedence ...
This is a list of American female country singers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .