1970 in country music

7.1 Grammys
7.2 Academy of Country Music
7.3 Country Music Association

Events

Top Hits of the Year

No. 1 Hits

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

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 ) )

Major 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 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

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