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EVENTS

  • Country purists - long troubled by a growing trend of pop music-influenced country - have an ACE up their sleeves, when they form the Association of Country Entertainers. The group forms as a result of an outcry over the 1974 Country Music Association awards program, where pop diva Olivia Newton John won Female Vocalist of the Year, and Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass was awarded another Instrumental Group of the Year.

  • The proliferation of No. 1 hits, as certified by Billboard Magazine , extends into 1974, when 40 songs reach the top of the Hot Country Singles chart. In fact, just nine songs - 10, if one counts Merle Haggard 's "If We Make it Through December," which spent two of its four weeks at No. 1 in January - ascend to the top spot.

  • The Grand Ole Opry moves from its home for the past several decades, The Ryman Auditorium , to the newly constructed Opryland complex. The Ryman would essentially sit vacant for the next two decades before being renovated in the early 1990s as a historical landmark and concert hall.



TOP HITS OF THE YEAR


Number one hits

I Love” — Tom T. Hall
Jolene” — Dolly Parton
World of Make Believe” — Bill Anderson
That’s the Way Love Goes” — Johnny Rodriguez
Another Lonely Song” — Tammy Wynette
There Won’t Be Anymore” — Charlie Rich
There’s a Honky Tonk Angel (Who’ll Take Me Back In)” — Conway Twitty
Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)” — Tanya Tucker
A Very Special Love Song” — Charlie Rich
Hello Love” — Hank Snow
Things Aren’t Funny Anymore” — Merle Haggard And The Strangers
Is it Wrong (For Loving You)” — Sonny James
Country Bumpkin” — Cal Smith
No Charge” — Melba Montgomery
Pure Love” — Ronnie Milsap
I Will Always Love You” — Dolly Parton
I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore” — Charlie Rich
This Time” — Waylon Jennings
Room Full of Roses” — Mickey Gilley
He Thinks I Still Care” — Anne Murray
Marie Laveau" — Bobby Bare
You Can’t Be a Beacon if Your Light Don’t Shine” — Donna Fargo
Rub it In” — Billy “Crash” Craddock
As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone” — Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
The Old Man From the Mountain” — Merle Haggard And The Strangers
The Grand Tour” — George Jones
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends” — Ronnie Milsap
I Wouldn’t Want to Live If You Didn’t Love Me” — Don Williams
I’m a Rambin’ Man” — Waylon Jennings
I Love My Friend” — Charlie Rich
Please Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me” — Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
I See the ‘Want-To’ In Your Eyes” — Conway Twitty
I Overlooked an Orchid” — Mickey Gilley
Love is Like a Butterfly” — Dolly Parton
Country Is” — Tom T. Hall
Trouble in Paradise” — Loretta Lynn
Back Home Again” — John Denver
She Called Me Baby” — Charlie Rich
I Can Help” — Billy Swan
What a Man My Man Is” — Lynn Anderson

A Mi Esposa Con Amor (To My Wife With Love)” — Sonny James
After the Fire is Gone” — Willie Nelson and Tracy Nelson
Annie's Song" — John Denver
Big Game Hunter" - Buck Owens
Big Four Poster Bed” — Brenda Lee
Bloody Mary Mornin’” — Willie Nelson
Bonaparte's Retreat" – Glen Campbell
Boney Fingers" — Hoyt Axton
Bring Back Your Love to Me" - Don Gibson
Can't You Feel It" — David Houston
Come Monday" – Jimmy Buffett
Daddy, What If?" — Bobby Bare with Bobby Bare Jr.
Dance With Me (Just One More Time)" - Johnny Rodriguez
Hey Loretta" - Loretta Lynn
Honeymoon Feelin’” — Roy Clark
I Honestly Love You” — Olivia Newton John
I Never Go Around Mirrors" — Lefty Frizzell
I Love You, I Love You" — David Houston and Barbara Mandrell
I’ll Think of Something” — Hank Williams Jr.
I'll Try a Little Bit Harder" — Donna Fargo
I'm Not Through Loving You Yet" — Conway Twitty
If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” — Olivia Newton John
It'll Come Back" - Red Sovine
(It's a) Monster's Holiday" – Buck Owens
It's That Time of the Night" — Jim Ed Brown
Last Time I Saw Him" – Dottie West
A Love Song" – Anne Murray
The Man That Turned My Mama On” — Tanya Tucker
Memory Maker” — Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
Midnight, Me and the Blues” — Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
Mississippi Cotton-Pickin' Delta Town" - Charley Pride
The Older the Violin the Sweeter the Music” — Hank Thompson
Old Home Fill-er Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Café" — C.W. McCall
Once You’ve Had the Best” — George Jones
One Day at a Time" - Don Gibson
Ragged Old Flag” — Johnny Cash
Some Kind of Woman" – Faron Young
Something” — Johnny Rodriguez
Sometime Sunshine" - Jim Ed Brown
Somewhere Between Love and Tomorrow” — Roy Clark
The South's Gonna Do it Again" — Charlie Daniels Band
Song and Dance Man” — Johnny PayCheck
Stomp Them Grapes” — Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
The Streak" – Ray Stevens
Sundown" — Gordon Lightfoot
Sweet Magnolia Blossom” — Billy “Crash” Craddock
That Girl Who Waits on Tables" – Ronnie Milsap
That Song is Driving Me Crazy" – Tom T. Hall
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like My Daddy” — Loretta Lynn
We Could" - Charley Pride
We Should Be Together” — Don Williams
(We’re Not) the Jet Set” — George Jones and Tammy Wynette
We're Over" - Johnny Rodriguez
When the Morning Comes" — Hoyt Axton
Who Left the Door to Heaven Open” — Hank Thompson
Wrong Ideas” — Brenda Lee


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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.



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