Heartaches By the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles by David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren
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Sammi Smith: “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Mega 1970)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Lost Highway” (MGM 1949)
Patsy Cline: “Crazy” (Decca 1961)
The Carter Family: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (Banner 1935)
Elvis Presley: “Don’t Be Cruel” (RCA Victor 1956)
Ray Price: “Crazy Arms” (Columbia 1956)
George Jones: “The Window Up Above” (Mercury 1960)
Dolly Parton: “Coat of Many Colors” (RCA Victor 1971)
The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: “Rank Strangers” (Starday 1960)
Ted Daffan’s Texans: “Born to Lose” (OKeh 1942)
Tammy Wynette: “Stand By Your Man” (Epic 1968)
Kitty Wells: “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Decca 1952)
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “The Wild Side of Life” (Capitol 1952)
Merle Haggard: “Carolyn” (Capitol 1971)
Conway Twitty: “How Much More Can She Stand” (Decca 1971)
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn: “After the Fire Is Gone” (Decca 1971)
Milton Brown & His Brownies: “Right or Wrong” (Decca 1936)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Time Changes Everything” (OKeh 1940)
Hank Snow: “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (RCA Victor 1954)
Floyd Tillman: “I Love You So Much It Hurts” (Columbia 1948)
Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Folsom Prison Blues” (Sun 1956)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Mama Tried” (Capitol 1968)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “The Fugitive” (Capitol 1966)
Steve Earle: “Someday” (MCA 1986)
Charlie Rich: “Life’s Little Ups and Downs” (Epic 1969)
Rex Griffin: “The Last Letter” (Decca 1937)
Gene Watson: “Farewell Party” (Capitol 1979)
Dock Boggs: “Country Blues” (Brunswick 1927)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” (MGM 1953)
Gene Autry: “Back in the Saddle Again” (OKeh 1939)
Patsy Montana: “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (Vocalion 1935)
Loretta Lynn: “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)” (Decca 1966)
Loretta Lynn: “The Pill” (MCA 1975)
Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys: “20/20 Vision” (RCA Victor 1954)
Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (Victor 1928)
Tommy Johnson: “Cool Drink of Water Blues” (Victor 1928)
Marty Robbins: “Singing the Blues” (Columbia 1956)
Red Foley with the Sunshine Boys Quartet: “(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (for Me)” (Decca 1951)
Porter Wagoner: “A Satisfied Mind” (RCA Victor 1955)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Decca 1954)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Columbia 1947)
Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Sun 1954)
Carl Perkins: “Blue Suede Shoes” (Sun 1956)
Ray Charles: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (ABC-Paramount 1962)
Connie Smith: “Once a Day” (RCA Victor 1964)
Connie Smith: “Burning a Hole in My Mind” (RCA Victor 1967)
Hank Williams: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (MGM 1949)
Stoney Edwards: “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” (Capitol 1973)
Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers: “Lovesick Blues” (OKeh 1928)
Lefty Frizzell: “I Love You a Thousand Ways” (Columbia 1950)
Tammy Wynette: “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” (Epic 1967)
Ray Price: “Make the World Go Away” (Columbia 1963)
Ray Price: “Night Life” (Columbia 1963)
Charlie Rich: “I Take It on Home” (Epic 1972)
Buck Owens: “My Heart Skips a Beat” (Capitol 1964)
Glen Campbell: “Galveston” (Capitol 1969)
Fiddlin’ John Carson: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (OKeh 1923)
Blind Alfred Reed: “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (Victor 1929)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Hungry Eyes” (Capitol 1969)
James Talley: “Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?” (Capitol 1976)
Woody Guthrie: “This Land Is Your Land” (Folkways 1945)
Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “Tramp on the Street” (Columbia 1947)
Roger Miller: “King of the Road” (Smash 1965)
Jimmie Rodgers: “Waiting for a Train” (Victor 1929)
Hank Snow: “I’ve Been Everywhere” (RCA Victor 1962)
Bobby Bare: “Detroit City” (RCA Victor 1963)
The Monroe Brothers: “What Would You Give in Exchange?” (Bluebird 1936)
Bruce Springsteen: “Atlantic City” (Columbia 1982)
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Martina McBride: “Independence Day” (RCA 1994)
Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (Decca 1943)
G.B. Grayson: “Ommie Wise” (Victor 1927)
Blue Sky Boys: “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” (Bluebird 1936)
The Louvin Brothers: “Knoxville Girl” (Capitol 1959)
Stonewall Jackson: “Life to Go” (Columbia 1958)
Porter Wagoner: “Green, Green Grass of Home” (RCA 1965)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Sing Me Back Home” (Capitol 1967)
Patsy Cline: “Sweet Dreams (of You)” (Decca 1963)
Loretta Lynn: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Decca 1970)
Jack Greene: “Statue of a Fool” (Decca 1969)
Webb Pierce: “There Stands the Glass” (Decca 1953)
Jim Ed Brown: “Pop a Top” (RCA Victor 1967)
Porter Wagoner: “Misery Loves Company” (RCA Victor 1962)
Gary Stewart: “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” (RCA Victor 1975)
George Jones: “The Battle” (Epic 1976)
Lynn Anderson: “Rose Garden” (Columbia 1970)
Eddy Arnold & His Guitar: “The Cattle Call” (RCA Victor 1955)
Sons of the Pioneers: “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (RCA Victor 1948)
The Flatlanders: “Dallas” (Plantation 1972)
George Strait: “Amarillo By Morning” (MCA 1983)
Kitty Wells: “Makin’ Believe” (Decca 1955)
Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone” (Capitol 1968)
Buck Owens: “Together Again” (Capitol 1964)
George Jones & Melba Montgomery: “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds” (United Artists 1963)
Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fire” (Columbia 1963)
Homer & Jethro with June Carter: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (RCA Victor 1949)
The Carter Family: “Single Girl, Married Girl” (Victor 1927)
Jeannie Seely: “Don’t Touch Me” (Monument 1966)
Marty Robbins: “Begging to You” (Columbia 1964)
Carl Perkins: “Turn Around” (Flip 1955)
Ray Price: “For the Good Times” (Columbia 1970)
Willie Nelson: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (Columbia 1975)
Ernest Tubb: “Walking the Floor Over You” (Decca 1941)
Don Gibson: “Oh Lonesome Me” (RCA Victor 1958)
The Everly Brothers: “Bye Bye Love” (Cadence 1957)
Roy Orbison & the Candy Men: “Oh Pretty Woman” (Monument 1964)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Great Balls of Fire” (Sun 1957)
Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: “Great Speckled Bird” (Vocalion 1936)
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet: “His Hand in Mine” (RCA Victor 1954)
The Statesman Quartet with Hovie Lister: “This Ole House” (RCA Victor 1954)
Gene Vincent: “Be-Bop-a-Lula” (Capitol 1956)
Conway Twitty: “It’s Only Make Believe” (MGM 1958)
Faron Young: “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young” (Capitol 1955)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Brain Cloudy Blues” (Columbia 1947)
Red Foley: “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” (Decca 1960)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” (Columbia 1947)
DeFord Bailey: “Pan American Blues” (Brunswick 1927)
The Delmore Brothers: “Freight Train Boogie” (King 1946)
Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Sixteen Tons” (Capitol 1955)
Frankie Miller: “Blackland Farmer” (Starday 1959)
Merle Haggard: “Workin’ Man Blues” (Capitol 1969)
Hazel Dickins: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” (Rounder 1980)
Loretta Lynn: “One’s on the Way” (Decca 1971)
Kay Adams with the Cliffie Stone Group: “Little Pink Mack” (Tower 1966)
Cliff Bruner & His Boys: “Truck Driver’s Blues” (Decca 1939)
Dave Dudley: “Six Days on the Road” (Golden Wing 1963)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Howlin’ at the Moon” (MGM 1951)
Stanley Brothers: “How Far to Little Rock” (King 1960)
Jerry Reed: “Amen Moses” (RCA 1970)
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “If I Lose, I Don’t Care” (Columbia 1927)
The Band: “Up on Cripple Creek” (Capitol 1969)
Uncle Dave Macon: “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (Vocalion 1924)
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” (Columbia 1925)
Marty Robbins: “El Paso” (Columbia 1959)
Gene Pitney: “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (Musicor 1962)
Ray Price: “City Lights” (Columbia 1958)
Otis Redding: “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” (Volt 1968)
Tom T. Hall: “Homecoming” (Mercury 1969)
Joe South & the Believers: “Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home” (Capitol 1969)
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Glen Campbell: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (Capitol 1967)
The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Ruby, Are You Mad?” (MGM 1956)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “You Win Again” (MGM 1952)
Eddy Arnold: “You Don’t Know Me” (RCA Victor 1956)
Patsy Cline: “She’s Got You” (Decca 1962)
Johnny Paycheck: “She’s All I Got” (Epic 1971)
Roger Miller: “Chug-a-Lug” (Smash 1964)
Roger Miller: “One Dyin’ and a Buryin’” (Smash 1965)
George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (Epic 1980)
Sammi Smith: “Today I Started Loving You Again” (Mega 1975)
Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts” (Reprise 1974)
Hank Snow: “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” (RCA Victor 1952)
Bobbie Gentry: “Ode to Billie Joe” (Capitol 1967)
Carl & Pearl Butler: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1962)
Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1969)
Webb Pierce: “Back Street Affair” (Decca 1952)
Leroy Van Dyke: “Walk on By” (Mercury 1961)
Floyd Tillman: “Slipping Around” (Columbia 1949)
Randy Travis: “On the Other Hand” (Warner Bros. 1986)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Mule Skinner Blues” (Bluebird 1940)
Dolly Parton: “Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel no. 8)” (RCA 1970)
Garth Brooks: “The Dance” (Capitol 1990)
Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely: “The Gods Were Angry with Me” (Capitol 1950)
Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers: “When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles with You)” (Decca 1938)
Webb Pierce: “Slowly” (Decca 1954)
Lefty Frizzell: “Always Late (with Your Kisses)” (Columbia 1951)
The Louvin Brothers: “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” (Capitol 1956)
The Louvin Brothers: “When I Stop Dreaming” (Capitol 1955)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “In the Pines” (Decca 1952)
Tony Bennett: “Cold, Cold Heart” (Columbia 1951)
Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (Plantation 1968)
Dusty Springfield: “Son of a Preacher Man” (Atlantic 1969)
Martha Carson: “Satisfied” (Capitol 1951)
John Anderson: “Swingin’” (Warner Bros. 1983)
Marty Robbins: “I Was Alone” (Columbia 1968)
Tom T. Hall: “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” (Mercury 1971)
Jack Green: “Lord Is That Me” (Decca 1970)
Little Jimmy Dickens: “(You’ve Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” (Decca 1970)
Skeeter Davis: “The End of the World” (RCA Victor 1962)
Porter Wagoner: “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (RCA 1967)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I Saw the Light” (MGM 1947)
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan: “Are You Walking and a-Talking for the Lord” (Columbia
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Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “When God Comes to Gather His Jewels” (Columbia 1947)
Coon Creek Girls: “Sowing on the Mountain” (Vocalion 1938)
The Carter Family: “Wildwood Flower” (Victor 1929)
Eck Robertson: “Sallie Gooden” (Victor 1923)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Uncle Pen” (Decca 1950)
Jean Shepard: “Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar)” (Capitol 1964)
Glen Campbell: “Wichita Lineman” (Capitol 1968)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Take Me Back to Tulsa” (OKeh 1941)
Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans: “Oklahoma Hills” (Capitol 1945)
Johnny Cash: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” (Columbia 1964)
Sons of the Pioneers: “Cool Water” (Decca 1941)
Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Big River” (Sun 1958)
Jimmy Murphy: “Electricity” (RCA Victor 1951)
Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (Mercury 1949)
Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys: “Are You Missing Me” (Capitol 1952)
Jimmy Martin: “You Don’t Know My Mind” (Decca 1960)
Tanya Tucker: “Delta Dawn” (Columbia 1972)
Ray Price: “Release Me” (Columbia 1953)
Johnny Bush: “You Gave Me a Mountain” (Stop 1969)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” (Brunswick 1928)
The Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister: “Faith Unlocks the Door” (RCA Victor 1956)
Leon Payne: “I Love You Because” (Capitol 1949)
Elvis Presley: “Any Day Now” (RCA Victor 1969)
Harmonica Frank: “Rockin’ Chair Daddy” (Sun 1954)
Billy Lee Riley & His Little Green Men: “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” (Sun 1957)
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: “Stratosphere Boogie” (Capitol 1954)
Chuck Berry: “Maybellene” (Chess 1955)
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Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “Big in Vegas” (Capitol 1969)
Bobbie Gentry: “Fancy” (Captiol 1969)
The Kendalls: “Just Like Real People” (Ovation 1979)
Brenda Lee: “I’m Sorry” (Decca 1960)
Stonewall Jackson: “A Wound Time Can’t Erase” (Columbia 1962)
Clint Black: “Better Man” (RCA 1989)
Dixie Chicks: “Wide Open Spaces” (Monument 1998)
Gene Autry: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (OKeh 1942)
Ernest Tubb: “Waltz Across Texas” (Decca 1965)
George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “Golden Ring” (Epic 1976)
Tanya Tucker: “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” (Epic 1974)
Bob Dylan: “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (Columbia 1969)
Jason & the Scorchers: “Absolutely Sweet Marie” (EMI 1984)
Richard “Rabbit” Brown: “James Alley Blues” (Victor 1927)
Lefty Frizzell: “The Long Black Veil” (Columbia 1959)
Solomon Burke: “Just Out of Reach (of My Two Open Arms)” (Atlantic 1961)
Marty Robbins: “Don’t Worry” (Columbia 1961)
George Jones: “A Good Year for the Roses” (Musicor 1970)
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “The Last Thing on My Mind” (RCA 1967)
Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone” (MCA 1974)
Jim Reeves: “He’ll Have to Go” (RCA Victor 1959)
Clarence Ashley: “The Coo Coo Bird” (Columbia 1929)
Johnnie & Jack & Their Tennessee Mountain Boys: “Poison Love” (RCA Victor 1951)
Loretta Lynn: “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (Decca 1966)
Dolly Parton: “Jolene” (RCA 1973)
Harry Choates: “Jole Blon” (Gold Star 1946)
Carl Perkins: “Dixie Fried” (Sun 1956)
Hackberry Ramblers: “Fais Pas Ca” (Bluebird 1938)
