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1928 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1928.

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Events

  • "The first edition of Bradley Kincaid's 1928 songbook called My Favorite Mountain Ballads sold more than 100,000 copies;[1]

    • Top hits of the year

  • "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)" - Jimmie Rodgers
  • "Blue Yodel No. 3" - Jimmie Rodgers
  • "Brakeman's Blues" - Jimmie Rodgers
  • "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" - Carter Family
  • "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" - Vernon Dalhart
  • "In the Jailhouse Now" - Jimmie Rodgers
  • "Keep on the Sunny Side" - Carter Family
  • "A Memory That Time Cannot Erase" - Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison
  • "My Blue Ridge Mountain Home" - Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison
  • "The Soldier's Sweetheart" - Jimmie Rodgers
  • "Wildwood Flower" - Carter Family

    • Births

  • March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, honky-tonk singer-songwriter (died 1975).
  • April 3 - Don Gibson, singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1950s through late 1970s (died 2003).
  • May 3 - Dave Dudley, singer best known for his truck-driving anthems ("Six Days on the Road") (died 2003).
  • August 10 - Jimmy Dean, singer-songwriter best known for "Big Bad John" and other 1960s ballads; television host and businessman/founder of eponymously named sausage company (died 2010).
  • December 17 - George Lindsey, comedian-actor who played Goober Pyle on television's The Andy Griffith Show and Hee Haw (died 2012).

    • References

    1928 in country music Wikipedia
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