1970 in country music

"See also:"
1969 in country music,
1970 in music,
other events of 1970,
1971 in country music, and the List of years in Country Music

Events

* September – "That Good Ole Nashville Music" debuts in syndication. The series will run until 1985.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

"(As certified by Billboard magazine)"
*January 3 – "Baby, Baby (I Know You're a Lady)" – David Houston
*January 31 – "A Week in a Country Jail" – Tom T. Hall
*February 14 – "It's Just a Matter of Time" – Sonny James
*March 14 — "The Fightin' Side of Me" – Merle Haggard
*April 4 — "Tennessee Birdwalk" – Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
*April 18 — "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antoné?" – Charley Pride
*May 2 — "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" – Marty Robbins
*May 9 — "The Pool Shark" – Dave Dudley
*May 16 — "My Love" – Sonny James
*June 6 — "Hello Darlin'" – Conway Twitty
*July 4 — "He Loves Me All the Way" – Tammy Wynette
*July 25 — "Wonder Could I Live There Anymore" – Charley Pride
*August 8 — "Don't Keep Me Hangin' On" – Sonny James
*September 5 — "All For the Love of Sunshine" – Hank Williams, Jr. with the The Mike Curb Congregation
*September 19 — "For the Good Times" – Ray Price
*September 26 — "There Must Be More to Love Than This" – Jerry Lee Lewis
*October 10 — "Sunday Morning Coming Down" – Johnny Cash
*October 24 — "Run, Woman, Run" – Tammy Wynette
*November 7 — "I Can't Believe That You Stopped Loving Me" – Charley Pride
*November 21 — "Fifteen Years Ago" – Conway Twitty
*November 28 — "Endlessly" – Sonny James
*December 19 — "Coal Miner's Daughter" – Loretta Lynn
*December 26 — "Rose Garden" – Lynn Anderson

Other major hits

*"After Closing Time" – David Houston and Barbara Mandrell
*"All I Have to Do is Dream" - Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
*"All My Hard Times" – Roy Drusky
*"Amos Moses" – Jerry Reed
*"Angels Don't Lie" – Jim Reeves
*"Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" – Waylon Jennings
*"Camelia" - Marty Robbins
*"Commercial Affection" - Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
*"Country Girl" - Jeannie C. Riley
*"Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man" – Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
*"Don't Cry Daddy" - Elvis Presley
*"Everything a Man Could Ever Need" - Glen Campbell
*"Everything is Beautiful" - Ray Stevens
*"Goin' Steady" – Faron Young
*"The Great White Horse" – Buck Owens and Susan Raye
*"Heart Over Mind" – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
*"Heaven Everyday" – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
*"Heavenly Sunshine" — Ferlin Husky
*"Honey Come Back" – Glen Campbell
*"How I Got to Memphis" – Bobby Bare
*"I Can't Be Myself" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
*"I Can't Seem to Say Goodbye" - Jerry Lee Lewis
*"I Do My Swinging at Home" – David Houston
*"I Know How" – Loretta Lynn
*"I Never Once Stopped Loving You" – Connie Smith
*"I Never Picked Cotton" — Roy Clark
*"I Walked Out On Heaven" – Hank Williams Jr.
*"I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You" – Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely
*"I Wouldn't Live in New York City (If They Gave Me the Whole Dang Town)" - Buck Owens
*"I'll See Him Through" – Tammy Wynette
*"I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter)" - Skeeter Davis
*"I've Been Everywhere" - Lynn Anderson
*"I've Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes" – Crystal Gayle
*"If I Ever Fall in Love (With a Honky Tonk Girl)" – Faron Young
*"If I Were a Carpenter" – Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
*"If It's All the Same to You" – Bill Anderson and Jan Howard
*"It's Only Make-Believe" - Glen Campbell
*"Jesus Take a Hold" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
*"Jolie Girl" – Marty Robbins
*"The Kansas City Song" - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
*"Kentucky Rain" – Elvis Presley
*"Long Long Texas Road" – Roy Drusky
*"Love is a Sometimes Thing" – Bill Anderson
*"Morning" — Jim Ed Brown
*"Mule Skinner Blues" – Dolly Parton
*"Occasional Wife" — Faron Young
*"Once More With Feeling" – Jerry Lee Lewis
*"One Song Away" – Tommy Cash
*"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" - Bobby Bare
*"Right or Left at Oak Street" — Roy Clark
*"Rise and Shine" – Tommy Cash
*"Rocky Top" - Lynn Anderson
*"Salute to a Switchblade" - Tom T. Hall
*"She Goes Walkin' Through My Mind" - Billy Walker
*"She's a Little Bit Country" — George Hamilton IV
*"She's Mine" – George Jones
*"Shoeshine Man" - Tom T. Hall
*"Six White Horses" – Tommy Cash
*"Snowbird" – Anne Murray
*"Someday We'll Be Together" – Bill Anderson and Jan Howard
*"Stay There Til I Get There" – Lynn Anderson
*"Street Singer" – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
*"The Taker" – Waylon Jennings
*"Thank God and Greyhound" — Roy Clark
*"That's When She Started to Stop Loving You" – Conway Twitty
*"Then He Touched Me" – Jean Shepard
*"There's a Story Goin' Round" – Don Gibson and Dottie West
*"Thinkin' About You, Babe" - Billy Walker
*"Togetherness" - Buck Owens and Susan Raye
*"Tomorrow is Forever" - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
*"We're Gonna Get Together" - Buck Owens and Susan Raye
*"When a Man Loves a Woman (The Way That I Love You)" - Billy Walker
*"Where Have All Our Heroes Gone" – Bill Anderson
*"Willy Jones" - Susan Raye
*"Wings Upon Your Horns" - Loretta Lynn
*"The Wonder of You" - Elvis Presley
*"Wonders of the Wine" — David Houston
*"You Wanna Give Me a Lift" - Loretta Lynn
*"You Wouldn't Know Love" – Ray Price