Amede Ardoin & Dennis McGee: “One Step Des Chameaux” (Brunswick 1930)
Lead Belly: “Midnight Special” (RCA Victor 1940)
Elvis Presley: “Mystery Train” (Sun 1955)
Elvis Presley: “Little Sister” (RCA 1961)
Red Foley with Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland: “Sugarfoot Rag” (Decca 1950)
“Little” Jimmy Dickens: “Hillbilly Fever” (Columbia 1950)
Red Foley: “Midnight” (Decca 1952)
Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Shot Gun Boogie” (Capitol 1950)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Roly Poly” (Columbia 1946)
Maddox Brothers & Rose: “Honky Tonkin’” (Four Star 1949)
Wanda Jackson: “Let’s Have a Party” (Capitol 1960)
George Jones: “White Lightning” (Mercury 1959)
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “A Six Pack to Go” (Capitol 1960)
Merle Haggard: “If We Make It Through December” (Capitol 1973)
Ernest Tubb: “Blue Christmas” (Decca 1949)
Ray Price: “Heartaches By the Number” (Columbia 1959)
Merle Haggard: “Sing a Sad Song” (Talley 1963)
Johnny Rodriguez: “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” (Mercury 1973)
El Conjunto Bernal: “Mi Unica Camino” (Ideal 1958)
Roy Orbison: “Crying” (Monument 1961)
Freddy Fender: “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (ABC/Dot 1975)
The Flying Burrito Brothers: “Hot Burrito no. 1” (A&M 1969)
William Bell: “You Don’t Miss Your Water” (Stax 1962)
Conway Twitty: “Fifteen Years Ago” (Decca 1970)
Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens: “Just Between the Two of Us” (Tally 1964)
Lucinda Williams: “Passionate Kisses” (Rough Trade 1989)
Deana Carter: “Did I Shave My Legs for This?” (Capitol 1997)
Loretta Lynn: “Success” (Decca 1962)
Stuart Hamblen: “(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You” (Columbia 1950)
Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “It’s a Sin” (RCA Victor 1947)
Jimmie Davis: “You Are My Sunshine” (Decca 1940)
Charley Pride: “Just Between You and Me” (RCA 1966)
Blue Sky Boys: “Are You From Dixie?” (Bluebird 1939)
Billy Joe Shaver: “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” (Monument 1973)
Janis Joplin: “Me and Bobby McGee” (Columbia 1971)
Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Buddah 1973)
Jerry Jeff Walker: “L.A. Freeway” (MCA 1973)
Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 4 (California Blues)” (Victor 1928)
Patti Page: “The Tennessee Waltz” (Mercury 1951)
Sammi Smith: “Kentucky” (Mega 1972)
Waylon Jennings: “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” (RCA 1968)
Lovin’ Spoonful: “Nashville Cats” (Kama Sutra 1966)
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Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “I Walk the Line” (Sun 1956)
Charlie Rich: “Sittin’ and Thinkin’” (Phillips International 1962)
The Statler Brothers: “Flowers on the Wall” (Columbia 1965)
Del Reeves: “Looking at the World Through a Windshield” (United Artists 1968)
Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wreck on the Highway” (OKeh 1942)
Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wabash Cannon Ball” (Columbia 1947)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” (MCA 1974)
Arthur Alexander: “You Better Move On” (Dot 1962)
Joe Sampley: “Soul Song” (Dot 1972)
Sir Douglas Quintet: “At the Crossroads” (Smash 1969)
James Carr: “The Dark End of the Street” (Goldwax 1967)
Mel Street: “Lovin’ on Back Streets” (Metromedia 1972)
Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “Bouquet of Roses” (RCA Victor 1948)
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Slow Poke” (RCA Victor 1951)
Spade Cooley: “Shame on You” (OKeh 1945)
Tex Williams & His Western Caravan: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (Capitol 1947)
The Delmore Brothers: “Brown’s Ferry Blues” (Bluebird 1933)
Warner Mack: “The Bridge Washed Out” (Decca 1965)
George Jones and Brenda Carter: “Milwaukee, Here I Come” (Musicor 1968)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)” (Smash 1968)
Johnny Paycheck: “Motel Time Again” (Little Darlin’ 1966)
Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (OKeh 1944)
Mark Chesnutt: “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” (MCA 1992)
Hank Snow: “Miller’s Cave” (RCA Victor 1960)
Frank Hutchison: “Stackalee” (OKeh 1927)
John Anderson: “Wild and Blue” (Warner Bros. 1982)
The Stanley Brothers: “Little Maggie” (Starday 1960)
Charlie Walker: “Who Will Buy the Wine” (Columbia 1960)
Billy Walker: “Charlie’s Shoes” (Columbia 1962)
Conway Twitty: “The Image of Me” (Decca 1968)
George Jones: “A Picture of Me (without You)” (Epic 1972)
Webb Pierce: “Wondering” (Decca 1952)
Nathan Abshire: “Pine Grove Blues” (O.T. 1949)
Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters: “My Wife Died Saturday Night” (Brunswick 1928)
Lefty Frizzell: “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (Columbia 1950)
Buck Owens: “Above and Beyond” (Capitol 1960)
Charley Pride: “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (RCA 1971)
Faron Young: “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)” (Capitol 1954)
Faith Hill: “This Kiss” (Warner Bros. 1998)
Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy & His Guitar: “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby” (RCA Victor 1950)
Rodney Crowell: “Elvira” (Warner Bros. 1978)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (Sun 1957)
The Modern Mountaineers: “Everybody’s Truckin’” (Bluebird 1937)
Light Crust Doughboys: “Pussy, Pussy, Pussy” (Vocalion 1938)
Buck Owens: “Love’s Gonna Live Here” (Capitol 1963)
Nilsson: “Everybody’s Talkin’” (RCA 1969)
The Byrds: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (Columbia 1968)
Lefty Frizzell: “She’s Gone Gone Gone” (Columbia 1965)
The Monkees: “Last Train to Clarksville” (Colgems 1966)
Kenny Rogers & the First Edition: “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (Reprise 1969)
Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band: “Garden Party” (Decca 1972)
Gene Watson: “You Could Know as Much About a Stranger” (Capitol 1976)
Patsy Cline: “Faded Love” (Decca 1963)
Dolly Parton: “I Will Always Love You” (RCA 1974)
Tammy Wynette: “Till I Get It Right” (Epic 1972)
Waylon Jennings: “Good Hearted Woman” (RCA Victor 1972)
Trisha Yearwood: “XXX’s and OOO’s” (MCA 1994)
Waylon Jennings: “Amanda” (RCA Victor 1979)
Dottie West: “A Lesson in Leavin’” (United Artists 1980)
Waylon Jennings: “Dreaming My Dreams with You” (RCA Victor 1975)
George Jones: “The Door” (Epic 1974)
Ferlin Husky: “Gone” (Capitol 1957)
The Crickets: “That’ll Be the Day” (Brunswick 1957)
Patsy Cline: “Walkin’ After Midnight” (Decca 1957)
The Stanley Brothers: “Angel Band” (Mercury 1955)
The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel” (Jubilee 1953)
Elvis Presley: “He Touched Me” (RCA 1972)
The Lewis Family: “His Blood Now Covers My Skin” (Starday 1967)
Cal Smith: “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking” (Decca 1972)
Garth Brooks: “Friends in Low Places” (Capitol 1990)
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The Mississippi Sheiks: “Sitting on Top of the World” (OKeh 1930)
Lazy Lester: “I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter” (Excello 1959)
Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue” (Columbia 1969)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Okie from Muskogee” (Capitol 1969)
Johnny Paycheck: “Take This Job and Shove It” (Epic 1977)
Wynn Stewart: “Another Day, Another Dollar” (Challenge 1962)
The Louvin Brothers: “Cash on the Barrel Head” (Captiol 1956)
Ray Charles: “Busted” (ABC-Paramount 1963)
Dolly Parton: “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)” (RCA 1968)
Reba McEntire: “Have I Got a Deal for You” (MCA 1985)
Shania Twain: “Any Man of Mine” (Mercury 1995)
Alan Jackson: “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” (Arista 1991)
Hank Williams, Jr.: “Family Tradition” (Elektra/Curb 1979)
Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens: “Streets of Bakersfield” (Reprise 1988)
Moon Mullican: “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” (King 1950)
Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts: “Angel of the Morning” (Bell 1968)
Bob Luman: “Lonely Women Make Good Lovers” (Epic 1972)
Mel Street: “I Met a Friend of Yours Today” (GRT 1976)
Kris Kristofferson: “Why Me” (Monument 1973)
Billy Swan: “I Can Help” (Monument 1974)
Carl Smith: “Hey Joe!” (Columbia 1953)
The Carlisles: “No Help Wanted” (Mercury 1953)
Ernest Tubb: “Thanks a Lot” (Decca 1963)
Tex Ritter & His Texans: “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (Captiol 1942)
Tammy Wynette: “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (Epic 1968)
Kitty Wells: “Mommy For a Day” (Decca 1959)
Dolly Parton: “Daddy Come and Get Me” (RCA Victor 1970)
Darby & Tarlton: “Little Bessie” (Columbia 1929)
The Delmore Brothers: “Blues Stay Away From Me” (King 1949)
Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris: “These Memories of You” (Warner Bros. 1987)
Lefty Frizzell: “I Never Go Around Mirrors” (ABC 1974)
Brother Willie Easton: “I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me)” (Regent 1951)
The Chuck Wagon Gang: “After the Sunrise” (OKeh 1940)
The Carter Family: “Worried Man Blues” (Victor 1930)
Stonewall Jackson: “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” (Columbia 1965)
Lone Justice: “Ways to Be Wicked” (Geffen 1985)
Jan Howard: “Evil on Your Mind” (Decca 1966)
Joe Simon: “The Chokin’ Kind” (Sound Stage 1969)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (MGM 1953)
Ricky Skaggs: “Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown” (Sugar Hill/Epic 1983)
Jimmy Wakely: “One Has My Name (the Other Has My Heart)” (Capitol 1948)
The Kendalls: “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away” (Ovation 1977)
Moe Bandy: “It’s a Cheating Situation” (Columbia 1979)
O.B. McClinton: “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” (Enterprise 1972)
Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “Lead Me On” (Decca 1971)
Buck Owens: “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (Captiol 1965)
Webb Pierce: “Honky Tonk Song” (Decca 1957)
Johnny Horton: “I’m Coming Home” (Columbia 1957)
The Osborne Brothers: “Rocky Top” (Decca 1968)
Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” (Columbia 1951)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Big Beaver” (OKeh 1940)
Charlie Walker: “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” (Columbia 1958)
Ray Price: “Wasted Words” (Columbia 1956)
Patty Loveless with George Jones: “You Don’t Seem to Miss Me” (Epic 1997)
Billy Walker: “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Columbia 1961)
The Davis Sisters: “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” (RCA Victor 1953)
John Prine: “Illegal Smile” (Atlantic 1972)
Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” (Columbia 1978)
The Stanley Brothers: “Mountain Dew” (King 1959)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Twin Guitar Special” (OKeh 1941)
Cowboy “Pappy” Copas: “Filipino Baby” (King 1946)
Tony Booth: “Irma Jackson” (MGM 1970)
Swamp Dogg: “These Are Not My People” (Roker 1970)
Bobby Hebb: “Night Train to Memphis” (Rich 1960)
Lacy J. Dalton: “16th Avenue” (Epic 1982)
Dick Stratton & the Nite Owls: “Music City U.S.A.” (Jamboree 1950)
Porter Wagoner: “Skid Row Joe” (RCA 1965)
Harry McClintock: “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” (Victor 1928)
Neil Young: “Sugar Mountain” (Reprise 1970)
Don Williams: “I Believe in You” (MCA 1980)
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The Judds: “Grandpa (Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days)” (RCA/Curb 1986)
Norma Jean: “Heaven Help the Working Girl” (RCA 1967)
Dolly Parton: “9 to 5” (RCA 1980)
Merle Travis: “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed” (Capitol 1947)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Hey, Good Lookin’” (MGM 1951)
Deana Carter: “Strawberry Wine” (Capitol 1996)
Billie Jo Spears: “Blanket on the Ground” (United Artists 1975)
Hank Snow: “Hello Love” (RCA 1974)
Slim Whitman: “Indian Love Call” (Imperial 1952)
Pam Tillis: “All the Good Ones Are Gone” (Arista 1997)
Kim Richey: “I Know” (Mercury 1997)
Patty Loveless: “Don’t Toss Us Away” (MCA 1989)
Rosanne Cash: “Runaway Train” (Columbia 1988)
BR5-49: “Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)” (Arista 1997)
Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups: “Country Boy Rock ’n’ Roll” (King 1956)
Johnny Burnette & the Rock & Roll Trio: “The Train Kept a-Rollin’” (Coral 1956)
Conway Twitty: “You’ve Never Been This Far Before” (MCA 1973)
Elvis Presley: “Burning Love” (RCA Victor 1972)
Charlie Rich: “Nice ’n’ Easy” (Epic 1970)
Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Fantasy 1970)
John Conlee: “Rose Colored Glasses” (ABC 1978)
Crystal Gayle: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (United Artists 1977)
Skeets McDonald: “Don’ Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (Capitol 1952)
Wiley & Gene: “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again” (OKeh 1941)
Jean Shepard (with Ferlin Husky): “A Dear John Letter” (Captiol 1953)
Floyd Tillman: “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin” (Columbia 1946)
Johnny Bond: “Ten Little Bottles” (Starday 1965)
Willie Nelson: “Bloody Mary Morning” (Atlantic 1974)
George Strait: “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” (MCA 1984)
Willie Nelson: “Always on My Mind” (Columbia 1982)
Glen Campbell: “Gentle on My Mind” (Capitol 1967)
David Houston & Tammy Wynette: “My Elusive Dreams” (Epic 1967)
Louise Massey & the Westerners: “My Adobe Hacienda” (Columbia 1947)
Vernon Oxford: “Watermelon Time in Georgia” (RCA 1965)
Elton Britt & the Skytoppers: “Detour” (RCA Victor 1946)
Charlie Rich: “Who Will the Next Fool Be” (Sun 1970)
Ray Price: “Danny Boy” (Columbia 1967)
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Bully of the Town” (Columbia 1926)
Floyd Tillman: “I Gotta Have My Baby Back” (Columbia 1949)
Jimmie Rodgers: “Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel” (Bluebird 1933)
The Rolling Stones: “Honky Tonk Women” (London 1969)
Gene Autry & Jimmy Long: “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine” (Banner 1931)
Hank Snow: “The Golden Rocket” (RCA Victor 1950)
Jimmie Rodgers: “Miss the Mississippi an You” (Victor 1932)
Johnny Horton: “The Battle of New Orleans” (Columbia 1959)
Ernest Van Stoneman: “The Titanic” (OKeh 1925)
Tanya Tucker: “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” (Columbia 1973)
LeAnn Rimes: “Blue” (Curb 1996)
Patsy Cline: “I Fall to Pieces” (Decca 1961)
George Jones: “She Thinks I Still Care” (United Artists 1962)
Faron Young: “Hello Walls” (Captiol 1961)
Bill Anderson: “Still” (Decca 1963)
Charlie Rich: “The Most Beautiful Girl” (Epic 1973)
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “Holding on to Nothin’” (RCA 1968)
Del Reeves: “Girl on the Billboard” (United Artists 1965)
Slim Harpo: “Rainin’ in My Heart” (Excello 1961)
The Kentucky Headhunters: “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” (Mercury 1989)
Fats Domino: “Walking to New Orleans” (Imperial 1960)
Milton Brown & the Brownies: “Who’s Sorry Now?” (Decca 1935)
Texas Ruby with Curly Fox & His Fox Hunters: “Don’t Let That Man Get You Down” (Columbia 1945)
Elvis Presley: “Suspicious Minds” (RCA 1969)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “She Still Comes Around (to What’s Left of Me)” (Smash 1968)
The Shelton Brothers: “Just Because” (Decca 1935)
