Showing posts with label Tammy Wynette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tammy Wynette. Show all posts

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Trustees Awards

Grammy Lifetime Achievement & Trustees Awards:

1962-2024

As stated at Grammy.org, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is selected by a vote of the Recording Academy’s National Trustees. It is given to those “who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.” The first recipient was Bing Crosby in 1962.

Since 1967, the Grammys have also given a Trustees Award to individuals who have significantly contributed to music in ways other than performance. This would imply that the Lifetime Achievement Award is a performers-only award and that no performers have won the Trustees Award, but the line is not that clearly defined. In fact, a handful of acts have received both awards (Burt Bacharach, Count Basie, The Beatles, Duke Ellington, Carole King, Frank Sinatra, Georg Solti). This page lists all recipients of either award.

See other lifetime achievement awards here.

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B

C

D

E

  • Earth, Wind & Fire (LA: 2016)
  • Billy Eckstine (LA: 2019)
  • Thomas A. Edison (TA: 1977)
  • David “Honeyboy” Edwards (LA: 2010)
  • Ken Ehrlich (TA: 2020)
  • Duke Ellington (LA: 1966, TA: 1968)
  • Ahmet Ertegun (TA: 1993)
  • Nesuhi Ertegun (TA: 1995)
  • Bill Evans (LA: 1994)
  • The Everly Brothers (LA: 1997)

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G

H

I

  • Julio Iglesias (LA: 2019)
  • The Isley Brothers (LA: 2014)

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K

  • Joel Katz (TA: 2024)
  • Orrin Keepnews (TA: 2004)
  • Jerome Kern (TA: 1987)
  • B.B. King (LA: 1987)
  • Carole King (TA: 2004, LA: 2013)
  • The Kingston Trio (LA: 2011)
  • Gladys Knight (LA: 2024)
  • Kraftwerk (LA: 2014)
  • Kris Kristofferson (LA: 2014)

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M

N

O

P

  • Patti Page (LA: 2013)
  • Charlie Parker (LA: 1984)
  • Parliament/Funkadelic (LA: 2019)
  • Dolly Parton (LA: 2011)
  • Les Paul (TA: 1983)
  • Tom Paxton (LA: 2009)
  • Ralph Peer (TA: 2017)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki (TA: 1968)
  • Pinetop Perkins (LA: 2005)
  • Itzhak Perlman (LA: 2008)
  • Richard Perry (TA: 2015)
  • Oscar Peterson (LA: 1997)
  • Sam Phillips (TA: 1991)
  • Iggy Pop (LA: 2020)
  • Cole Porter (TA: 1989)
  • Maud Powell (LA: 2014)
  • Elvis Presley (LA: 1971)
  • Frances Preston (TA: 1998)
  • André Previn (LA: 2010)
  • Leontyne Price (LA: 1989)
  • Charley Pride (LA: 2017)
  • Richard Pryor (LA: 2006)
  • Public Enemy (LA: 2020)
  • Tito Puente (LA: 2003)

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  • Salt-N-Pepa (LA: 2021)
  • Sam & Dave (LA: 2019)
  • Al Schmitt (TA: 2006)
  • Gil Scott-Heron (LA: 2012)
  • Earl Scruggs (LA: 2008)
  • Pete Seeger (LA: 1993)
  • Andrés Segovia (LA: 1986)
  • Ravi Shankar (LA: 2013)
  • Artie Shaw (LA: 2004)
  • George Beverly Shea (LA: 2011)
  • Wayne Shorter (LA: 2015)
  • Simon & Garfunkel (LA: 2003)
  • George T. Simon (TA: 1993)
  • Nina Simone (LA: 2017)
  • Frank Sinatra (LA: 1965, TA: 1979)
  • Slick Rick (LA: 2022)
  • Bessie Smith (LA: 1989)
  • Georg Solti (TA: 1967, LA: 1996)
  • Stephen Sondheim (TA: 2007)
  • Phil Spector (TA: 2000)
  • The Staple Singers (LA: 2005)
  • Seymour Stein (TA: 2018)
  • Isaac Stern (LA: 1987)
  • Jim Stewart (TA: 2023)
  • Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart (LA: 2017)
  • Leopold Stokowski (TA: 1977)
  • Mike Stoller (TA: 1999)
  • Chris Strachwitz (TA: 2016)
  • Igor Stravinksy (LA: 1987)
  • Billy Strayhorn (TA: 1968)
  • Barbra Streisand (LA: 1995)
  • Donna Summer (LA: 2024)
  • The Supremes (LA: 2022)

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  • Talking Heads (LA: 2021)
  • Art Tatum (LA: 1989)
  • Billy Taylor (TA: 2005)
  • The Temptations (LA: 2013)
  • Clark Terry (LA: 2010)
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe (LA: 2020)
  • Mel Tormé (LA: 1999)
  • Arturo Toscanini (LA: 1987)
  • Allen Toussaint (TA: 2009)
  • Tina Turner (LA: 2018)

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First posted 12/12/2012; last updated 1/6/2024.
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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.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

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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First posted 8/3/2011; last updated 11/12/2023.

