There had been female pop stars who had successfully recorded country material, Ray Price's operatic and throbbing Texan honky-tonk paid off after he formed the Cherokee Cowboys thanks to Ralph Mooney's Crazy Arms (1956), his own You Done Me Wrong (1956), Billy Walker's I've Got a New Heartache (1956), Bob Wills' My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You (1957), and Bill Anderson's City Lights (1958). Mac Davis ( In The Ghetto, 1969 Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, 1972),Īnd Charley Pride, the first black star of Nashville Jack Greene ( There Goes My Everything, 1967), Porter Wagoner ( Misery Loves Company, 1962 Bill Anderson's The Cold Hard Facts Of Life, 1967),ĭave Dudley ( Six Days On the Road, 1963), who inaugurated the genre of "trucking songs",įormer rocker Harold Lloyd "Conway Twitty" Jenkins ( It's Only Make Believe, 1958 Next in Line, 1968 Hello Darlin', 1970), Leroy Van Dyke (Kendall Hayes' Walk On By, 1961, the top selling country hit of all times), Pianist Charlie Rich ( Lonely Weekends, 1960 Sittin' and Thinkin', 1962 Kenny O'Dell's Behind Closed Doors, 1973 The Most Beautiful Girl, 1973), ![]() George Jones (JP Richardson's White Lightning, 1959 Darrell Edwards' Tender Years, 1961 Dickey "Lee" Lipscomb's She Thinks I Still Care, 1962 Walk Through This World With Me, 1967 Bobby Braddock's He Stopped Loving Her Today, 1980), Marty Robbins (Melvin Endsley's Singing the Blues, 1955 A White Sport Coat, 1956 El Paso, 1959), Roger Miller (Ray Price's Invitation to the Blues, 1958 Dang Me, 1964 his hobo song King of the Road, 1965 England Swings, 1965), Jim Reeves ( Mexican Joe, 1953 Four Walls, 1957 Joe Allison's He'll Have to Go, 1959),įaron Young Live Fast Love Hard Die Young, 1955 Willie Nelson's Hello Walls, 1961), ![]() Rural southern states as for the big northern cities) spawned theĮddy Arnold ( I'll Hold You In My Heart, 1947 Bouquet of Roses, 1948), The Nashville Sound TM, ®, Copyright © 2003 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.Ĭhet Atkins' invention (the "Nashville sound", designed as much for the ( These are excerpts from my book "A History of Popular Music")Ĭontinued from Country Music Post-war Country Music A History of Country Music A brief history of Country Music
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