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 See also: 1958 in music, other events of 1959, 1960 in music, 1950s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 22 - Buddy Holly records some acoustic demos in his New York City apartment. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1959 in country music, 1960 in music, other events of 1960, 1961 in country music, 1960s in music and the List of years in Country Music Events Just four songs - five, if one counts El Paso by Marty Robbins, which spent five of its seven weeks at No. ... 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 music pages. ...

Events

• The first Grammy Award for outstanding performances in the country music genre is presented. The Kingston Trio wins the only country-specific award, for Best Country and Western Performance, with "Tom Dooley." It wouldn't be until the 1965 when more country-specific Grammy categories were started. Until 1966 (when the Academy of Country Music began presenting awards), the Grammy Awards would be the only method to honor remarkable accomplishments in the genre.
• A young sharecropper's son named Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens scores his first significant chart hit with "Second Fiddle." That song, plus the follow-up – "Under Your Spell Again," his first Billboard magazine Top 10 hit – provides country fans with the earliest examples of Owens' trademark "Bakersfield" sound.

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Top Hits of the Year

No. 1 Hits

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• January 19 – "Billy Bayou" – Jim Reeves
• February 23 – "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" – Johnny Cash
• April 6 – "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)" – Johnny Horton
• April 13 – "White Lighting" – George Jones
• May 18 – "The Battle of New Orleans" – Johnny Horton
• July 27 – "Waterloo" – Stonewall Jackson
• August 31 – "The Three Bells" – The Browns
• November 9 – "Country Girl" – Faron Young
• December 7 – "The Same Old Me" – Ray Price
• December 21 – "El Paso" – Marty Robbins

January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a vastly influential singer and songwriter. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... John Gale Johnny Horton (April 30, 1925–November 5, 1960) was an American country music singer. ... April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... Another George Jones was a U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1807. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... John Gale Johnny Horton (April 30, 1925–November 5, 1960) was an American country music singer. ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... Stonewall Jackson (born November 6, 1932) was a Country musician. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... Faron Young (born February 25, 1932 near Shreveport, Louisiana, died December 10, 1996) was an American country music singer. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Ray Price (born January 12, 1926) is an American country and western singer. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Marty Robbins, (September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982), born Martin David Robinson near Glendale, Arizona, served in the United States Navy during World War II and went on to become an immensely popular singing star of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee and a talented NASCAR race car driver. ...

Other Major Hits

• "Big Midnight Special" – Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper
• "Black Land Farmer" – Frankie Miller
• "Cabin in the Hills" – Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys
• "Chasin' a Rainbow" – Hank Snow
• "Come Walk With Me" – Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper
• "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" – Don Gibson
• "Family Man" – Frankie Miller
• "Frankie's Man, Johnny" – Johnny Cash
• "Heartaches By the Number" – Ray Price
• "Home" – Jim Reeves
• "I Ain't Never" – Webb Pierce
• "I Got Stripes" – Johnny Cash
• "I've Run Out of Tomorrows" – Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys
• "The Last Ride" – Hank Snow
• "The Long Black Veil" – Lefty Frizzell
• "Luther Played the Boogie" – Johnny Cash
• "Mommy For a Day" – Kitty Wells
• "My Baby's Gone" – The Louvin Brothers
• "Ninety-Nine" – Bill Anderson
• "Partners" – Jim Reeves
• "Second Fiddle" – Buck Owens
• "Set Him Free" – Skeeter Davis
• "Ten Thousand Drums" – Carl Smith
• "Tennesse Stud" – Eddy Arnold
• "That's What It's Like to be Lonesome" – Ray Price
• "There's a Big Wheel" – Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper
• "('Til) I Kissed You" – Everly Brothers
• "A Thousand Miles Ago" – Webb Pierce
• "Under Your Spell Again" – Buck Owens
• "The Wall" – Freddie Hart
• "Who Cares" – Don Gibson
• "Who Shot Sam" – George Jones

