Heartaches By the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles by David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren

1. Sammi Smith: “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Mega 1970)2. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Lost Highway” (MGM 1949)3. Patsy Cline: “Crazy” (Decca 1961)4. The Carter Family: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (Banner 1935)5. Elvis Presley: “Don’t Be Cruel” (RCA Victor 1956)6. Ray Price: “Crazy Arms” (Columbia 1956)7. George Jones: “The Window Up Above” (Mercury 1960)8. Dolly Parton: “Coat of Many Colors” (RCA Victor 1971)9. The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: “Rank Strangers” (Starday 1960)10. Ted Daffan’s Texans: “Born to Lose” (OKeh 1942)11. Tammy Wynette: “Stand By Your Man” (Epic 1968)12. Kitty Wells: “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Decca 1952)13. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “The Wild Side of Life” (Capitol 1952)14. Merle Haggard: “Carolyn” (Capitol 1971)15. Conway Twitty: “How Much More Can She Stand” (Decca 1971)16. Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn: “After the Fire Is Gone” (Decca 1971)17. Milton Brown & His Brownies: “Right or Wrong” (Decca 1936)18. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Time Changes Everything” (OKeh 1940)19. Hank Snow: “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (RCA Victor 1954)20. Floyd Tillman: “I Love You So Much It Hurts” (Columbia 1948)21. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Folsom Prison Blues” (Sun 1956)22. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Mama Tried” (Capitol 1968)23. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “The Fugitive” (Capitol 1966)24. Steve Earle: “Someday” (MCA 1986)25. Charlie Rich: “Life’s Little Ups and Downs” (Epic 1969)26. Rex Griffin: “The Last Letter” (Decca 1937)27. Gene Watson: “Farewell Party” (Capitol 1979)28. Dock Boggs: “Country Blues” (Brunswick 1927)29. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” (MGM 1953)30. Gene Autry: “Back in the Saddle Again” (OKeh 1939)31. Patsy Montana: “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (Vocalion 1935)32. Loretta Lynn: “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)” (Decca 1966)33. Loretta Lynn: “The Pill” (MCA 1975)34. Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys: “20/20 Vision” (RCA Victor 1954)35. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (Victor 1928)36. Tommy Johnson: “Cool Drink of Water Blues” (Victor 1928)37. Marty Robbins: “Singing the Blues” (Columbia 1956)38. Red Foley with the Sunshine Boys Quartet: “(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (for Me)” (Decca 1951)39. Porter Wagoner: “A Satisfied Mind” (RCA Victor 1955)40. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Decca 1954)41. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Columbia 1947)42. Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Sun 1954)43. Carl Perkins: “Blue Suede Shoes” (Sun 1956)44. Ray Charles: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (ABC-Paramount 1962)45. Connie Smith: “Once a Day” (RCA Victor 1964)46. Connie Smith: “Burning a Hole in My Mind” (RCA Victor 1967)47. Hank Williams: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (MGM 1949)48. Stoney Edwards: “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” (Capitol 1973)49. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers: “Lovesick Blues” (OKeh 1928)50. Lefty Frizzell: “I Love You a Thousand Ways” (Columbia 1950)51. Tammy Wynette: “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” (Epic 1967)52. Ray Price: “Make the World Go Away” (Columbia 1963)53. Ray Price: “Night Life” (Columbia 1963)54. Charlie Rich: “I Take It on Home” (Epic 1972)55. Buck Owens: “My Heart Skips a Beat” (Capitol 1964)56. Glen Campbell: “Galveston” (Capitol 1969)57. Fiddlin’ John Carson: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (OKeh 1923)58. Blind Alfred Reed: “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (Victor 1929)59. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Hungry Eyes” (Capitol 1969)60. James Talley: “Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?” (Capitol 1976)61. Woody Guthrie: “This Land Is Your Land” (Folkways 1945)62. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “Tramp on the Street” (Columbia 1947)63. Roger Miller: “King of the Road” (Smash 1965)64. Jimmie Rodgers: “Waiting for a Train” (Victor 1929)65. Hank Snow: “I’ve Been Everywhere” (RCA Victor 1962)66. Bobby Bare: “Detroit City” (RCA Victor 1963)67. The Monroe Brothers: “What Would You Give in Exchange?” (Bluebird 1936)68. Bruce Springsteen: “Atlantic City” (Columbia 1982)

