This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1928.
Events "The first edition of Bradley Kincaid's 1928 songbook called My Favorite Mountain Ballads sold more than 100,000 copies;
Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings
The following songs were extracted from records included in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954, record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified.Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference. Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart Positions 1 Jimmie Rodgers "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" / Away Out On the Mountain" Victor 21142 US BB 1928 #20, US #2 for 1 weeks, 11 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #1, 2,000,000 sales 2 Jimmie Rodgers "In the Jailhouse Now" / "Ben Dewberry’s Final Run" Victor 21245 US BB 1928 #158, US #14 for 1 weeks, 3 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #2, 1,000,000 sales 3 Jimmie Rodgers "The Brakeman’s Blues" Victor 21291 US BB 1928 #68, US #7 for 1 weeks, 7 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #3, 1,000,000 sales 4 Carter Family "Keep on the Sunny Side" Victor 21434 US BB 1928 #88, US #9 for 1 weeks, 5 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #4, 141,981 sales, Grammy Hall of Fame 2006 5 Hugh Cross and Riley Puckett "Red River Valley" Columbia 15206 US Hillbilly 1928 #5 6 Jimmie Rodgers ""Blue Yodel No. 3 (Evening Sun Yodel)" / "Never No Mo’ Blues" Victor 21531 US BB 1928 #108, US #10 for 1 weeks, 4 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #6, 1,000,000 sales 7 Jimmie Rodgers "Blue Yodel No. II (My Lovin' Gal Lucille)" Victor 21291 US Hillbilly 1928 #7, 1,000,000 sales 8 Darby and Tarlton "Birmingham Jail" Columbia 15212D US Hillbilly 1928 #8, 200,000 sales 9 Bradley Kincaid "Barbara Allen" Silvertone 5186 US Hillbilly 1928 #9 10 Jimmie Rodgers "Treasures Untold" / "Mother Was A Lady (If Brother Jack Were Here)" Victor 21433 US Hillbilly 1928 #10, 1,000,000 sales 11 Vernon Dalhart "Halleluja! I'm a Bum" Columbia 1488 US BB 1928 #58, US #6 for 1 week, 5 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #11 12 Jimmie Rodgers "Lullaby Yodel" / "Memphis Yodel" Victor 21636 US Hillbilly 1928 #12, 1,000,000 sales 13 Jimmie Rodgers "My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans" / "Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea" Victor 21574 US Hillbilly 1928 #13, 1,000,000 sales 14 Georgia Yellow Hammers "The Picture On the Wall" Victor 20943 US Hillbilly 1928 #14, 100,000 sales 15 Carter Family "Little Darling Pal of Mine" Victor 21638 US BB 1929 #166, US #14 for 1 week, 2 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #15 16 Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen "Casey Jones" Columbia 15237 US BB 1928 #216, US #19 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #16 17 Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison "A Memory That Time Cannot Erase" Victor 21094 US BB 1928 #215, US #19 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #17 18 Blind Lemon Jefferson "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" Paramount 12608 US Hillbilly 1928 #18 19 Darby and Tarlton "Columbus Stockade Blues" Columbia 15212 US Hillbilly 1928 #19 20 Jules Verne Allen "The Dying Cowboy" Victor 23834 US Hillbilly 1928 #20
Births March 31 – Lefty Frizzell, honky-tonk singer-songwriter (died 1975). April 3 – Don Gibson, singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1950s through late 1970s (died 2003). May 3 – Dave Dudley, singer best known for his truck-driving anthems ("Six Days on the Road") (died 2003). August 10 – Jimmy Dean, singer-songwriter best known for "Big Bad John" and other 1960s ballads; television host and businessman/founder of eponymously named sausage company (died 2010). December 17 – George Lindsey, comedian-actor who played Goober Pyle on television's The Andy Griffith Show and Hee Haw (died 2012).
Further reading Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 () Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 () Whitburn, Joel. "Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.
Notes 1. ^ a b c d e f Bradley Kincaid, Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame. Accessed 25 August 2007.
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