Juice Newton: “Queen of Hearts” (Capitol 1981)
Bill Nettles: “High-Falutin’ Mama” (Bullet 1947)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Honky Tonk Blues” (MGM 1952)
Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers: “Rock About My Saro Jane” (Vocalion 1927)
Webb Pierce: “I Ain’t Never” (Decca 1959)
Charlie Feathers with Jody and Jerry: “One Hand Loose” (King 1956)
Conway Twitty: “Linda on My Mind” (MCA 1975)
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Jessi Colter: “I’m Not Lisa” (Capitol 1975)
David Allan Coe: “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” (Columbia 1975)
Dwight Yoakam: “Guitars, Cadillacs” (Reprise 1986)
Alan Jackson: “Gone Country” (Arista 1994)
Vernon Dalhart: “The Prisoner’s Song” (Victor 1925)
Waylon Jennings: “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” (RCA Victor 1975)
Joe South & the Believers: “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” (Captiol 1970)
Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 9 (Standin’ on the Corner)” (Victor 1930)
Los Lobos: “Will the Wolf Survive” (Slash 1985)
Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Don’t Fence Me In” (Decca 1944)
Olivia Newton-John: “If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” (MCA 1974)
The Carter Family: “Keep on the Sunny Side” (Victor 1928)
Lee Ann Womack (with Sons of the Desert): “I Hope You Dance” (MCA Nashville 2000)
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The Mavericks: “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down” (MCA 1996)
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Elvis Presley : “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (RCA 1960)
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Little Jimmy Dickens: “A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed” (Columbia 1950)
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The Coon Creek Girls: “Banjo Pickin’ Girl” (Vocalion/OKeh 1938)
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Emmylou Harris: “Beneath Still Waters” (Warner Bros. 1980)
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Red Foley: “Birmingham Bounce” (Decca 1950)
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Tex Ritter: “Blood on the Saddle” (Capitol 1945)
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The O’Kanes: “Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You” (Columbia 1987)
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Linda Martell: “Color Him Father” (Plantation 1969)
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Charlie Feathers: “Defrost Your Heart” (Sun 1956)
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Joe Maphis and Rose Lee: “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)” (OKeh 1953)
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Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies: “Down by the O-H-I-O” (Decca 1935)
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Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Down Yonder” (Bluebird 1934)
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Buell Kazee: “East Virginia” (Brunswick 1929)
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Floyd Cramer: “Flip Flop and Bop” (RCA Victor 1958)
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Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Footprints in the Snow” (Columbia 1946)
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The Willis Brothers: “Give Me Forty Acres to Turn This Rig Around” (Starday 1964)
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The Carter Family: “Gospel Ship” (Conqueror 1935)
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Arthur Smith: “Guitar Boogie” (MGM 1948)
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Ricky Skaggs: “Heartbroke” (Epic 1982)
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Ricky Nelson: “Hello Mary Lou” (Imperial 1961)
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Alan Jackson: “Here in the Real World” (Arista 1990)
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Travis Tritt: “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” (Warner Bros. 1991)
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Jimmy Martin: “Hit Parade of Love” (Decca 1956)
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Guy Clark: “Homegrown Tomatoes” (Warner Bros. 1983)
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Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Honky Tonk Blues” (Vocalion 1937)
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Johnny Horton: “Honky Tonk Man” (Columbia 1956)
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The Farmer Boys: “Humdinger” (Capitol 1953)
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The Beatles: “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” (Capitol 1965)
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The Bobby Fuller Four: “I Fought the Law” (Mustang 1966)
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Moe Bandy: “I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today” (GRC 1974)
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Goldie Hill: “I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes” (Decca 1953)
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Vince Gill: “I Still Believe in You” (MCA 1992)
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Johnny Cash: “I Still Miss Someone” (Columbia 1959)
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Marion Worth: “I Think I Know” (Columbia 1960)
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Mac Wiseman: “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are” (Dot 1952)
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Eddy Arnold: “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (‘Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” (RCA Victor 1947)
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Stanley Brothers: “I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow” (King 1959)
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Red Simpson: “I’m a Truck” (Capitol 1971)
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Bing Crosby: “I’m an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)” (Decca 1936)
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Keith Whitley: “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” (RCA 1989)
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B.J. Thomas & the Triumphs: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Scepter 1966)
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Reno & Smiley: “I’m Using My Bible for a Road Map” (King 1952)
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Connie Smith: “If It Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave It Alone)” (RCA Victor 1972)
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Millie Jackson: “If You’re Not Back in Love by Monday” (Spring 1977)
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Charline Arthur: “Kiss the Baby Goodnight” (RCA Victor 1955)
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Hank Snow: “Let Me Go, Lover!” (RCA Victor 1954)
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Carl Smith: “Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way” (Columbia 1951)
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Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris and Steve Ledford: “Little Maggie” (Bluebird 1937)
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Hankshaw Hawkins: “Lonesome 7-7203” (King 1963)
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Steve Young: “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean” (RCA Victor 1977)
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Tompall & the Glaser Brothers: “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” (Elektra 1981)
The International Submarine Band: “Luxury Liner” (LHI 1968)
Adolph Hofner & His Texans: “Marina Elina” (Bluebird 1940)
Blind Lemon Jefferson: “Match Box Blues” (Paramount 1927)
Mel Tillis & the Statesiders: “Mental Revenge” (MGM 1976)
Gene Autry: “Mexicali Rose” (Vocalion 1936)
Gregg Allman: “Midnight Rider” (Capricorn 1973)
Maddox Brothers and Rose: “Midnight Train” (Four Star 1947)
Jimmie Rodgers: “My Rough and Rowdy Ways” (Victor 1929)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” (MGM 1950)
The Allen Brothers: “A New Salty Dog” (Bluebird 1930)
Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers: “New Steel Guitar Rag” (RCA Victor 1952)
The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Once More” (MGM 1958)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Once More with Feeling” (Smash 1970)
Jean Shepard: “The Other Woman” (Capitol 1957)
Loretta Lynn: “The Other Woman” (Decca 1963)
Ray Price: “The Other Woman” (Columbia 1965)
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard: “Pancho and Lefty” (Epic 1983)
Hank Lockin: “Please, Help Me, I’m Falling” (RCA Victor 1960)
Tony Joe White: “Polk Salad Annie” (Monument 1969)
Dock Boggs: “Pretty Polly” (Brunswick 1927)
Roy Newman & His Boys: “Sadie Green (the Vamp of New Orleans)” (Vocalion 1935)
Jeanne Pruett: “Satin Sheets” (RCA 1973)
Don Gibson: “Sea of Heartbreak” (RCA Victor 1961)
Vern Gosdin: “Set ’Em Up Joe” (Columbia 1988)
Rosanne Cash: “Seven Year Ache” (Columbia 1981)
Joe Tex: “Show Me” (Dial 1967)
John Cougar Mellencamp: “Small Town” (Riva 1985)
Ernest Tubb: “Soldier’s Last Letter” (Decca 1944)
Gail Davies: “Someone is Looking for Someone Like You” (Lifesong 1979)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Stay a Little Longer” (Columbia 1947)
Eddie Cochran: “Summertime Blues” (Liberty 1958)
Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band: “Take It Away, Leon” (Columbia 1950)
Iry LeJune: “Teche Special” (Folk-Star 1950)
Pee-Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Tennessee Waltz” (RCA Victor 1948)
Jack Greene: “There Goes My Everything” (Decca 1966)
Marty Robbins: “This Much a Man” (Decca 1972)
The Browns: “The Three Bells” (RCA Victor 1959)
Dick Curless: “A Tombstone Every Mile” (Tower 1965)
Terry Fell & the Fellers: “Truck Driving Man” (X 1954)
George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “(We’re Not) the Jet Set” (Epic 1974)
Allison Krauss: “When You Say Nothing at All” (BNA 1995)
Reba McEntire: “Whoever’s in New England” (MCA 1988)
Wayne Raney: “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” (King 1949)
Faron Young: “Wine Me Up” (Mercury 1969)
Henry Whitter: “Wreck of the Southern Old ’97” (OKeh 1924)
Trisha Yearwood: “Wrong Side of Memphis” (MCA 1992)
Tommy Collins: “You Better Not Do That” (Capitol 1954)
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1920s
1. Dock Boggs: “Country Blues” (Brunswick 1927)
2. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (Victor 1928)
3. Tommy Johnson: “Cool Drink of Water Blues” (Victor 1928)
4. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers: “Lovesick Blues” (OKeh 1928)
5. Fiddlin’ John Carson: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (OKeh 1923)
6. Blind Alfred Reed: “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (Victor 1929)
7. Jimmie Rodgers: “Waiting for a Train” (Victor 1929)
8. G.B. Grayson: “Ommie Wise” (Victor 1927)
9. The Carter Family: “Single Girl, Married Girl” (Victor 1927)
10. DeFord Bailey: “Pan American Blues” (Brunswick 1927)
11. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “If I Lose, I Don’t Care” (Columbia 1927)
12. Uncle Dave Macon: “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (Vocalion 1924)
13. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” (Columbia 1925)
14. The Carter Family: “Wildwood Flower” (Victor 1929)
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Eck Robertson: “Sallie Gooden” (Victor 1923)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” (Brunswick 1928)
Richard “Rabbit” Brown: “James Alley Blues” (Victor 1927)
Clarence Ashley: “The Coo Coo Bird” (Columbia 1929)
Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 4 (California Blues)” (Victor 1928)
Frank Hutchison: “Stackalee” (OKeh 1927)
Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters: “My Wife Died Saturday Night” (Brunswick 1928)
Darby & Tarlton: “Little Bessie” (Columbia 1929)
Harry McClintock: “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” (Victor 1928)
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Bully of the Town” (Columbia 1926)
Ernest Van Stoneman: “The Titanic” (OKeh 1925)
Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers: “Rock About My Saro Jane” (Vocalion 1927)
Vernon Dalhart: “The Prisoner’s Song” (Victor 1925)
The Carter Family: “Keep on the Sunny Side” (Victor 1928)
Henry Whitter: “Wreck of the Southern Old ’97” (OKeh 1924)
Dock Boggs: “Pretty Polly” (Brunswick 1927)
Blind Lemon Jefferson: “Match Box Blues” (Paramount 1927)
Jimmie Rodgers: “My Rough and Rowdy Ways” (Victor 1929)
Buell Kazee: “East Virginia” (Brunswick 1929)
1930s
1. The Carter Family: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (Banner 1935)
2. Milton Brown & His Brownies: “Right or Wrong” (Decca 1936)
3. Rex Griffin: “The Last Letter” (Decca 1937)
4. Gene Autry: “Back in the Saddle Again” (OKeh 1939)
5. Patsy Montana: “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (Vocalion 1935)
6. The Monroe Brothers: “What Would You Give in Exchange?” (Bluebird 1936)
7. Blue Sky Boys: “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” (Bluebird 1936)
8. Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: “Great Speckled Bird” (Vocalion 1936)
9. Cliff Bruner & His Boys: “Truck Driver’s Blues” (Decca 1939)
10. Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers: “When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles with You)” (Decca 1938)
11. Coon Creek Girls: “Sowing on the Mountain” (Vocalion 1938)
12. Hackberry Ramblers: “Fais Pas Ca” (Bluebird 1938)
13. Amede Ardoin & Dennis McGee: “One Step Des Chameaux” (Brunswick 1930)
14. Blue Sky Boys: “Are You From Dixie?” (Bluebird 1939)
15. The Delmore Brothers: “Brown’s Ferry Blues” (Bluebird 1933)
16. The Modern Mountaineers: “Everybody’s Truckin’” (Bluebird 1937)
17. Light Crust Doughboys: “Pussy, Pussy, Pussy” (Vocalion 1938)
18. The Mississippi Sheiks: “Sitting on Top of the World” (OKeh 1930)
19. The Carter Family: “Worried Man Blues” (Victor 1930)
20. Jimmie Rodgers: “Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel” (Bluebird 1933)
21. Gene Autry & Jimmy Long: “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine” (Banner 1931)
22. Jimmie Rodgers: “Miss the Mississippi an You” (Victor 1932)
23. Milton Brown & the Brownies: “Who’s Sorry Now?” (Decca 1935)
24. The Shelton Brothers: “Just Because” (Decca 1935)
25. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 9 (Standin’ on the Corner)” (Victor 1930)
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27. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Down Yonder” (Bluebird 1934)
28. Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies: “Down by the O-H-I-O” (Decca 1935)
29. The Carter Family: “Gospel Ship” (Conqueror 1935)
30. Roy Newman & His Boys: “Sadie Green (the Vamp of New Orleans)” (Vocalion 1935)
31. Gene Autry: “Mexicali Rose” (Vocalion 1936)
32. Bing Crosby: “I’m an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)” (Decca 1936)
33. Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Honky Tonk Blues” (Vocalion 1937)
34. Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris and Steve Ledford: “Little Maggie” (Bluebird 1937)
35. The Coon Creek Girls: “Banjo Pickin’ Girl” (Vocalion/OKeh 1938)