69. Martina McBride: “Independence Day” (RCA 1994)70. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (Decca 1943)71. G.B. Grayson: “Ommie Wise” (Victor 1927)72. Blue Sky Boys: “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” (Bluebird 1936)73. The Louvin Brothers: “Knoxville Girl” (Capitol 1959)74. Stonewall Jackson: “Life to Go” (Columbia 1958)75. Porter Wagoner: “Green, Green Grass of Home” (RCA 1965)76. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Sing Me Back Home” (Capitol 1967)77. Patsy Cline: “Sweet Dreams (of You)” (Decca 1963)78. Loretta Lynn: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Decca 1970)79. Jack Greene: “Statue of a Fool” (Decca 1969)80. Webb Pierce: “There Stands the Glass” (Decca 1953)81. Jim Ed Brown: “Pop a Top” (RCA Victor 1967)82. Porter Wagoner: “Misery Loves Company” (RCA Victor 1962)83. Gary Stewart: “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” (RCA Victor 1975)84. George Jones: “The Battle” (Epic 1976)85. Lynn Anderson: “Rose Garden” (Columbia 1970)86. Eddy Arnold & His Guitar: “The Cattle Call” (RCA Victor 1955)87. Sons of the Pioneers: “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (RCA Victor 1948)88. The Flatlanders: “Dallas” (Plantation 1972)89. George Strait: “Amarillo By Morning” (MCA 1983)90. Kitty Wells: “Makin’ Believe” (Decca 1955)91. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone” (Capitol 1968)92. Buck Owens: “Together Again” (Capitol 1964)93. George Jones & Melba Montgomery: “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds” (United Artists 1963)94. Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fire” (Columbia 1963)95. Homer & Jethro with June Carter: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (RCA Victor 1949)96. The Carter Family: “Single Girl, Married Girl” (Victor 1927)97. Jeannie Seely: “Don’t Touch Me” (Monument 1966)98. Marty Robbins: “Begging to You” (Columbia 1964)99. Carl Perkins: “Turn Around” (Flip 1955)100. Ray Price: “For the Good Times” (Columbia 1970)101. Willie Nelson: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (Columbia 1975)102. Ernest Tubb: “Walking the Floor Over You” (Decca 1941)103. Don Gibson: “Oh Lonesome Me” (RCA Victor 1958)104. The Everly Brothers: “Bye Bye Love” (Cadence 1957)105. Roy Orbison & the Candy Men: “Oh Pretty Woman” (Monument 1964)106. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Great Balls of Fire” (Sun 1957)107. Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: “Great Speckled Bird” (Vocalion 1936)108. The Blackwood Brothers Quartet: “His Hand in Mine” (RCA Victor 1954)109. The Statesman Quartet with Hovie Lister: “This Ole House” (RCA Victor 1954)110. Gene Vincent: “Be-Bop-a-Lula” (Capitol 1956)111. Conway Twitty: “It’s Only Make Believe” (MGM 1958)112. Faron Young: “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young” (Capitol 1955)113. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Brain Cloudy Blues” (Columbia 1947)114. Red Foley: “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” (Decca 1960)115. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” (Columbia 1947)116. DeFord Bailey: “Pan American Blues” (Brunswick 1927)117. The Delmore Brothers: “Freight Train Boogie” (King 1946)118. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Sixteen Tons” (Capitol 1955)119. Frankie Miller: “Blackland Farmer” (Starday 1959)120. Merle Haggard: “Workin’ Man Blues” (Capitol 1969)121. Hazel Dickins: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” (Rounder 1980)122. Loretta Lynn: “One’s on the Way” (Decca 1971)123. Kay Adams with the Cliffie Stone Group: “Little Pink Mack” (Tower 1966)124. Cliff Bruner & His Boys: “Truck Driver’s Blues” (Decca 1939)125. Dave Dudley: “Six Days on the Road” (Golden Wing 1963)126. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Howlin’ at the Moon” (MGM 1951)127. Stanley Brothers: “How Far to Little Rock” (King 1960)128. Jerry Reed: “Amen Moses” (RCA 1970)129. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “If I Lose, I Don’t Care” (Columbia 1927)130. The Band: “Up on Cripple Creek” (Capitol 1969)131. Uncle Dave Macon: “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (Vocalion 1924)132. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” (Columbia 1925)133. Marty Robbins: “El Paso” (Columbia 1959)134. Gene Pitney: “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (Musicor 1962)135. Ray Price: “City Lights” (Columbia 1958)136. Otis Redding: “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” (Volt 1968)137. Tom T. Hall: “Homecoming” (Mercury 1969)138. Joe South & the Believers: “Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home” (Capitol 1969)

