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 5. 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)
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
Country Music Association Awards Entertainer of the Year – Johnny Cash Song of the Year – The Carroll County Accident – Bob Ferguson 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 und June Carter Instrumentalist of the Year – Chet Atkins Instrumental Group of the Year – Danny Davis Comedian of the Year – Archie Campbell
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