1940s
1. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Lost Highway” (MGM 1949)
2. Ted Daffan’s Texans: “Born to Lose” (OKeh 1942)
3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Time Changes Everything” (OKeh 1940)
4. Floyd Tillman: “I Love You So Much It Hurts” (Columbia 1948)
5. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Columbia 1947)
6. Hank Williams: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (MGM 1949)
7. Woody Guthrie: “This Land Is Your Land” (Folkways 1945)
8. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “Tramp on the Street” (Columbia 1947)
9. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (Decca 1943)
10. Sons of the Pioneers: “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (RCA Victor 1948)
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Ernest Tubb: “Walking the Floor Over You” (Decca 1941)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Brain Cloudy Blues” (Columbia 1947)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” (Columbia 1947)
The Delmore Brothers: “Freight Train Boogie” (King 1946)
Floyd Tillman: “Slipping Around” (Columbia 1949)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Mule Skinner Blues” (Bluebird 1940)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I Saw the Light” (MGM 1947)
Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “When God Comes to Gather His Jewels” (Columbia 1947)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Take Me Back to Tulsa” (OKeh 1941)
Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans: “Oklahoma Hills” (Capitol 1945)
Sons of the Pioneers: “Cool Water” (Decca 1941)
Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (Mercury 1949)
Leon Payne: “I Love You Because” (Capitol 1949)
Gene Autry: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (OKeh 1942)
Harry Choates: “Jole Blon” (Gold Star 1946)
Lead Belly: “Midnight Special” (RCA Victor 1940)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Roly Poly” (Columbia 1946)
Maddox Brothers & Rose: “Honky Tonkin’” (Four Star 1949)
Ernest Tubb: “Blue Christmas” (Decca 1949)
Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “It’s a Sin” (RCA Victor 1947)
Jimmie Davis: “You Are My Sunshine” (Decca 1940)
Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wreck on the Highway” (OKeh 1942)
Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wabash Cannon Ball” (Columbia 1947)
Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “Bouquet of Roses” (RCA Victor 1948)
Spade Cooley: “Shame on You” (OKeh 1945)
Tex Williams & His Western Caravan: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (Capitol 1947)
Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (OKeh 1944)
Nathan Abshire: “Pine Grove Blues” (O.T. 1949)
Tex Ritter & His Texans: “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (Captiol 1942)
The Delmore Brothers: “Blues Stay Away From Me” (King 1949)
The Chuck Wagon Gang: “After the Sunrise” (OKeh 1940)
Jimmy Wakely: “One Has My Name (the Other Has My Heart)” (Capitol 1948)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Big Beaver” (OKeh 1940)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Twin Guitar Special” (OKeh 1941)
Cowboy “Pappy” Copas: “Filipino Baby” (King 1946)
Merle Travis: “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed” (Capitol 1947)
Wiley & Gene: “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again” (OKeh 1941)
Floyd Tillman: “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin” (Columbia 1946)
Louise Massey & the Westerners: “My Adobe Hacienda” (Columbia 1947)
Elton Britt & the Skytoppers: “Detour” (RCA Victor 1946)
Floyd Tillman: “I Gotta Have My Baby Back” (Columbia 1949)
Texas Ruby with Curly Fox & His Fox Hunters: “Don’t Let That Man Get You Down” (Columbia 1945)
Bill Nettles: “High-Falutin’ Mama” (Bullet 1947)
Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Don’t Fence Me In” (Decca 1944)
Adolph Hofner & His Texans: “Marina Elina” (Bluebird 1940)
Ernest Tubb: “Soldier’s Last Letter” (Decca 1944)
Tex Ritter: “Blood on the Saddle” (Capitol 1945)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Footprints in the Snow” (Columbia 1946)
Eddy Arnold: “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (‘Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” (RCA Victor 1947)
Maddox Brothers and Rose: “Midnight Train” (Four Star 1947)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Stay a Little Longer” (Columbia 1947)
Pee-Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Tennessee Waltz” (RCA Victor 1948)
Arthur Smith: “Guitar Boogie” (MGM 1948)
Wayne Raney: “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” (King 1949)
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1. Elvis Presley: “Don’t Be Cruel” (RCA Victor 1956)
2. Ray Price: “Crazy Arms” (Columbia 1956)
3. Kitty Wells: “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Decca 1952)
4. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “The Wild Side of Life” (Capitol 1952)
5. Hank Snow: “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (RCA Victor 1954)
6. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Folsom Prison Blues” (Sun 1956)
7. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” (MGM 1953)
8. Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys: “20/20 Vision” (RCA Victor 1954)
9. Marty Robbins: “Singing the Blues” (Columbia 1956)
10. Red Foley with the Sunshine Boys Quartet: “(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (for Me)” (Decca 1951)
11. Porter Wagoner: “A Satisfied Mind” (RCA Victor 1955)
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Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Decca 1954)
Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Sun 1954)
Carl Perkins: “Blue Suede Shoes” (Sun 1956)
Lefty Frizzell: “I Love You a Thousand Ways” (Columbia 1950)
The Louvin Brothers: “Knoxville Girl” (Capitol 1959)
Stonewall Jackson: “Life to Go” (Columbia 1958)
Webb Pierce: “There Stands the Glass” (Decca 1953)
Eddy Arnold & His Guitar: “The Cattle Call” (RCA Victor 1955)
Kitty Wells: “Makin’ Believe” (Decca 1955)
Carl Perkins: “Turn Around” (Flip 1955)
Don Gibson: “Oh Lonesome Me” (RCA Victor 1958)
The Everly Brothers: “Bye Bye Love” (Cadence 1957)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Great Balls of Fire” (Sun 1957)
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet: “His Hand in Mine” (RCA Victor 1954)
The Statesman Quartet with Hovie Lister: “This Ole House” (RCA Victor 1954)
Gene Vincent: “Be-Bop-a-Lula” (Capitol 1956)
Conway Twitty: “It’s Only Make Believe” (MGM 1958)
Faron Young: “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young” (Capitol 1955)
Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Sixteen Tons” (Capitol 1955)
Frankie Miller: “Blackland Farmer” (Starday 1959)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Howlin’ at the Moon” (MGM 1951)
Marty Robbins: “El Paso” (Columbia 1959)
Ray Price: “City Lights” (Columbia 1958)
The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Ruby, Are You Mad?” (MGM 1956)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “You Win Again” (MGM 1952)
Eddy Arnold: “You Don’t Know Me” (RCA Victor 1956)
Hank Snow: “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” (RCA Victor 1952)
Webb Pierce: “Back Street Affair” (Decca 1952)
Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely: “The Gods Were Angry with Me” (Capitol 1950)
Webb Pierce: “Slowly” (Decca 1954)
Lefty Frizzell: “Always Late (with Your Kisses)” (Columbia 1951)
The Louvin Brothers: “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” (Capitol 1956)
The Louvin Brothers: “When I Stop Dreaming” (Capitol 1955)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “In the Pines” (Decca 1952)
Tony Bennett: “Cold, Cold Heart” (Columbia 1951)
Martha Carson: “Satisfied” (Capitol 1951)
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan: “Are You Walking and a-Talking for the Lord” (Columbia
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Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Uncle Pen” (Decca 1950)
Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Big River” (Sun 1958)
Jimmy Murphy: “Electricity” (RCA Victor 1951)
Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys: “Are You Missing Me” (Capitol 1952)
Ray Price: “Release Me” (Columbia 1953)
The Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister: “Faith Unlocks the Door” (RCA Victor 1956)
Harmonica Frank: “Rockin’ Chair Daddy” (Sun 1954)
Billy Lee Riley & His Little Green Men: “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” (Sun 1957)
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: “Stratosphere Boogie” (Capitol 1954)
Chuck Berry: “Maybellene” (Chess 1955)
Lefty Frizzell: “The Long Black Veil” (Columbia 1959)
Jim Reeves: “He’ll Have to Go” (RCA Victor 1959)
Johnnie & Jack & Their Tennessee Mountain Boys: “Poison Love” (RCA Victor 1951)
Carl Perkins: “Dixie Fried” (Sun 1956)
Elvis Presley: “Mystery Train” (Sun 1955)
Red Foley with Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland: “Sugarfoot Rag” (Decca 1950)
“Little” Jimmy Dickens: “Hillbilly Fever” (Columbia 1950)
Red Foley: “Midnight” (Decca 1952)
Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Shot Gun Boogie” (Capitol 1950)
George Jones: “White Lightning” (Mercury 1959)
Ray Price: “Heartaches By the Number” (Columbia 1959)
El Conjunto Bernal: “Mi Unica Camino” (Ideal 1958)
Stuart Hamblen: “(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You” (Columbia 1950)
Patti Page: “The Tennessee Waltz” (Mercury 1951)
Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “I Walk the Line” (Sun 1956)
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Slow Poke” (RCA Victor 1951)
Webb Pierce: “Wondering” (Decca 1952)
Lefty Frizzell: “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (Columbia 1950)
Faron Young: “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)” (Capitol 1954)
Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy & His Guitar: “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby” (RCA Victor 1950)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (Sun 1957)
Ferlin Husky: “Gone” (Capitol 1957)
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Patsy Cline: “Walkin’ After Midnight” (Decca 1957)
The Stanley Brothers: “Angel Band” (Mercury 1955)
The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel” (Jubilee 1953)
Lazy Lester: “I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter” (Excello 1959)
The Louvin Brothers: “Cash on the Barrel Head” (Captiol 1956)
Moon Mullican: “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” (King 1950)
Carl Smith: “Hey Joe!” (Columbia 1953)
The Carlisles: “No Help Wanted” (Mercury 1953)
Kitty Wells: “Mommy For a Day” (Decca 1959)
Brother Willie Easton: “I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me)” (Regent 1951)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (MGM 1953)
Webb Pierce: “Honky Tonk Song” (Decca 1957)
Johnny Horton: “I’m Coming Home” (Columbia 1957)
Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” (Columbia 1951)
Charlie Walker: “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” (Columbia 1958)
Ray Price: “Wasted Words” (Columbia 1956)
The Davis Sisters: “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” (RCA Victor 1953)
The Stanley Brothers: “Mountain Dew” (King 1959)
Dick Stratton & the Nite Owls: “Music City U.S.A.” (Jamboree 1950)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Hey, Good Lookin’” (MGM 1951)
Slim Whitman: “Indian Love Call” (Imperial 1952)
Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups: “Country Boy Rock ’n’ Roll” (King 1956)
Johnny Burnette & the Rock & Roll Trio: “The Train Kept a-Rollin’” (Coral 1956)
Skeets McDonald: “Don’ Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (Capitol 1952)
Jean Shepard (with Ferlin Husky): “A Dear John Letter” (Captiol 1953)
Hank Snow: “The Golden Rocket” (RCA Victor 1950)
Johnny Horton: “The Battle of New Orleans” (Columbia 1959)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Honky Tonk Blues” (MGM 1952)
Webb Pierce: “I Ain’t Never” (Decca 1959)
Charlie Feathers with Jody and Jerry: “One Hand Loose” (King 1956)
Little Jimmy Dickens: “A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed” (Columbia 1950)
Red Foley: “Birmingham Bounce” (Decca 1950)
Iry LeJune: “Teche Special” (Folk-Star 1950)
Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band: “Take It Away, Leon” (Columbia 1950)
Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” (MGM 1950)
Carl Smith: “Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way” (Columbia 1951)
Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers: “New Steel Guitar Rag” (RCA Victor 1952)
Reno & Smiley: “I’m Using My Bible for a Road Map” (King 1952)
Mac Wiseman: “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are” (Dot 1952)
The Farmer Boys: “Humdinger” (Capitol 1953)
Goldie Hill: “I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes” (Decca 1953)
Joe Maphis and Rose Lee: “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)” (OKeh 1953)
Tommy Collins: “You Better Not Do That” (Capitol 1954)
Terry Fell & the Fellers: “Truck Driving Man” (X 1954)
Hank Snow: “Let Me Go, Lover!” (RCA Victor 1954)
Charline Arthur: “Kiss the Baby Goodnight” (RCA Victor 1955)
Charlie Feathers: “Defrost Your Heart” (Sun 1956)
Johnny Horton: “Honky Tonk Man” (Columbia 1956)
Jimmy Martin: “Hit Parade of Love” (Decca 1956)
Jean Shepard: “The Other Woman” (Capitol 1957)
Eddie Cochran: “Summertime Blues” (Liberty 1958)
Floyd Cramer: “Flip Flop and Bop” (RCA Victor 1958)
The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Once More” (MGM 1958)
The Browns: “The Three Bells” (RCA Victor 1959)
Johnny Cash: “I Still Miss Someone” (Columbia 1959)
Stanley Brothers: “I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow” (King 1959)
1960s
1. Patsy Cline: “Crazy” (Decca 1961)
2. George Jones: “The Window Up Above” (Mercury 1960)
3. The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: “Rank Strangers” (Starday 1960)
4. Tammy Wynette: “Stand By Your Man” (Epic 1968)
5. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Mama Tried” (Capitol 1968)
6. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “The Fugitive” (Capitol 1966)
7. Charlie Rich: “Life’s Little Ups and Downs” (Epic 1969)
8. Loretta Lynn: “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)” (Decca 1966)
9. Ray Charles: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (ABC-Paramount 1962)
10. Connie Smith: “Once a Day” (RCA Victor 1964)
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Tammy Wynette: “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” (Epic 1967)
Ray Price: “Make the World Go Away” (Columbia 1963)
Ray Price: “Night Life” (Columbia 1963)
Buck Owens: “My Heart Skips a Beat” (Capitol 1964)
Glen Campbell: “Galveston” (Capitol 1969)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Hungry Eyes” (Capitol 1969)
Roger Miller: “King of the Road” (Smash 1965)
Hank Snow: “I’ve Been Everywhere” (RCA Victor 1962)
Bobby Bare: “Detroit City” (RCA Victor 1963)
Porter Wagoner: “Green, Green Grass of Home” (RCA 1965)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Sing Me Back Home” (Capitol 1967)
Patsy Cline: “Sweet Dreams (of You)” (Decca 1963)
Jack Greene: “Statue of a Fool” (Decca 1969)
Jim Ed Brown: “Pop a Top” (RCA Victor 1967)
Porter Wagoner: “Misery Loves Company” (RCA Victor 1962)
Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone” (Capitol 1968)
