Country Music 1979

Top hits of the year

Number 1 hits

January 6 - "Tulsa Time" - Don Williams
January 13th - "Lady Lay Down" - John Conlee
January 20th - "I Really Got the Feeling" - Dolly Parton
January 27th - "Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For" - Crystal Gayle
February 10 - "Every Which Way But Loose" - Eddie Rabbitt
March 3rd - "Golden Tears" - Dave & Sugar
March 24th - "I Just Fall in Love Again" - Anne Murray
April 14 - "(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to be Right" - Barbara Mandrell
April 21 - "All I Ever Need is You" - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West
April 28th - "Where Do I Put Her Memory" - Charley Pride
May 5th - "Backside of Thirty" - John Conlee
May 12th - "Don't Take it Away" - Conway Twitty
May 19 - "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold it Against Me" - Bellamy Brothers
June 9th - "She Believes in Me" - Kenny Rogers
June 23rd - "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" - Ronnie Milsap
June 30th - "Amanda" - Waylon Jennings
July 21 - "Shadows in the Moonlight" - Anne Murray
July 28th - "You're the Only One" - Dolly Parton
August 11th - "Suspicions" - Eddie Rabbitt
August 18th - "Coca Cola Cowboy" - Mel Tillis
August 25th - "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" - The Charlie Daniels Band
September 1 - "Heartbreak Hotel" - Willie Nelson and Leon Russell
September 8th - "I May Never Get to Heaven" - Conway Twitty
September 15th - "You're My Jamaica" - Charley Pride
September 22nd - "Just Good Ol 'Boys" - Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley
September 29th - "It Must Be Love" - Don Williams
October 6th - "Last Cheater's Waltz" - TG Sheppard
October 20th - "All the Gold in California" - Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
November 3rd - "You Decorated My Life" - Kenny Rogers
November 17th - "Come With Me" - Waylon Jennings
December 1st - "Broken Hearted Me" - Anne Murray
December 8th - "I Cheated Me Right Out of You" - Moe Bandy
December 15th - "Happy Birthday Darlin '" - Conway Twitty

More bigger hits

"Back on My Mind Again" - Ronnie Milsap
"Barstool Mountain" - Moe Bandy
"Before My Time" - John Conlee
"Blind in Love" - Mel Tillis
"Blue Kentucky Girl" - Emmylou Harris
"Come On In" - Oak Ridge Boys
"Crazy Blue Eyes" - Lacy J. Dalton
"Do You Ever Fool Around" - Joe Stampley
"Don't Let Me Cross Over" - Jim Reeves and Deborah Allen
"Down on the Rio Grande" - Johnny Rodriguez
"Dream On" - Oak Ridge Boys
"Everlasting Love" - Narvel Felts
"Family Tradition" - Hank Williams Jr.
"Farewell Party" - Gene Watson
"Fooled by a Feeling" - Barbara Mandrell
"Fools" - Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" - Johnny Cash
"Half the Way" - Crystal Gayle
"Happy Together" - TG Sheppard
"Here We Are Again" - Statler Brothers
"How to Be a Country Star" - Statler Brothers
"I Can't Feel You Anymore" - Loretta Lynn
"I Just Can't Stay Married to You" - Cristy Lane
"I Wanna Come Over" - Alabama
"I'll Love Away Your Troubles For Awhile" - Janie Fricke
"I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home" - Charlie Rich
"I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind" - Loretta Lynn
"I've Done Enough Dying Today" - Larry Gatlin
"If Everyone Had Someone Like You" - Eddy Arnold
"If I Could Write a Song (as Beautiful as You)" - Billy "Crash" Craddock
"In No Time at All" - Ronnie Milsap
"Isn't it Always Love" - Lynn Anderson
"It's a Cheating Situation" - Moe Bandy
"Just Long Enough to Say Goodbye" - Mickey Gilley
"The Lady in the Blue Mercedes" - Johnny Duncan
"Lay Down Beside Me" - Don Williams
"Lying in Love With You" - Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
"Mabellene" - George Jones and Johnny Paycheck
"My Silver Lining" - Mickey Gilley
"My World Begins and Ends With You" - Dave & Sugar
"No Memories Hangin 'Around" - Rosanne Cash and Bobby Bare
"No One Else in the World" - Tammy Wynette
"Nothing as Original as You" - Statler Brothers
"The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell" - Statler Brothers
"Pick the Wildwood Flower" - Gene Watson
"Play Together Again, Again" - Buck Owens and Emmylou Harris
"Red Bandana" - Merle Haggard
"Reunited" - Louise Mandrell and RC Bannon
"Sail Away" - Oak Ridge Boys
"Save the Last Dance for Me" - Emmylou Harris
"Send Me Down to Tucson" - Mel Tillis
"Should I Go Home (Or Should I Go Crazy)" - Gene Watson
"Slow Dancing" - Johnny Duncan
"Somebody Special" - Donna Fargo
"Stay With Me" - Dave & Sugar
"Sweet Dreams" - Reba McEntire
"Sweet Memories" - Willie Nelson
"Sweet Summer Lovin '" - Dolly Parton
"Tell Me What It's Like" - Brenda Lee
"Texas (When I Die)" - Tanya Tucker
"They Call it Making Love" - Tammy Wynette
"Till I Can Make it on My Own" - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West
"Too Far Gone" - Emmylou Harris
"When I Dream" - Crystal Gayle
"Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound" - Hank Williams Jr.
"Whiskey River" - Willie Nelson
"You Ain't Just Whistlin 'Dixie" - Bellamy Brothers
"You Feel Good All Over" - TG Sheppard
"Your Love Has Taken Me That High" - Conway Twitty

Born

May 19: Shooter Jennings

Died

May 11: Lester Flatt

New members of the Country Music Hall of Fame

The most important awards

Grammys

Best Female Country Vocal Performance - Emmylou Harris - "Blue Kentucky Girl"
Best Male Country Vocal Performance - Kenny Rogers - "The Gambler"
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group - Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Best Country Instrumental Performance - Doc Watson & Merle Watson - "Big Sandy" / "Leather Breetches"
Best Country Song - Bob Morrison & Debbie Hupp - "You Decorated My Life"

Academy of Country Music

Entertainer Of The Year - Willie Nelson
Song Of The Year - "It's A Cheatin 'Situation" - Moe Bandy - Sony Throckmorton, Curly Putman
Single Of The Year - "All The Gold In California" - Larry Gatlin
Album Of The Year - "Straight Ahead" - Larry Gatlin
Top Male Vocalist - Larry Gatlin
Top Female Vocalist - Crystal Gayle
Top vocal duo - Joe Stampley and Moe Bandy
Top New Male Vocalist - RC Bannon
Top New Female Vocalist - Lacy J. Dalton

Country Music Association

Entertainer of the Year - Willie Nelson
Song Of The Year - The Gambler - Don Schlitz
Single Of The Year - The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Album Of The Year - The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Male Vocalist Of The Year - Kenny Rogers
Female Vocalist Of The Year - Barbara Mandrell
Vocal Duo Of The Year - Kenny Rogers / Dottie West
Vocal Group Of The Year - Statler Brothers
Instrumentalist Of The Year - Charlie Daniels
Instrumental Group Of The Year - Charlie Daniels Band