This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1924.

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Contents 1 Events 1.1 No dates 2 Top hits of the year 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Further reading

[edit] Events

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

[edit] No dates

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

[edit] Top hits of the year

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

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Earl Scruggs, early bluegrass pioneer who, with Lester Flatt, formed the Foggy Mountain Boys.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Further reading

• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
• Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
• Whitburn, Joel. "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.