Country music 1969

Top hits of the year

Number 1 hits

• January 4th - " Daddy Sang Bass " - Johnny Cash
• February 15th - "Until My Dreams Come True" - Jack Greene
• March 1st - "To Make Love Sweeter for You" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• March 8th - " Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) " - Sonny James
• March 29 - Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
• April 12th - "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" - Loretta Lynn
• April 19th - "Galveston" - Glen Campbell
• May 10th - "Hungry Eyes" - Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• May 17 - "My Life (Throw it Away if I Want To)" - Bill Anderson
• May 31 - "Singing My Song" - Tammy Wynette
• June 14th - "Running Bear" - Sonny James
• July 5th - "Statue of a Fool" - Jack Greene
• July 19 - "I Love You More Today" - Conway Twitty
• July 26 - "Johnny B. Goode" - Buck Owens
• August 9 - "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" - Charley Pride
• August 16 - "Workin 'Man's Blues" - Merle Haggard
• August 23rd - " A Boy Named Sue " - Johnny Cash
• September 27th - "Tall Dark Stranger" - Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
• October 4th - " Since I Met You Baby " - Sonny James
• October 25th - "The Ways to Love a Man" - Tammy Wynette
• November 8th - "To See My Angel Cry" - Conway Twitty
• November 15th - "Okie from Muskogee" - Merle Haggard and the Strangers
• December 13th - "I'm so Afraid of Losing You Again" - Charley Pride

More 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 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 League" - 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

Albums (selection)

• "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)

Born

• October 12th - Martie Maguire , member of the Dixie Chicks

Died

• September 11th - Leon Payne , 52, singer and songwriter ("I Love You Because," "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart").
• November 23 - Spade Cooley , 59, singer

New inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame

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

The most important awards

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
• Best Country Song - "A Boy Named Sue" Shel Silverstein (Performer: Johnny Cash)

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

Country Music Association

• Entertainer of the Year - Johnny Cash
• Song of the Year - "The Carroll County Accident"
• 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
• Comedian of the Year - Archie Campbell