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1941 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1941.

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Events

  • January 1 - Radio programmers begin a 10-month ban on the ASCAP catalog when they fail to reach an agreement. Instead, disc jockeys begin to rely on BMI and its catalog of "hillbilly" music.
  • October - The Grand Ole Opry organizes a "Camel Country" tour in a show of support for American servicemen, many of whom would be off to war two months later.

    • Top hits of the year

  • "A Year Ago Tonight" - Gene Autry
  • "Alamo Rag" - Adolph Hofner
  • "Along the Santa Fe Trail" - Bing Crosby
  • "Be Honest With Me" - Roy Acuff
  • "Be Honest With Me" - Gene Autry
  • "Be Honest With Me" - Red Foley
  • "Be Honest With Me" - Jimmy Wakely
  • "Big Beaver" - Bob Wills
  • "Come Back Little Pal" - Roy Acuff
  • "Cool Water" - Sons of the Pioneers
  • "Draftee Blues" - Johnny Bond
  • "Gone And Left Me Blues" - Jimmy Wakely
  • "I Hung My Head And I Cried" - Jimmie Davis
  • "I'll Never Let You Go Little Darling" - Gene Autry
  • "I'll Never Let You Go Little Darling" - Jimmy Wakely
  • "In My Adobe Hacienda" - Louise Massey
  • "It Makes No Difference Now" - Gene Autry
  • "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" - Patsy Montana
  • "I Wonder Why You Said Gooebye" - Ernest Tubb
  • "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight" - Jimmy Wakely
  • "Lil Liza Jane" - Bob Wills
  • "Live and Let Live" - Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan
  • "Maiden's Prayer" - Bob Wills
  • "My Mary" - Jimmie Davis
  • "Mean Mama Blues" - Ernest Tubb
  • "New San Antonio Rose" - Bing Crosby
  • "Old Shep" - Red Foley
  • "Please Remember Me" - Ernest Tubb
  • "The Precious Jewel" - Roy Acuff
  • "Sweethearts Or Strangers" - Jimmie Davis
  • "Take Me Back To Tulsa" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  • "Tears On My Pillow" - Gene Autry
  • "Time Changes Everything" - Bob Wills
  • "Too Late" - Jimmie Davis
  • "Twin Guitar Special" - Bob Wills
  • "You Are My Sunshine" - Gene Autry
  • "Walking the Floor Over You" - Ernest Tubb
  • "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" - Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan
  • "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon" - Hank Penny
  • "Worried Mind" - Roy Acuff
  • "Worried Mind" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  • "Worried Mind" - Texas Jim Lewis
  • "Worried Mind" - Roy Rogers

    • Births

  • January 18 - Bobby Goldsboro, middle-of-the-road artist best known for 1968's "Honey."
  • February 8 - Henson Cargill, best known for 1968's "Skip a Rope." (died 2007)
  • March 28 - Charlie McCoy, harmonica specialist.
  • April 2 - Sonny Throckmorton, songwriter.
  • May 31 - Johnny Paycheck, outlaw country-styled singer best known for "Take This Job and Shove It" (died 2003).
  • August 14 - Connie Smith, female vocalist who grew to fame in the 1960s; Grand Ole Opry mainstay.
  • September 21 - Dickey Lee, pop-country singer-songwriter.
  • September 26 - David Frizzell, brother of Lefty Frizzell who grew into a country star in his own right.
  • October 17 - Earl Thomas Conley, singer-songwriter who became one of country's biggest stars of the 1980s.
  • November 6 - Guy Clark, alternative-outlaw country singer-songwriter.
  • November 27 - Eddie Rabbitt, singer-songwriter who crossed over to pop in the early 1980s with hits such as "I Love a Rainy Night" and "Drivin' My Life Away" (died 1998)
  • November 29 - Jody Miller, female vocalist best known for "Queen of the House" (answer song to Roger Miller's "King of the Road").

    • Deaths

  • November 7 - Henry Whitter, 49, early country musician.

    • References

    1941 in country music Wikipedia
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