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