Country-Musik 1969

Top Hits des Jahres

Nummer-1-Hits

• 4. Januar – "Daddy Sang Bass" – Johnny Cash
• 15. Februar – "Until My Dreams Come True" – Jack Greene
• 1. März – "To Make Love Sweeter For You" – Jerry Lee Lewis
• 8. März – "Only the Lonely" – Sonny James
• 29. März – "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass" – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
• 12. April – "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" – Loretta Lynn
• 19. April – "Galveston" – Glen Campbell
• 10. Mai – "Hungry Eyes" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• 17. Mai – "My Life (Throw it Away If I Want To)" – Bill Anderson
• 31. Mai – "Singing My Song" – Tammy Wynette
• 14. Juni – "Running Bear" – Sonny James
• 5. Juli – "Statue of a Fool" – Jack Greene
• 19. Juli – "I Love You More Today" – Conway Twitty
• 26. Juli – "Johnny B. Goode" – Buck Owens
• 9. August – "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" – Charley Pride
• 16. August – "Workin' Man's Blues" – Merle Haggard
• 23. August – "A Boy Named Sue" – Johnny Cash
• 27. September – "Tall Dark Stranger" – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
• 4. Oktober – "Since I Met You Baby" – Sonny James
• 25. Oktober – "The Ways to Love a Man" – Tammy Wynette
• 8. November – "To See My Angel Cry" – Conway Twitty
• 15. November – "Okie from Muskogee" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• 13. Dezember – "I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again" – Charley Pride

Weitere Hits

• "All For the Love of a Girl" - Claude King
• "April's Fool" - Ray Price
• "Are You From Dixie ('Cause I'm From Dixie Too)" - Jerry Reed
• "Back in the Arms of Love" - Jack Greene
• "Ballad of Forty Dollars" – Tom T. Hall
• "Be Glad" - Del Reeves
• "Big in Vegas" – Buck Owens
• "Big Wind" - Porter Wagoner
• "Blistered" - Johnny Cash
• "But You Know I Love You" – Bill Anderson
• "Cajun Baby" – Hank Williams Jr.
• "The Carroll County Accident" – Porter Wagoner
• "Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie" – Conway Twitty
• "Don't Let Me Cross Over" - Jerry Lee Lewis und Linda Gail Lewis
• "Games People Play" – Freddy Weller
• "George and the North Woods" - Dave Dudley
• "The Girl Most Likely" - Jeannie C. Riley
• "God Bless America Again" - Bobby Bare
• "Good Time Charlies" - Del Reeves
• "Homecoming" – Tom T. Hall
• "I Can't Say Goodbye" - Marty Robbins
• "I Love You Because" - Carl Smith
• "I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am" - Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• "I'd Rather Be Gone" – Hank Williams Jr.
• "I'll Share My World With You" – George Jones
• "I'm Down to My Last 'I Love You'" - David Houston
• "If Not For You" - George Jones
• "It's a Sin" - Marty Robbins
• "In the Ghetto" - Elvis Presley
• "Invitation to Your Party" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Just Someone I Used to Know" - Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton
• "Kaw-Liga" - Charley Pride
• "Kay" - John Wesley Ryles
• "Let it Be Me" - Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
• "MacArthur Park" - Waylon Jennings mit den Kimberlys
• "(Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn" – Bobby Bare
• "Me and Bobby McGee" - Roger Miller
• "Mr. Walker, It's All Over" - Billie Jo Spears
• "My Woman's Good to Me" - David Houston
• "The Name of the Game Was Love" — Hank Snow
• "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "One Minute Past Eternity" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Please Don't Go" - Eddy Arnold
• "Please Let Me Prove My Love For You" - Dave Dudley
• "Raining in My Heart" - Ray Price
• "Ribbon of Darkness" - Connie Smith
• "Rings of Gold" – Don Gibson and Dottie West
• "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)" – Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
• "Rueben James" - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
• "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Smoky the Bar" - Hank Thompson
• "Such a Fool" - Roy Drusky
• "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis Presley
• "Sweet Thang and Cisco" - Nat Stuckey
• "Sweetheart of the Year" - Ray Price
• "That's a No-No" - Lynn Anderson
• "There Never Was a Time" – Jeannie C. Riley
• "There Won't Be a Lonely Heart in Town" - Del Reeves
• "These are Not My People" - Freddy Weller
• "These Lonely Hands of Mine" - Mel Tillis
• "They Don't Make Love Like They Used To" - Eddy Arnold
• "Thirsty Boots" - Anne Murray
• "This Thing" - Webb Pierce
• "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" - Loretta Lynn
• "True Grit" - Glen Campbell
• "Try a Little Kindness" - Glen Campbell
• "When the Grass Grows Over Me" - George Jones
• "When Two Worlds Collide" - Jim Reeves
• "Where the Blue and Lonely Go" - Roy Drusky
• "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" - Ernest Tubb und Loretta Lynn
• "Who's Julie" - Mel Tillis
• "Wine Me Up" - Faron Young
• "Yesterday When I Was Young" – Roy Clark
• "You and Your Sweet Love" - Connie Smith
• "You Gave Me a Mountain" – Johnny Bush
• "Young Love" - Connie Smith und Nat Stuckey
• "Your Time's Comin'" - Faron Young
• "Yours Love" - Waylon Jennings
• "Yours Love" - Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton

Alben (Auswahl)

• "The Carroll County Accident" – Porter Wagoner (RCA)
• "It's A Sin" - Marty Robbins (Columbia)
• "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy" - Dolly Parton (RCA)
• "Songs That Made Country Girls Famous" - Lynn Anderson (Chart)
• "Yearbooks and Yesterdays" - Jeannie C. Riley (Plantation)

Geboren

• 12. Oktober — Martie Maguire, Mitglied der Dixie Chicks

Gestorben

• 11. September — Leon Payne, 52, Singer und Songwriter ("I Love You Because," "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" ).
• 23. November — Spade Cooley, 59, Singer)

Neuaufnahmen in die Country Music Hall of Fame

• Gene Autry (1907-1998)
• Bill Monroe (1911-1996)

Die wichtigsten Auszeichnungen

Grammy Awards

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Stand by Your Man" Tammy Wynette
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "A Boy Named Sue" Johnny Cash
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "MacArthur Park", Waylon Jennings and The Kimberleys
• Best Country Instrumental Performance — The Nashville Brass featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds
• Best Country Song — "A Boy Named Sue" Shel Silverstein (Performer: Johnny Cash)

Academy of Country Music

• Single of the Year — "Okie from Muskogee" Merle Haggard
• Album of the Year — Okie from Muskogee Merle Haggard
• Top Male Vocalist — Merle Haggard
• Top Female Vocalist — Tammy Wynette
• Top Vocal Duo — Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens
• Top Vocal Group — The Kimberleys
• Top New Male Vocalist — Freddy Weller
• Top New Female Vocalist — Donna Fargo

Country Music Association

• Entertainer of the Year — Johnny Cash
• Song of the Year — "The Carroll County Accident"
• Single of the Year — "A Boy Named Sue" Johnny Cash
• Album of the Year — At San Quentin Johnny Cash
• Male Vocalist of the Year Johnny Cash
• Female Vocalist of the Year — Tammy Wynette
• Vocal Group of the Year — Johnny Cash und June Carter
• Instrumentalist of the Year — Chet Atkins
• Instrumental Group of the Year — Danny Davis
• Comedian of the Year — Archie Campbell

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