Country Music 1944

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Events

January 8 - Billboard first published in the Most Played Juke Box Folk Records , the predecessor of the Hot Country Songs . The first number-one hit was Pistol Packin 'Mama from Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters . Louis Jordan is the first black musician to have a hit with the Ration Blues .
The KOMA Bluff Creek Round Up goes on air for the first time in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma
The WFAA Saturday Night Shindig is in Dallas , Texas , for the first time on air

Top hits of the year

Number 1 hits

January 8th - "Pistol Packin 'Mama" - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
February 5th - "Pistol Packin 'Mama" - Al Dexter
February 26 - "Ration Blues" - Louis Jordan
March 11th - "Rosalita" - Al Dexter
March 18 - "They Took the Stars Out of Heaven" - Floyd Tillman
March 25th - "So Long Pal" - Al Dexter
April 1 - Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry - Al Dexter
June 10th - "Straighten Up and Fly Right" - The King Cole Trio
July 29th - "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma 'Baby)" - Louis Jordan
September 2nd - "Soldier's Last Letter" - Ernest Tubb
September 23rd - "Smoke on the Water" - Red Foley
December 23rd - "I'm Wastin 'My Tears on You" - Tex Ritter

More hits

"Born To Lose" - Ted Daffan
"GI Blues" - Floyd Tillman
"I Hang My Head And Cry" - Gene Autry
"I'll Forgive You But I Can't Forget" - Roy Acuff
"I'm Sending You Red Roses" - Jimmy Wakely
"I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes" - Gene Autry
"If It's Wrong To Love You" - Charley Mitchell
"Is It Too Late Now?" - Jimmie Davis
"Look Who's Talkin '" - Ted Daffan
"New San Antonio Rose" - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
"No Letter Today" - Ted Daffan
"The Prodigal Son" - Roy Acuff
"She Broke My Heart In Three Pieces" - The Hoosier Hot Shots
"There's A Blue Star Shining Bright" - Red Foley
"There's A Chill On The Hill" - Jimmie Davis
"There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder" - Tex Ritter
"Texas Blues" - Foy Willing
"Try Me One More Time" - Ernest Tubb
"When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" - Cindy Walker
"We Might As Well Forget It" - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
"Write Me Sweetheart" - Roy Acuff
"Yesterday's Tears" - Ernest Tubb
"You're From Texas" - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys

Born

January 16 - Jim Stafford
June 7th - Clarence White
September 4th - Gene Parsons
October 8 - Susan Raye
December 4th - Chris Hillman
December 11th - Brenda Lee

Died