Lester Flatt (June 19, 1914 - May 11, 1979) was one of the pioneers of bluegrass music. ... Earl Scruggs Earl Scruggs (born Earl Eugene Scruggs January 6, 1924 in Flint Hill, North Carolina) created a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is one of the defining characteristics of bluegrass. ... Clarence Eugene Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999), better known as Hank Snow, was a country singer. ... Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 - November 17, 2003) was an American country musician. ... Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a vastly influential singer and songwriter. ... Ray Price (born January 12, 1926) is an American country and western singer. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Webb Pierce (born August 8, 1921 - died February 24, 1991), was an American country music singer. ... Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a vastly influential singer and songwriter. ... Hank Thompson can refer to different people: Hank Thompson was a baseball player in the 1940s and 1950s. ... Clarence Eugene Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999), better known as Hank Snow, was a country singer. ... Lefty Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was a country music singer and songwriter. ... Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a vastly influential singer and songwriter. ... Kitty Wells Kitty Wells (born Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919) is an American country musician from Nashville, Tennessee, known from about 1955 as the Queen of Country Music. ... The Louvin Brothers were Charlie and Ira Louvin, an American duo best-known as the popularizers of close harmony, a kind of country music. ... James William Anderson III (born November 1, 1937 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American country music singer and songwriter. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Buck Owens (born August 12, 1929) is an American country singer who defined the gritty Bakersfield sound. ... Skeeter Davis Norma Nicole Skeeter Davis (December 30, 1931 - September 19, 2004) was an American country music singer and a member of the Grand Ole Opry radio show for more than 40 years. ... Note: This article is about a musician. ... Eddy Arnold (May 15, 1918) is a country music singer. ... Ray Price (born January 12, 1926) is an American country and western singer. ... Don (born February 1, 1937 in Brownie, a small coal-mining town (now defunct) near Central City, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) and Phil Everly (born January 18, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) are country-influenced rock and roll performers who had their greatest success in the 1950s. ... Webb Pierce (born August 8, 1921 - died February 24, 1991), was an American country music singer. ... Buck Owens (born August 12, 1929) is an American country singer who defined the gritty Bakersfield sound. ... Freddie Hart (born 1926) is an American country musician. ... Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 - November 17, 2003) was an American country musician. ... Another George Jones was a U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1807. ...

Top New Album Releases

• After Dark – Kitty Wells (Decca)
• George Jones Sings White Lighting and Other Favorites - George Jones (Mercury)
• Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs - Marty Robbins (Columbia)
• Satan is Real – Louvin Brothers (Capitol)

Kitty Wells Kitty Wells (born Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919) is an American country musician from Nashville, Tennessee, known from about 1955 as the Queen of Country Music. ... Another George Jones was a U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1807. ... Marty Robbins, (September 26, 1925 - December 8, 1982), born Martin David Robinson near Glendale, Arizona, served in the United States Navy during World War II and went on to become an immensely popular singing star of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee and a talented NASCAR race car driver. ... The Louvin Brothers were Charlie and Ira Louvin, an American duo best-known as the popularizers of close harmony, a kind of country music. ...

Births

• March 2 – Larry Stewart, lead singer of the 1980s pop-country group Restless Heart.
• May 4 – Randy Travis, key artist of the new traditionalist movement of the mid-1980s.
• June 21 – Kathy Mattea, folk-styled country artist of the 1980s.
• June 27 – Lorrie Morgan, country star of the 1990s; daughter of Grand Ole Opry favorite George Morgan.
• July 20 – Radney Foster, songwriter and one half of the late-1980s duo Foster and Lloyd; also, a solo artist during the early 1990s.
• August 22 – Collin Raye, a favorite country artist of the 1990s.

March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina) is an American country singer. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... Kathy Mattea (b. ... June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... Lorrie Morgan (born Loretta Lynn Morgan on June 27, 1959 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a country music singer. ... The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM Radio in Nashville, Tennessee. ... July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... Radney Foster was born in Del Rio, TX in 1959. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... Collin Raye (born Floyd Collin Wray August 22, 1959 in De Queen, Arkansas) is a country singer. ...

Deaths

Major Awards

Grammy Awards

• Best Country and Western Performance – "Tom Dooley," The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk group, perhaps the single most prominent one. ...

Further Reading

• 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)

The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN (sometimes pronounced is-ben), is a unique1 identifier for books, intended to be used commercially. ...

Other links

• Country Music Association