Country music 1970

Top hits of the year

Number 1 hits

• January 3rd - "Baby Baby (I Know You're a Lady)" - David Houston
• January 31st - "A Week in a Country Jail" - Tom T. Hall
• February 14th - "It's Just a Matter of Time" - Sonny James
• March 14th - "The Fightin 'Side of Me" - Merle Haggard
• April 4th - "The Tennessee Birdwalk" - Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan
• April 18 - "Is Anybody Goin 'to San Antoné?" - Charley Pride
• May 2nd - "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" - Marty Robbins
• May 9 - "The Pool Shark" - Dave Dudley
• May 16 - "My Love" - Sonny James
• June 6th - "Hello Darlin '" - Conway Twitty
• July 4th - "He Loves Me All the Way" - Tammy Wynette
• July 25th - "Wonder Could I Live There Anymore" - Charley Pride
• August 8th - "Don't Keep Me Hangin 'On" - Sonny James
• September 5th - "All for the Love of Sunshine" - Hank Williams Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation
• September 19 - "For the Good Times" - Ray Price
• September 26th - "There Must Be More to Love Than This" - Jerry Lee Lewis
• October 10 - "Sunday Morning Coming Down" - Johnny Cash
• October 24th - "Run, Woman, Run" - Tammy Wynette
• November 7th - "I Can't Believe That You Stopped Loving Me" - Charley Pride
• November 21 - "Fifteen Years Ago" - Conway Twitty
• November 28th - "Endlessly" - Sonny James
• December 19 - "Coal Miner's Daughter" - Loretta Lynn
• December 26th - "Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson

More hits

• "After Closing Time" - David Houston and Barbara Mandrell
• "All I Have to Do is Dream" - Glen Campbell and 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 and Dolly Parton
• "Everything a Man Could Ever Need" - Glen Campbell
• "Goin 'Steady" - Faron Young
• "The Great White Horse" - Buck Owens and 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 and 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 and June Carter Cash
• "If It's All the Same to You" - Bill Anderson and 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 and 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 When She Started to Stop Loving You" - Conway Twitty
• "Then He Touched Me" - Jean Shepard
• "There's a Story Goin 'Round" - Don Gibson and Dottie West
• "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone" - Bill Anderson
• "Wonders of the Wine" - David Houston
• "You Wouldn't Know Love" - Ray Price

Albums (selection)

• 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)

Born

• October 25 - Chely Wright

Died

• April 1 - Paul Cohen, 62, influential producer (Decca)

New members of the Country Music Hall of Fame

• The Original Carter Family - ( AP Carter (1891–1960); Sara Carter (1898–1979); and Mother Maybelle Carter (1909–1978))

The most important awards

Grammys

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance - Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance - Ray Price - For The Good Times
• Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group - Johnny Cash & June Carter - If I Were A Carpenter
• Best Country Instrumental Performance - Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed - Me And Jerry
• Best Country Song - Marty Robbins - My Woman, My Woman, My Wife

Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year - Merle Haggard
• Song Of The Year - "For The Good Times" - Ray Price - Kris Kristofferson
• Single Of The Year - "For The Good Times" - Ray Price
• Album Of The Year - For The Good Times - Ray Price
• Top Male Vocalist - Merle Haggard
• Top Female Vocalist - Lynn Anderson
• Top Vocal Group - The Kimberleys
• Top New Male Vocalist - Buddy Alan
• Top New Female Vocalist - Sammi Smith

Country Music Association

• 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 and 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