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2000 in country music, Toby Keith's breakthrough; Vince Gill and Amy Grant marry; Kenny Rogers becomes the oldest singer to have a No. 1 song; Garth Brooks announces plans for retirement; Rascal Flatts' debut album released; RFD-TV, a cable/satellite TV network focusing on farming and rural living but also features reruns of classic country ...
"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. [1]
Maple on the Hill" (also known by its original title of "We Sat Beneath the Maple on the Hill") is a country and western standard (song), written by Gussie Davis in 1880. [1] The song was Davis's first published song. Davis published it himself, paying a local printer $20, and sold enough copies to make his money back plus a little more. [2]
CMT Pure Country, the all-music counterpart to CMT, relegated its classic country programming to a daily half-hour block known as "Pure Vintage" before abandoning classic country altogether by 2015. (Complicating matters somewhat is a relative lack of music videos for country music songs before the 1980s.)
"How to Be a Country Star" is a song recorded by American country music group The Statler Brothers, written by group members Harold Reid and Don Reid. The song – a humorous, tongue-in-cheek advice song that names many of the top country music recording artists of the time, along with a number of classic country artists – was released in ...
A. Absence of the Heart; Address in the Stars; Ahead of Our Time (song) Ain't Always the Cowboy; Ain't Nothing 'bout You; Ain't the Same; All Cried Out (Kree Harrison song)
The song was covered with slightly reworked lyrics by Tom Waits in July 1975 at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles and released in October on his third album, the pseudo-live double-LP Nighthawks at the Diner, under the title "Big Joe and Phantom 309". (To establish mood for the studio audience, Waits refers to the studio as "Raphael's Silver ...
Craig Wayne Boyd enters the Hot Country Songs chart at number one with "My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face" after winning season 7 of reality TV singing competition The Voice. [78] 2016 "Forever Country", a one-off collaboration between 30 country stars from various eras released to mark the 50th Annual Country Music Association Awards, tops the ...