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1956 in country music, Ray Price, Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton emerge, resurrect traditional country music after the influx of rock and roll threatens the heart of country music. 1957 in country music, Rock-flavored acts — Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson — dominate charts; Patsy Cline debuts on the charts.
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.
Webb Pierce, classic honky-tonker who dominated '50s country music. Kitty Wells, country's first female superstar, called the "Queen of Country Music". Johnny Cash created the boom-chicka-boom sound and recorded music from 1954 to 2003. Ray Price, created the 4/4 shuffle which transformed traditional country music.
"Bakersfield" really is not exclusively limited to the town itself but encompasses the larger California country sound of the '40s, '50s and on into the '60s, and even the '70s, with the music of Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, the Burrito Brothers and the Eagles – they are all an extension of the "Bakersfield sound" and a byproduct of it.
Merle Haggard topped the chart with one of his best-known songs, "The Fightin' Side of Me". [1] Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1970, 23 different singles topped the chart, which was published at this time under the title Hot Country Singles ...
This is an alphabetical list of country music performers. It includes artists who played country music at some point in their career, even if they were not exclusively country music performers. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
February 14 — "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley #1 selling Country record becomes first Country cross over on Pop Best Seller chart.[citation needed]August 19 — Hank Snow begins a 21-week run at No. 1 [citation needed] on the Billboard country charts with his landmark "I'm Movin' On."
Country Music Concert "One in a Row" 1966 19 — — Make Way for Willie Nelson "Columbus Stockade Blues" — — — Non-album single "I'm Still Not Over You" — — — "The Party's Over" 1967 24 — — The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs "Blackjack County Chain" 21 — — Non-album single "San Antonio" 50 — — Texas in ...