Saturday, November 25, 2023

Jimi Hendrix: Top 25 Songs

Jimi Hendrix

Top 25 Songs

Legendary psychedelic-blues/rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix on 11/27/1942 in Seattle, Washington. He was only 27 when he died of a drug overdose in London on 9/18/1970 but his is one of rock music’s greatest legacies.

He first worked as a sideman with Rosa Lee Brooks (1964), Isley Brothers (1964), Buddy & Stacey and the Upsetters (1965); Little Richard, Curtis Knight, and Ronnie Youngblood. He formed Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in 1965. The next year he was discovered by the Animals’ Chas Chandler at New York City’s Café Wha? He went to London and formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966-1969) with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. He also helmed the Band of Gypsys with drummer Buddy Miles and bassist Buddy Cox from 1969 to 1970.

His albums Are You Experienced (1967) and Electric Ladyland (1968) are featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Albums of All Time. His cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” (1968) is featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era 1954-1999.

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Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

1. All Along the Watchtower (1968)
2. Purple Haze (1967)
3. Hey Joe (1966)
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (1968)
5. Little Wing (1967)

6. Crosstown Traffic (1968)
7. Foxey Lady (1967)
8. Fire (1967)
9. The Wind Cries Mary (1967)
10. Red House (1967)

11. The Star Spanged Banner (live, 1969)
12. Are You Experienced? (1967)
13. Freedom (1970)
14. Burning of the Midnight Lamp (1967)
15. Dolly Dagger (1970)

16. Stone Free (1966)
17. Manic Depression (1967)
18. Angel (1970)
19. Up from the Skies (1967)
20. Castles Made of Sand (1967)

21. Like a Rolling Stone (live, 1967)
22. If 6 Was 9 (1967)
23. Gloria (live, 1968)
24. I Don’t Live Today (1967)
25. Wild Thing (live, 1967)

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First posted 5/21/2019; last updated 11/25/2023.

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Friday, November 17, 2023

Kevin Gilbert: Top 20 Songs

Kevin Gilbert

Top 20 Songs

Overview:


Born: Kevin Matthew Gilbert
Date: November 20, 1966
Where: Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Died: May 17, 1996
Where: Eagle Rock, California

Known As: synth-pop/neo-progressive rock singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

“Sometimes genius comes and goes without much notice or fanfare. Such is the case with the late Kevin Gilbert,” P “a musical prodigy” JS who “colleagues invariably called…‘the most talented musician I ever met.’” JS This little-known performer ranks as one of my favorite singers. When he died, he “left behind enormous unanswered questions about his potential.” JS

Kevin “Gilbert was a moderately important figure in Californian rock music in the 1980’s and 1990’s.” DN “He was an accomplished instrumentalist and composer, who played keyboards, guitars, drums, bass and cellos, as well as singing vocals. His talents also extended to producer.” WK He “spent several years on the edge of stardom [but] could never capitalize on his talents.” DE ” He “might be the most talented American musician to be involved with progressive rock, with the possible exception of Frank Zappa. Although all of his work contains a very strong pop element, there’s usually a lot of prog underneath it.” DN

I have said that if I were a musician, Kevin Gilbert best represents the kind of music I would want to make. His lyrics go beyond clichéd love songs and are infused with witticism. His musicianship showcase the tireless hours he spent in the studio perfecting his craft. It was a shame to lose such an astonishing talent at 29. His work, however, lives on and for those uninitiated in his music, I hope this post leads you down the same musical journey where KG’s music has taken me.

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Top 20 Songs

These are my top 20 favorite Kevin Gilbert songs.

1. There Was a Little Boy (Toy Matinee, 1990)
2. Song for a Dead Friend (1995)
3. Tired Old Man (1986)
4. Suit Fugue (Dance of the A & R Men) (1996)
5. Certifiable #1 Smash (1995)
6. Last Plane Out (Toy Matinee, 1990)
7. Kashmir (1995)
8. A Long Day’s Life (1996)
9. The Ballad of Jenny Ledge (Toy Matinee, 1990)
10. Joytown (1995)

11. Parade (1996)
12. The Best Laid Plans (with Marc Bonilla, 1991)
13. Progress (Giraffe, 1989)
14. Until I Get Her Back (1986)
15. When You Give Your Love to Me (1995)
16. El Paso (with Marc Bonilla, 1990)
17. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Toy Matinee, 1991)
18. Bitter Souvenir (1994)
19. Blank Page (Toy Matinee, 1990)
20. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (with Marc Bonilla, 1990)

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Tommy Dorsey: Top 100 Songs

Tommy Dorsey

Top 100 Songs

Bandleader Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr. was born on 11/19/1905 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He died on 11/26/1956. Known as the “Sentimental Gentleman of Swing,” he is considered among the greatest trombonists in jazz history.

He and his older brother Jimmy worked in bands led by Jean Goldkette, Vincent Lopez, Red Nichols, Nat Shilkret, Rudy Vallee, and Paul Whiteman. They also worked with the California Ramblers (25-27), Charleston Chasers, and formed their own Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (34-35). Tommy formed his own band in 1935 out of the remains of Joe Haymes’ band. Sy Oliver worked as an arranger for the band and Frank Sinatra (40-42) recorded with Dorsey as a vocalist.

“All the Things You Are” and “I’ll Never Smile Again” are featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Songs of the Pre-Rock Era, 1890-1953.

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Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

BS = Boswell Sisters, DB = Dorsey Brothers, JL = Jack Leonard, TS = The Sentimentalists, FS = Frank Sinatra, EW = Edythe Wright. According to Joel Whitburn’s Pop Memories 1890-1954, Tommy Dorsey hit the top of the U.S. charts 19 times (#1 songs noted in list).

