See also: 1957 in country music, 1958 in music, other events of 1958, 1959 in country music, 1950s in music and the List of years in Country Music See also: 1956 in country music, 1957 in music, other events of 1957, 1958 in country music, 1950s in music and the List of years in Country Music // Events June 24 - Billboard magazine terminates its Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes chart, leaving just the Most Played C&W... See also: 1957 in music, other events of 1958, 1959 in music, 1950s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama February 14 - The Iranian government bans rock & roll because they claim that the form... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1958 in country music, 1959 in music, other events of 1959, 1960 in country music, 1950s in music and the List of years in Country Music // Events The first Grammy Award for outstanding performances in the country music genre is presented. ... // 1950 in music Music of Afghanistan The beginning of radio broadcasting leads to the beginning of Afghan popular music Music of Argentina Astor Piazzolla begins to fuse traditional tango music with jazz and classical music Music of Algeria Rai singers like Bellemou Messaoud add violin, accordion and other western influences... This page indexes the individual year in country music pages. ...

Events

• January 1 - Johnny Cash performs at San Quentin Prison. One of the audience members is Merle Haggard, in the midst of a two-year prison term for burglary.
• February - Struggling singer-songwriter Don Gibson finally gets a career break when his first major hit, "Oh Lonesome Me" reaches No. 1 on Billboard magazine's "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" and "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" charts. The flip side of the single is "I Can't Stop Loving You," which went on to be recorded by more than 700 times. Gibson is considered by many to be one of the originators of the Nashville Sound, a form of country music that uses pop music-styled arrangements (such as orchestrated strings) rather than traditional honky-tonk sounds.
• March - BMI opens its Nashville office, headed by Frances Preston.
• March 24 - Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army at the Memphis Draft Board, thus beginning his two years of service.
• May - The fledgling career of Jerry Lee Lewis is rocked by scandal when his marriage to second cousin Myra Gale Brown becomes public. A British tour is cancelled, and Lewis' career goes into decline until 1968, when he begins concentrating on country music.
• October 13 - Billboard magazine discontinues the "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" and "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" charts. Starting with the October 20 issue, there is one all-encompassing "Hot C&W Sides" chart. The new chart has 30 positions, and "City Lights" by Ray Price is the first No. 1 song.
• November - The Country Music Association is founded to promote country music. Harry Stone, the former station manager of WSM, is named executive director.
• November - Conway Twitty begins a remarkable career ... in rock and roll, with his hit, "It's Only Make Believe." The song – which contains all the Twitty hallmarks – skyrockets to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall, and begins a string of hits that continues through the early 1960s. Twitty makes the switch to country in the mid-1960s, and the rest is history. Although "... Make Believe" is never a country hit, the song has become a country standard in the years since Twitty became a country giant.

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Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine) An example of a Billboard Magazine. ...

• January 6 – "The Story of My Life" – Marty Robbins
• January 6 – "Great Balls of Fire" – Jerry Lee Lewis
• February 3 – "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" – Johnny Cash
• April 14 – "Oh Lonesome Me" – Don Gibson
• May 26 – "Just Married" – Marty Robbins
• June 2 – "All I Have to Do is Dream" – Everly Brothers
• June 23 – "Guess Things Happen That Way" – Johnny Cash
• July 21 – "Alone With You" – Faron Young
• August 25 – "Blue Blue Day" – Don Gibson
• September 8 – "Bird Dog" – Everly Brothers
• October 20 – "City Lights" – Ray Price

Note: Through October 13, several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" and "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" charts. Only one No. 1 per week is possible starting with the "Hot C&W Sides" chart, which begins October 20.

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Other major hits

• "Blue Boy" – Jim Reeves
• "Breathless" – Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Crying Over You" – Webb Pierce
• "Curtain in the Window" – Ray Price
• "Devoted to You" – Everly Brothers
• "Don't" – Elvis Presley
• "Falling Back to You" – Webb Pierce
• "Half a Mind" – Ernest Tubb
• "Hard-Headed Woman" – Elvis Presley
• "Hey, Mister Bluebird" – Ernest Tubb and The Wilburn Brothers
• "High School Confidential" – Jerry Lee Lewis
• "I Beg of You" – Elvis Presley
• "I Can't Stop Loving You" – Don Gibson
• "I Can't Stop Loving You" – Kitty Wells
• "Invitation to the Blues" – Elvis Presley
• "It's a Little More Like Heaven" – Hank Locklin
• "It's Only Make Believe" – Conway Twitty
• "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again" – Jimmie Rodgers
• "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" – Charlie Walker
• "Poor Little Fool" – Ricky Nelson
• "Secretly" – Jimmie Rodgers
• "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" – Hank Locklin
• "She's No Angel" – Kitty Wells
• "Should We Tell Him" – Everly Brothers
• "Squaws Along the Yukon" – Hank Thompson
• "This Little Girl of Mine" – Everly Brothers
• "Treasure of Love" – George Jones
• "Tupelo County Jail" – Webb Pierce
• "Where My Ring Around Your Neck" – Elvis Presley
• "You Win Again" – Jerry Lee Lewis
• "You'll Come Back" – Webb Pierce

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Top new album releases

Births

• September 16 – Terry McBride – Lead singer of the 1990s trio McBride & the Ride
• October 10 – Tanya Tucker – Teen-aged country star of the 1970s, who continued to be a major country star during the 1980s and 1990s.

September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer. ...

Deaths

Further reading

• Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
• Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

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Other links

• Country Music Association