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Friday, November 23, 2018

50 years ago: Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man” topped the country chart

Stand by Your Man

Tammy Wynette

Writer(s): Billy Sherrill, Tammy Wynette (see lyrics here)

Released: September 20, 1968

First Charted: October 19, 1968

Peak: 19 US, 23 CB, 19 HR, 11 AC, 13 CW, 13 UK, 15 CN, 9 AU, 1 DF (Click for codes to singles charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.4 UK

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 45.86 video, 56.59 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Producer Billy Sherrill had the idea for the song “Stand by Your Man.” He had the title scribbled on a scrap of paper which he carried in his pocket for a year. During a recording session for Tammy Wynette on August 26, 1968, he suggested the title to her. She “had an instant affinity for the concept.” TR The wrote the song in under a half hour. AC Wynette said that Sherrill told her the melody came from a work by Richard Strauss that was in the public domain. TR

The song stirred controversy amongst the women’s liberation movement as an “example of a compliant wife willing to defer to her husband,” SF but “would play well in the Bible Belt.” AC Wynette defended the song “as not a call for women to place themselves second to men, but rather a suggestion that women attempt to overlook their husbands’ shortcomings and faults if they truly love them.” WK Ironically, she was married five times.

Sherrill admitted that he intended the song for women who wanted no part of feminism. TR “Even though to some skeptics it may hint of chauvinism, as far as I’m concerned they can like it or lump it. ‘Stand by Your Man’ is just another way of saying ‘I love you – without reservations.’” TR

The song was her fifth #1 out of 20 country chart toppers. It took five releases in the UK for it to become a hit, but then it went all the way to #1 in 1975. SF It was “the most successful record of Wynette’s career, and is one of the most familiar songs in the history of country music.” WK In 2003, Country Music Television rated the song the greatest in country in music. WK “With the almost cult status of ‘Stand by Your Man,’ Tammy would never again be just another girl singer, and her stature would demand that country charts make room for…powerful women.” AC

Resources:

  • DMDB encyclopedia entry for Tammy Wynette
  • AC Ace Collins (1996). The Stories Behind Country Music’s All-Time Greatest 100 Songs. New York, NY; The Berkley Publishing Group. Pages 201-3.
  • TR Tom Roland (1991). The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits. Billboard Books: New York, NY. Page 16.
  • SF Songfacts
  • WK Wikipedia

First posted 10/27/2021; last updated 10/23/2022.

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Friday, April 26, 2013

George Jones – Top 50 Songs

image from georgejones.com

Farewell to the Possum (nicknamed because of the shape of his nose and facial features). Country singer/songwriter and guitarist George Jones is dead, age 81, from hypoxic respiratory failure. Born on 9/12/1931 in Saratoga, Texas, the man became regarded as one of the greatest country singers of all time (he ranks #6 according to the DMDB). Jones got his start singing on radio stations KTXJ in Jasper, TX, and KRIC in Beaumont, TX. He served in the U.S. Marines from 1950-52 and recorded rockabilly as Thumper Jones and Hank Smith. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1969, the same year he married country singer Tammy Wynette, his third of four wives.

He struggled with alcohol and drug abuse in his life, earning him the nickname “No Show Jones” for missed shows in the late 1970s. One of the famous stories about his alcoholism occurred when second wife, Shirley Corley, hid the car keys to keep him from driving to the liquor store so he hopped on a riding mower instead. However, fourth wife Nancy Sepulvado, to whom he was married from 1983 until his death, is credited with rescuing him from drinking and cocaine.

In honor of the country legend, here are his top 50 songs, according to the DMDB. As always, DMDB lists are determined by creating an aggregate list from multiple other best-of lists and factoring in chart success, sales, airplay, and awards. In addition, 13 George Jones best-of lists were figured into the mix. Also, the number of appearances on 7 different compilations of Jones’ music were factored in.