DMDB Top 1%:

1. All the Things You Are (w/ JL, 1939) #1
2. I’ll Never Smile Again (w/ Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers, 1942) #1
3. There Are Such Things (w/ Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers, 1942) #1
4. Once in a While (1937) #1
5. Lullaby of Broadway (DB w/ Bob Crosby, 1935) #1
6. Alone (w/ Cliff Weston, 1936) #1
7. Music, Maestro, Please! (w/ EW, 1938) #1

DMDB Top 5%:

8. Marie (w/ JL, 1937) #1
9. The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round (w/ EW, 1935) #1
10. I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (1936)

11. Indian Summer (w/ JL, 1939) #1
12. In the Blue of the Evening (w/ FS, 1943) #1
13. The Dipsy Doodle (w/ EW, 1937) #1
14. Alexander’s Ragtime Band (BS w/ DB, 1935)
15. Stardust (w/ FS, 1941)
16. Stardust (w/ EW, 1936)
17. Oh, Look at Me Now (w/ FS, 1941)
18. In the Still of the Night (w/ JL, 1937)
19. Chasing Shadows (DB w/ Bob Eberly, 1935) #1
20. Opus No. 1 (1945)

21. I’ll Be Seeing You (w/ FS, 1940)
22. Our Love (w/ JL, 1939) #1
23. How About You? (w/ FS, 1942)
24. The Lady Is a Tramp (w/ JL, 1937)
25. I Should Care (w/ Bonnie Lou Williams & TS, 1945)
26. This Love of Mine (w/ FS, 1941)
27. Now It Can Be Told (w/ JL, 1938)
28. Satan Takes a Holiday (1937) #1
29. On the Sunny Side of the Street (w/ TS, 1945)
30. You (w/ EW, 1936) #1

DMDB Top 10%:

31. Everything Happens to Me (w/ FS, 1941)
32. Oh, You Crazy Moon (w/ JL, 1939)
33. Imagination (w/ FS, 1940)
34. Yes Indeed! (w/ Jo Stafford & Sy Oliver, 1941)
35. Polka Dots and Moonbeams (w/ FS, 1940)
36. Boogie Woogie (1938)
37. They Can’t Take That Away from Me (w/ JL, 1937)
38. On Treasure Island (w/ EW, 1935) #1
39. It’s Always You (w/ FS, 1943)
40. I Concentrate on You (w/ Anita Boyer, 1940)

41. The Lamp Is Low (w/ JL, 1939)
42. Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread (w/ FS, 1940)
43. Have You Got Any Castles, Baby? (w/ JL, 1937)
44. You’re the Top (DB w/ Ray McKinley, 1934)
45. Stop Beatin’ Around the Mulberry Bush (w/ EW, 1938)
46. It Started All Over Again (w/ FS, 1943)
47. I Hadn’t Anyone Till You (w/ JL, 1938)
48. Will You Still Be Mine? (w/ Connie Haines, 1944)
49. You Are My Lucky Star (DB w/ Bob Eberly, 1935)
50. It’s the Girl (BS w/ DB, 1931)

51. A-Tisket, A-Tasket (w/ EW, 1938)
52. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me) (w/ FS, 1940)
53. Darn That Dream (w/ Anita Boyer, 1940)
54. Just As Though You Were Here (w/ FS, 1942)
55. Take Me (w/ FS, 1942)
56. Until (w/ Harry Prime, 1948)
57. What Is This Thing Called Love? (w/ Connie Haines, 1942)
58. Honeysuckle Rose (Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra w/ Fats Waller, Tommy Dorsey, and Dick McDonough, 1937)
59. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (w/ EW, 1938)
60. On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (w/ TS, 1945)

61. Did I Remember? (w/ EW, 1936)
62. You Couldn’t Be Cuter (1938)
63. Honeysuckle Rose (DB w/ Don Mattison, Skeets Herfurt, & Rock Hillman, 1935)
64. My Cabin of Dreams (w/ EW, 1937)
65. San Francisco (w/ EW, 1936)
66. Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love (DB w/ Bing Crosby, 1929)
67. You Are My Lucky Star (w/ Eleanor Powell, 1935)
68. How Are Things in Glocca Mora? (w/ Stuart Foster, 1947)
69. Manhattan Serenade (w/ Jo Stafford, 1942)
70. Let’s Get Away from It All (w/ the Pied Pipers, 1941)

71. Do I Worry? (w/ FS, 1941)
72. Says My Heart (w EW, 1938)
73. You and I (w/ FS, 1941)
74. Sweet Sue, Just You (w/ JL, 1939)

DMDB Top 20%:

75. The Big Apple (w/ EW, 1937) #1
76. I Dream of You (w/ Freddy Stewart, 1944)
77. Dolores (w/ FS, 1941) #1
78. I’ll Be Seeing You (w/ FS, 1961)
79. When I Take My Sugar to Tea (BS w/ DB, 1931)
80. Again (1949)

81. Are You Having Any Fun? (w/ EW, 1939)
82. Be Careful, It’s My Heart (w/ FS, 1942)
83. Say It Over and Over Again (w/ FS, 1940)
84. Our Love Affair (w/ FS, 1940)
85. Only Forever (w/ Alan Starr, 1940)
86. You Leave Me Breathless, 1938)
87. All This and Heaven Too (w/ FS, 1940)
88. Who? (w/ JL, 1937)
89. I Can Dream, Can’t I? (w/ JL, 1938)
90. You’re Lonely and I’m Lonely (1940)

