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Lynn Anderson, a California blonde who became a major country star in the 70s; helped by regular exposure on national television, was one of the first female artists to achieve major crossover success. Has won CMA, ACM, AMA, & Grammy Awards. Named Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" (70-80). Deborah Allen, a popular 80s country vocalist ...
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The Tommy Hunter Show, 1965–92, a weekly variety show starring Canadian musician Tommy Hunter; it replaced Country Hoedown on the CBC lineup and was seen in the United States on TNN from 1983 until 1992. Village Barn on NBC from 1948 to 50, broadcast from a New York City nightclub. The first (and first live) country music program on network TV
Pages in category "1970s Western (genre) television series" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Del McCoury Band; Diana DeGarmo (born 1987) Penny DeHaven (1948–2014) Ilse DeLange (born 1977) The Delmore Brothers; Martin Delray (born 1949) Delta Rae; Iris DeMent (born 1961) Kevin Denney (born 1976) Travis Denning (born 1992) Wesley Dennis (born 1963) John Denver (1943–1997) The Departed; The Derailers; Daisy Dern (born c. 1967) The ...
1944 in country music, Billboard magazine creates national chart to track popularity of country music records. Al Dexter and His Troopers's "So Long Pal" [24] Top Country Record. 1945 in country music, "Shame on You" by Spade Cooley and His Western Band Top Country Record. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs join the Blue Grass Boys.
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
This alphabetical list of country rock bands and artists covers a wide variety of subgenres. The year following the artist's name is the first year of the artist's musical career. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.