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EVENTS

TOP HITS OF THE YEAR

Number one hits

''(As certified by Billboard Magazine )''

January 8 - "Giddyup Go" - Red Sovine

February 19 - "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line" - Buck Owens And The Buckaroos

April 9 - "I Want to Go With You" - Eddy Arnold

May 21 - "Distant Drums" - Jim Reeves

June 18 - "Take Good Care of Her" - Sonny James

July 2 - "Think of Me" - Buck Owens And The Buckaroos

August 13 - "Almost Persuaded" - David Houston

October 15 - "Blue Side of Lonesome" - Jim Reeves

October 22 - "Open Up Your Heart" - Buck Owens And The Buckaroos

November 19 - "I Get the Fever" - Bill Anderson

November 26 - "Somebody Like Me" - Eddy Arnold

December 24 - "There Goes My Everything" - Jack Greene

Other major hits

"The Bottle Let Me Down" - Merle Haggard

"Don't Touch Me" - Jeannie Seely

"Evil on Your Mind" - Jan Howard

"Flowers on the Wall" - Statler Brothers

"Four-O-Thirty-Three" - George Jones

"The Hurtin's All Over" - Connie Smith

"I Love You Drops" - Bill Anderson

"I'm a People" - George Jones

"The Last Word in Lonesome is Me" - Eddy Arnold

"Livin' in a House Full of Love" - David Houston

"The One on the Right is on the Left" - Johnny Cash

"Room in Your Heart" - Sonny James

"The Snakes Crawl at Night" - Charley Pride

"Snowflake" - Jim Reeves

"The Streets of Baltimore" - Bobby Bare

"Sweet Thang" - Nat Stuckey

"Swinging Doors" - Merle Haggard

"Take Me" - George Jones

"That's What You Get For Loving Me" - Waylon Jennings

"Tippy Toeing" - The Harden Trio

"Unmitigated Gall" - Faron Young

"What We're Fighting For" - Dave Dudley

"Would You Hold It Against Me" - Dottie West

"You Ain't Woman Enough" - Loretta Lynn

TOP NEW ALBUM RELEASES

''The Best of Bobby Bare'' - Bobby Bare (RCA)

''Born to Sing'' - Connie Smith (RCA)

''Confessions of a Broken Man'' – Porter Wagoner (RCA)

''Distant Drums'' - Jim Reeves (RCA)

''Don't Touch Me'' - Wilma Burgess (Decca)

''Evil on Your Mind'' - Jan Howard (Decca)

''Folk Country'' - Waylon Jennings (RCA)

''I Want to Go With You'' - Eddy Arnold (RCA)

''Jimmy Dean's Greatest Hits'' - Jimmy Dean (Columbia)

''Pretty Miss Norma Jean'' - Norma Jean (RCA)

''The Seely Style'' - Jeannie Seely (Monument)

''Somebody Like Me'' - Eddy Arnold (RCA)

''The Streets of Baltimore'' - Bobby Bare (RCA)

''Suffer Time'' - Dottie West (RCA)

BIRTHS

DEATHS

COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Eddy Arnold (born 1918 )

James R. Denny ( 1911 - 1963 )

George D. Hay ( 1895 - 1968 )

Uncle Dave Macon ( 1870 - 1952 )

MAJOR AWARDS

Grammy awards

Academy of Country Music

Top Male Vocalist -- Merle Haggard

Top Female Vocalist -- Bonnie Guitar

Top New Male Vocalist -- Billy Mize

Top New Female Vocalist -- Cathie Taylor

FURTHER READING

Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995

Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)

Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)

Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.