#1 Billboard Albums

*"Okie From Muskogee" Merle Haggard (Capitol)
*"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" Johnny Cash (Columbia)
*"Just Plain Charley" Charley Pride (RCA)
*"Tammy's Touch" Tammy Wynette (Epic)
*"Charley Pride's 10th Album" (RCA)
*"Hello Darlin"' Conway Twitty (Decca)
*"The Fightin' Side of Me" Merle Haggard (Capitol)
*"For the Good Times" – Ray Price (Columbia)
*"The Johnny Cash Show" (Columbia)

Notable new album releases

*"A Real Live Dolly" - Dolly Parton (RCA)
*"Coal Miner's Daughter" - Loretta Lynn (Decca)
*"Husband Hunting" - Liz Anderson (RCA)
*"Skid Row Joe: Down in the Alley" – Porter Wagoner (RCA)
*"Snowbird" – Anne Murray (Capitol)
*"Uptown Country Girl" - Lynn Anderson (Chart)
*"We're Gonna Get Together" - Buck Owens and Susan Raye (Capitol)
*"Wings Upon Your Horns" - Loretta Lynn (Decca)

Births

*March 14 – Kristian Bush, member of Sugarland.
*October 25 – Chely Wright, country singer of the late 1990s and 2000s.

Deaths

*April 1 — Paul Cohen, 62, pioneering record producer at Decca Records.

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

*The Original Carter Family – (A. P. Carter (1891–1960); Sara Carter (1898–1979); and Mother Maybelle Carter (1909–1978))

Major Awards

Grammy awards

*Best Country Vocal Performance, Female -- "Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson
*Best Country Vocal Performance, Male -- "For The Good Times" - Ray Price
*Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group -- "If I Were A Carpenter" - Johnny Cash and June Carter
*Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Me And Jerry" - Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins
*Best Country Song -- "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" - Marty Robbins

Academy of Country Music

*Entertainer Of The Year -- Merle Haggard
*Song Of The Year -- "For The Good Times" - Ray Price - Kris Kristofferson
*Single Of The Year -- "For The Good Times" - Ray Price
*Album Of The Year -- For The Good Times - Ray Price
*Top Male Vocalist -- Merle Haggard
*Top Female Vocalist -- Lynn Anderson
*Top Vocal Group -- Kimberleys
*Top New Male Vocalist -- Buddy Alan Owens
*Top New Female Vocalist -- Sammi Smith

Country Music Association

*Entertainer of the Year -- Merle Haggard
*Male Vocalist of the Year -- Merle Haggard
*Female Vocalist of the Year -- Tammy Wynette
*Instrumental Group of the Year –- Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass
*Comedian of the Year – Roy Clark
*Vocal Group of the Year -- Tompall Glaser and the Glaser Brothers
*Vocal Duo of the Year -- Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
*Single of the Year -- "Okie From Muskogee", Merle Haggard
*Song of the Year -- "Sunday Morning Coming Down", Kris Kristofferson
*Album of the Year -- "Okie From Muskogee", Merle Haggard
*Instrumentalist of the Year -- Jerry Reed

Further reading

*Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
*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.

Other links

*Country Music Association
*Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame

External links

* [http://www.cmaawards.com/2004/hof/default.asp Country Music Hall of Fame]