Buck Owens: “Together Again” (Capitol 1964)
George Jones & Melba Montgomery: “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds” (United Artists 1963)
Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fire” (Columbia 1963)
Jeannie Seely: “Don’t Touch Me” (Monument 1966)
Marty Robbins: “Begging to You” (Columbia 1964)
Roy Orbison & the Candy Men: “Oh Pretty Woman” (Monument 1964)
Red Foley: “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” (Decca 1960)
Merle Haggard: “Workin’ Man Blues” (Capitol 1969)
Kay Adams with the Cliffie Stone Group: “Little Pink Mack” (Tower 1966)
Dave Dudley: “Six Days on the Road” (Golden Wing 1963)
Stanley Brothers: “How Far to Little Rock” (King 1960)
The Band: “Up on Cripple Creek” (Capitol 1969)
Gene Pitney: “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (Musicor 1962)
Otis Redding: “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” (Volt 1968)
Tom T. Hall: “Homecoming” (Mercury 1969)
Joe South & the Believers: “Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home” (Capitol 1969)
Glen Campbell: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (Capitol 1967)
Patsy Cline: “She’s Got You” (Decca 1962)
Roger Miller: “Chug-a-Lug” (Smash 1964)
Roger Miller: “One Dyin’ and a Buryin’” (Smash 1965)
Bobbie Gentry: “Ode to Billie Joe” (Capitol 1967)
Carl & Pearl Butler: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1962)
Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1969)
Leroy Van Dyke: “Walk on By” (Mercury 1961)
Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (Plantation 1968)
Dusty Springfield: “Son of a Preacher Man” (Atlantic 1969)
Marty Robbins: “I Was Alone” (Columbia 1968)
Skeeter Davis: “The End of the World” (RCA Victor 1962)
Porter Wagoner: “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (RCA 1967)
Jean Shepard: “Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar)” (Capitol 1964)
Glen Campbell: “Wichita Lineman” (Capitol 1968)
Johnny Cash: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” (Columbia 1964)
Jimmy Martin: “You Don’t Know My Mind” (Decca 1960)
Johnny Bush: “You Gave Me a Mountain” (Stop 1969)
Elvis Presley: “Any Day Now” (RCA Victor 1969)
Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “Big in Vegas” (Capitol 1969)
Bobbie Gentry: “Fancy” (Captiol 1969)
Brenda Lee: “I’m Sorry” (Decca 1960)
Stonewall Jackson: “A Wound Time Can’t Erase” (Columbia 1962)
Bob Dylan: “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (Columbia 1969)
Solomon Burke: “Just Out of Reach (of My Two Open Arms)” (Atlantic 1961)
Marty Robbins: “Don’t Worry” (Columbia 1961)
Ernest Tubb: “Waltz Across Texas” (Decca 1965)
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “The Last Thing on My Mind” (RCA 1967)
Loretta Lynn: “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (Decca 1966)
Elvis Presley: “Little Sister” (RCA 1961)
Wanda Jackson: “Let’s Have a Party” (Capitol 1960)
Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “A Six Pack to Go” (Capitol 1960)
Merle Haggard: “Sing a Sad Song” (Talley 1963)
Roy Orbison: “Crying” (Monument 1961)
The Flying Burrito Brothers: “Hot Burrito no. 1” (A&M 1969)
William Bell: “You Don’t Miss Your Water” (Stax 1962)
Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens: “Just Between the Two of Us” (Tally 1964)
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Charley Pride: “Just Between You and Me” (RCA 1966)
Waylon Jennings: “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” (RCA 1968)
Lovin’ Spoonful: “Nashville Cats” (Kama Sutra 1966)
Charlie Rich: “Sittin’ and Thinkin’” (Phillips International 1962)
The Statler Brothers: “Flowers on the Wall” (Columbia 1965)
Del Reeves: “Looking at the World Through a Windshield” (United Artists 1968)
Arthur Alexander: “You Better Move On” (Dot 1962)
Sir Douglas Quintet: “At the Crossroads” (Smash 1969)
James Carr: “The Dark End of the Street” (Goldwax 1967)
Warner Mack: “The Bridge Washed Out” (Decca 1965)
George Jones and Brenda Carter: “Milwaukee, Here I Come” (Musicor 1968)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)” (Smash 1968)
Johnny Paycheck: “Motel Time Again” (Little Darlin’ 1966)
Hank Snow: “Miller’s Cave” (RCA Victor 1960)
The Stanley Brothers: “Little Maggie” (Starday 1960)
Charlie Walker: “Who Will Buy the Wine” (Columbia 1960)
Billy Walker: “Charlie’s Shoes” (Columbia 1962)
Conway Twitty: “The Image of Me” (Decca 1968)
Buck Owens: “Above and Beyond” (Capitol 1960)
Buck Owens: “Love’s Gonna Live Here” (Capitol 1963)
Nilsson: “Everybody’s Talkin’” (RCA 1969)
The Byrds: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (Columbia 1968)
Lefty Frizzell: “She’s Gone Gone Gone” (Columbia 1965)
The Monkees: “Last Train to Clarksville” (Colgems 1966)
Kenny Rogers & the First Edition: “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (Reprise 1969)
Patsy Cline: “Faded Love” (Decca 1963)
The Lewis Family: “His Blood Now Covers My Skin” (Starday 1967)
Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue” (Columbia 1969)
Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Okie from Muskogee” (Capitol 1969)
Wynn Stewart: “Another Day, Another Dollar” (Challenge 1962)
Ray Charles: “Busted” (ABC-Paramount 1963)
Dolly Parton: “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)” (RCA 1968)
Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts: “Angel of the Morning” (Bell 1968)
Ernest Tubb: “Thanks a Lot” (Decca 1963)
Tammy Wynette: “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (Epic 1968)
Stonewall Jackson: “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” (Columbia 1965)
Jan Howard: “Evil on Your Mind” (Decca 1966)
Joe Simon: “The Chokin’ Kind” (Sound Stage 1969)
Buck Owens: “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (Captiol 1965)
The Osborne Brothers: “Rocky Top” (Decca 1968)
Billy Walker: “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Columbia 1961)
Bobby Hebb: “Night Train to Memphis” (Rich 1960)
Porter Wagoner: “Skid Row Joe” (RCA 1965)
Norma Jean: “Heaven Help the Working Girl” (RCA 1967)
Johnny Bond: “Ten Little Bottles” (Starday 1965)
Glen Campbell: “Gentle on My Mind” (Capitol 1967)
David Houston & Tammy Wynette: “My Elusive Dreams” (Epic 1967)
Vernon Oxford: “Watermelon Time in Georgia” (RCA 1965)
Ray Price: “Danny Boy” (Columbia 1967)
The Rolling Stones: “Honky Tonk Women” (London 1969)
Patsy Cline: “I Fall to Pieces” (Decca 1961)
George Jones: “She Thinks I Still Care” (United Artists 1962)
Faron Young: “Hello Walls” (Captiol 1961)
Bill Anderson: “Still” (Decca 1963)
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “Holding on to Nothin’” (RCA 1968)
Del Reeves: “Girl on the Billboard” (United Artists 1965)
Slim Harpo: “Rainin’ in My Heart” (Excello 1961)
Fats Domino: “Walking to New Orleans” (Imperial 1960)
Elvis Presley: “Suspicious Minds” (RCA 1969)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “She Still Comes Around (to What’s Left of Me)” (Smash 1968)
Marion Worth: “I Think I Know” (Columbia 1960)
Elvis Presley : “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (RCA 1960)
Hank Lockin: “Please, Help Me, I’m Falling” (RCA Victor 1960)
Don Gibson: “Sea of Heartbreak” (RCA Victor 1961)
Ricky Nelson: “Hello Mary Lou” (Imperial 1961)
Hankshaw Hawkins: “Lonesome 7-7203” (King 1963)
Loretta Lynn: “The Other Woman” (Decca 1963)
The Willis Brothers: “Give Me Forty Acres to Turn This Rig Around” (Starday 1964)
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The Beatles: “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” (Capitol 1965)
Dick Curless: “A Tombstone Every Mile” (Tower 1965)
Ray Price: “The Other Woman” (Columbia 1965)
B.J. Thomas & the Triumphs: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Scepter 1966)
The Bobby Fuller Four: “I Fought the Law” (Mustang 1966)
Jack Greene: “There Goes My Everything” (Decca 1966)
Joe Tex: “Show Me” (Dial 1967)
The International Submarine Band: “Luxury Liner” (LHI 1968)
Linda Martell: “Color Him Father” (Plantation 1969)
Tony Joe White: “Polk Salad Annie” (Monument 1969)
Faron Young: “Wine Me Up” (Mercury 1969)
1970s
1. Sammi Smith: “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Mega 1970)
2. Dolly Parton: “Coat of Many Colors” (RCA Victor 1971)
3. Merle Haggard: “Carolyn” (Capitol 1971)
4. Conway Twitty: “How Much More Can She Stand” (Decca 1971)
5. Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn: “After the Fire Is Gone” (Decca 1971)
6. Gene Watson: “Farewell Party” (Capitol 1979)
7. Loretta Lynn: “The Pill” (MCA 1975)
8. Stoney Edwards: “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” (Capitol 1973)
9. Charlie Rich: “I Take It on Home” (Epic 1972)
10. James Talley: “Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?” (Capitol 1976)
11. Loretta Lynn: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Decca 1970)
12. Gary Stewart: “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” (RCA Victor 1975)
13. George Jones: “The Battle” (Epic 1976)
14. Lynn Anderson: “Rose Garden” (Columbia 1970)
15. The Flatlanders: “Dallas” (Plantation 1972)
16. Ray Price: “For the Good Times” (Columbia 1970)
17. Willie Nelson: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (Columbia 1975)
18. Loretta Lynn: “One’s on the Way” (Decca 1971)
19. Jerry Reed: “Amen Moses” (RCA 1970)
20. Johnny Paycheck: “She’s All I Got” (Epic 1971)
21. Sammi Smith: “Today I Started Loving You Again” (Mega 1975)
22. Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts” (Reprise 1974)
23. Dolly Parton: “Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel no. 8)” (RCA 1970)
24. Tom T. Hall: “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” (Mercury 1971)
25. Jack Green: “Lord Is That Me” (Decca 1970)
26. Little Jimmy Dickens: “(You’ve Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” (Decca 1970)
27. Tanya Tucker: “Delta Dawn” (Columbia 1972)
28. The Kendalls: “Just Like Real People” (Ovation 1979)
29. George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “Golden Ring” (Epic 1976)
30. Tanya Tucker: “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” (Epic 1974)
31. George Jones: “A Good Year for the Roses” (Musicor 1970)
32. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone” (MCA 1974)
33. Dolly Parton: “Jolene” (RCA 1973)
34. Merle Haggard: “If We Make It Through December” (Capitol 1973)
35. Johnny Rodriguez: “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” (Mercury 1973)
36. Freddy Fender: “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (ABC/Dot 1975)
37. Conway Twitty: “Fifteen Years Ago” (Decca 1970)
38. Billy Joe Shaver: “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” (Monument 1973)
39. Janis Joplin: “Me and Bobby McGee” (Columbia 1971)
40. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Buddah 1973)
41. Jerry Jeff Walker: “L.A. Freeway” (MCA 1973)
42. Sammi Smith: “Kentucky” (Mega 1972)
43. Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” (MCA 1974)
44. Joe Sampley: “Soul Song” (Dot 1972)
45. Mel Street: “Lovin’ on Back Streets” (Metromedia 1972)
46. George Jones: “A Picture of Me (without You)” (Epic 1972)
47. Charley Pride: “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (RCA 1971)
48. Rodney Crowell: “Elvira” (Warner Bros. 1978)
49. Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band: “Garden Party” (Decca 1972)
50. Gene Watson: “You Could Know as Much About a Stranger” (Capitol 1976)
51. Dolly Parton: “I Will Always Love You” (RCA 1974)
52. Tammy Wynette: “Till I Get It Right” (Epic 1972)
53. Waylon Jennings: “Good Hearted Woman” (RCA Victor 1972)
54. Waylon Jennings: “Amanda” (RCA Victor 1979)
55. Waylon Jennings: “Dreaming My Dreams with You” (RCA Victor 1975)
56. George Jones: “The Door” (Epic 1974)
57. Elvis Presley: “He Touched Me” (RCA 1972)
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Cal Smith: “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking” (Decca 1972)
Johnny Paycheck: “Take This Job and Shove It” (Epic 1977)
Hank Williams, Jr.: “Family Tradition” (Elektra/Curb 1979)
Bob Luman: “Lonely Women Make Good Lovers” (Epic 1972)
Mel Street: “I Met a Friend of Yours Today” (GRT 1976)
Kris Kristofferson: “Why Me” (Monument 1973)
Billy Swan: “I Can Help” (Monument 1974)
Dolly Parton: “Daddy Come and Get Me” (RCA Victor 1970)
Lefty Frizzell: “I Never Go Around Mirrors” (ABC 1974)
The Kendalls: “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away” (Ovation 1977)
Moe Bandy: “It’s a Cheating Situation” (Columbia 1979)
O.B. McClinton: “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” (Enterprise 1972)
Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “Lead Me On” (Decca 1971)
John Prine: “Illegal Smile” (Atlantic 1972)
Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” (Columbia 1978)
Tony Booth: “Irma Jackson” (MGM 1970)
Swamp Dogg: “These Are Not My People” (Roker 1970)
Neil Young: “Sugar Mountain” (Reprise 1970)
Billie Jo Spears: “Blanket on the Ground” (United Artists 1975)
Hank Snow: “Hello Love” (RCA 1974)
Conway Twitty: “You’ve Never Been This Far Before” (MCA 1973)
Elvis Presley: “Burning Love” (RCA Victor 1972)
Charlie Rich: “Nice ’n’ Easy” (Epic 1970)
Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Fantasy 1970)
John Conlee: “Rose Colored Glasses” (ABC 1978)
Crystal Gayle: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (United Artists 1977)
Willie Nelson: “Bloody Mary Morning” (Atlantic 1974)
Charlie Rich: “Who Will the Next Fool Be” (Sun 1970)
Tanya Tucker: “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” (Columbia 1973)
Charlie Rich: “The Most Beautiful Girl” (Epic 1973)
Conway Twitty: “Linda on My Mind” (MCA 1975)
Jessi Colter: “I’m Not Lisa” (Capitol 1975)
David Allan Coe: “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” (Columbia 1975)
Waylon Jennings: “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” (RCA Victor 1975)
Joe South & the Believers: “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” (Captiol 1970)
Olivia Newton-John: “If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” (MCA 1974)
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Once More with Feeling” (Smash 1970)
Red Simpson: “I’m a Truck” (Capitol 1971)
Marty Robbins: “This Much a Man” (Decca 1972)
Connie Smith: “If It Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave It Alone)” (RCA Victor 1972)
Gregg Allman: “Midnight Rider” (Capricorn 1973)
Jeanne Pruett: “Satin Sheets” (RCA 1973)
Moe Bandy: “I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today” (GRC 1974)
George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “(We’re Not) the Jet Set” (Epic 1974)
Mel Tillis & the Statesiders: “Mental Revenge” (MGM 1976)
Millie Jackson: “If You’re Not Back in Love by Monday” (Spring 1977)
Steve Young: “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean” (RCA Victor 1977)
Gail Davies: “Someone is Looking for Someone Like You” (Lifesong 1979)
1980s
1. Steve Earle: “Someday” (MCA 1986)
2. Bruce Springsteen: “Atlantic City” (Columbia 1982)
3. George Strait: “Amarillo By Morning” (MCA 1983)
4. Hazel Dickins: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” (Rounder 1980)
5. George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (Epic 1980)
6. Randy Travis: “On the Other Hand” (Warner Bros. 1986)
7. John Anderson: “Swingin’” (Warner Bros. 1983)
8. Clint Black: “Better Man” (RCA 1989)
9. Jason & the Scorchers: “Absolutely Sweet Marie” (EMI 1984)
10. Lucinda Williams: “Passionate Kisses” (Rough Trade 1989)
11. John Anderson: “Wild and Blue” (Warner Bros. 1982)
12. Dottie West: “A Lesson in Leavin’” (United Artists 1980)