91. I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (DB w/ Bob Crosby, 1934)
92. Lazy Bones (Mildred Bailey w/ DB, 1933)
93. More and More (w/ Bonnie Lou Williams, 1945)
94. Trade Winds (w/ FS, 1940)
95. Aren’t You Glad You’re You? (w/ Stuart Foster, 1946)
96. I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again (DB w/ Don Mattison, Skeets Herfurt, and Rock Hillman, 1935)
97. Song of India (1937)
98. I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foollin’ (DB w/ Bob Eberly, 1935)
99. Violets for Your Furs (w/ FS, 1941)
100. Fine and Dandy (DB w/ Scrappy Lambert, 1930)

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Sunday, November 12, 2023

The Top 200 Country Songs of All Time

Country Music:

Top 200 Songs

The DMDB’s list of the top 100 country songs of all time was created by aggregating 90 best-of lists focused on country songs. This included awards for Best Song and/or Single from the Academy of Country Music, Country Music Association, the Grammys. See the resources at the bottom of this page. This was first posted on the DMDB Facebook page on April 3, 2011 and then on the blog on August 28, 2011.

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1. Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
2. George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
3. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)
4. Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places” (1990)
5. Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (1982)
6. Randy Travis “Forever and Ever, Amen” (1987)
7. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
8. Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963)
9. Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
10. Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)

11. Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
12. Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (1979)
13. Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
14. Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (1978)
15. Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying” (2004)
16. Lonestar “Amazed” (1999)
17. Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
18. Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” (1970)
19. Dolly Parton “Jolene” (1973)
20. Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1970)

21. Garth Brooks “The Dance” (1990)
22. Merle Haggard “Mama Tried” (1968)
23. Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces” (1961)
24. Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” (1974)
25. Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy” (1975)
26. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” (2009)
27. Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1955)
28. Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee” (1969)
29. Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” (2006)
30. Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” (1978)

31. Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” (1973)
32. Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968)
33. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
34. Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (1975)
35. Alan Jackson “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” (2001)
36. Charley Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (1971)
37. Kitty Wells “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels” (1952)
38. Waylon Jennings “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” (1977)
39. Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
40. Ray Price “For the Good Times” (1970)

41. Hank Williams “Hey, Good Lookin’” (1951)
42. Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (1971)
43. Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream” (1983)
44. Jim Reeves “He’ll Have to Go” (1959)
45. Lynn Anderson “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” (1970)
46. Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart” (1992)
47. Faith Hill “Breathe” (1999)
48. Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee” (1992)
49. Eddy Arnold “Make the World Go Away” (1965)
50. Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (1949)

51. George Strait “Amarillo by Morning” (1983)
52. Faron Young “Hello Walls” (1961)
53. Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise” (2012)
54. Waylon Jennings with Willie Nelson “Good Hearted Woman” (1975)
55. Shania Twain “You’re Still the One” (1998)
56. Ray Price “Crazy Arms” (1956)
57. John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (1971)
58. Buck Owens “Act Naturally” (1963)
59. The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)” (1935)
60. Lee Greenwood “God Bless the U.S.A.” (1984)

61. LeAnn Rimes “Blue” (1996)
62. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball” (1938)
63. Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
64. Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (1977)
65. Tim McGraw with Faith Hill “It’s Your Love” (1997)
66. Reba McEntire “Fancy” (1991)
67. Deanna Carter “Strawberry Wine” (1996)
68. Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans” (1959)
69. Brooks & Dunn “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” (1991)
70. Hank Snow “I’m Moving On” (1950)

71. Martina McBride “Independence Day” (1993)
72. Johnny Paycheck “Take This Job and Shove It” (1977)
73. The Oak Ridge Boys “Elvira” (1981)
74. Don Gibson “Oh Lonesome Me” (1958)
75. Ronnie Milsap “Smokey Mountain Rain” (1980)
76. Dixie Chicks “Wide Open Spaces” (1998)
77. Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
78. John Michael Montgomery “I Swear” (1993)
79. Patsy Cline “Sweet Dreams of You” (1963)
80. Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” (1971)

81. Patsy Cline “Walkin’ After Midnight” (1957)
82. Keith Whitley “When You Say Nothing at All” (1988)
83. Alan Jackson “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” (1991)
84. Johnny Cash “A Boy Named Sue” (live, 1969)
85. Buck Owens “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (1965)
86. Bill Monroe “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1947)
87. Freddy Fender “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (1975)
88. The Statler Brothers “Flowers on the Wall” (1965)
89. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
90. Jack Greene “There Goes My Everything” (1966)

91. Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
92. The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (1928)
93. Leroy Van Dyke “Walk on By” (1961)
94. Tammy Wynette “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (1968)
95. Taylor Swift “Love Story” (2008)
96. Faith Hill “This Kiss” (1998)
97. David Allen Coe “You Never Even Call Me by My Name” (1975)
98. Glen Campbell “Galveston” (1969)
99. Lefty Frizzell “Long Black Veil” (1959)
100. Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)

101. Hank Locklin “Please Help Me, I’m Falling” (1960)
102. Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
103. George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care” (1962)
104. Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” (2003)
105. Randy Travis “On the Other Hand” (1985)
106. Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me” (2010)
107. Rascal Flatts “Bless the Broken Road” (2004)
108. Hank Williams “Jambalaya on the Bayou” (1952)
109. Sugarland “Stay” (2007)
110. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “Faded Love” (1950)

111. George Strait “All My Ex’s Live in Texas” (1987)
112. Eric Church “Springsteen” (2011)
113. David Houston “Almost Persuaded” (1966)
114. Keith Urban “Somebody Like You” (2002)
115. Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash “Jackson” (1967)
116. Tanya Tucker “Delta Dawn” (1972)
117. Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart” (1951)
118. Gretchen Wilson “Redneck Woman” (2004)
119. Freddie Hart “Easy Loving” (1971)
120. The Band Perry “If I Die Young” (2010)

