- 1965 in country music
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1964 in country music ,1965 in music ,
other events of 1965,1966 in country music and theList of years in Country Music Events
* January - Leo Fender, founder of Fender Guitars, sells his company to a subsidiary of
Columbia Records for $13 million.
*February 17 – "The Tennessee Waltz " is declared the state song ofTennessee .
* October -Country Music Association presidentTex Ritter awards Leo Fender the President's Award for "outstanding contributions to the sound of country music."
*October 5 -Johnny Cash is arrested inEl Paso, Texas on federal drug charges. He pleads guilty and is given a 30-day suspended sentence and fined $1,000.Fact|date=May 2008
* December -George Jones , his agent and band members are held for questioning in connection with aHouston, Texas murder investigation.Fact|date=May 2008 Lie detector tests clear them all.Fact|date=May 2008No dates
* Rock singer
Conway Twitty makes his county music debut. His first few country singles and albums were met with "some" country DJs refusing to play them because he was a well known rock-n-roll singer.Fact|date=May 2008
*Johnny Cash is banned from theGrand Ole Opry after an infamous concert where - in a drug-induced haze - he used a microphone to smash the floodlights.Fact|date=May 2008} He also walked offstage in the middle of a song.Fact|date=May 2008
* TheVietnam War , which by now was making daily headlines, brings about the second wave of patriotic-themed songs. One of the first big songs wasJohnnie Wright 's "Hello Vietnam," a No. 1 hit in October. Late in the year,Dave Dudley records and releases "What We're Fighting For," an early response to the growing number of anti-Vietnam War protests.:The trend continues through the rest of the 1960s and early 1970s, with songs such as "Distant Drums" byJim Reeves ; "Ballad of the Green Berets " byStaff Sgt. Barry Sadler ; "Dear Uncle Sam" byLoretta Lynn ; and others. By the late1960s , the tone of the songs became darker, most notably theMel Tillis -penned "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town " (first a hit for Johnny Darrell, but more famously in1969 by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition).Top hits of the year
Number one hits
"(As certified by
Billboard magazine )"
*January 23 - "You're the Only World I Know " -Sonny James
*February 20 - "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail " -Buck Owens
*March 27 - "King of the Road" -Roger Miller
*May 1 - "This is It" -Jim Reeves
*May 15 - "Girl on the Billboard" -Del Reeves : "This is It" byJim Reeves returns to No. 1 onMay 29 "
*June 5 - "What's He Doing In My World" -Eddy Arnold
*June 19 - "Ribbon of Darkness" (Gordon Lightfoot ) -Marty Robbins
*June 26 - "Before You Go" -Buck Owens
*August 7 - "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (and the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)" -Jimmy Dean
*August 21 - "Yes, Mr. Peters" -Roy Drusky andPriscilla Mitchell
*September 4 - "The Bridge Washed Out" -Warner Mack
*September 11 - "Is it Really Over" -Jim Reeves
*October 2 - "Only You (Can Break My Heart)" -Buck Owens
*October 9 - "Behind the Tear" -Sonny James
*October 23 - "Hello Vietnam" -Johnnie Wright : "Behind the Tear" bySonny James returns to No. 1 onNovember 13 "
*November 20 - "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" -Little Jimmy Dickens
*December 4 - "Make the World Go Away" -Eddy Arnold
*December 25 - "Buckaroo" - Buck Owens and the BuckaroosOther major hits
*"Blue Kentucky Girl" —
Loretta Lynn
*"A Dear John Letter" —Bobby Bare andSkeeter Davis
*"Don't You Ever Get Tired Of Hurting Me?" — Ray Price
*"Engine Engine #9" —Roger Miller
*"(From Now On All My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" —Roy Drusky
*"(From Now On All My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" —Merle Haggard
*"Green, Green Grass of Home" —Porter Wagoner
*"I Can't Remember" -Connie Smith
*"I'll Keep Holding On (Just to Your Love)" —Sonny James
*"I Wouldn't Buy a Used Car From Him" —Norma Jean
*"If I Talk to Him" -Connie Smith
*"It's Alright" -Bobby Bare
*"Kansas City Star" —Roger Miller
*"Love Bug" -George Jones
*"Meanwhile, Down at Joe's" —Kitty Wells
*"One Dyin' and a Buryin'" -Roger Miller
*"The Other Woman (in My Life)" — Ray Price
*"Queen of the House" —Jody Miller
*"Ten Little Bottles" —Johnny Bond
*"That Kind Of GirlTogether Forever" -Conway Twitty
*"Then and Only Then/Tiny Blue Transistor Radio" —Connie Smith
*"Things Have Gone to Pieces" -George Jones
*"A Tombstone Every Mile" —Dick Curless
*"Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun" —Dave Dudley Top new album releases
*"Before You Go/No One But You" -
Buck Owens (Capitol)
*"Behind the Tear" -Sonny James (Capitol)
*"Breakin' In Another Heart" - Hank Thompson (Capitol)
*"Bright Lights and Country Music" -Bill Anderson (Decca)
*"Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles" -Chet Atkins (RCA)
*"Country Willie: His Own Songs" -Willie Nelson (RCA)
*"Cute 'n' Country" -Connie Smith (RCA)
*"Doodle oo Doo Doo" -Del Reeves (United Artists )
*"The Easy Way" -Eddy Arnold (RCA)
*"From This Pen" -Bill Anderson (Decca)
*"Girl On The Billboard" -Del Reeves (United Artists)
*"Golden Hits" -Roger Miller (Smash)
*"Here Comes My Baby" -Dottie West (RCA)
*"Hot Rod Lincoln" -Johnny Bond (Starday)
*"I Heard the Bluebirds Sing" - The Browns (RCA)
*"I Want to Live and Love" -Carl Smith (Columbia)
*"I'll Keep Holding On" -Sonny James (Capitol)
*"I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" -Buck Owens (Capitol)
*"The Instrumental Hits of Buck Owens and His Buckaroos" - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos (Capitol)
*"Kisses Don't Lie" -Carl Smith (Columbia)
*"Luckiest Heartache in Town" - Hank Thompson (Capitol)
*"Many Happy Hangovers" -Jean Shepard (Capitol)
*"My Favorite Guitars" -Chet Atkins (RCA)
*"My World" -Eddy Arnold (RCA)
*"Pretty Miss Norma Jean" -Norma Jean (RCA)
*"Sings Jim Reeves" -Del Reeves (United Artists)
*"Skeeter Sings Standards" -Skeeter Davis (RCA)
*"Ten Little Bottles" -Johnny Bond (RCA)
*"The Thin Man From West Plains" -Porter Wagoner (RCA)
*"Three Shades of Brown" - The Browns (RCA)
*"When Love is Gone" - The Browns (RCA)
*"You're the Only World I Know" -Sonny James (Capitol)
*"Your Favorite Country Hits" -Hank Snow (RCA)Births
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August 28 -Shania Twain , mega country star since the latter half of the1990s .Deaths
Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
*
Ernest Tubb (1914 -1984 )Major Awards
Grammy awards
Academy of Country Music
*Top Male Vocalist --
Buck Owens
*Top Female Vocalist --Bonnie Owens
*Top Vocal Duo --Merle Haggard und Bonnie Owens
*Top New Male Vocalist -- Merle Haggard
*Top New Female Vocalist --Kaye Adams 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.
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