13. Reba McEntire: “Have I Got a Deal for You” (MCA 1985)
14. Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens: “Streets of Bakersfield” (Reprise 1988)
15. Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris: “These Memories of You” (Warner Bros. 1987)
16. Lone Justice: “Ways to Be Wicked” (Geffen 1985)
17. Ricky Skaggs: “Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown” (Sugar Hill/Epic 1983)
18. Lacy J. Dalton: “16th Avenue” (Epic 1982)
19. Don Williams: “I Believe in You” (MCA 1980)
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The Judds: “Grandpa (Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days)” (RCA/Curb 1986)
Dolly Parton: “9 to 5” (RCA 1980)
Patty Loveless: “Don’t Toss Us Away” (MCA 1989)
Rosanne Cash: “Runaway Train” (Columbia 1988)
George Strait: “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” (MCA 1984)
Willie Nelson: “Always on My Mind” (Columbia 1982)
The Kentucky Headhunters: “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” (Mercury 1989)
Juice Newton: “Queen of Hearts” (Capitol 1981)
Dwight Yoakam: “Guitars, Cadillacs” (Reprise 1986)
Los Lobos: “Will the Wolf Survive” (Slash 1985)
Emmylou Harris: “Beneath Still Waters” (Warner Bros. 1980)
Johnny Lee: “Lookin’ for Love” (Full Moon 1980)
Rosanne Cash: “Seven Year Ache” (Columbia 1981)
Tompall & the Glaser Brothers: “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” (Elektra 1981)
Ricky Skaggs: “Heartbroke” (Epic 1982)
Guy Clark: “Homegrown Tomatoes” (Warner Bros. 1983)
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard: “Pancho and Lefty” (Epic 1983)
John Cougar Mellencamp: “Small Town” (Riva 1985)
The O’Kanes: “Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You” (Columbia 1987)
Reba McEntire: “Whoever’s in New England” (MCA 1988)
Vern Gosdin: “Set ’Em Up Joe” (Columbia 1988)
Keith Whitley: “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” (RCA 1989)
1990s
1. Martina McBride: “Independence Day” (RCA 1994)
2. Garth Brooks: “The Dance” (Capitol 1990)
3. Dixie Chicks: “Wide Open Spaces” (Monument 1998)
4. Deana Carter: “Did I Shave My Legs for This?” (Capitol 1997)
5. Mark Chesnutt: “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” (MCA 1992)
6. Faith Hill: “This Kiss” (Warner Bros. 1998)
7. Trisha Yearwood: “XXX’s and OOO’s” (MCA 1994)
8. Garth Brooks: “Friends in Low Places” (Capitol 1990)
9. Shania Twain: “Any Man of Mine” (Mercury 1995)
10. Alan Jackson: “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” (Arista 1991)
11. Patty Loveless with George Jones: “You Don’t Seem to Miss Me” (Epic 1997)
12. Deana Carter: “Strawberry Wine” (Capitol 1996)
13. Pam Tillis: “All the Good Ones Are Gone” (Arista 1997)
14. Kim Richey: “I Know” (Mercury 1997)
15. BR5-49: “Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)” (Arista 1997)
16. LeAnn Rimes: “Blue” (Curb 1996)
17. Alan Jackson: “Gone Country” (Arista 1994)
18. Lee Ann Womack (with Sons of the Desert): “I Hope You Dance” (MCA Nashville 2000)
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19. Alan Jackson: “Here in the Real World” (Arista 1990)
20. Travis Tritt: “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” (Warner Bros. 1991)
21. Vince Gill: “I Still Believe in You” (MCA 1992)
22. Trisha Yearwood: “Wrong Side of Memphis” (MCA 1992)
23. Allison Krauss: “When You Say Nothing at All” (BNA 1995)
24. The Mavericks: “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down” (MCA 1996)
CHRONOLOGICAL (each year in order)
1923
1. Fiddlin’ John Carson: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (OKeh 1923)
2. Eck Robertson: “Sallie Gooden” (Victor 1923)
1924
1. Uncle Dave Macon: “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (Vocalion 1924)
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Henry Whitter: “Wreck of the Southern Old ’97” (OKeh 1924)
1925
2. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” (Columbia 1925)
3. Ernest Van Stoneman: “The Titanic” (OKeh 1925)
4. Vernon Dalhart: “The Prisoner’s Song” (Victor 1925)
1926
1. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Bully of the Town” (Columbia 1926)
1927
2. Dock Boggs: “Country Blues” (Brunswick 1927)
3. G.B. Grayson: “Ommie Wise” (Victor 1927)
4. The Carter Family: “Single Girl, Married Girl” (Victor 1927)
5. DeFord Bailey: “Pan American Blues” (Brunswick 1927)
6. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “If I Lose, I Don’t Care” (Columbia 1927)
7. Richard “Rabbit” Brown: “James Alley Blues” (Victor 1927)
8. Frank Hutchison: “Stackalee” (OKeh 1927)
9. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers: “Rock About My Saro Jane” (Vocalion 1927)
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Blind Lemon Jefferson: “Match Box Blues” (Paramount 1927)
Dock Boggs: “Pretty Polly” (Brunswick 1927)
1928
1. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (Victor 1928)
2. Tommy Johnson: “Cool Drink of Water Blues” (Victor 1928)
3. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers: “Lovesick Blues” (OKeh 1928)
4. Bascom Lamar Lunsford: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” (Brunswick 1928)
5. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 4 (California Blues)” (Victor 1928)
6. Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters: “My Wife Died Saturday Night” (Brunswick 1928)
7. Harry McClintock: “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” (Victor 1928)
8. The Carter Family: “Keep on the Sunny Side” (Victor 1928)
1929
1. Blind Alfred Reed: “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (Victor 1929)
2. Jimmie Rodgers: “Waiting for a Train” (Victor 1929)
3. The Carter Family: “Wildwood Flower” (Victor 1929)
4. Clarence Ashley: “The Coo Coo Bird” (Columbia 1929)
5. Darby & Tarlton: “Little Bessie” (Columbia 1929)
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Jimmie Rodgers: “My Rough and Rowdy Ways” (Victor 1929)
Buell Kazee: “East Virginia” (Brunswick 1929)
1930
1. Amede Ardoin & Dennis McGee: “One Step Des Chameaux” (Brunswick 1930)
2. The Mississippi Sheiks: “Sitting on Top of the World” (OKeh 1930)
3. The Carter Family: “Worried Man Blues” (Victor 1930)
4. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 9 (Standin’ on the Corner)” (Victor 1930)
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The Allen Brothers: “A New Salty Dog” (Bluebird 1930)
1931
1. Gene Autry & Jimmy Long: “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine” (Banner 1931)
1932
1. Jimmie Rodgers: “Miss the Mississippi an You” (Victor 1932)
1933
2. The Delmore Brothers: “Brown’s Ferry Blues” (Bluebird 1933)
3. Jimmie Rodgers: “Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel” (Bluebird 1933)
1934
+ Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Down Yonder” (Bluebird 1934)
1935
1. The Carter Family: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (Banner 1935)
2. Patsy Montana: “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (Vocalion 1935)
3. Milton Brown & the Brownies: “Who’s Sorry Now?” (Decca 1935)
4. The Shelton Brothers: “Just Because” (Decca 1935)
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Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies: “Down by the O-H-I-O” (Decca 1935)
Roy Newman & His Boys: “Sadie Green (the Vamp of New Orleans)” (Vocalion 1935)
The Carter Family: “Gospel Ship” (Conqueror 1935)
1936
1. Milton Brown & His Brownies: “Right or Wrong” (Decca 1936)
2. The Monroe Brothers: “What Would You Give in Exchange?” (Bluebird 1936)
3. Blue Sky Boys: “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” (Bluebird 1936)
4. Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: “Great Speckled Bird” (Vocalion 1936)
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Gene Autry: “Mexicali Rose” (Vocalion 1936)
Bing Crosby: “I’m an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)” (Decca 1936)
1937
1. Rex Griffin: “The Last Letter” (Decca 1937)
2. The Modern Mountaineers: “Everybody’s Truckin’” (Bluebird 1937)
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Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris and Steve Ledford: “Little Maggie” (Bluebird 1937)
Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Honky Tonk Blues” (Vocalion 1937)
1938
1. Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers: “When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles with You)” (Decca 1938)
2. Coon Creek Girls: “Sowing on the Mountain” (Vocalion 1938)
3. Hackberry Ramblers: “Fais Pas Ca” (Bluebird 1938)
4. Light Crust Doughboys: “Pussy, Pussy, Pussy” (Vocalion 1938)
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The Coon Creek Girls: “Banjo Pickin’ Girl” (Vocalion/OKeh 1938)
1939
1. Gene Autry: “Back in the Saddle Again” (OKeh 1939)
2. Cliff Bruner & His Boys: “Truck Driver’s Blues” (Decca 1939)
3. Blue Sky Boys: “Are You From Dixie?” (Bluebird 1939)
1940
1. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Time Changes Everything” (OKeh 1940)
2. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Mule Skinner Blues” (Bluebird 1940)
3. Lead Belly: “Midnight Special” (RCA Victor 1940)
4. Jimmie Davis: “You Are My Sunshine” (Decca 1940)
5. The Chuck Wagon Gang: “After the Sunrise” (OKeh 1940)
6. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Big Beaver” (OKeh 1940)
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Adolph Hofner & His Texans: “Marina Elina” (Bluebird 1940)
1941
1. Ernest Tubb: “Walking the Floor Over You” (Decca 1941)
2. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Take Me Back to Tulsa” (OKeh 1941)
3. Sons of the Pioneers: “Cool Water” (Decca 1941)
4. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Twin Guitar Special” (OKeh 1941)
5. Wiley & Gene: “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again” (OKeh 1941)
1942
1. Ted Daffan’s Texans: “Born to Lose” (OKeh 1942)
2. Gene Autry: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (OKeh 1942)
3. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wreck on the Highway” (OKeh 1942)
4. Tex Ritter & His Texans: “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (Captiol 1942)
1943
1. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (Decca 1943)
1944
2. Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (OKeh 1944)
3. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Don’t Fence Me In” (Decca 1944)
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Ernest Tubb: “Soldier’s Last Letter” (Decca 1944)
1945
1. Woody Guthrie: “This Land Is Your Land” (Folkways 1945)
2. Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans: “Oklahoma Hills” (Capitol 1945)
3. Spade Cooley: “Shame on You” (OKeh 1945)
4. Texas Ruby with Curly Fox & His Fox Hunters: “Don’t Let That Man Get You Down” (Columbia 1945)
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Tex Ritter: “Blood on the Saddle” (Capitol 1945)
1946
1. The Delmore Brothers: “Freight Train Boogie” (King 1946)
2. Harry Choates: “Jole Blon” (Gold Star 1946)
3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Roly Poly” (Columbia 1946)
4. Cowboy “Pappy” Copas: “Filipino Baby” (King 1946)
5. Floyd Tillman: “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin” (Columbia 1946)
6. Elton Britt & the Skytoppers: “Detour” (RCA Victor 1946)
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Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Footprints in the Snow” (Columbia 1946)
1947
1. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Columbia 1947)
2. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “Tramp on the Street” (Columbia 1947)
3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Brain Cloudy Blues” (Columbia 1947)
4. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” (Columbia 1947)
5. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I Saw the Light” (MGM 1947)
6. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “When God Comes to Gather His Jewels” (Columbia 1947)
7. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “It’s a Sin” (RCA Victor 1947)
8. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wabash Cannon Ball” (Columbia 1947)
9. Tex Williams & His Western Caravan: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (Capitol 1947)
10. Merle Travis: “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed” (Capitol 1947)
11. Louise Massey & the Westerners: “My Adobe Hacienda” (Columbia 1947)
12. Bill Nettles: “High-Falutin’ Mama” (Bullet 1947)
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Eddy Arnold: “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (‘Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” (RCA Victor 1947)
Maddox Brothers and Rose: “Midnight Train” (Four Star 1947)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Stay a Little Longer” (Columbia 1947)
1948
1. Floyd Tillman: “I Love You So Much It Hurts” (Columbia 1948)
2. Sons of the Pioneers: “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (RCA Victor 1948)
3. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “Bouquet of Roses” (RCA Victor 1948)
4. Jimmy Wakely: “One Has My Name (the Other Has My Heart)” (Capitol 1948)
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Pee-Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Tennessee Waltz” (RCA Victor 1948)
Arthur Smith: “Guitar Boogie” (MGM 1948)
1949
1. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Lost Highway” (MGM 1949)
2. Hank Williams: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (MGM 1949)
3. Homer & Jethro with June Carter: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (RCA Victor 1949)
4. Floyd Tillman: “Slipping Around” (Columbia 1949)
5. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (Mercury 1949)
6. Leon Payne: “I Love You Because” (Capitol 1949)
7. Maddox Brothers & Rose: “Honky Tonkin’” (Four Star 1949)
8. Ernest Tubb: “Blue Christmas” (Decca 1949)
9. Nathan Abshire: “Pine Grove Blues” (O.T. 1949)
10. The Delmore Brothers: “Blues Stay Away From Me” (King 1949)
11. Floyd Tillman: “I Gotta Have My Baby Back” (Columbia 1949)
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Wayne Raney: “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” (King 1949)
1950
1. Lefty Frizzell: “I Love You a Thousand Ways” (Columbia 1950)
2. Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely: “The Gods Were Angry with Me” (Capitol 1950)
3. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Uncle Pen” (Decca 1950)
4. Red Foley with Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland: “Sugarfoot Rag” (Decca 1950)
5. “Little” Jimmy Dickens: “Hillbilly Fever” (Columbia 1950)
6. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Shot Gun Boogie” (Capitol 1950)
7. Stuart Hamblen: “(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You” (Columbia 1950)
8. Lefty Frizzell: “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (Columbia 1950)
9. Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy & His Guitar: “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby” (RCA Victor 1950)
10. Moon Mullican: “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” (King 1950)
11. Dick Stratton & the Nite Owls: “Music City U.S.A.” (Jamboree 1950)
12. Hank Snow: “The Golden Rocket” (RCA Victor 1950)
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Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” (MGM 1950)
Little Jimmy Dickens: “A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed” (Columbia 1950)
Iry LeJune: “Teche Special” (Folk-Star 1950)
Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band: “Take It Away, Leon” (Columbia 1950)
Red Foley: “Birmingham Bounce” (Decca 1950)