121. Dolly Parton “9 to 5” (1980)
122. Trisha Yearwood “She’s in Love with the Boy” (1991)
123. Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
124. Osborne Brothers “Rocky Top” (1968)
125. Kenny Chesney “The Good Stuff” (2002)
126. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2002)
127. Vince Gill “Go Rest High on That Mountain” (1994)
128. Hank Williams Jr. “Family Tradition” (1979)
129. Johnny Cash “Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down” (1970)
130. Jimmy Dean “Big Bad John” (1961)

131. Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” (1928)
132. The Highwaymen (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, & Kris Kristofferson) “The Highwayman” (1984)
133. Eddy Arnold “Bouquet of Roses” (1948)
134. Rosanne Cash “Seven Year Ache” (1981)
135. Tom T. Hall “Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine” (1972)
136. Dwight Yoakam “Guitars, Cadillacs” (1986)
137. Alabama “Mountain Music” (1982)
138. Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man” (2015)
139. Johnny Lee “Lookin’ for Love” (1980)
140. Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road” (2017)

141. Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life” (1952)
142. Donna Fargo “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.” (1972)
143. Kenny Rogers “Lucille” (1977)
144. Loretta Lynn “Don't Come Home A’Drinkin’ with Lovin’ on Your Mind” (1967)
145. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1950)
146. George Strait “Check Yes or No” (1995)
147. Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses” (1988)
148. Patsy Cline “She’s Got You” (1962)
149. Brad Paisley with Alison Krauss “Whiskey Lullaby” (2004)
150. Connie Smith “Once a Day” (1964)

151. Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel” (2013)
152. Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow” (2013)
153. Carrie Underwood “Jesus Take the Wheel” (2005)
154. Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” (1979)
155. Zac Brown Band “Chicken Fried” (2008)
156. George Strait “Love Without End, Amen” (1990)
157. Eddy Arnold “The Cattle Call” (1945)
158. Alabama “Love in the First Degree” (1981)
159. Lefty Frizzell “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (1950)
160. Vince Gill “When I Call Your Name” (1990)

161. Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart” (1936)
162. Vern Gosdin “Chiseled in Stone” (1988)
163. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “San Antonio Rose” (1939)
164. Hank Williams “Kaw-Liga” (1953)
165. Ray Price “Heartaches by the Number” (1959)
166. Dolly Parton “Here You Come Again” (1977)
167. Garth Brooks “If Tomorrow Never Comes” (1989)
168. C.W. McCall “Convoy” (1975)
169. John Denver “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” (1974)
170. Johnny Cash “Daddy Sang Bass” (1968)

171. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
172. Clint Black “A Better Man” (1989)
173. Little Big Town “Girl Crush” (2015)
174. The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (1957)
175. Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980)
176. Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle” (1939)
177. Travis Tritt “Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares” (1991)
178. Tim McGraw with Patty Loveless “Please Remember Me” (1999)
179. Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind” (1967)
180. Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be” (2017)

181. The Judds “Grandpa, Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days” (1985)
182. Hank Williams “I Saw the Light” (1948)
183. Sonny James “Young Love” (1956)
184. The Judds “Mama He’s Crazy” (1984)
185. Don Gibson “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1958)
186. Buck Owens “Together Again” (1964)
187. Hank Williams Jr. “A Country Boy Can Survive” (1981)
188. Carl Butler & Pearl “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (1962)
189. Toby Keith “How Do You Like Me Now?!” (1999)
190. Charlie Rich “The Most Beautiful Girl” (1973)

191. Dan + Shay “Tequila” (2018)
192. Porter Wagoner “Green, Green Grass of Home” (1965)
193. Dixie Chicks “Cowboy Take Me Away” (1999)
194. Brooks & Dunn “My Maria” (1996)
195. Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (1947)
196. Merle Haggard & the Strangers “Today I Started Loving You Again” (1968)
197. Shania Twain “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” (1997)
198. Hunter Hayes “Wanted” (2011)
199. Roger Miller “Dang Me” (1964)
200. Randy Travis “Three Wooden Crosses” (2003)

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Dave's Faves: My Top 100 Country Songs

Dave’s Faves:

My Top 100 Country Songs

Here are my personal top 100 favorite country songs. Note: year of release is when song was first released, whether it be as a single or part of an album. Links on songs will take you to a DMDB page dedicated to that song.

To qualify as a country song, the song had to reach the Billboard country chart, rank on the DMDB list of the top 200 country songs, or be by an artist who achieved one or both of those feats. I excluded Christmas songs and a lot of the crossover hits of the 1950s which were also successful on the pop and R&B charts.

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1. Lyle Lovett “Step Inside This House” (1998)
2. Eagles “Seven Bridges Road” (live, 1980)
3. Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” (1979)
4. Eagles “Desperado” (1973)
5. Willie Nelson with Lukas Nelson “Just Breathe” (2012)
6. Alan Jackson “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” (2001)
7. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2002)
8. Alabama “Mountain Music” (1982)
9. Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (1978)
10. Eagles “Take It Easy” (1972)

11. Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)
12. Sturgill Simpson “In Bloom” (2016)
13. Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (1979)
14. Sturgill Simpson “The Promise” (2014)
15. Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
16. Lyle Lovett “Nobody Knows Me” (1989)
17. Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
18. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)
19. Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963)
20. Dolly Parton “9 to 5” (1980)

21. John Denver “Rocky Mountain High” (1972)
22. John Denver “Sunshine on My Shoulders” (1971)
23. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
24. Lyle Lovett “Friend of the Devil” (1991)
25. Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980)
26. Waylon Jennings “Just the Good Ol’ Boys (Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard)” (1980)
27. Lyle Lovett “Pontiac” (1988)
28. Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
29. John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (1971)
30. Johnny Paycheck “Take This Job and Shove It” (1977)

