Country-Musik 1969

Die Liste bietet eine Übersicht über das Jahr 1969 im Genre Country-Musik.

Top Hits des Jahres Bearbeiten

Nummer-1-Hits Bearbeiten

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 (Know the Way I Feel) – 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 Bearbeiten

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) Bearbeiten

At San Quentin – Johnny Cash
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 Bearbeiten

19. August – Clay Walker
12. Oktober – Martie Maguire, Mitglied der Dixie Chicks
05. Dezember – Ray Scott

Gestorben Bearbeiten

11. September – Leon Payne, 52
23. November – Spade Cooley, 58

Neuaufnahmen in die Country Music Hall of Fame Bearbeiten

Gene Autry (1907–1998)
Bill Monroe (1911–1996)

Die wichtigsten Auszeichnungen Bearbeiten

Grammy Awards Bearbeiten

Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female – Harper Valley P.T.A., Jeannie C. Riley
Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male – Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash
Best Country & Western Performance - Duo Or Group (Vocal Or Instrumental) – Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Flatt and Scruggs
Best Country Song – Little Green Apples, Bobby Russel (Interpret: Roger Miller)^[1]

Academy of Country Music Awards Bearbeiten

Single of the Year — Little Green Apples – Roger Miller
Album of the Year — Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry und Glen Campbell
Top Male Vocalist — Glen Campbell
Top Female Vocalist — Cathie Taylor
Top Vocal Duo — Johnny Mosby und Jonie Mosby
Top New Male Vocalist — Ray Sanders
Top New Female Vocalist — Cheryl Poole

Country Music Association Awards Bearbeiten

Entertainer of the Year – Johnny Cash
Song of the Year – The Carroll County Accident – Bob Ferguson
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

Einzelnachweise Bearbeiten

↑ Grammy Awards 1969. Awards & Shows, abgerufen am 19. Juni 2022 (englisch).

[1] Grammy Awards 1969. Awards & Shows, abgerufen am 19. Juni 2022 (englisch).

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