1951
1. Red Foley with the Sunshine Boys Quartet: “(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (for Me)” (Decca 1951)
2. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Howlin’ at the Moon” (MGM 1951)
3. Lefty Frizzell: “Always Late (with Your Kisses)” (Columbia 1951)
4. Tony Bennett: “Cold, Cold Heart” (Columbia 1951)
5. Martha Carson: “Satisfied” (Capitol 1951)
6. Jimmy Murphy: “Electricity” (RCA Victor 1951)
7. Johnnie & Jack & Their Tennessee Mountain Boys: “Poison Love” (RCA Victor 1951)
8. Patti Page: “The Tennessee Waltz” (Mercury 1951)
9. Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Slow Poke” (RCA Victor 1951)
10. Brother Willie Easton: “I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me)” (Regent 1951)
11. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” (Columbia 1951)
12. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Hey, Good Lookin’” (MGM 1951)
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Carl Smith: “Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way” (Columbia 1951)
1952
1. Kitty Wells: “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Decca 1952)
2. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “The Wild Side of Life” (Capitol 1952)
3. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “You Win Again” (MGM 1952)
4. Hank Snow: “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” (RCA Victor 1952)
5. Webb Pierce: “Back Street Affair” (Decca 1952)
6. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “In the Pines” (Decca 1952)
7. Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys: “Are You Missing Me” (Capitol 1952)
8. Red Foley: “Midnight” (Decca 1952)
9. Webb Pierce: “Wondering” (Decca 1952)
10. Slim Whitman: “Indian Love Call” (Imperial 1952)
11. Skeets McDonald: “Don’ Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (Capitol 1952)
12. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Honky Tonk Blues” (MGM 1952)
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Mac Wiseman: “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are” (Dot 1952)
Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers: “New Steel Guitar Rag” (RCA Victor 1952)
Reno & Smiley: “I’m Using My Bible for a Road Map” (King 1952)
1953
1. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” (MGM 1953)
2. Webb Pierce: “There Stands the Glass” (Decca 1953)
3. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan: “Are You Walking and a-Talking for the Lord” (Columbia
1953)
4. Ray Price: “Release Me” (Columbia 1953)
5. The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel” (Jubilee 1953)
6. Carl Smith: “Hey Joe!” (Columbia 1953)
7. The Carlisles: “No Help Wanted” (Mercury 1953)
8. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (MGM 1953)
9. The Davis Sisters: “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” (RCA Victor 1953)
10. Jean Shepard (with Ferlin Husky): “A Dear John Letter” (Captiol 1953)
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Joe Maphis and Rose Lee: “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)” (OKeh 1953)
The Farmer Boys: “Humdinger” (Capitol 1953)
Goldie Hill: “I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes” (Decca 1953)
1954
1. Hank Snow: “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (RCA Victor 1954)
2. Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys: “20/20 Vision” (RCA Victor 1954)
3. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Decca 1954)
4. Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Sun 1954)
5. The Blackwood Brothers Quartet: “His Hand in Mine” (RCA Victor 1954)
6. The Statesman Quartet with Hovie Lister: “This Ole House” (RCA Victor 1954)
7. Webb Pierce: “Slowly” (Decca 1954)
8. Harmonica Frank: “Rockin’ Chair Daddy” (Sun 1954)
9. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: “Stratosphere Boogie” (Capitol 1954)
10. Faron Young: “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)” (Capitol 1954)
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Tommy Collins: “You Better Not Do That” (Capitol 1954)
Terry Fell & the Fellers: “Truck Driving Man” (X 1954)
Hank Snow: “Let Me Go, Lover!” (RCA Victor 1954)
1955
1. Porter Wagoner: “A Satisfied Mind” (RCA Victor 1955)
2. Eddy Arnold & His Guitar: “The Cattle Call” (RCA Victor 1955)
3. Kitty Wells: “Makin’ Believe” (Decca 1955)
4. Carl Perkins: “Turn Around” (Flip 1955)
5. Faron Young: “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young” (Capitol 1955)
6. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Sixteen Tons” (Capitol 1955)
7. The Louvin Brothers: “When I Stop Dreaming” (Capitol 1955)
8. Chuck Berry: “Maybellene” (Chess 1955)
9. Elvis Presley: “Mystery Train” (Sun 1955)
10. The Stanley Brothers: “Angel Band” (Mercury 1955)
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Charline Arthur: “Kiss the Baby Goodnight” (RCA Victor 1955)
1956
1. Elvis Presley: “Don’t Be Cruel” (RCA Victor 1956)
2. Ray Price: “Crazy Arms” (Columbia 1956)
3. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Folsom Prison Blues” (Sun 1956)
4. Marty Robbins: “Singing the Blues” (Columbia 1956)
5. Carl Perkins: “Blue Suede Shoes” (Sun 1956)
6. Gene Vincent: “Be-Bop-a-Lula” (Capitol 1956)
7. The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Ruby, Are You Mad?” (MGM 1956)
8. Eddy Arnold: “You Don’t Know Me” (RCA Victor 1956)
9. The Louvin Brothers: “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” (Capitol 1956)
10. The Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister: “Faith Unlocks the Door” (RCA Victor 1956)
11. Carl Perkins: “Dixie Fried” (Sun 1956)
12. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “I Walk the Line” (Sun 1956)
13. The Louvin Brothers: “Cash on the Barrel Head” (Captiol 1956)
14. Ray Price: “Wasted Words” (Columbia 1956)
15. Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups: “Country Boy Rock ’n’ Roll” (King 1956)
16. Johnny Burnette & the Rock & Roll Trio: “The Train Kept a-Rollin’” (Coral 1956)
17. Charlie Feathers with Jody and Jerry: “One Hand Loose” (King 1956)
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Charlie Feathers: “Defrost Your Heart” (Sun 1956)
Jimmy Martin: “Hit Parade of Love” (Decca 1956)
Johnny Horton: “Honky Tonk Man” (Columbia 1956)
1957
1. The Everly Brothers: “Bye Bye Love” (Cadence 1957)
2. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Great Balls of Fire” (Sun 1957)
3. Billy Lee Riley & His Little Green Men: “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” (Sun 1957)
4. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (Sun 1957)
5. Ferlin Husky: “Gone” (Capitol 1957)
6. The Crickets: “That’ll Be the Day” (Brunswick 1957)
7. Patsy Cline: “Walkin’ After Midnight” (Decca 1957)
8. Webb Pierce: “Honky Tonk Song” (Decca 1957)
9. Johnny Horton: “I’m Coming Home” (Columbia 1957)
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Jean Shepard: “The Other Woman” (Capitol 1957)
1958
1. Stonewall Jackson: “Life to Go” (Columbia 1958)
2. Don Gibson: “Oh Lonesome Me” (RCA Victor 1958)
3. Conway Twitty: “It’s Only Make Believe” (MGM 1958)
4. Ray Price: “City Lights” (Columbia 1958)
5. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Big River” (Sun 1958)
6. El Conjunto Bernal: “Mi Unica Camino” (Ideal 1958)
7. Charlie Walker: “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” (Columbia 1958)
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Floyd Cramer: “Flip Flop and Bop” (RCA Victor 1958)
Eddie Cochran: “Summertime Blues” (Liberty 1958)
The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Once More” (MGM 1958)
1959
1. The Louvin Brothers: “Knoxville Girl” (Capitol 1959)
2. Frankie Miller: “Blackland Farmer” (Starday 1959)
3. Marty Robbins: “El Paso” (Columbia 1959)
4. Lefty Frizzell: “The Long Black Veil” (Columbia 1959)
5. Jim Reeves: “He’ll Have to Go” (RCA Victor 1959)
6. George Jones: “White Lightning” (Mercury 1959)
7. Ray Price: “Heartaches By the Number” (Columbia 1959)
8. Lazy Lester: “I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter” (Excello 1959)
9. Kitty Wells: “Mommy For a Day” (Decca 1959)
10. The Stanley Brothers: “Mountain Dew” (King 1959)
11. Johnny Horton: “The Battle of New Orleans” (Columbia 1959)
12. Webb Pierce: “I Ain’t Never” (Decca 1959)
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Stanley Brothers: “I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow” (King 1959)
The Browns: “The Three Bells” (RCA Victor 1959)
Johnny Cash: “I Still Miss Someone” (Columbia 1959)
1960
1. George Jones: “The Window Up Above” (Mercury 1960)
2. The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: “Rank Strangers” (Starday 1960)
3. Red Foley: “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” (Decca 1960)
4. Stanley Brothers: “How Far to Little Rock” (King 1960)
5. Brenda Lee: “I’m Sorry” (Decca 1960)
6. Jimmy Martin: “You Don’t Know My Mind” (Decca 1960)
7. Wanda Jackson: “Let’s Have a Party” (Capitol 1960)
8. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “A Six Pack to Go” (Capitol 1960)
9. Hank Snow: “Miller’s Cave” (RCA Victor 1960)
10. The Stanley Brothers: “Little Maggie” (Starday 1960)
11. Charlie Walker: “Who Will Buy the Wine” (Columbia 1960)
12. Buck Owens: “Above and Beyond” (Capitol 1960)
13. Bobby Hebb: “Night Train to Memphis” (Rich 1960)
14. Fats Domino: “Walking to New Orleans” (Imperial 1960)
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Marion Worth: “I Think I Know” (Columbia 1960)
Elvis Presley : “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (RCA 1960)
Hank Lockin: “Please, Help Me, I’m Falling” (RCA Victor 1960)
1961
1. Patsy Cline: “Crazy” (Decca 1961)
2. Leroy Van Dyke: “Walk on By” (Mercury 1961)
3. Solomon Burke: “Just Out of Reach (of My Two Open Arms)” (Atlantic 1961)
4. Marty Robbins: “Don’t Worry” (Columbia 1961)
5. Elvis Presley: “Little Sister” (RCA 1961)
6. Roy Orbison: “Crying” (Monument 1961)
7. Billy Walker: “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Columbia 1961)
8. Patsy Cline: “I Fall to Pieces” (Decca 1961)
9. Faron Young: “Hello Walls” (Captiol 1961)
10. Slim Harpo: “Rainin’ in My Heart” (Excello 1961)
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Don Gibson: “Sea of Heartbreak” (RCA Victor 1961)
Ricky Nelson: “Hello Mary Lou” (Imperial 1961)
1962
1. Ray Charles: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (ABC-Paramount 1962)
2. Hank Snow: “I’ve Been Everywhere” (RCA Victor 1962)
3. Porter Wagoner: “Misery Loves Company” (RCA Victor 1962)
4. Gene Pitney: “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (Musicor 1962)
5. Patsy Cline: “She’s Got You” (Decca 1962)
6. Carl & Pearl Butler: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1962)
7. Skeeter Davis: “The End of the World” (RCA Victor 1962)
8. Stonewall Jackson: “A Wound Time Can’t Erase” (Columbia 1962)
9. William Bell: “You Don’t Miss Your Water” (Stax 1962)
10. Loretta Lynn: “Success” (Decca 1962)
11. Charlie Rich: “Sittin’ and Thinkin’” (Phillips International 1962)
12. Arthur Alexander: “You Better Move On” (Dot 1962)
13. Billy Walker: “Charlie’s Shoes” (Columbia 1962)
14. Wynn Stewart: “Another Day, Another Dollar” (Challenge 1962)
15. George Jones: “She Thinks I Still Care” (United Artists 1962)
1963
1. Ray Price: “Make the World Go Away” (Columbia 1963)
2. Ray Price: “Night Life” (Columbia 1963)
3. Bobby Bare: “Detroit City” (RCA Victor 1963)
4. Patsy Cline: “Sweet Dreams (of You)” (Decca 1963)
5. George Jones & Melba Montgomery: “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds” (United Artists 1963)
6. Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fire” (Columbia 1963)
7. Dave Dudley: “Six Days on the Road” (Golden Wing 1963)
8. Merle Haggard: “Sing a Sad Song” (Talley 1963)
9. Buck Owens: “Love’s Gonna Live Here” (Capitol 1963)
10. Patsy Cline: “Faded Love” (Decca 1963)
11. Ray Charles: “Busted” (ABC-Paramount 1963)
12. Ernest Tubb: “Thanks a Lot” (Decca 1963)
13. Bill Anderson: “Still” (Decca 1963)
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Hankshaw Hawkins: “Lonesome 7-7203” (King 1963)
Loretta Lynn: “The Other Woman” (Decca 1963)
1964
1. Connie Smith: “Once a Day” (RCA Victor 1964)
2. Buck Owens: “My Heart Skips a Beat” (Capitol 1964)
3. Buck Owens: “Together Again” (Capitol 1964)
4. Marty Robbins: “Begging to You” (Columbia 1964)
5. Roy Orbison & the Candy Men: “Oh Pretty Woman” (Monument 1964)
6. Roger Miller: “Chug-a-Lug” (Smash 1964)
7. Jean Shepard: “Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar)” (Capitol 1964)
8. Johnny Cash: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” (Columbia 1964)
9. Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens: “Just Between the Two of Us” (Tally 1964)
10. Roger Miller: “King of the Road” (Smash 1965)
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The Willis Brothers: “Give Me Forty Acres to Turn This Rig Around” (Starday 1964)
1965
1. Porter Wagoner: “Green, Green Grass of Home” (RCA 1965)
2. Roger Miller: “One Dyin’ and a Buryin’” (Smash 1965)
3. Ernest Tubb: “Waltz Across Texas” (Decca 1965)
4. The Statler Brothers: “Flowers on the Wall” (Columbia 1965)
5. Warner Mack: “The Bridge Washed Out” (Decca 1965)
6. Lefty Frizzell: “She’s Gone Gone Gone” (Columbia 1965)
7. Stonewall Jackson: “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” (Columbia 1965)
8. Buck Owens: “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (Captiol 1965)
9. Porter Wagoner: “Skid Row Joe” (RCA 1965)
10. Johnny Bond: “Ten Little Bottles” (Starday 1965)
11. Vernon Oxford: “Watermelon Time in Georgia” (RCA 1965)
12. Del Reeves: “Girl on the Billboard” (United Artists 1965)
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The Beatles: “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” (Capitol 1965)
Dick Curless: “A Tombstone Every Mile” (Tower 1965)
Ray Price: “The Other Woman” (Columbia 1965)
1966
1. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “The Fugitive” (Capitol 1966)
2. Loretta Lynn: “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)” (Decca 1966)
3. Jeannie Seely: “Don’t Touch Me” (Monument 1966)
4. Kay Adams with the Cliffie Stone Group: “Little Pink Mack” (Tower 1966)
5. Loretta Lynn: “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (Decca 1966)
6. Charley Pride: “Just Between You and Me” (RCA 1966)
7. Lovin’ Spoonful: “Nashville Cats” (Kama Sutra 1966)
8. Johnny Paycheck: “Motel Time Again” (Little Darlin’ 1966)
9. The Monkees: “Last Train to Clarksville” (Colgems 1966)
10. Jan Howard: “Evil on Your Mind” (Decca 1966)
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B.J. Thomas & the Triumphs: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Scepter 1966)
The Bobby Fuller Four: “I Fought the Law” (Mustang 1966)
Jack Greene: “There Goes My Everything” (Decca 1966)
1967
1. Connie Smith: “Burning a Hole in My Mind” (RCA Victor 1967)
2. Tammy Wynette: “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” (Epic 1967)
3. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Sing Me Back Home” (Capitol 1967)
4. Jim Ed Brown: “Pop a Top” (RCA Victor 1967)
5. Glen Campbell: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (Capitol 1967)
6. Bobbie Gentry: “Ode to Billie Joe” (Capitol 1967)
7. Porter Wagoner: “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (RCA 1967)
8. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “The Last Thing on My Mind” (RCA 1967)
9. James Carr: “The Dark End of the Street” (Goldwax 1967)
10. The Lewis Family: “His Blood Now Covers My Skin” (Starday 1967)
11. Norma Jean: “Heaven Help the Working Girl” (RCA 1967)
