1950 in country music

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

List of years in country music (table)

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." Until 2013 (when changes to chart methodology will result in longer chart runs), the song – a 12-bar blues song metaphorically using a train trip to describe a young man's breakup with a high-class girlfriend – 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.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

US Single Artist
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 3 "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.

Other major hits

US Single Artist
5 Ain't Nobody's Business by My Own Kay Starr and Tennessee Ernie Ford
6 A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed Little Jimmy Dickens
7 Beyond the Sunset The Three Suns with Elton Britt and Rosalie Allen
4 Bloodshot Eyes Hank Penny
7 Blues, Stay Away from Me Owen Bradley Quintet
10 Bonaparte's Retreat Pee Wee King
2 Broken Down Merry-Go-Round Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
6 A Bushel and a Peck Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
8 Careless Kisses Red Foley
5 Choc'late Ice Cream Cone Red Foley
8 Choc'late Ice Cream Cone Kenny Roberts
2 Cincinnati Dancing Pig Red Foley
7 Cry of the Dying Duck in a Thunder-Storm Cactus Pryor
2 The Cry of the Wild Goose Tennessee Ernie Ford
2 Cuddle Buggin' Baby Eddy Arnold
6 Daddy's Last Letter Tex Ritter
7 Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
6 Enclosed, One Broken Heart Eddy Arnold
8 Faded Love Bob Wills
4 Frosty the Snow Man Gene Autry
9 Give Me a Little Old Fashioned Love Ernest Tubb
9 God Please Protect America Jimmie Osborne
3 The Gods Were Angry with Me Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
5 Goodnight, Irene Moon Mullican
3 Hillbilly Fever Little Jimmy Dickens
9 Hillbilly Fever No. 2 Ernest Tubb and Red Foley
4 I Gotta Have My Baby Back Floyd Tillman
10 I Gotta Have My Baby Back Red Foley
5 I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin' Hank Williams
2 I Love You Because Ernest Tubb
8 I Love You Because Clyde Moody
3 (I Won't Go Huntin', Jake) But I'll Go Chasin' Women Stuart Hamblen
2 I'll Never Be Free Kay Starr and Tennessee Ernie Ford
8 I'll Take a Back Seat for You Ernest Tubb
10 Ida Red Likes the Boogie Bob Wills
9 Just a Closer Walk with Thee Red Foley
2 Let's Go to Church (Next Sunday Morning) Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
2 Letters Have No Arms Ernest Tubb
3 Little Angel with the Dirty Face Eddy Arnold
7 Lose Your Blues Red Kirk
8 Love Song in 32 Bars Johnny Bond
2 The Lovebug Itch Eddy Arnold
6 Mama and Daddy Broke My Heart Eddy Arnold
4 Mona Lisa Moon Mullican
10 Mona Lisa Jimmy Wakely
9 My Son Calls Another Man Daddy Hank Williams
9 Nobody's Lonesome for Me Hank Williams
8 Our Lady of Fatima Red Foley
7 Pan American Boogie The Delmore Brothers
3 Peter Cottontail Gene Autry
6 Peter Cottontail Mervin Shiner
7 Peter Cottontail Jimmy Wakely
7 Peter Cottontail Johnnie Lee Wills
10 A Prison Without Walls Eddy Arnold
3 Quicksilver Elton Britt and Rosalie Allen
2 Rag Mop Johnnie Lee Wills
2 (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You Stuart Hamblen
5 (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You Ernest Tubb
5 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Gene Autry
7 Slippin' Around with Jole Blon Bud Messner
8 Stampede Roy Rogers
9 Steal Away Red Foley
4 Sugarfoot Rag Red Foley
3 Sunday Down in Tennessee Red Foley
2 Tennessee Border – No. 2 Red Foley and Ernest Tubb
6 There's No Wings on My Angel Eddy Arnold
5 They'll Never Take Her Love from Me Hank Williams
3 Throw Your Love My Way Ernest Tubb
8 Unfaithful One Ernest Tubb
3 Why Should I Cry? Eddy Arnold
9 Why Should We Try Anymore Hank Williams
10 You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry Ernest Tubb

Births

Further reading

  • Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
  • Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
  • Whitburn, Joel. "Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.

References

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