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Conway Twitty, started in the 1950s as a rocker but started the country scene in the 1960s. A voice that scored 55 No. 1 hits (Had the most all time until 2006, when George Strait broke the record), released several songs in the 1970s and '80s that were controversial for the time, (" You've Never Been This Far Before ", " I'd Love to Lay You ...
Pages in category "Singing cowboys" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
1951 in country music, The year of "Hank and Lefty" (as Merle Haggard would sing in song more than 25 years later); Hank Snow and Eddy Arnold were equally dominating; chart debut of Carl Smith. 1952 in country music, The fall of Hank Williams; Kitty Wells has first solo female No. 1 song with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels."
A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films. It references real-world campfire side ballads in the American frontier.The original cowboys sang of life on the trail with all the challenges, hardships, and dangers encountered while pushing cattle for miles up the trails and across the prairies.
The artists with the most songs in the 1950 year-end charts were Red Foley with eight songs, Eddy Arnold with seven, Ernest Tubb with five, Hank Williams with four, and the duet pairing of Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely with four. [1]
A.P. Carter (1891–1960) Anita Carter (1933–1999) Carlene Carter (born 1955) Deana Carter (born 1966) James Carter (1925–2003) Janette Carter; Maybelle Carter (1909–1978) Sara Carter (1898–1979) Wilf Carter (1904–1996) Caitlin Cary; Carter's Chord; Lionel Cartwright (born 1960) Troy Cartwright; Johnny Carver; Neko Case (born 1970 ...
Cowboy Classics (1952) Cowboy Hymns and Spirituals (1952) Western Classics (1953) LP 12" 25 Favorite Cowboy Songs (1955) How Great Thou Art (1957) One Man's Songs (1957) This Was the West (Disneyland, 1958) – Stan Jones and the Sons of the Pioneers as The Ranger Chorus [19] Wagons West (RCA Camden, 1958) Cool Water (RCA Victor, 1960)
Frankie Laine (at piano) and Patti Page, c. 1950 Harry Belafonte, 1954 This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s . Musicians