12. Glen Campbell: “Gentle on My Mind” (Capitol 1967)
13. David Houston & Tammy Wynette: “My Elusive Dreams” (Epic 1967)
14. Ray Price: “Danny Boy” (Columbia 1967)
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Joe Tex: “Show Me” (Dial 1967)
1968
1. Tammy Wynette: “Stand By Your Man” (Epic 1968)
2. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Mama Tried” (Capitol 1968)
3. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone” (Capitol 1968)
4. Otis Redding: “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” (Volt 1968)
5. Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (Plantation 1968)
6. Marty Robbins: “I Was Alone” (Columbia 1968)
7. Glen Campbell: “Wichita Lineman” (Capitol 1968)
8. Waylon Jennings: “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” (RCA 1968)
9. Del Reeves: “Looking at the World Through a Windshield” (United Artists 1968)
10. George Jones and Brenda Carter: “Milwaukee, Here I Come” (Musicor 1968)
11. Jerry Lee Lewis: “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)” (Smash 1968)
12. Conway Twitty: “The Image of Me” (Decca 1968)
13. The Byrds: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (Columbia 1968)
14. Dolly Parton: “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)” (RCA 1968)
15. Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts: “Angel of the Morning” (Bell 1968)
16. Tammy Wynette: “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (Epic 1968)
17. The Osborne Brothers: “Rocky Top” (Decca 1968)
18. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “Holding on to Nothin’” (RCA 1968)
19. Jerry Lee Lewis: “She Still Comes Around (to What’s Left of Me)” (Smash 1968)
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The International Submarine Band: “Luxury Liner” (LHI 1968)
1969
1. Charlie Rich: “Life’s Little Ups and Downs” (Epic 1969)
2. Glen Campbell: “Galveston” (Capitol 1969)
3. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Hungry Eyes” (Capitol 1969)
4. Jack Greene: “Statue of a Fool” (Decca 1969)
5. Merle Haggard: “Workin’ Man Blues” (Capitol 1969)
6. The Band: “Up on Cripple Creek” (Capitol 1969)
7. Tom T. Hall: “Homecoming” (Mercury 1969)
8. Joe South & the Believers: “Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home” (Capitol 1969)
9. Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1969)
10. Dusty Springfield: “Son of a Preacher Man” (Atlantic 1969)
11. Johnny Bush: “You Gave Me a Mountain” (Stop 1969)
12. Elvis Presley: “Any Day Now” (RCA Victor 1969)
13. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “Big in Vegas” (Capitol 1969)
14. Bobbie Gentry: “Fancy” (Captiol 1969)
15. Bob Dylan: “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (Columbia 1969)
16. The Flying Burrito Brothers: “Hot Burrito no. 1” (A&M 1969)
17. Sir Douglas Quintet: “At the Crossroads” (Smash 1969)
18. Nilsson: “Everybody’s Talkin’” (RCA 1969)
19. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition: “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (Reprise 1969)
20. Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue” (Columbia 1969)
21. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Okie from Muskogee” (Capitol 1969)
22. Joe Simon: “The Chokin’ Kind” (Sound Stage 1969)
23. The Rolling Stones: “Honky Tonk Women” (London 1969)
24. Elvis Presley: “Suspicious Minds” (RCA 1969)
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Linda Martell: “Color Him Father” (Plantation 1969)
Tony Joe White: “Polk Salad Annie” (Monument 1969)
Faron Young: “Wine Me Up” (Mercury 1969)
1970
1. Sammi Smith: “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Mega 1970)
2. Loretta Lynn: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Decca 1970)
3. Lynn Anderson: “Rose Garden” (Columbia 1970)
4. Ray Price: “For the Good Times” (Columbia 1970)
5. Jerry Reed: “Amen Moses” (RCA 1970)
6. Dolly Parton: “Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel no. 8)” (RCA 1970)
7. Jack Green: “Lord Is That Me” (Decca 1970)
8. Little Jimmy Dickens: “(You’ve Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” (Decca 1970)
9. George Jones: “A Good Year for the Roses” (Musicor 1970)
10. Conway Twitty: “Fifteen Years Ago” (Decca 1970)
11. Dolly Parton: “Daddy Come and Get Me” (RCA Victor 1970)
12. Tony Booth: “Irma Jackson” (MGM 1970)
13. Swamp Dogg: “These Are Not My People” (Roker 1970)
14. Neil Young: “Sugar Mountain” (Reprise 1970)
15. Charlie Rich: “Nice ’n’ Easy” (Epic 1970)
16. Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Fantasy 1970)
17. Charlie Rich: “Who Will the Next Fool Be” (Sun 1970)
18. Joe South & the Believers: “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” (Captiol 1970)
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Jerry Lee Lewis: “Once More with Feeling” (Smash 1970)
1971
1. Dolly Parton: “Coat of Many Colors” (RCA Victor 1971)
2. Merle Haggard: “Carolyn” (Capitol 1971)
3. Conway Twitty: “How Much More Can She Stand” (Decca 1971)
4. Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn: “After the Fire Is Gone” (Decca 1971)
5. Loretta Lynn: “One’s on the Way” (Decca 1971)
6. Johnny Paycheck: “She’s All I Got” (Epic 1971)
7. Tom T. Hall: “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” (Mercury 1971)
8. Janis Joplin: “Me and Bobby McGee” (Columbia 1971)
9. Charley Pride: “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (RCA 1971)
10. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “Lead Me On” (Decca 1971)
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Red Simpson: “I’m a Truck” (Capitol 1971)
1972
1. Charlie Rich: “I Take It on Home” (Epic 1972)
2. The Flatlanders: “Dallas” (Plantation 1972)
3. Tanya Tucker: “Delta Dawn” (Columbia 1972)
4. Sammi Smith: “Kentucky” (Mega 1972)
5. Joe Sampley: “Soul Song” (Dot 1972)
6. Mel Street: “Lovin’ on Back Streets” (Metromedia 1972)
7. George Jones: “A Picture of Me (without You)” (Epic 1972)
8. Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band: “Garden Party” (Decca 1972)
9. Tammy Wynette: “Till I Get It Right” (Epic 1972)
10. Waylon Jennings: “Good Hearted Woman” (RCA Victor 1972)
11. Elvis Presley: “He Touched Me” (RCA 1972)
12. Cal Smith: “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking” (Decca 1972)
13. Bob Luman: “Lonely Women Make Good Lovers” (Epic 1972)
14. O.B. McClinton: “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” (Enterprise 1972)
15. John Prine: “Illegal Smile” (Atlantic 1972)
16. Elvis Presley: “Burning Love” (RCA Victor 1972)
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Marty Robbins: “This Much a Man” (Decca 1972)
Connie Smith: “If It Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave It Alone)” (RCA Victor 1972)
1973
1. Stoney Edwards: “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” (Capitol 1973)
2. Dolly Parton: “Jolene” (RCA 1973)
3. Merle Haggard: “If We Make It Through December” (Capitol 1973)
4. Johnny Rodriguez: “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” (Mercury 1973)
5. Billy Joe Shaver: “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” (Monument 1973)
6. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Buddah 1973)
7. Jerry Jeff Walker: “L.A. Freeway” (MCA 1973)
8. Kris Kristofferson: “Why Me” (Monument 1973)
9. Conway Twitty: “You’ve Never Been This Far Before” (MCA 1973)
10. Tanya Tucker: “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” (Columbia 1973)
11. Charlie Rich: “The Most Beautiful Girl” (Epic 1973)
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Jeanne Pruett: “Satin Sheets” (RCA 1973)
Gregg Allman: “Midnight Rider” (Capricorn 1973)
1974
1. Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts” (Reprise 1974)
2. Tanya Tucker: “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” (Epic 1974)
3. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone” (MCA 1974)
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” (MCA 1974)
5. Dolly Parton: “I Will Always Love You” (RCA 1974)
6. George Jones: “The Door” (Epic 1974)
7. Billy Swan: “I Can Help” (Monument 1974)
8. Lefty Frizzell: “I Never Go Around Mirrors” (ABC 1974)
9. Hank Snow: “Hello Love” (RCA 1974)
10. Willie Nelson: “Bloody Mary Morning” (Atlantic 1974)
11. Olivia Newton-John: “If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” (MCA 1974)
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “(We’re Not) the Jet Set” (Epic 1974)
Moe Bandy: “I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today” (GRC 1974)
1975
1. Loretta Lynn: “The Pill” (MCA 1975)
2. Gary Stewart: “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” (RCA Victor 1975)
3. Willie Nelson: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (Columbia 1975)
4. Sammi Smith: “Today I Started Loving You Again” (Mega 1975)
5. Freddy Fender: “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (ABC/Dot 1975)
6. Waylon Jennings: “Dreaming My Dreams with You” (RCA Victor 1975)
7. Billie Jo Spears: “Blanket on the Ground” (United Artists 1975)
8. Conway Twitty: “Linda on My Mind” (MCA 1975)
9. Jessi Colter: “I’m Not Lisa” (Capitol 1975)
10. David Allan Coe: “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” (Columbia 1975)
11. Waylon Jennings: “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” (RCA Victor 1975)
1976
1. James Talley: “Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?” (Capitol 1976)
2. George Jones: “The Battle” (Epic 1976)
3. George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “Golden Ring” (Epic 1976)
4. Gene Watson: “You Could Know as Much About a Stranger” (Capitol 1976)
5. Mel Street: “I Met a Friend of Yours Today” (GRT 1976)
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Mel Tillis & the Statesiders: “Mental Revenge” (MGM 1976)
1977
1. Johnny Paycheck: “Take This Job and Shove It” (Epic 1977)
2. The Kendalls: “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away” (Ovation 1977)
3. Crystal Gayle: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (United Artists 1977)
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Steve Young: “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean” (RCA Victor 1977)
Millie Jackson: “If You’re Not Back in Love by Monday” (Spring 1977)
1978
1. Rodney Crowell: “Elvira” (Warner Bros. 1978)
2. Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” (Columbia 1978)
3. John Conlee: “Rose Colored Glasses” (ABC 1978)
1979
1. Gene Watson: “Farewell Party” (Capitol 1979)
2. The Kendalls: “Just Like Real People” (Ovation 1979)
3. Waylon Jennings: “Amanda” (RCA Victor 1979)
4. Hank Williams, Jr.: “Family Tradition” (Elektra/Curb 1979)
5. Moe Bandy: “It’s a Cheating Situation” (Columbia 1979)
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Gail Davies: “Someone is Looking for Someone Like You” (Lifesong 1979)
1980
1. Hazel Dickins: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” (Rounder 1980)
2. George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (Epic 1980)
3. Dottie West: “A Lesson in Leavin’” (United Artists 1980)
4. Don Williams: “I Believe in You” (MCA 1980)
5. Dolly Parton: “9 to 5” (RCA 1980)
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Emmylou Harris: “Beneath Still Waters” (Warner Bros. 1980)
Johnny Lee: “Lookin’ for Love” (Full Moon 1980)
1981
1. Juice Newton: “Queen of Hearts” (Capitol 1981)
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Tompall & the Glaser Brothers: “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” (Elektra 1981)
Rosanne Cash: “Seven Year Ache” (Columbia 1981)
1982
2. Bruce Springsteen: “Atlantic City” (Columbia 1982)
3. John Anderson: “Wild and Blue” (Warner Bros. 1982)
4. Lacy J. Dalton: “16th Avenue” (Epic 1982)
5. Willie Nelson: “Always on My Mind” (Columbia 1982)
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Ricky Skaggs: “Heartbroke” (Epic 1982)
1983
1. George Strait: “Amarillo By Morning” (MCA 1983)
2. John Anderson: “Swingin’” (Warner Bros. 1983)
3. Ricky Skaggs: “Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown” (Sugar Hill/Epic 1983)
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Guy Clark: “Homegrown Tomatoes” (Warner Bros. 1983)
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard: “Pancho and Lefty” (Epic 1983)
1984
1. Jason & the Scorchers: “Absolutely Sweet Marie” (EMI 1984)
2. George Strait: “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” (MCA 1984)
1985
1. Reba McEntire: “Have I Got a Deal for You” (MCA 1985)
2. Lone Justice: “Ways to Be Wicked” (Geffen 1985)
3. Los Lobos: “Will the Wolf Survive” (Slash 1985)
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John Cougar Mellencamp: “Small Town” (Riva 1985)
1986
1. Steve Earle: “Someday” (MCA 1986)
2. Randy Travis: “On the Other Hand” (Warner Bros. 1986)
3. The Judds: “Grandpa (Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days)” (RCA/Curb 1986)
4. Dwight Yoakam: “Guitars, Cadillacs” (Reprise 1986)
1987
1. Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris: “These Memories of You” (Warner Bros. 1987)
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The O’Kanes: “Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You” (Columbia 1987)
1988
1. Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens: “Streets of Bakersfield” (Reprise 1988)
2. Rosanne Cash: “Runaway Train” (Columbia 1988)
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Reba McEntire: “Whoever’s in New England” (MCA 1988)
Vern Gosdin: “Set ’Em Up Joe” (Columbia 1988)
1989
1. Clint Black: “Better Man” (RCA 1989)
2. Lucinda Williams: “Passionate Kisses” (Rough Trade 1989)
3. Patty Loveless: “Don’t Toss Us Away” (MCA 1989)
4. The Kentucky Headhunters: “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” (Mercury 1989)
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Keith Whitley: “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” (RCA 1989)
1990
1. Garth Brooks: “The Dance” (Capitol 1990)
2. Garth Brooks: “Friends in Low Places” (Capitol 1990)
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Alan Jackson: “Here in the Real World” (Arista 1990)
1991
1. Alan Jackson: “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” (Arista 1991)
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Travis Tritt: “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” (Warner Bros. 1991)
1992
1. Mark Chesnutt: “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” (MCA 1992)
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Vince Gill: “I Still Believe in You” (MCA 1992)
Trisha Yearwood: “Wrong Side of Memphis” (MCA 1992)
1994
1. Martina McBride: “Independence Day” (RCA 1994)
2. Trisha Yearwood: “XXX’s and OOO’s” (MCA 1994)
3. Alan Jackson: “Gone Country” (Arista 1994)
1995
1. Shania Twain: “Any Man of Mine” (Mercury 1995)
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Allison Krauss: “When You Say Nothing at All” (BNA 1995)
1996
1. Deana Carter: “Strawberry Wine” (Capitol 1996)
2. LeAnn Rimes: “Blue” (Curb 1996)
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The Mavericks: “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down” (MCA 1996)
1997
1. Deana Carter: “Did I Shave My Legs for This?” (Capitol 1997)
2. Patty Loveless with George Jones: “You Don’t Seem to Miss Me” (Epic 1997)
3. Pam Tillis: “All the Good Ones Are Gone” (Arista 1997)
4. Kim Richey: “I Know” (Mercury 1997)
5. BR5-49: “Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)” (Arista 1997)
1998
1. Dixie Chicks: “Wide Open Spaces” (Monument 1998)
2. Faith Hill: “This Kiss” (Warner Bros. 1998)
2000
1. Lee Ann Womack (with Sons of the Desert): “I Hope You Dance” (MCA Nashville 2000)