31. Eagles “Lyin’ Eyes” (1975)
32. Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” (1978)
33. John Denver “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” (1974)
34. Willie Nelson “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” (1980)
35. Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
36. Lyle Lovett “She’s Hot to Go” (1988)
37. Olivia Newton-John “I Honestly Love You” (1974)
38. Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
39. Lyle Lovett “She’s No Lady” (1988)
40. Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow” (2013)

41. Lyle Lovett “12th of June” (2022)
42. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
43. Willie Nelson “Live Forever” (2022)
44. Dolly Parton “Jolene” (1973)
45. Dixie Chicks “Travelin’ Soldier” (2002)
46. Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (live, 1968)
47. Flatt & Scruggs “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” (1962)
48. Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
49. Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places” (1990)
50. Eagles “Tequila Sunrise” (1973)

51. The Dirt Band with Linda Ronstadt “An American Dream” (1979)
52. Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy” (1975)
53. George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
54. George Strait “Love Without End, Amen” (1990)
55. Jimmy Dean “Big Bad John” (1961)
56. Hank Snow “I’m Movin’ On” (1950)
57. Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
58. Pure Prairie League “Falling in and Out of Love” / “Amie” (1975)
59. The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, & Kris Kristofferson) “The Highwayman” (1985)
60. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)

61. Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
62. Kenny Rogers “Lucille” (1977)
63. Eddie Rabbitt “I Love a Rainy Night” (1980)
64. Mac Davis “It’s Hard to Be Humble” (1980)
65. Alabama “Love in the First Degree” (1981)
66. Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)
67. Olivia Newton-John “Hopelessly Devoted to You” (1978)
68. Mary Chapin Carpenter “It Don’t Bring You” (1989)
69. Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee” (1969)
70. Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying” (2004)

71. Alabama “Take Me Down” (1982)
72. Johnny Cash “A Boy Named Sue” (live, 1969)
73. Juice Newton “Queen of Hearts’ (1981)
74. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (1969)
75. Randy Travis “Forever and Ever, Amen” (1987)
76. Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (1982)
77. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream” (1983)
78. Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin’” (1951)
79. Alabama “Dixieland Delight” (1983)
80. Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart” (1992)

81. The Artists of Then, Now & Forever “Forever Country” (2016)
82. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
83. Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
84. The Oak Ridge Boys “Elvira” (1981)
85. Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” (1970)
86. Lyle Lovett “L.A. County” (1988)
87. Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton “We’ve Got Tonight” (1983)
88. Elvis Presley “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1954)
89. Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces” (1961)
90. Dixie Chicks “Silent House” (2006)

91. Ronnie Milsap “Smokey Mountain Rain” (1980)
92. Collin Raye “Love, Me” (1991)
93. Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968)
94. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” (2009)
95. Hank Williams “Move It on Over” (1947)
96. Lyle Lovett “Here I Am” (1989)
97. Alabama “My Home’s in Alabama” (1980)
98. John Anderson “Swingin’” (1983)
99. Juice Newton “Angel of the Morning” (1981)
100. Alabama “Forty Hour Week for a Livin’” (1985)

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Friday, November 10, 2023

Country Music: Annual Awards, 1922-2023

Country Music:

Annual Song Awards, 1922-2023

This page offers a consolidated list of the country songs of each year as determined by various organizations and entities. They include:

  • Academy of Country Music: Singles and Songs of the Year, 1967-2020
  • American Music Awards: Country Song of the Year, 1974-1995, 2016-2020
  • Billboard: Country Song of the Year, 1944-2020. The magazine began its country chart in 1944 and the song with the most weeks at #1 each year from then through 1997 is noted below. After 1997, Billboard’s Country Song of the Year is based on the year-end charts at Billboard.com.
  • Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI): Country Song of the Year, 1998-2020. Music publishing company tracks most-played songs each year.
  • Country Music Association: Singles and Songs of the Year, 1967-2021
  • Dave’s Music Database: the highest-ranked country song each year, 1922-2020
  • Grammys: Country Song of the Year, 1965-2020

See links at bottom of page for more details on above.

Note: awards were typically given a year after the date noted. For example, the Highwomen’s “Crowded Table” won the Grammy for Country Song of the Year in 2021, but it was for the eligibility year of 2020.

Click here to see other ‘Songs of the Year’ lists.

2023:
  • BMI: Morgan Wallen “You Proof”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Luke Combs “Fast Car”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Luke Combs “Fast Car”
2022:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Cole Swindell “She Had Me at Heads Carolina”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Cole Swindell “She Had Me at Heads Carolina”
  • AMA: -- (show canceled)
  • BMI: Luke Combs “Forever After All”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Cody Johnson “Til You Can’t”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Jordan Davis with Luke Bryan “Buy Dirt”
  • Grammy: Cody Johnson “Til You Can’t”
2021:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean “If I Didn’t Love You”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lainey Wilson “Things a Man Oughta Know”
  • AMA: Morgan Wallen “Wasted on You”
  • Billboard: Luke Combs “Forever After All”
  • BMI: Lee Brice “One of Them Girls”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Starting Over”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Starting Over”
  • DMDB: Walker Hayes “Fancy Like”
  • Grammy: Chris Stapleton “Cold”
2020:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Carly Pearce & Lee Brice “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Maren Morris “The Bones”
  • AMA: Gabby Barrett “The Good Ones”
  • Billboard: Gabby Barrett with Charlie Puth “I Hope”
  • BMI: Morgan Wallen “Whiskey Glasses”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Maren Morris “The Bones”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Maren Morris “The Bones”
  • DMDB: Gabby Barrett “The Good Ones”
  • Grammy: The Highwomen “Crowded Table”

