Country-Musik 1969

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

Top Hits des Jahres

Nummer-1-Hits

4. Januar – Daddy Sang Bass – Johnny Cash
15. Februar – Until My Dreams Come True – Jack Greene
1. März – To Make Love Sweeter for You – Jerry Lee Lewis
8. März – Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) – Sonny James
29. März – Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
12. April – Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone) – Loretta Lynn
19. April – Galveston – Glen Campbell
10. Mai – Hungry Eyes – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
17. Mai – My Life (Throw it Away if I Want To) – Bill Anderson
31. Mai – Singing My Song – Tammy Wynette
14. Juni – Running Bear – Sonny James
5. Juli – Statue of a Fool – Jack Greene
19. Juli – I Love You More Today – Conway Twitty
26. Juli – Johnny B. Goode – Buck Owens
9. August – All I Have to Offer You Is Me – Charley Pride
16. August – Workin’ Man’s Blues – Merle Haggard
23. August – A Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash
27. September – Tall Dark Stranger – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
4. Oktober – Since I Met You Baby – Sonny James
25. Oktober – The Ways to Love a Man – Tammy Wynette
8. November – To See My Angel Cry – Conway Twitty
15. November – Okie from Muskogee – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
13. Dezember – I’m so Afraid of Losing You Again – Charley Pride

Weitere Hits

All For the Love of a Girl – Claude King
April's Fool – Ray Price
Are You From Dixie ('Cause I'm From Dixie Too) – Jerry Reed
Back in the Arms of Love – Jack Greene
Ballad of Forty Dollars – Tom T. Hall
Be Glad – Del Reeves
Big in Vegas – Buck Owens
Big Wind – Porter Wagoner
Blistered – Johnny Cash
But You Know I Love You – Bill Anderson
Cajun Baby – Hank Williams Jr.
The Carroll County Accident – Porter Wagoner
Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie – Conway Twitty
Don't Let Me Cross Over – Jerry Lee Lewis und Linda Gail Lewis
Games People Play – Freddy Weller
George and the North Woods – Dave Dudley
The Girl Most Likely – Jeannie C. Riley
God Bless America Again – Bobby Bare
Good Time Charlies – Del Reeves
Homecoming – Tom T. Hall
I Can't Say Goodbye – Marty Robbins
I Love You Because – Carl Smith
I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
I'd Rather Be Gone – Hank Williams Jr.
I'll Share My World With You – George Jones
I'm Down to My Last ‘I Love You’ – David Houston
If Not For You – George Jones
It's a Sin – Marty Robbins
In the Ghetto – Elvis Presley
Invitation to Your Party – Jerry Lee Lewis
Just Someone I Used to Know – Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton
Kaw-Liga – Charley Pride
Kay – John Wesley Ryles
Let it Be Me – Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
MacArthur Park – Waylon Jennings mit den Kimberlys
(Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn – Bobby Bare
Me and Bobby McGee – Roger Miller
Mr. Walker, It's All Over – Billie Jo Spears
My Woman's Good to Me – David Houston
The Name of the Game Was Love – Hank Snow
One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) – Jerry Lee Lewis
One Minute Past Eternity – Jerry Lee Lewis
Please Don't Go – Eddy Arnold
Please Let Me Prove My Love For You – Dave Dudley
Raining in My Heart – Ray Price
Ribbon of Darkness – Connie Smith
Rings of Gold – Don Gibson and Dottie West
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town – Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
Rueben James – Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye – Jerry Lee Lewis
Smoky the Bar – Hank Thompson
Such a Fool – Roy Drusky
Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
Sweet Thang and Cisco – Nat Stuckey
Sweetheart of the Year – Ray Price
That's a No-No – Lynn Anderson
There Never Was a Time – Jeannie C. Riley
There Won't Be a Lonely Heart in Town – Del Reeves
These are Not My People – Freddy Weller
These Lonely Hands of Mine – Mel Tillis
They Don't Make Love Like They Used To – Eddy Arnold
Thirsty Boots – Anne Murray
This Thing – Webb Pierce
To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man) – Loretta Lynn
True Grit – Glen Campbell
Try a Little Kindness – Glen Campbell
When the Grass Grows Over Me – George Jones
When Two Worlds Collide – Jim Reeves
Where the Blue and Lonely Go – Roy Drusky
Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out – Ernest Tubb und Loretta Lynn
Who's Julie – Mel Tillis
Wine Me Up – Faron Young
Yesterday When I Was Young – Roy Clark
You and Your Sweet Love – Connie Smith
You Gave Me a Mountain – Johnny Bush
Young Love – Connie Smith und Nat Stuckey
Your Time's Comin‘ – Faron Young
Yours Love – Waylon Jennings
Yours Love – Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton

Alben (Auswahl)

At San Quentin – Johnny Cash
The Carroll County Accident – Porter Wagoner (RCA)
It's A Sin – Marty Robbins (Columbia)
My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy – Dolly Parton (RCA)
Songs That Made Country Girls Famous – Lynn Anderson (Chart)
Yearbooks and Yesterdays – Jeannie C. Riley (Plantation)

Geboren

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

Gestorben

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

Neuaufnahmen in die Country Music Hall of Fame

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

Die wichtigsten Auszeichnungen

Grammy Awards

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

Academy of Country Music Awards

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