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1950 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1950.

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Events

  • February 14 — "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley #1 selling Country record becomes first Country cross over on Pop Best Seller chart.
  • August 19 — Hank Snow begins a 21-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard country charts with his landmark "I'm Movin' On." The song is one of just three that will stay as long atop the charts in chart history.
  • September 30 — The Grand Ole Opry is televised for the first time.

    • Number one hits

    (As certified by Billboard magazine)

  • January 7 - "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" - Gene Autry
  • January 7 - "Blue Christmas" - Ernest Tubb
  • January 14 - "I Love You Because" - Leon Payne
  • January 14 - "Blues Stay Away From Me" - Delmore Brothers
  • January 21 - "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" - Red Foley
  • January 28 - "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" - Eddy Arnold
  • April 22 - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
  • May 27 - "Birmingham Bounce" - Red Foley
  • June 17 - "Why Don't You Love Me" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
  • June 17 - "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" - Moon Mullican
  • July 15 - "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" - Red Foley
  • August 19 - "I'm Movin' On" - Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
  • August 26 - "Goodnight Irene" - Red Foley and Ernest Tubb
  • December 23 - "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" - Lefty Frizzell
  • December 30 - "Moanin' the Blues" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
    • Note: Several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played Juke Box Folk (Country & Western) Records," "Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records" and "Country & Western Records Most Played by Folk Disk Jockeys" charts.

    Births

  • February 16 — Paul Worley, record producer whose success dates from the mid-1980s onward.
  • March 26 — Ronnie McDowell, male vocalist of the 1970s and 1980s, who first rose to fame with his Elvis Presley tribute "The King is Gone."
  • August 7 — Rodney Crowell, singer-songwriter who enjoyed mainstream fame in the late 1980s before becoming a leader in the alternative country movement; ex-husband of Rosanne Cash.
  • September 16 — David Bellamy, of The Bellamy Brothers.

    • References

    1950 in country music Wikipedia
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