139. Glen Campbell: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (Capitol 1967)140. The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Ruby, Are You Mad?” (MGM 1956)141. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “You Win Again” (MGM 1952)142. Eddy Arnold: “You Don’t Know Me” (RCA Victor 1956)143. Patsy Cline: “She’s Got You” (Decca 1962)144. Johnny Paycheck: “She’s All I Got” (Epic 1971)145. Roger Miller: “Chug-a-Lug” (Smash 1964)146. Roger Miller: “One Dyin’ and a Buryin’” (Smash 1965)147. George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (Epic 1980)148. Sammi Smith: “Today I Started Loving You Again” (Mega 1975)149. Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts” (Reprise 1974)150. Hank Snow: “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” (RCA Victor 1952)151. Bobbie Gentry: “Ode to Billie Joe” (Capitol 1967)152. Carl & Pearl Butler: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1962)153. Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1969)154. Webb Pierce: “Back Street Affair” (Decca 1952)155. Leroy Van Dyke: “Walk on By” (Mercury 1961)156. Floyd Tillman: “Slipping Around” (Columbia 1949)157. Randy Travis: “On the Other Hand” (Warner Bros. 1986)158. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Mule Skinner Blues” (Bluebird 1940)159. Dolly Parton: “Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel no. 8)” (RCA 1970)160. Garth Brooks: “The Dance” (Capitol 1990)161. Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely: “The Gods Were Angry with Me” (Capitol 1950)162. Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers: “When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles with You)” (Decca 1938)163. Webb Pierce: “Slowly” (Decca 1954)164. Lefty Frizzell: “Always Late (with Your Kisses)” (Columbia 1951)165. The Louvin Brothers: “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” (Capitol 1956)166. The Louvin Brothers: “When I Stop Dreaming” (Capitol 1955)167. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “In the Pines” (Decca 1952)168. Tony Bennett: “Cold, Cold Heart” (Columbia 1951)169. Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (Plantation 1968)170. Dusty Springfield: “Son of a Preacher Man” (Atlantic 1969)171. Martha Carson: “Satisfied” (Capitol 1951)172. John Anderson: “Swingin’” (Warner Bros. 1983)173. Marty Robbins: “I Was Alone” (Columbia 1968)174. Tom T. Hall: “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” (Mercury 1971)175. Jack Green: “Lord Is That Me” (Decca 1970)176. Little Jimmy Dickens: “(You’ve Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” (Decca 1970)177. Skeeter Davis: “The End of the World” (RCA Victor 1962)178. Porter Wagoner: “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (RCA 1967)179. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I Saw the Light” (MGM 1947)180. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan: “Are You Walking and a-Talking for the Lord” (Columbia

1953)181. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “When God Comes to Gather His Jewels” (Columbia 1947)182. Coon Creek Girls: “Sowing on the Mountain” (Vocalion 1938)183. The Carter Family: “Wildwood Flower” (Victor 1929)184. Eck Robertson: “Sallie Gooden” (Victor 1923)185. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Uncle Pen” (Decca 1950)186. Jean Shepard: “Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar)” (Capitol 1964)187. Glen Campbell: “Wichita Lineman” (Capitol 1968)188. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Take Me Back to Tulsa” (OKeh 1941)189. Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans: “Oklahoma Hills” (Capitol 1945)190. Johnny Cash: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” (Columbia 1964)191. Sons of the Pioneers: “Cool Water” (Decca 1941)192. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Big River” (Sun 1958)193. Jimmy Murphy: “Electricity” (RCA Victor 1951)194. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (Mercury 1949)195. Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys: “Are You Missing Me” (Capitol 1952)196. Jimmy Martin: “You Don’t Know My Mind” (Decca 1960)197. Tanya Tucker: “Delta Dawn” (Columbia 1972)198. Ray Price: “Release Me” (Columbia 1953)199. Johnny Bush: “You Gave Me a Mountain” (Stop 1969)200. Bascom Lamar Lunsford: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” (Brunswick 1928)201. The Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister: “Faith Unlocks the Door” (RCA Victor 1956)202. Leon Payne: “I Love You Because” (Capitol 1949)203. Elvis Presley: “Any Day Now” (RCA Victor 1969)204. Harmonica Frank: “Rockin’ Chair Daddy” (Sun 1954)205. Billy Lee Riley & His Little Green Men: “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” (Sun 1957)206. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: “Stratosphere Boogie” (Capitol 1954)207. Chuck Berry: “Maybellene” (Chess 1955)

208. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “Big in Vegas” (Capitol 1969)209. Bobbie Gentry: “Fancy” (Captiol 1969)210. The Kendalls: “Just Like Real People” (Ovation 1979)211. Brenda Lee: “I’m Sorry” (Decca 1960)212. Stonewall Jackson: “A Wound Time Can’t Erase” (Columbia 1962)213. Clint Black: “Better Man” (RCA 1989)214. Dixie Chicks: “Wide Open Spaces” (Monument 1998)215. Gene Autry: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (OKeh 1942)216. Ernest Tubb: “Waltz Across Texas” (Decca 1965)217. George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “Golden Ring” (Epic 1976)218. Tanya Tucker: “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” (Epic 1974)219. Bob Dylan: “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (Columbia 1969)220. Jason & the Scorchers: “Absolutely Sweet Marie” (EMI 1984)221. Richard “Rabbit” Brown: “James Alley Blues” (Victor 1927)222. Lefty Frizzell: “The Long Black Veil” (Columbia 1959)223. Solomon Burke: “Just Out of Reach (of My Two Open Arms)” (Atlantic 1961)224. Marty Robbins: “Don’t Worry” (Columbia 1961)225. George Jones: “A Good Year for the Roses” (Musicor 1970)226. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “The Last Thing on My Mind” (RCA 1967)227. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone” (MCA 1974)228. Jim Reeves: “He’ll Have to Go” (RCA Victor 1959)229. Clarence Ashley: “The Coo Coo Bird” (Columbia 1929)230. Johnnie & Jack & Their Tennessee Mountain Boys: “Poison Love” (RCA Victor 1951)231. Loretta Lynn: “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (Decca 1966)232. Dolly Parton: “Jolene” (RCA 1973)233. Harry Choates: “Jole Blon” (Gold Star 1946)234. Carl Perkins: “Dixie Fried” (Sun 1956)235. Hackberry Ramblers: “Fais Pas Ca” (Bluebird 1938)236. Amede Ardoin & Dennis McGee: “One Step Des Chameaux” (Brunswick 1930)237. Lead Belly: “Midnight Special” (RCA Victor 1940)238. Elvis Presley: “Mystery Train” (Sun 1955)239. Elvis Presley: “Little Sister” (RCA 1961)240. Red Foley with Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland: “Sugarfoot Rag” (Decca 1950)241. “Little” Jimmy Dickens: “Hillbilly Fever” (Columbia 1950)242. Red Foley: “Midnight” (Decca 1952)243. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Shot Gun Boogie” (Capitol 1950)244. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Roly Poly” (Columbia 1946)245. Maddox Brothers & Rose: “Honky Tonkin’” (Four Star 1949)246. Wanda Jackson: “Let’s Have a Party” (Capitol 1960)247. George Jones: “White Lightning” (Mercury 1959)248. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “A Six Pack to Go” (Capitol 1960)249. Merle Haggard: “If We Make It Through December” (Capitol 1973)250. Ernest Tubb: “Blue Christmas” (Decca 1949)251. Ray Price: “Heartaches By the Number” (Columbia 1959)252. Merle Haggard: “Sing a Sad Song” (Talley 1963)253. Johnny Rodriguez: “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” (Mercury 1973)254. El Conjunto Bernal: “Mi Unica Camino” (Ideal 1958)255. Roy Orbison: “Crying” (Monument 1961)256. Freddy Fender: “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (ABC/Dot 1975)257. The Flying Burrito Brothers: “Hot Burrito no. 1” (A&M 1969)258. William Bell: “You Don’t Miss Your Water” (Stax 1962)259. Conway Twitty: “Fifteen Years Ago” (Decca 1970)260. Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens: “Just Between the Two of Us” (Tally 1964)261. Lucinda Williams: “Passionate Kisses” (Rough Trade 1989)262. Deana Carter: “Did I Shave My Legs for This?” (Capitol 1997)263. Loretta Lynn: “Success” (Decca 1962)264. Stuart Hamblen: “(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You” (Columbia 1950)265. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “It’s a Sin” (RCA Victor 1947)266. Jimmie Davis: “You Are My Sunshine” (Decca 1940)267. Charley Pride: “Just Between You and Me” (RCA 1966)268. Blue Sky Boys: “Are You From Dixie?” (Bluebird 1939)269. Billy Joe Shaver: “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” (Monument 1973)270. Janis Joplin: “Me and Bobby McGee” (Columbia 1971)271. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Buddah 1973)272. Jerry Jeff Walker: “L.A. Freeway” (MCA 1973)273. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 4 (California Blues)” (Victor 1928)274. Patti Page: “The Tennessee Waltz” (Mercury 1951)275. Sammi Smith: “Kentucky” (Mega 1972)276. Waylon Jennings: “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” (RCA 1968)277. Lovin’ Spoonful: “Nashville Cats” (Kama Sutra 1966)

278. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “I Walk the Line” (Sun 1956)279. Charlie Rich: “Sittin’ and Thinkin’” (Phillips International 1962)280. The Statler Brothers: “Flowers on the Wall” (Columbia 1965)281. Del Reeves: “Looking at the World Through a Windshield” (United Artists 1968)282. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wreck on the Highway” (OKeh 1942)283. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wabash Cannon Ball” (Columbia 1947)284. Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” (MCA 1974)285. Arthur Alexander: “You Better Move On” (Dot 1962)286. Joe Sampley: “Soul Song” (Dot 1972)287. Sir Douglas Quintet: “At the Crossroads” (Smash 1969)288. James Carr: “The Dark End of the Street” (Goldwax 1967)289. Mel Street: “Lovin’ on Back Streets” (Metromedia 1972)290. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “Bouquet of Roses” (RCA Victor 1948)291. Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Slow Poke” (RCA Victor 1951)292. Spade Cooley: “Shame on You” (OKeh 1945)293. Tex Williams & His Western Caravan: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (Capitol 1947)294. The Delmore Brothers: “Brown’s Ferry Blues” (Bluebird 1933)295. Warner Mack: “The Bridge Washed Out” (Decca 1965)296. George Jones and Brenda Carter: “Milwaukee, Here I Come” (Musicor 1968)297. Jerry Lee Lewis: “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)” (Smash 1968)298. Johnny Paycheck: “Motel Time Again” (Little Darlin’ 1966)299. Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (OKeh 1944)300. Mark Chesnutt: “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” (MCA 1992)301. Hank Snow: “Miller’s Cave” (RCA Victor 1960)302. Frank Hutchison: “Stackalee” (OKeh 1927)303. John Anderson: “Wild and Blue” (Warner Bros. 1982)304. The Stanley Brothers: “Little Maggie” (Starday 1960)305. Charlie Walker: “Who Will Buy the Wine” (Columbia 1960)306. Billy Walker: “Charlie’s Shoes” (Columbia 1962)307. Conway Twitty: “The Image of Me” (Decca 1968)308. George Jones: “A Picture of Me (without You)” (Epic 1972)309. Webb Pierce: “Wondering” (Decca 1952)310. Nathan Abshire: “Pine Grove Blues” (O.T. 1949)311. Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters: “My Wife Died Saturday Night” (Brunswick 1928)312. Lefty Frizzell: “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (Columbia 1950)313. Buck Owens: “Above and Beyond” (Capitol 1960)314. Charley Pride: “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (RCA 1971)315. Faron Young: “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)” (Capitol 1954)316. Faith Hill: “This Kiss” (Warner Bros. 1998)317. Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy & His Guitar: “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby” (RCA Victor 1950)318. Rodney Crowell: “Elvira” (Warner Bros. 1978)319. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (Sun 1957)320. The Modern Mountaineers: “Everybody’s Truckin’” (Bluebird 1937)321. Light Crust Doughboys: “Pussy, Pussy, Pussy” (Vocalion 1938)322. Buck Owens: “Love’s Gonna Live Here” (Capitol 1963)323. Nilsson: “Everybody’s Talkin’” (RCA 1969)324. The Byrds: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (Columbia 1968)325. Lefty Frizzell: “She’s Gone Gone Gone” (Columbia 1965)326. The Monkees: “Last Train to Clarksville” (Colgems 1966)327. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition: “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (Reprise 1969)328. Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band: “Garden Party” (Decca 1972)329. Gene Watson: “You Could Know as Much About a Stranger” (Capitol 1976)330. Patsy Cline: “Faded Love” (Decca 1963)331. Dolly Parton: “I Will Always Love You” (RCA 1974)332. Tammy Wynette: “Till I Get It Right” (Epic 1972)333. Waylon Jennings: “Good Hearted Woman” (RCA Victor 1972)334. Trisha Yearwood: “XXX’s and OOO’s” (MCA 1994)335. Waylon Jennings: “Amanda” (RCA Victor 1979)336. Dottie West: “A Lesson in Leavin’” (United Artists 1980)337. Waylon Jennings: “Dreaming My Dreams with You” (RCA Victor 1975)338. George Jones: “The Door” (Epic 1974)339. Ferlin Husky: “Gone” (Capitol 1957)340. The Crickets: “That’ll Be the Day” (Brunswick 1957)341. Patsy Cline: “Walkin’ After Midnight” (Decca 1957)342. The Stanley Brothers: “Angel Band” (Mercury 1955)343. The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel” (Jubilee 1953)344. Elvis Presley: “He Touched Me” (RCA 1972)345. The Lewis Family: “His Blood Now Covers My Skin” (Starday 1967)346. Cal Smith: “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking” (Decca 1972)347. Garth Brooks: “Friends in Low Places” (Capitol 1990)

