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EVENTS

TOP HITS OF THE YEAR

Number one hits

''(As certified by Billboard Magazine )''

January 9 – "Fourteen Carat Mind" – Gene Watson

January 16 – "I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World" – Ronnie Milsap

January 23 – "Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night" – Conway Twitty

January 30 – "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)" – Juice Newton

February 6 – "Lonely Nights" – Mickey Gilley

February 13 – "Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight" – Eddie Rabbitt

February 20 – "Only One You" – T.G. Sheppard

February 27 – "Lord, I Hope This Day is Good" – Don Williams

March 6 – "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had" – Ed Bruce

March 13 – "Blue Moon With Heartache" – Rosanne Cash

March 20 – "Mountain of Love" – Charley Pride

March 27 – "She Left Love All Over Me" – Razzy Bailey

April 3 – "Bobbie Sue" – Oak Ridge Boys

April 10 – "Big City" – Merle Haggard

April 17 – "The Clown" – Conway Twitty

April 24 – "Crying My Heart Out Over You" – Ricky Skaggs

May 1 – "Mountain Music" – Alabama

May 8 – "Always on My Mind" – Willie Nelson

May 22 – "Just to Satisfy You" – Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson

June 5 – "Finally" – T.G. Sheppard

June 12 – "For All the Wrong Reasons" – Bellamy Brothers

June 19 – "Slow Hand" – Conway Twitty

July 3 – "Any Day Now" – Ronnie Milsap

July 10 – "Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby" – Janie Fricke

July 17 – "'Till You're Gone" – Barbara Mandrell

July 24 – "Take Me Down" – Alabama

July 31 – "I Don't Care" – Ricky Skaggs

August 7 – "Honky Tonkin'" – Hank Williams Jr.

August 14 – "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" – David Frizzell

August 21 – "Nobody" – Sylvia

August 28 – "Fool Hearted Memory" – George Strait

September 4 – "Love Will Turn You Around" – Kenny Rogers

September 11 – "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)" – Jerry Reed

September 25 – "What's Forever For" – Michael Martin Murphey

October 2 – "Put Your Dreams Away" – Mickey Gilley

October 9 – "(A Taste of) Yesterday's Wine" – Merle Haggard and George Jones

October 16 – "I Will Always Love You" – Dolly Parton

October 23 – "He Got You" – Ronnie Milsap

October 30 – "Close Enough to Perfect" – Alabama

November 6 – "You're So Good When You're Bad" – Charley Pride

November 13 – "Heartbroke" – Ricky Skaggs

November 20 – "War is Hell (On the Homefront Too)" – T.G. Sheppard

November 27 – "It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy" – Janie Fricke

December 4 – "You and I" – Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle

December 11 – "Redneck Girl" – Bellamy Brothers

December 18 – "Somewhere Between Right and Wrong" – Earl Thomas Conley

December 25 – "Wild and Blue" – John Anderson

Other major hits

"Another Chance" – Tammy Wynette

"Another Sleepless Night" -- Anne Murray

"Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" -- Merle Haggard

"Big Ole Brew" -- Mel McDaniel

"Born to Run" -- Emmylou Harris

"Break it to Me Gently" -- Juice Newton

"Busted" -- John Conlee

"A Country Boy Can Survive" -- Hank Williams Jr.

"Dancing Your Memory Away" -- Charly McClain

"Diamonds in the Stars" -- Ray Price

"Do Me With Love" -- Janie Fricke

"Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" -- Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline

"Heavenly Bodies" -- Earl Thomas Conley

"I Don't Know Where to Start" -- Eddie Rabbitt

"I Don't Think She's in Love Anymore" -- Charley Pride

"I Lie" -- Loretta Lynn

"I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head" -- Oak Ridge Boys

"I'm Not That Lonely Yet" -- Reba McEntire

"If You're Thinking You Want a Stranger (There's One Coming Home)" -- George Strait

"Let It Be Me" -- Willie Nelson

"Listen to the Radio" -- Don Williams

"Love's Gonna Fall Here Tonight" -- Razzy Bailey

"Old Friends" -- Willie Nelson , Ray Price and Roger Miller

"Only You (and You Alone)" -- Reba McEntire

"Ring on Her Finger (Time on Her Hands)" -- Lee Greenwood

"Same Ol' Me" -- George Jones

"She's Lying" -- Lee Greenwood

"She's Not Really Cheating (She's Just Getting Even)" -- Moe Bandy

"She's Playing Hard to Forget" -- Eddy Raven

"Shine" -- Waylon Jennings

"Single Women" -- Dolly Parton

"Tears of the Lonely" -- Mickey Gilley

"Tennessee Rose" -- Emmylou Harris

"This Dream's On Me" -- Gene Watson

"Through the Years" -- Kenny Rogers

"We Did But Now You Don't" -- Conway Twitty

"Whatever" -- Statler Brothers

"Women Do Know How to Carry On" -- Waylon Jennings

"Would You Catch a Falling Star" -- John Anderson

"You Never Gave Up On Me" -- Crystal Gayle

"You're My Bestest Friend" -- Mac Davis

TOP NEW ALBUM RELEASES

''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: Soundtrack'' – Dolly Parton (RCA)

''Bobbie Sue'' – Oak Ridge Boys (MCA)

''Family & Friends'' – Ricky Skaggs (Sugar Hill)

''Highway & Heartaches'' – Ricky Skaggs (Epic/CBS)

''Inside'' – Ronnie Milsap (RCA)

''Love Will Turn You Around'' – Kenny Rogers (United Artists)

''Mountain Music'' – Alabama (RCA)

''Strait to the Heart'' – George Strait (MCA)

BIRTHS

August 28 – LeAnn Rimes , extermely popular pop-country singer starting in the late 1990s.

DEATHS

December 8 – Marty Robbins , 57, prolific, multi-styled artist for more than 30 years (heart failure)

COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Lefty Frizzell ( 1928 - 1975 )

Roy Horton ( 1914 - 2003 )

Marty Robbins ( 1925 - 1982 )

MAJOR AWARDS

Grammy awards

Academy of Country Music

Entertainer Of The Year -- Alabama

Song Of The Year -- "Are The Good Times Really Over" - Merle Haggard - Merle Haggard

Single Of The Year -- "Always On My Mind" - Willie Nelson

Album Of The Year -- Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson

Top Male Vocalist -- Ronnie Milsap

Top Female Vocalist -- Sylvia

Top Vocal Duo -- Shelly West and David Frizzell

Top Vocal Group -- Alabama

Top New Male Vocalist -- Michael Martin Murphey

Top New Female Vocalist -- Karen Brooks

Country Music Association

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