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Merle Haggard had the most number ones in 1975, taking four different singles to the top spot. The four singles spent a total of five weeks at number one, tying Haggard with Freddy Fender for the highest number of weeks spent atop the chart by a single artist in 1975. When Fender reached number one with "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" in the ...
Just four songs – five, if one counts "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, which spent five of its seven weeks at No. 1 in 1960 – ascend to the No. 1 spot on Billboard ' s Hot C&W Sides chart. Those songs – listed below – would spend 14, 14, 12 and 10 weeks at No. 1, compared to 10 No. 1 songs in 1959 and eight for all of 1961.
This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country and western singles of 1961. [1] Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces" ranked as the year's No. 1 country and western record. [1] It was released in January 1961, entered the Top 40 on Billboard ' s country and western chart on April 3, and spent a total of 39 weeks on the ...
Ray Price, traditional country star of the '50s and '60s, who experienced pop success in the '70s and '80s. Charley Pride, the first black country music star in the 1970s and early 1980s. Best known for "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'." Jeanne Pruett, female vocalist of the 70s, best known for the song "Satin Sheets".
Chart history. Tom T. Hall had his first number one in 1970 with "A Week in a Country Jail". Sonny James spent fourteen weeks at number one during the year. Conway Twitty topped the chart with "Hello Darlin'", which came to be regarded as his signature song. Loretta Lynn reached number one with the autobiographical "Coal Miner's Daughter".
Outlaw country. Outlaw country [2] is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of iconoclastic artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.
number-one country songs. Eddy Arnold, Conway Twitty and George Strait have all held the record for the greatest number of country number ones. Billboard magazine has published charts ranking the top-performing country music songs in the United States since 1944. The first country chart was published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk ...
The year's No. 1 record was "Wolverton Mountain" by Claude King. [1] The record debuted on Billboard ' s country and western chart in May 1962, spent nine weeks at the No. 1 spot, and remained on the chart for 26 weeks. [1] RCA Victor led all other labels with 13 records included on the year-end chart.