348. The Mississippi Sheiks: “Sitting on Top of the World” (OKeh 1930)349. Lazy Lester: “I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter” (Excello 1959)350. Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue” (Columbia 1969)351. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Okie from Muskogee” (Capitol 1969)352. Johnny Paycheck: “Take This Job and Shove It” (Epic 1977)353. Wynn Stewart: “Another Day, Another Dollar” (Challenge 1962)354. The Louvin Brothers: “Cash on the Barrel Head” (Captiol 1956) 355. Ray Charles: “Busted” (ABC-Paramount 1963)356. Dolly Parton: “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)” (RCA 1968)357. Reba McEntire: “Have I Got a Deal for You” (MCA 1985)358. Shania Twain: “Any Man of Mine” (Mercury 1995)359. Alan Jackson: “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” (Arista 1991)360. Hank Williams, Jr.: “Family Tradition” (Elektra/Curb 1979)361. Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens: “Streets of Bakersfield” (Reprise 1988)362. Moon Mullican: “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” (King 1950)363. Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts: “Angel of the Morning” (Bell 1968)364. Bob Luman: “Lonely Women Make Good Lovers” (Epic 1972)365. Mel Street: “I Met a Friend of Yours Today” (GRT 1976)366. Kris Kristofferson: “Why Me” (Monument 1973)367. Billy Swan: “I Can Help” (Monument 1974)368. Carl Smith: “Hey Joe!” (Columbia 1953)369. The Carlisles: “No Help Wanted” (Mercury 1953)370. Ernest Tubb: “Thanks a Lot” (Decca 1963)371. Tex Ritter & His Texans: “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (Captiol 1942)372. Tammy Wynette: “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (Epic 1968)373. Kitty Wells: “Mommy For a Day” (Decca 1959)374. Dolly Parton: “Daddy Come and Get Me” (RCA Victor 1970)375. Darby & Tarlton: “Little Bessie” (Columbia 1929)376. The Delmore Brothers: “Blues Stay Away From Me” (King 1949)377. Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris: “These Memories of You” (Warner Bros. 1987)378. Lefty Frizzell: “I Never Go Around Mirrors” (ABC 1974)379. Brother Willie Easton: “I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me)” (Regent 1951)380. The Chuck Wagon Gang: “After the Sunrise” (OKeh 1940)381. The Carter Family: “Worried Man Blues” (Victor 1930)382. Stonewall Jackson: “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” (Columbia 1965)383. Lone Justice: “Ways to Be Wicked” (Geffen 1985)384. Jan Howard: “Evil on Your Mind” (Decca 1966)385. Joe Simon: “The Chokin’ Kind” (Sound Stage 1969)386. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (MGM 1953)387. Ricky Skaggs: “Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown” (Sugar Hill/Epic 1983)388. Jimmy Wakely: “One Has My Name (the Other Has My Heart)” (Capitol 1948)389. The Kendalls: “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away” (Ovation 1977)390. Moe Bandy: “It’s a Cheating Situation” (Columbia 1979)391. O.B. McClinton: “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” (Enterprise 1972)392. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “Lead Me On” (Decca 1971)393. Buck Owens: “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (Captiol 1965)394. Webb Pierce: “Honky Tonk Song” (Decca 1957)395. Johnny Horton: “I’m Coming Home” (Columbia 1957)396. The Osborne Brothers: “Rocky Top” (Decca 1968)397. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” (Columbia 1951)398. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Big Beaver” (OKeh 1940)399. Charlie Walker: “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” (Columbia 1958)400. Ray Price: “Wasted Words” (Columbia 1956)401. Patty Loveless with George Jones: “You Don’t Seem to Miss Me” (Epic 1997)402. Billy Walker: “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Columbia 1961)403. The Davis Sisters: “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” (RCA Victor 1953)404. John Prine: “Illegal Smile” (Atlantic 1972)405. Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” (Columbia 1978)406. The Stanley Brothers: “Mountain Dew” (King 1959)407. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Twin Guitar Special” (OKeh 1941)408. Cowboy “Pappy” Copas: “Filipino Baby” (King 1946)409. Tony Booth: “Irma Jackson” (MGM 1970)410. Swamp Dogg: “These Are Not My People” (Roker 1970)411. Bobby Hebb: “Night Train to Memphis” (Rich 1960)412. Lacy J. Dalton: “16th Avenue” (Epic 1982)413. Dick Stratton & the Nite Owls: “Music City U.S.A.” (Jamboree 1950)414. Porter Wagoner: “Skid Row Joe” (RCA 1965)415. Harry McClintock: “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” (Victor 1928)416. Neil Young: “Sugar Mountain” (Reprise 1970)417. Don Williams: “I Believe in You” (MCA 1980)

