Die Liste bietet eine Übersicht über das Jahr 1970 im Genre Country-Musik.
Top Hits des Jahres Nummer-1-Hits 3. Januar – Baby Baby (I Know You're a Lady) – David Houston 31. Januar – A Week in a Country Jail – Tom T. Hall 14. Februar – It's Just a Matter of Time – Sonny James 14. März – The Fightin' Side of Me – Merle Haggard 4. April – The Tennessee Birdwalk – Jack Blanchard und Misty Morgan 18. April – Is Anybody Goin' to San Antoné? – Charley Pride 2. Mai – My Woman, My Woman, My Wife – Marty Robbins 9. Mai – The Pool Shark – Dave Dudley 16. Mai – My Love – Sonny James 6. Juni – Hello Darlin‘ – Conway Twitty 4. Juli – He Loves Me All the Way – Tammy Wynette 25. Juli – Wonder Could I Live There Anymore – Charley Pride 8. August – Don't Keep Me Hangin' On – Sonny James 5. September – All for the Love of Sunshine – Hank Williams Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation 19. September – For the Good Times – Ray Price 26. September – There Must Be More to Love Than This – Jerry Lee Lewis 10. Oktober – Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash 24. Oktober – Run, Woman, Run – Tammy Wynette 7. November – I Can't Believe That You Stopped Loving Me – Charley Pride 21. November – Fifteen Years Ago – Conway Twitty 28. November – Endlessly – Sonny James 19. Dezember – Coal Miner’s Daughter – Loretta Lynn 26. Dezember – Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson
Weitere Hits After Closing Time – David Houston und Barbara Mandrell All I Have to Do Is Dream – Glen Campbell und Bobbie Gentry All My Hard Times – Roy Drusky Amos Moses – Jerry Reed Angels Don't Lie – Jim Reeves Big in Vegas – Buck Owens Brown-Eyed Handsome Man – Waylon Jennings Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man – Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton Everything a Man Could Ever Need – Glen Campbell Goin' Steady – Faron Young The Great White Horse – Buck Owens und Susan Raye Heart Over Mind – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders Heaven Everyday – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders Heavenly Sunshine – Ferlin Husky How I Got to Memphis – Bobby Bare I Can't Be Myself – Merle Haggard and the Strangers I Do My Swinging at Home – David Houston I Know How – Loretta Lynn I Never Once Stopped Loving You – Connie Smith I Never Picked Cotton – Roy Clark I Walked Out of Heaven – Hank Williams Jr. I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You – Jack Greene und Jeannie Seely I'll See Him Through – Tammy Wynette I've Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes – Crystal Gayle If I Ever Fall in Love (With a Honky Tonk Girl) – Faron Young If I Were a Carpenter – Johnny Cash und June Carter Cash If It's All the Same to You – Bill Anderson und Jan Howard It's Only Make-Believe – Glen Campbell Jesus Take a Hold – Merle Haggard and the Strangers Jolie Girl – Marty Robbins The Kansas City Song – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos Kentucky Rain – Elvis Presley Long Long Texas Road – Roy Drusky Love is a Sometimes Thing – Bill Anderson Morning – Jim Ed Brown Mule Skinner Blues – Dolly Parton Occasional Wife – Faron Young Once More With Feeling – Jerry Lee Lewis One Song Away – Tommy Cash Right or Left at Oak Street – Roy Clark Rise and Shine – Tommy Cash Salute to a Switchblade – Tom T. Hall She's a Little Bit Country – George Hamilton IV. She's Mine – George Jones Shoeshine Man – Tom T. Hall Six White Horses – Tommy Cash Snowbird – Anne Murray Someday We'll Be Together – Bill Anderson und Jan Howard Stay There Til I Get There – Lynn Anderson Street Singer – Merle Haggard and the Strangers The Taker – Waylon Jennings Thank God and Greyhound – Roy Clark That’s How I Got to Memphis – Bobby Bare That's When She Started to Stop Loving You – Conway Twitty Then He Touched Me – Jean Shepard There's a Story Goin' Round – Don Gibson und Dottie West Where Have All Our Heroes Gone – Bill Anderson Wonders of the Wine – David Houston You Wouldn't Know Love – Ray Price
Alben (Auswahl) Fightin' Side of Me – Merle Haggard (Capitol) For the Good Times – Ray Price (Columbia) Hello Darlin – Conway Twitty (Decca) Just Plain Charley – Charley Pride (RCA) Skid Row Joe: Down in the Alley – Porter Wagoner (RCA) Snowbird – Anne Murray (Capitol)
Geboren 25. Oktober – Chely Wright
Gestorben 1. April – Paul Cohen (62), einflussreicher Produzent (Decca)
Neue Mitglieder der Hall of Fames Country Music Hall of Fame The Original Carter Family A. P. Carter (1891–1960) Sara Carter (1898–1979) Mother Maybelle Carter (1909–1978)
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gene Autry Johnny Bond Albert Brumley A.P. Carter Ted Daffan Vernon Dalhart Rex Griffin Stuart Hamblen Pee Wee King Vic McAlpin Bob Miller Leon Payne Jimmie Rodgers Fred Rose Redd Stewart Floyd Tillman Merle Travis Ernest Tubb Cindy Walker Hank Williams Bob Wills
Die wichtigsten Auszeichnungen Grammys Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female – Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male – Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group – Waylon Jennings & The Kimberlys – Macarthur Park Best Country Instrumental Performance – The Nashville Brass & Danny Davis – The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds Best Country Song – Shel Silverstein – A Boy Named Sue, Interpret: Johnny Cash
Academy of Country Music Awards 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
Country Music Association Awards Entertainer of the Year – Merle Haggard Male Vocalist of the Year – Merle Haggard Female Vocalist of the Year – Tammy Wynette Instrumental Group of the Year – Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass Comedian of the Year – Roy Clark Vocal Group of the Year – Tompall Glaser and the Glaser Brothers Vocal Duo of the Year – Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton Single of the Year – Okie Fom Muskogee – Merle Haggard Song of the Year – Sunday Morning Coming Down – Kris Kristofferson Album of the Year – Okie From Muskogee – Merle Haggard Instrumentalist of the Year – Jerry Reed
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