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EVENTS

TOP HITS OF THE YEAR

Number one hits

''(As certified by Billboard Magazine )''

January 6 – "Tulsa Time" – Don Williams

January 13 – "Lady Lay Down" – John Conlee

January 20 – "I Really Got the Feeling" – Dolly Parton

January 27 – "Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For" – Crystal Gayle

February 10 – "Every Which Way But Loose" – Eddie Rabbitt

March 3 – "Golden Tears" – Dave & Sugar

March 24 – "I Just Fall in Love Again" – Anne Murray

April 14 – "(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to be Right" – Barbara Mandrell

April 21 – "All I Ever Need is You" – Kenny Rogers and Dottie West

April 28 – "Where Do I Put Her Memory" – Charley Pride

May 5 – "Backside of Thirty" – John Conlee

May 12 – "Don't Take it Away" – Conway Twitty

May 19 – "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold it Against Me" – Bellamy Brothers

June 9 – "She Believes in Me" – Kenny Rogers

June 23 – "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" – Ronnie Milsap

June 30 – "Amanda" – Waylon Jennings

July 21 – "Shadows in the Moonlight" – Anne Murray

July 28 – "You're the Only One" – Dolly Parton

August 11 – "Suspicions" – Eddie Rabbitt

August 18 – "Coca Cola Cowboy" – Mel Tillis

August 25 – "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" – The Charlie Daniels Band

September 1 – "Heartbreak Hotel" – Willie Nelson and Leon Russell

September 8 – "I May Never Get to Heaven" – Conway Twitty

September 15 – "You're My Jamacia" – Charley Pride

September 22 – "Just Good Ol' Boys" – Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley

September 29 – "It Must Be Love" – Don Williams

October 6 – "Last Cheater's Waltz" – T.G. Sheppard

October 20 – "All the Gold in California" – Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers

November 3 – "You Decorated My Life" – Kenny Rogers

November 17 – "Come With Me" – Waylon Jennings

December 1 – "Broken Hearted Me" – Anne Murray

December 8 – "I Cheated Me Right Out of You" – Moe Bandy

December 15 – "Happy Birthday Darlin'" – Conway Twitty

Other major hits

"Back on My Mind Again" - Ronnie Milsap

"Barstool Mountain" - Moe Bandy

"Before My Time" - John Conlee

"Blind in Love" - Mel Tillis

"Blue Kentucky Girl" - Emmylou Harris

"Come On In" - Oak Ridge Boys

"Crazy Blue Eyes" - Lacy J. Dalton

"Do You Ever Fool Around" - Joe Stampley

"Don't Let Me Cross Over" - Jim Reeves and Deborah Allen

"Down on the Rio Grande" - Johnny Rodriguez

"Dream On" - Oak Ridge Boys

"Everlasting Love" - Narvel Felts

"Family Tradition" - Hank Williams Jr.

"Farewell Party" - Gene Watson

"Fooled by a Feeling" - Barbara Mandrell

"Fools" - Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius

"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" - Johnny Cash

"Half the Way" - Crystal Gayle

"Happy Together" - T.G. Sheppard

"Here We Are Again" - Statler Brothers

"How to Be a Country Star" - Statler Brothers

"I Can't Feel You Anymore" - Loretta Lynn

"I Just Can't Stay Married to You" - Cristy Lane

"I Wanna Come Over" - Alabama

"I'll Love Away Your Troubles For Awhile" - Janie Fricke

"I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home" - Charlie Rich

"I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind" - Loretta Lynn

"I've Done Enough Dying Today" - Larry Gatlin

"If Everyone Had Someone Like You" - Eddy Arnold

"If I Could Write a Song (as Beautiful as You)" - Billy "Crash" Craddock

"In No Time at All" - Ronnie Milsap

"Isn't it Always Love" - Lynn Anderson

"It's a Cheating Situation" - Moe Bandy

"Just Long Enough to Say Goodbye" - Mickey Gilley

"The Lady in the Blue Mercedes" - Johnny Duncan

"Lay Down Beside Me" - Don Williams

"Lying in Love With You" - Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius

"Mabellene" - George Jones and Johnny PayCheck

"My Silver Lining" - Mickey Gilley

"My World Begins and Ends With You" - Dave & Sugar

"No Memories Hangin' Around" - Rosanne Cash and Bobby Bare

"No One Else in the World" - Tammy Wynette

"Nothing as Original as You" - Statler Brothers

"The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell" - Statler Brothers

"Pick the Wildwood Flower" - Gene Watson

"Play Together Again, Again" - Buck Owens and Emmylou Harris

"Red Bandana" - Merle Haggard

"Reunited" - Louise Mandrell and R.C. Bannon

"Sail Away" - Oak Ridge Boys

"Save the Last Dance for Me" - Emmylou Harris

"Send Me Down to Tucson" - Mel Tillis

"Should I Go Home (Or Should I Go Crazy)" - Gene Watson

"Slow Dancing" - Johnny Duncan

"Somebody Special" - Donna Fargo

"Stay With Me" - Dave & Sugar

"Sweet Dreams" - Reba McEntire

"Sweet Memories" - Willie Nelson

"Sweet Summer Lovin'" - Dolly Parton

"Tell Me What It's Like" - Brenda Lee

"Texas (When I Die)" - Tanya Tucker

"They Call it Making Love" - Tammy Wynette

"Till I Can Make it on My Own" - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West

"Too Far Gone" - Emmylou Harris

"When I Dream" - Crystal Gayle

"Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound" - Hank Williams Jr.

"Whiskey River" - Willie Nelson

"You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie" - Bellamy Brothers

"You Feel Good All Over" - T.G. Sheppard

"Your Love Has Taken Me That High" - Conway Twitty

TOP NEW ALBUM RELEASES

''Images'' – Ronnie Milsap (RCA)

''Great Balls of Fire'' - Dolly Parton (RCA)

''New Kind of Feeling'' - Anne Murray (Capitol)

''Miss the Mississippi...and You'' - Crystal Gayle (United Artists)

BIRTHS

DEATHS

COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Hubert Long ( 1923 - 1972 )

Hank Snow ( 1914 - 1999 )

MAJOR AWARDS

Grammy awards

Academy of Country Music

Entertainer Of The Year -- Willie Nelson

Song Of The Year -- "It's A Cheatin' Situation" - Moe Bandy - Sony Throckmorton, Curly Putman

Single Of The Year -- "All The Gold In California" - Larry Gatlin

Album Of The Year -- Straight Ahead - Larry Gatlin

Top Male Vocalist -- Larry Gatlin

Top Female Vocalist -- Crystal Gayle

Top Vocal Duo -- Joe Stampley und Moe Bandy

Top New Male Vocalist -- R.C. Bannon

Top New Female Vocalist -- Lacy J. Dalton

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.

OTHER LINKS

Country Music Association

Inductees Of The Country Music Hall Of Fame

EXTERNAL LINKS

Country Music Hall of Fame

Country Music Association