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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1969.

[edit] Events

January 29 — The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour premieres on CBS, for what will be a three-year run.
February 24 — Johnny Cash records his second live album behind prison walls in as many years at San Quentin State Prison. The resulting album is At San Quentin, and contains his hit "A Boy Named Sue." The concert is also taped for television broadcast.
June 7 — The Johnny Cash Show premieres on ABC; the series will run through 1971.
June 15 — The summer replacement series Hee Haw airs for the first time on CBS. The first guests to Kornfield Kounty — for what will be a 23-year run, the bulk of which will be in syndication — are Charley Pride and Loretta Lynn.
October — The Country Music Association airs its awards program live for the first time. The annual awards show — at the time airing in October on NBC — quickly becomes one of country music's most eagerly anticipated events of the year.

[edit] No dates

Dolly Parton joins the Grand Ole Opry.
Tammy Wynette becomes the first female country artist to sell over one million copies of a single recording with her Tammy's Greatest Hits collection.

[edit] Top hits of the year

[edit] Number one hits

[edit] United States

(as certified by Billboard)

Date	Single Name	Artist	Wks. No.1	Spec. Note
January 4	Daddy Sang Bass	Johnny Cash	6
February 15	Until My Dreams Come True	Jack Greene	2
March 1	To Make Love Sweeter for You	Jerry Lee Lewis	1
March 8	Only the Lonely	Sonny James	3
March 29	Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass	Buck Owens	2
April 12	Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)	Loretta Lynn	1
April 19	Galveston	Glen Campbell	3
May 10	Hungry Eyes	Merle Haggard	1
May 17	My Life (Throw It Away If I Want To)	Bill Anderson	2	^[1]
May 31	Singing My Song	Tammy Wynette	2
June 14	Running Bear	Sonny James	3
July 5	Statue of a Fool	Jack Greene	2	^[B]
July 19	I Love You More Today	Conway Twitty	1
July 26	Johnny B. Goode	Buck Owens	2
August 9	All I Have to Offer You Is Me	Charley Pride	1	^[A]
August 16	Workin' Man's Blues	Merle Haggard	1
August 23	A Boy Named Sue	Johnny Cash	5
September 27	Tall Dark Stranger	Buck Owens	1
October 4	Since I Met You Baby	Sonny James	3
October 25	The Ways to Love a Man	Tammy Wynette	2
November 8	To See My Angel Cry	Conway Twitty	1
November 15	Okie From Muskogee	Merle Haggard	4
December 13	I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again	Charley Pride	3

Notes

1^ No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard.
A^ First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
B^ Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.

[edit] Canada

(as certified by RPM)

Date	Single Name	Artist	Wks. No.1	Spec. Note
January 13	Wichita Lineman	Glen Campbell	2
January 27	I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am	Merle Haggard	3	^[2] Stayed at No. 1 for 2 weeks in late 1968. Fell to #2 on the week of January 13, 1969.
February 3	The Carroll County Accident	Porter Wagoner	3	^[A]
February 24	Mr. Brown	Gary Buck	3	^[2] Fell to #2 on the week of March 3.
March 3	Daddy Sang Bass	Johnny Cash	1
March 10	The Girl Most Likely	Jeannie C. Riley	1	^[B]
March 31	While Your Lover Sleeps	Leon Ashley	1	^[C]
April 7	Kaw-Liga	Charley Pride	2	^[A]
April 21	The Name of the Game Was Love	Hank Snow	1	^[A]
April 28	Only the Lonely	Sonny James	1	^[A]
May 5	Who's Gonna Mow the Grass	Buck Owens	1
May 12	My Woman's Good to Me	David Houston	1
May 19	Galveston	Glen Campbell	1
May 26	Let It Be Me	Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell	1	^{[A] - Bobbie Gentry}
June 2	It's a Sin	Marty Robbins	1	^[A]
June 9	Who Drinks My Beer When I'm Gone	Mercey Brothers	1
June 16	Cajun Love	Lucille Starr	1	^[C]
June 23	Ribbon of Darkness	Connie Smith	1	^[A]
June 30	Singing My Song	Tammy Wynette	1
July 7	Rings of Gold	Dottie West and Don Gibson	1	^{[A] - Dottie West} ^{[A] - Don Gibson}
July 14	Running Bear	Sonny James	1
July 21	The Days of Sand and Shovels	Waylon Jennings	1
July 28	One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)	Jerry Lee Lewis	1
August 2	Canadian Pacific	George Hamilton IV	3	^[A]
August 23	A Boy Named Sue	Johnny Cash	4
September 20	True Grit	Glen Campbell	1
September 27	Workin' Man's Blues	Merle Haggard	1
October 4	Invitation to Your Party	Jerry Lee Lewis	2	^[2] Fell to #5 on the week of October 11.
October 11	Muddy Mississippi Line	Bobby Goldsboro	1	^[B]
October 18	Tall Dark Stranger	Buck Owens	1
October 25	The Ways to Love a Man	Tammy Wynette	1
November 8	To See My Angel Cry	Conway Twitty	1	^[A]
November 15	Get Rhythm	Johnny Cash	2
November 29	Groovy Grubworm	Harlow Wilcox	1	^[C]
December 6	Try a Little Kindness	Glen Campbell	1
December 13	She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye	Jerry Lee Lewis	1
December 20	Diggy Diggy Lo	Doug Kershaw	1	^[C]
December 27	(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again	Charley Pride	1

Notes

2^ Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
A^ First RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
B^ Last RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
C^ Only RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.

