1924 in country music

1924 in country music

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in?=in country music
cp=19th Century
c=20th century
cf=21st century
yp1=1921
yp2=1922
yp3=1923
year=1924
ya1=1925
ya2=1926
ya3=1927
dp3=1890s
dp2=1900s
dp1=1910s
d=1920s
dn1=1930s
dn2=1940s
dn3=1950s

Events

* First broadcast of WLS Barn Dance in Chicago, led by the "Solemn Old Judge" George D. Hay.
* Beginning of the "Old Times Tunes" series on Okeh Records.
* Beginning of the "Special Records for Southern States" series on Vocalion Records.

No dates

* Vernon Dalhart records "The Prisoner's Song" and "Wreck of the Old 97."

Top hits of the year

* "Arkansas Traveler" - Fiddlin' John Carson with the Virginia Reelers
* "Fare You Well, Old Joe Clark" - Fiddlin' John Carson
* "John Henry Blues" - Fiddlin' John Carson
* "Little Rosewood Casket" - Ernest Thompson
* "Old Joe Clark" - Fiddlin' Powers and Family
* "The Prisoner's Song" - Vernon Dalhart
* "Rock All Our Babies To Sleep - Riley Puckett
* "Whistling the Blues Away" - Wendell Hall and Carson Robison
* "The Wreck of the Old 97" - Vernon Dalhart
* "You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until She is Gone" - Fiddlin' John Carson

Births

Deaths

Further reading

* 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.


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