George Jones: His Top 50 Songs

1. He Stopped Loving Her Today (1980)
2. She Thinks I Still Care (1962)
3. The Grand Tour (1974)
4. White Lightning (1959)
5. Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes (1985)
6. Tender Years (1961)
7. A Good Year for the Roses (1970)
8. A Picture of Me without You (1972)
9. Still Doin’ Time (1981)
10. Why Baby Why (1955)

11. The Window Up Above (1960)
12. I Always Get Lucky with You (1983)
13. The Race Is On (1964)
14. The Door (1974)
15. If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me, Her Memory Will (1981)
16. Golden Ring (with Tammy Wynette, 1976)
17. She’s My Rock (1984)
18. Choices (1999)
19. Tennessee Whiskey (1983)
20. Bartender’s Blues (with James Taylor, 1978)

21. We’re Gonna Hold On (with Tammy Wynette, 1973)
22. The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song) (1985)
23. Color of the Blues (1958)
24. Just One More (1956)
25. Walk Through This World with Me (1967)
26. I’ll Share My World with You (1969)
27. I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair (1992)
28. We Can Make It (1972)
29. Aching Breaking Heart (1962)
30. When the Grass Grows Over Me (1968)

31. You Comb Her Hair (1963)
32. I’m Not Ready Yet (1980)
33. Take Me (1965)
34. Wine Colored Roses (1986)
35. Who Shot Sam (1959)
36. Near You (with Tammy Wynette, 1976)
37. Mr. Fool (1963)
38. Accidentally on Purpose (1960)
39. Love Bug (1965)
40. Yesterday’s Wine (with Merle Haggard, 1982)

41. I’m a People (1966)
42. The King Is Gone (So Are You) (1989)
43. A Girl I Used to Know (1962)
44. As Long As I Live (1968)
45. Once You’ve Had the Best (1973)
46. We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds (with Melba Montgomery, 1963)
47. These Days I Barely Get By (1975)
48. Her Name Is… (1976)
49. I Can’t Get There from Here (1967)
50. What My Woman Can’t Do (1973)

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Country Music’s All-Time Classics According to the Classic Pop Yahoo Group

Classic Pop Yahoo Group: Country Music’s All Time Classics,

Top 100 Songs

Steve Sullivan was one of my early fans on my Dave’s Music Database Facebook page. I was delighted when I found out he did the research behind one of my music bibles – Pop Memories 1890-1954, published by Record Research.

His post on May 31 ranks more than 1000 all-time country and bluegrass songs. He taps more than 50 sources, including Billboard’s country charts from 1939 through 2011, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the National Recording Registry, country music awards, National Public Radio, the works of multiple music authors, and nearly every issue of the Journal of Country Music from 1970 through 2006. I’ve posted the top 100 songs from that list, but the links for all four parts of the list are posted below. Dave’s Music Database has done a list of the top 100 country songs of all time as well. You can check it out here.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

1. Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
2. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)
3. George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
4. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
5. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “New San Antonio Rose” (1944)
6. Kitty Wells “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952)
7. Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
8. Roy Acuff “Wabash Cannonball” (1947)
9. Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1956)
10. Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces (1961)”

11. The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (1928)
12. Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (1928)
13. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1946)
14. Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1970)
15. Ray Price “Crazy Arms” (1956)
16. Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
17. Hank Snow “I’m Movin’ On” (1950)
18. Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
19. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1950)
20. The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)” (1935)

21. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
22. Merle Haggard “Mama Tried” (1968)
23. Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
24. Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
25. Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
26. Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (1949)
27. Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963)
28. Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” (1971)
29. Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1941)
30. Jim Reeves “He’ll Have to Go” (1960)

31. Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain” (1975)
32. Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life” (1952)
33. Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again” (1939)
34. Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans” (1959)
35. Fiddlin’ John Carson “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (1923)
36. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Mule Skinner Blues” (1940)
37. Patsy Montana “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (1935)
38. Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
39. Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (1971)
40. Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (1982)

41. George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care” (1962)
42. The Stanley Brothers “Rank Strangers” (1960)
43. Hank Williams “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” (1952)
44. Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” (1973)
45. Al Dexter “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (1943)
46. Eck Robertson “Sallie Gooden” (1922)
47. Sons of the Pioneers “Cool Water” (1941)
48. Faron Young “Hello Walls” (1961)
49. Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin’” (1951)
50. Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” (1974)

51. Roy Acuff “The Great Speckled Bird” (1936)
52. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
53. Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
54. Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (1979)
55. Ted Daffan “Born to Lose” (1943)
56. Red Foley “There’ll Be Peace in the Valley” (1951)
57. Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” (1970)
58. Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind” (1967)
59. Ray Price “For the Good Times” (1970)
60. Webb Pierce “There Stands the Glass” (1953)