2019:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Blake Shelton “God’s Country”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Old Dominion “One Man Band”
  • AMA: Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber “10,000 Hours”
  • Billboard: Morgan Wallen “Whiskey Glasses”
  • BMI: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Carly Pearce & Lee Brice “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Luke Combs “Beautiful Crazy”
  • DMDB: Gabby Barrett with Charlie Puth “I Hope”
  • Grammy: Tanya Tucker “Bring My Flowers Now”
2018:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • AMA: Dan + Shay “Speechless”
  • Billboard: Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be”
  • BMI: Brett Young “In Case You Didn’t Know”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos”
  • DMDB: Dan + Shay “Tequila”
  • Grammy: Kacey Musgraves “Space Cowboy”
2017:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Tin Man”
  • AMA: Kane Brown “Heaven”
  • Billboard: Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road”
  • BMI: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Little Big Man “Better Man”
  • DMDB: Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be”
  • Grammy: Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos”

2016:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • AMA: Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color”
  • Billboard: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • BMI: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Tim McGraw “Humble and Kind”
  • DMDB: Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
  • Grammy: Tim McGraw “Humble and Kind”
2015:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Chris Stapleton “Nobody to Blame”
  • AMA: Tim McGraw “Humble and Kind”
  • Billboard: Sam Hunt “Take Your Time”
  • BMI: Brett Eldredge “Beat of the Music”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Little Big Town “Girl Crush”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Little Big Town “Girl Crush”
  • DMDB: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man”
  • Grammy: Little Big Town “Girl Crush”
2014:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lee Brice “I Don’t Dance”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Automatic”
  • Billboard: Florida Georgia Line with Luke Bryan “This Is How We Roll”
  • BMI: Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Automatic”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow”
  • DMDB: Jason Aldean “Burnin’ It Down”
  • Grammy: Glen Campbell “I’m Not Gonna Miss You”
2013:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Mama’s Broken Heart”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lee Brice “I Drive Your Truck”
  • Billboard: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise”
  • BMI: Hunter Hayes “Wanted”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Lee Brice “I Drive Your Truck”
  • DMDB: Kacey Musgraves “Follow Your Arrow”
  • Grammy: Kacey Musgraves “Merry Go Round”

2012:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Over You”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Over You”
  • Billboard: Josh Turner “Time Is Love”
  • BMI: Rodney Atkins “Take a Back Road”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Little Big Town “Pontoon”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “Over You”
  • DMDB: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise”
  • Grammy: Carrie Underwood “Blown Away”
2011:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson “Don’t You Wanna Stay”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Eli Young Band “Crazy Girl”
  • Billboard: Eli Young Band “Crazy Girl”
  • BMI: Josh Turner “All Over Me”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
  • DMDB: Hunter Hayes “Wanted”
  • Grammy: Taylor Swift “Mean”
2010:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
  • Billboard: Lee Brice “Love Like Crazy”
  • BMI: Taylor Swift “You Belong with Me”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert “The House That Built Me”
  • DMDB: The Band Perry “If I Die Young”
  • Grammy: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
2009:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • Billboard: Lady Antebellum “I Run to You”
  • BMI: Taylor Swift “Love Story”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lady Antebellum “I Run to You”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Jamey Johnson “In Color”
  • DMDB: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
  • Grammy: Taylor Swift “White Horse”

2008:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Trace Adkins “You’re Gonna Miss This”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Jamey Johnson “In Color”
  • Billboard: James Otto “Just Got Started Lovin’ You”
  • BMI: Taylor Swift “Teardrops on My Guitar”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: George Strait “I Saw God Today”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Sugarland “Stay”
  • DMDB: Taylor Swift “Love Story”
  • Grammy: Sugarland “Stay”
2007:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Sugarland “Stay”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Sugarland “Stay”
  • Billboard: Rodney Atkins “Watching You”
  • BMI: Rascal Flatts “What Hurts the Most”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: George Strait “Give It Away”
  • DMDB: Kid Rock “All Summer Long”
  • Grammy: Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
2006:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: George Strait “Give It Away”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: George Strait “Give It Away”
  • Billboard: Rodney Atkins “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)”
  • BMI: Toby Keith “As Good As I Once Was”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Believe”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Believe”
  • DMDB: Dixie Chicks “Not Ready to Make Nice”
  • Grammy: Carrie Underwood “Jesus, Take the Wheel”
2005:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Carrie Underwood “Jesus, Take the Wheel”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Believe”
  • Billboard: Craig Morgan “That’s What I Love about Sunday”
  • BMI: Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lee Ann Womack “I May Hate Myself in the Morning”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss “Whiskey Lullaby”
  • DMDB: Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”
  • Grammy: Rascal Flatts “Bless the Broken Road”
2004:

2003:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “Three Wooden Crosses”
  • Billboard: Lonestar “My Front Porch Looking In”
  • BMI: Dixie Chicks “Landslide”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Johnny Cash “Hurt”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “Three Wooden Crosses”
  • DMDB: Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
  • Grammy: Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
2002:

2001:
2000:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • Billboard: Toby Keith “How Do You Like Me Now?!”
  • BMI: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • DMDB: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”
  • Grammy: Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance”

1999:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • Billboard: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • BMI: Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Dixie Chicks “Wide Open Spaces”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Faith Hill “This Kiss”
  • DMDB: Lonestar “Amazed”
  • Grammy: Shania Twain “Come on Over”
1998:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Faith Hill “This Kiss”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Steve Wariner “Holes in the Floor of Heaven”
  • Billboard: Tim McGraw “Just to See You Smile”
  • BMI: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Steve Wariner “Holes in the Floor of Heaven”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Steve Wariner “Holes in the Floor of Heaven”
  • DMDB: Faith Hill “This Kiss”
  • Grammy: Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
1997:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • Billboard: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Deana Carter “Strawberry Wine”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Deana Carter “Strawberry Wine”
  • DMDB: Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”
  • Grammy: Bob Carlisle “Butterfly Kisses”