418. The Judds: “Grandpa (Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days)” (RCA/Curb 1986)419. Norma Jean: “Heaven Help the Working Girl” (RCA 1967)420. Dolly Parton: “9 to 5” (RCA 1980)421. Merle Travis: “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed” (Capitol 1947)422. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Hey, Good Lookin’” (MGM 1951)423. Deana Carter: “Strawberry Wine” (Capitol 1996)424. Billie Jo Spears: “Blanket on the Ground” (United Artists 1975)425. Hank Snow: “Hello Love” (RCA 1974)426. Slim Whitman: “Indian Love Call” (Imperial 1952)427. Pam Tillis: “All the Good Ones Are Gone” (Arista 1997)428. Kim Richey: “I Know” (Mercury 1997)429. Patty Loveless: “Don’t Toss Us Away” (MCA 1989)430. Rosanne Cash: “Runaway Train” (Columbia 1988)431. BR5-49: “Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)” (Arista 1997)432. Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups: “Country Boy Rock ’n’ Roll” (King 1956)433. Johnny Burnette & the Rock & Roll Trio: “The Train Kept a-Rollin’” (Coral 1956)434. Conway Twitty: “You’ve Never Been This Far Before” (MCA 1973)435. Elvis Presley: “Burning Love” (RCA Victor 1972)436. Charlie Rich: “Nice ’n’ Easy” (Epic 1970)437. Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Fantasy 1970)438. John Conlee: “Rose Colored Glasses” (ABC 1978)439. Crystal Gayle: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (United Artists 1977)440. Skeets McDonald: “Don’ Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (Capitol 1952)441. Wiley & Gene: “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again” (OKeh 1941)442. Jean Shepard (with Ferlin Husky): “A Dear John Letter” (Captiol 1953)443. Floyd Tillman: “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin” (Columbia 1946)444. Johnny Bond: “Ten Little Bottles” (Starday 1965)445. Willie Nelson: “Bloody Mary Morning” (Atlantic 1974)446. George Strait: “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” (MCA 1984)447. Willie Nelson: “Always on My Mind” (Columbia 1982)448. Glen Campbell: “Gentle on My Mind” (Capitol 1967)449. David Houston & Tammy Wynette: “My Elusive Dreams” (Epic 1967)450. Louise Massey & the Westerners: “My Adobe Hacienda” (Columbia 1947)451. Vernon Oxford: “Watermelon Time in Georgia” (RCA 1965)452. Elton Britt & the Skytoppers: “Detour” (RCA Victor 1946)453. Charlie Rich: “Who Will the Next Fool Be” (Sun 1970)454. Ray Price: “Danny Boy” (Columbia 1967)455. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Bully of the Town” (Columbia 1926)456. Floyd Tillman: “I Gotta Have My Baby Back” (Columbia 1949)457. Jimmie Rodgers: “Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel” (Bluebird 1933)458. The Rolling Stones: “Honky Tonk Women” (London 1969)459. Gene Autry & Jimmy Long: “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine” (Banner 1931)460. Hank Snow: “The Golden Rocket” (RCA Victor 1950)461. Jimmie Rodgers: “Miss the Mississippi an You” (Victor 1932)462. Johnny Horton: “The Battle of New Orleans” (Columbia 1959)463. Ernest Van Stoneman: “The Titanic” (OKeh 1925)464. Tanya Tucker: “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” (Columbia 1973)465. LeAnn Rimes: “Blue” (Curb 1996)466. Patsy Cline: “I Fall to Pieces” (Decca 1961)467. George Jones: “She Thinks I Still Care” (United Artists 1962)468. Faron Young: “Hello Walls” (Captiol 1961)469. Bill Anderson: “Still” (Decca 1963)470. Charlie Rich: “The Most Beautiful Girl” (Epic 1973)471. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “Holding on to Nothin’” (RCA 1968)472. Del Reeves: “Girl on the Billboard” (United Artists 1965)473. Slim Harpo: “Rainin’ in My Heart” (Excello 1961)474. The Kentucky Headhunters: “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” (Mercury 1989)475. Fats Domino: “Walking to New Orleans” (Imperial 1960)476. Milton Brown & the Brownies: “Who’s Sorry Now?” (Decca 1935)477. Texas Ruby with Curly Fox & His Fox Hunters: “Don’t Let That Man Get You Down” (Columbia 1945)478. Elvis Presley: “Suspicious Minds” (RCA 1969)479. Jerry Lee Lewis: “She Still Comes Around (to What’s Left of Me)” (Smash 1968)480. The Shelton Brothers: “Just Because” (Decca 1935)481. Juice Newton: “Queen of Hearts” (Capitol 1981)482. Bill Nettles: “High-Falutin’ Mama” (Bullet 1947)483. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Honky Tonk Blues” (MGM 1952)484. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers: “Rock About My Saro Jane” (Vocalion 1927)485. Webb Pierce: “I Ain’t Never” (Decca 1959)486. Charlie Feathers with Jody and Jerry: “One Hand Loose” (King 1956)487. Conway Twitty: “Linda on My Mind” (MCA 1975)