[edit] Other major hits

[edit] Singles released by American artists

"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 and 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 and Dolly Parton
"Kaw-Liga" - Charley Pride
"Kay" - John Wesley Ryles
"Let it Be Me" - Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry
"MacArthur Park" - Waylon Jennings with the 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 and 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 and Nat Stuckey
"Your Time's Comin'" - Faron Young
"Yours Love" - Waylon Jennings
"Yours Love" - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton

[edit] Singles released by Canadian artists

CAN	Single	Artist
3	Back in Town to Stay	Mona Vary
9	Bittersweet	Donna Ramsay
13	Can't Find a Space	Tommy Hunter
6	The Entertainer	Ray Griff
13	I'm Gonna Let George Do It	Dianne Leigh
8	Keep the Home Fires Burning	Dianne Leigh
16	The Laughing Song	B. J. Berg
3	Ordinary Peeping Tom	Mercey Brothers
20	Pineville Country Jail	Harry Rusk
17	The Revenuer's Daughter	Bob King
11	Some Kind of Lonesome	Country Tigers
19	Sweet Sweet Feeling	Clint Curtiss
18	Wanderin' Through the Valley	Ray Griff
14	Wishing Tree	Lynn Jones
19	You're My Woman	Blake Emmons

[edit] Top new album releases

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)

[edit] Births

January 3 — Nikki Nelson, female lead vocalist of the band Highway 101 (on and off since the early 1990s).
March 28 — Rodney Atkins, singer-songwriter since the mid-2000s.
March 29 — Brady Seals, singer and member of Little Texas.
April 20 — Wade Hayes, honky tonk-styled singer of the mid-to-late 1990s.
August 19 — Clay Walker, neotraditionalist who began enjoying hits in the mid-1990s.
October 12 — Martie Maguire, member of the Dixie Chicks (she plays the fiddle, mandolin and viola).
October 13 — Rhett Akins, singer who enjoyed most of his success in the mid-1990s.

[edit] Deaths

September 11 — Leon Payne, 52, singer and prolific songwriter ("I Love You Because," "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" and many others).
November 23 — Spade Cooley, 59, singer/songwriter/fiddler of the 1940s; best known for "Detour" and "Shame on You." (heart attack)

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

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

[edit] Major awards

[edit] Grammy Awards

Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Stand by Your Man," Tammy Wynette
Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "A Boy Named Sue," Johnny Cash
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "MacArthur Park," Waylon Jennings and The Kimberleys
Best Country Instrumental Performance — The Nashville Brass featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass
Best Country Song — "A Boy Named Sue," Shel Silverstein (Performer: Johnny Cash)

[edit] Academy of Country Music

Single of the Year — "Okie from Muskogee," Merle Haggard
Album of the Year — Okie from Muskogee, Merle Haggard
Top Male Vocalist — Merle Haggard
Top Female Vocalist — Tammy Wynette
Top Vocal Duo — Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens
Top Vocal Group — The Kimberleys
Top New Male Vocalist — Freddy Weller
Top New Female Vocalist — Donna Fargo

[edit] Country Music Association

Entertainer of the Year — Johnny Cash
Song of the Year — "The Carroll County Accident," Bob Ferguson (Performer: Porter Wagoner)
Single of the Year — "A Boy Named Sue," Johnny Cash
Album of the Year — At San Quentin, Johnny Cash
Male Vocalist of the Year — Johnny Cash
Female Vocalist of the Year — Tammy Wynette
Vocal Group of the Year — Johnny Cash and June Carter
Instrumentalist of the Year — Chet Atkins
Instrumental Group of the Year — Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass
Comedian of the Year — Archie Campbell

[edit] Further reading

Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

[edit] Other links

[edit] External links

Country Music Hall of Fame

Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] No dates

[edit] Top hits of the year

[edit] Number one hits

[edit] United States

[edit] Canada

[edit] Other major hits

[edit] Singles released by American artists

[edit] Singles released by Canadian artists

[edit] Top new album releases

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

[edit] Major awards

[edit] Grammy Awards

[edit] Academy of Country Music

[edit] Country Music Association

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Other links

[edit] External links