1996:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
  • Billboard: Brooks & Dunn “My Maria”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: George Strait “Check Yes or No”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “Go Rest High on That Mountain”
  • DMDB: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
  • Grammy: LeAnn Rimes “Blue”
1995:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: George Strait “Check Yes or No”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Tracy Byrd “The Keeper of the Stars”
  • Billboard: Tim McGraw “I Like It, I Love It”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Alison Krauss & Union Station “When You Say Nothing at All”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Martina McBride “Independence Day”
  • DMDB: George Strait “Check Yes or No”
  • Grammy: Vince Gill “Go Rest High on That Mountain”
1994:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • AMA: Vince Gill “Whenever You Come Around”
  • Billboard: Joe Diffie “Pickup Man”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • DMDB: Alan Jackson “Summertime Blues”
  • Grammy: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”

1993:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: John Michael Montgomery “I Love the Way You Love Me”
  • AMA: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • Billboard: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson “Chattahoochee”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “I Still Believe in You”
  • DMDB: John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
  • Grammy: Mary Chapin Carpenter “Passionate Kisses”
1992:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Brooks & Dunn “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “I Still Believe in You”
  • AMA: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • Billboard: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “Look at Us”
  • DMDB: Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart”
  • Grammy: Vince Gill “I Still Believe in You”

1991:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Alan Jackson “Don’t Rock the Jukebox”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Billy Dean “Somewhere in My Broken Heart”
  • AMA: Garth Brooks “The Thunder Rolls”
  • Billboard: Alan Jackson “Don’t Rock the Jukebox”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vince Gill “When I Call Your Name”
  • DMDB: Brooks & Dunn “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”
  • Grammy: The Judds “Love Can Build a Bridge”
1990:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Garth Brooks “The Dance”
  • AMA: Garth Brooks “If Tomorrow Never Comes”
  • Billboard: George Strait “Love Without End, Amen”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Vince Gill “When I Call Your Name”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Where’ve You Been”
  • DMDB: Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places”
  • Grammy: Kathy Mattea “Where’ve You Been”
1989:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Clint Black “A Better Man”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Where’ve You Been”
  • AMA: Randy Travis “Deeper Than the Holler”
  • Billboard: Ronnie Milsap “A Woman in Love”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Keith Whitley “I’m No Stranger to the Rain”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Vern Gosdin “Chiseled in Stone”
  • DMDB: Garth Brooks “The Dance”
  • Grammy: Rodney Crowell “After All This Time”
1988:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • AMA: Randy Travis “I Told You So”
  • Billboard: Keith Whitley “When You Say Nothing at All”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: K.T. Oslin “‘80s Ladies”
  • DMDB: Kathy Mattea “Eighteen Wheels and Dozen Roses”
  • Grammy: K.T. Oslin “Hold Me”
1987:

1986:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Randy Travis “On the Other Hand”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “On the Other Hand”
  • AMA: The Judds “Grandpa, Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Ol’ Days”
  • Billboard: Hank Williams, Jr. “Mind Your Own Business”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Dan Seals “Bop”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Randy Travis “On the Other Hand”
  • DMDB: Dwight Yoakam “Guitars, Cadillacs”
  • Grammy: The Judds “Grandpa, Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Ol’ Days”
1985:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: The Highwaymen “The Highwayman”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Ronnie Milsap “Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)”
  • AMA: Willie Nelson “Forgiving You Was Easy”
  • Billboard: The Judds “Have Mercy”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Judds “Why Not Me”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Lee Greenwood “God Bless the U.S.A.”
  • DMDB: Dan Seals “Bop”
  • Grammy: The Highwaymen “The Highwayman”
1984:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: The Judds “Why Not Me”
  • AMA: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream”
  • Billboard: The Judds “Why Not Me”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Anne Murray “A Little Good News”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Gary Morris “Wind Beneath My Wings”
  • DMDB: Lee Greenwood “God Bless the U.S.A.”
  • Grammy: Willie Nelson “City of New Orleans”
1983:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Gary Morris “Wind Beneath My Wings”
  • AMA: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream”
  • Billboard: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: John Anderson “Swingin’”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind”
  • DMDB: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream”
  • Grammy: Ronnie Milsap “Stranger in My House”

1982:
1981:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: The Oak Ridge Boys “Elvira”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: David Frizzell “You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma”
  • AMA: Anne Murray “Could I Have This Dance” / Willie Nelson “On the Road Again”
  • Billboard: Alabama “Love in the First Degree”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Oak Ridge Boys “Elvira”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today”
  • DMDB: Juice Newton “Angel of the Morning”
  • Grammy: Dolly Parton “9 to 5”
1980:

1979:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: The Gatlin Brothers “All the Gold in California”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Moe Bandy “It’s a Cheating Situation”
  • AMA: Barbara Mandrell “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed”
  • Billboard: Eddie Rabbitt “Every Which Way But Loose”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”
  • DMDB: The Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
  • Grammy: Kenny Rogers “You Decorated My Life”
1978:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Don Williams “Tulsa Time”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Anne Murray “You Needed Me”
  • AMA: Linda Ronstadt “Blue Bayou”
  • Billboard: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: The Kendalls “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
  • DMDB: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”
  • Grammy: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”
1977:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • AMA: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • Billboard: Waylon Jennings “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Kenny Rogers “Lucille”
  • DMDB: Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
  • Grammy: Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
1976:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Mickey Gilley “Bring It on Home to Me”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Mickey Gilley “Don’t Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time”
  • AMA: Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain”
  • Billboard: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Good Hearted Woman”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Good Hearted Woman”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • DMDB: Bellamy Brothers “Let Your Love Flow”
  • Grammy: Larry Gatlin “Broken Lady”