61. Glen Campbell “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (1967)
62. Lefty Frizzell “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (1950)
63. Eddy Arnold “Bouquet of Roses” (1948)
64. Garth Brooks “The Dance” (1990)
65. Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places” (1990)
67. Eddy Arnold “Make the World Go Away” (1965)
68. Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
69. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
70. Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)

71. The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (1957)
72. Hank Snow “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (1954)
73. Randy Travis “Forever and Ever, Amen” (1987)
74. Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” (1978)
75. Eddy Arnold “The Cattle Call” (1944/1955)
76. Vernon Dalhart “The Wreck of the Old ‘97” (1924)
77. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
78. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “Steel Guitar Rag” (1936)
79. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs “Earl’s Breakdown” (1951)
80. Webb Pierce “Slowly” (1954)

81. Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart” (1951)
82. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers “Lovesick Blues” (1928)
83. Gid Tanner & Skillet Lickers “Soldier’s Joy” (1929)
84. Elton Britt “There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere” (1943)
85. Roy Rogers & Dale Evans “Happy Trails” (1952)
86. George Jones “The Grand Tour” (1974)
87. Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
88. Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)
89. Ray Price “City Lights” (1958)
90. Jimmie Rodgers “In the Jailhouse Now” (1928)

91. The Carter Family “Keep on the Sunny Side” (1928)
92. The Delmore Brothers “Blues Stay Away from Me” (1949)
93. Buck Owens “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (1965)
94. Charlie Poole “Don’t Let Your Deal Do Down Blues” (1925)
95. The Flying Burrito Brothers “Sin City” (1969)
96. Jimmie Rodgers “Waiting for a Train” (1928)
97. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
98. Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (1947)
99. Merle Travis “Dark As a Dungeon” (1946)
100. Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)

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First posted 6/1/2012; last revised 12/16/2022.

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Saturday, July 5, 1980

George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today” topped the country chart

He Stopped Loving Her Today

George Jones

Writer(s): Bobby Braddock, Curly Putman (see lyrics here)

First Charted: April 12, 1980

Peak: 11 CW (Click for codes to singles charts.)

Sales (in millions): 0.52 US

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 1.0 radio, 18.1 video, 55.11 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

George Jones first hit the country charts in 1955 when he was 24 years old. His career seemingly peaked in the late sixties and early seventies, AC but then he found success with a series of duets with his then-wife Tammy Wynette. By the time 1980’s “He Stopped Loving Her Today” came around, he’d racked up more than one hundred entries on the country charts over a quarter century. It became what the BBC called “the most important song in country music history.” AC

The “classic is about a man who spends decades hoping his true love will return to him, but their reunion doesn’t happen until his funeral.” RS500 Songwriters Bobby Braddock (“D-I-V-O-R-C-E”) and Curly Putman (“Green, Green Grass of Home”) started writing together in 1977 and Braddock says Curly “swears that I brought him an idea about a man who so loved his wife that his love only stopped the day he died.” AC It started out as a joke about how natural someone looked at his funeral. TR

They weren’t impressed with the song and nearly forgot about it. Braddock finally recorded a demo more than 6 months after they wrote it. They didn’t get much response. Only Johnny Russell was interested. He cut it for two labels, but neither recording was released. AC When the song came to Billy Sherrill, he thought it would be a great single for George Jones. AC However, he wanted an additional verse about the woman in the relationship coming to the funeral. TR

He gave that his stamp of approval, but Jones wasn’t impressed, saying “I looked Billy square in they eye and said, ‘Nobobdy will buy that morbid son of a bitch.’” RS500 Sherrill convinced Jones to give it a shot, but the first take fell flat. Then Jones’ ex-wife, Tammy Wynette, came into the studio with her new husband. According to Braddock, “when he sang the song the second time, he never took his eyes off Tammy. It was like he was singing every word just for her.” AC

It was that quality which made Jones such a beloved performance. He “always appeared to feel such great pain that you could hear it when he sang.” AC Braddock said, “George Jones’ performance and Billy Sherrill’s production have a hell of a lot to do with that record becoming a standard.” TR The Academy of Country Music awarded it Single and Song of the Year. Jones said of it, “I was back on top. A four-decade career was salvaged by a three-minute song.” RS500

Resources:

  • AC Ace Collins (1996). The Stories Behind Country Music’s All-Time Greatest 100 Songs. New York, NY; The Berkley Publishing Group. Pages 249-51.
  • TR Tom Roland (1991). The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits. Billboard Books: New York, NY. Page 261.
  • RS500 Rolling Stone (9/16/2021). “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”
  • WK Wikipedia

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