1975:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • AMA: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • Billboard: C.W. McCall “Convoy”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Freddy Fender “Before the Next Teardrop Falls”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: John Denver “Back Home Again”
  • DMDB: Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy”
  • Grammy: B.J. Thomas “Hey Won’t You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song”
1974:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • AMA: Charlie Rich “The Most Beautiful Girl”
  • Billboard: Charlie Rich “A Very Special Love Song”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Cal Smith “Country Bumpkin”
  • DMDB: Olivia Newton-John “I Honestly Love You”
  • Grammy: Charlie Rich “A Very Special Love Song”
1973:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • AMA: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • Billboard: Merle Haggard “If We Make It Through December”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • DMDB: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”
  • Grammy: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”

1972:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Donna Fargo “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Donna Fargo “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.”
  • Billboard: Freddie Hart “My Hang-Up Is You”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Donna Fargo “The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • DMDB: Eagles “Take It Easy”
  • Grammy: Charley Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”
1971:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • Billboard: Charley Pride “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Freddie Hart “Easy Loving”
  • DMDB: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
  • Grammy: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night”
1970:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Ray Price “For the Good Times”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Ray Price “For the Good Times”
  • Billboard: Lynn Anderson “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Johnny Cash “Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down”
  • DMDB: Lynn Anderson “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”
  • Grammy: Marty Robbins “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife”
1969:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • Billboard: Johnny Cash “Daddy Sang Bass”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Johnny Cash “A Boy Named Sue”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Porter Wagoner “The Carroll County Accident”
  • DMDB: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”
  • Grammy: Johnny Cash “A Boy Named Sue”
1968:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Roger Miller “Little Green Apples”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Glen Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman”
  • Billboard: Henson Cargill “Skip a Rope”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Bobby Goldsboro “Honey”
  • DMDB: Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man”
  • Grammy: Roger Miller “Little Green Apples”

1967:
  • ACM – Single of the Year: Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind”
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Wynn Stewart “It’s Such a Pretty World Today”
  • Billboard: Jack Greene “All the Time”
  • CMA – Single of the Year: Jack Greene “There Goes My Everything”
  • CMA – Song of the Year: Jack Greene “There Goes My Everything”
  • DMDB: Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe”
  • Grammy: Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind”
1966:
  • ACM – Song of the Year: Bobby Austin “Apartment #9”
  • Billboard: David Houston “Almost Persuaded”
  • DMDB: Jim Reeves “Distant Drums”
  • Grammy: David Houston “Almost Persuaded”
1965:
  • Billboard: Buck Owens “Before You Go”
  • DMDB: Roger Miller “King of the Road”
  • Grammy: Roger Miller “King of the Road”
1964:
  • Billboard: Connie Smith “Once a Day”
  • DMDB: Roger Miller “Dang Me”
  • Grammy: Roger Miller “Dang Me”

1963:
  • Billboard: Buck Owens “Love’s Gonna Live Here”
  • DMDB: Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire”
1962:
1961:
  • Billboard: Leroy Van Dyke “Walk on By”
  • DMDB: Patsy Cline “Crazy”

1960:
  • Billboard: Hank Locklin “Please Help Me, I’m Falling”
  • DMDB: Hank Locklin “Please Help Me, I’m Falling”
1959:
1958:
1957:
  • Billboard: Ferlin Husky “Gone”
  • DMDB: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock”
1956:
  • Billboard: Ray Price “Crazy Arms”
  • DMDB: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel”
1955:
  • Billboard: Webb Pierce “In the Jailhouse Now”
  • DMDB: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons”
1954:
1953:
1952:
  • Billboard: Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life”
  • DMDB: Hank Williams “Jambalaya on the Bayou”
1951:
  • Billboard: Pee Wee King “Slow Poke”
  • DMDB: Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart”
1950:
  • Billboard: Hank Snow “I’m Moving On”
  • DMDB: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz”

1949:
1948:
  • Billboard: Eddy Arnold “Bouquet of Roses”
  • DMDB: Eddy Arnold “Bouquet of Roses”
1947:
  • Billboard: Eddy Arnold “I’ll Hold You in My Heart Till I Can Hold You in My Arms”
  • DMDB: Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”
1946:
  • Billboard: Al Dexter “Guitar Polka”
  • DMDB: Merle Travis “Dark As a Dungeon”
1945:
  • Billboard: Tex Ritter “You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often”
  • DMDB: Dick Thomas “Sioux City Sue”
1944:
  • Billboard: Al Dexter “So Long Pal”
  • DMDB: Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right”
1943: DMDB: Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin’ Mama”
1942: DMDB: Elton Britt “There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere”
1941: DMDB: Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You”
1940: DMDB: Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine”

1939: DMDB: Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again”
1938: DMDB: Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball”
1937: DMDB: Rex Griffin “The Last Letter”
1936: DMDB: Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart”
1935: DMDB: The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)”
1934: DMDB: The Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”
1933: DMDB: The Delmore Brothers “Brown’s Ferry Blues”
1932: DMDB: --
1931: DMDB: Jimmie Rodgers “T.B. Blues”
1930: DMDB: The Mississippi Sheiks “Sitting on Top of the World”

1929: DMDB: Clarence (Tom) Ashley “The Coo Coo Bird”
1928: DMDB: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)”
1927: DMDB: Dock Boggs “Country Blues”
1926: DMDB: Charlie Poole “White House Blues”
1925: DMDB: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song”
1924: DMDB: Uncle Dave Macon “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy”
1923: DMDB: Fiddlin’ John Carson “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane”
1922: DMDB: Eck Robertson “Sallie Gooden”

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First posted 10/31/2021; last updated 11/9/2023.

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