488. Jessi Colter: “I’m Not Lisa” (Capitol 1975)489. David Allan Coe: “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” (Columbia 1975)490. Dwight Yoakam: “Guitars, Cadillacs” (Reprise 1986)491. Alan Jackson: “Gone Country” (Arista 1994)492. Vernon Dalhart: “The Prisoner’s Song” (Victor 1925)493. Waylon Jennings: “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” (RCA Victor 1975)494. Joe South & the Believers: “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” (Captiol 1970)495. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 9 (Standin’ on the Corner)” (Victor 1930)496. Los Lobos: “Will the Wolf Survive” (Slash 1985)497. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Don’t Fence Me In” (Decca 1944)498. Olivia Newton-John: “If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” (MCA 1974)499. The Carter Family: “Keep on the Sunny Side” (Victor 1928)500. Lee Ann Womack (with Sons of the Desert): “I Hope You Dance” (MCA Nashville 2000)

AN ALTERNATE 100 The Mavericks: “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down” (MCA 1996) Elvis Presley : “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (RCA 1960) Little Jimmy Dickens: “A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed” (Columbia 1950) The Coon Creek Girls: “Banjo Pickin’ Girl” (Vocalion/OKeh 1938) Emmylou Harris: “Beneath Still Waters” (Warner Bros. 1980) Red Foley: “Birmingham Bounce” (Decca 1950) Tex Ritter: “Blood on the Saddle” (Capitol 1945) The O’Kanes: “Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You” (Columbia 1987) Linda Martell: “Color Him Father” (Plantation 1969) Charlie Feathers: “Defrost Your Heart” (Sun 1956) Joe Maphis and Rose Lee: “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)” (OKeh 1953) Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies: “Down by the O-H-I-O” (Decca 1935) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Down Yonder” (Bluebird 1934) Buell Kazee: “East Virginia” (Brunswick 1929) Floyd Cramer: “Flip Flop and Bop” (RCA Victor 1958) Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Footprints in the Snow” (Columbia 1946) The Willis Brothers: “Give Me Forty Acres to Turn This Rig Around” (Starday 1964) The Carter Family: “Gospel Ship” (Conqueror 1935) Arthur Smith: “Guitar Boogie” (MGM 1948) Ricky Skaggs: “Heartbroke” (Epic 1982) Ricky Nelson: “Hello Mary Lou” (Imperial 1961) Alan Jackson: “Here in the Real World” (Arista 1990) Travis Tritt: “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” (Warner Bros. 1991) Jimmy Martin: “Hit Parade of Love” (Decca 1956) Guy Clark: “Homegrown Tomatoes” (Warner Bros. 1983) Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Honky Tonk Blues” (Vocalion 1937) Johnny Horton: “Honky Tonk Man” (Columbia 1956) The Farmer Boys: “Humdinger” (Capitol 1953) The Beatles: “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” (Capitol 1965) The Bobby Fuller Four: “I Fought the Law” (Mustang 1966) Moe Bandy: “I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today” (GRC 1974) Goldie Hill: “I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes” (Decca 1953) Vince Gill: “I Still Believe in You” (MCA 1992) Johnny Cash: “I Still Miss Someone” (Columbia 1959) Marion Worth: “I Think I Know” (Columbia 1960) Mac Wiseman: “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are” (Dot 1952) Eddy Arnold: “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (‘Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” (RCA Victor 1947) Stanley Brothers: “I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow” (King 1959) Red Simpson: “I’m a Truck” (Capitol 1971) Bing Crosby: “I’m an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)” (Decca 1936) Keith Whitley: “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” (RCA 1989) B.J. Thomas & the Triumphs: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Scepter 1966) Reno & Smiley: “I’m Using My Bible for a Road Map” (King 1952) Connie Smith: “If It Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave It Alone)” (RCA Victor 1972) Millie Jackson: “If You’re Not Back in Love by Monday” (Spring 1977) Charline Arthur: “Kiss the Baby Goodnight” (RCA Victor 1955) Hank Snow: “Let Me Go, Lover!” (RCA Victor 1954) Carl Smith: “Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way” (Columbia 1951) Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris and Steve Ledford: “Little Maggie” (Bluebird 1937) Hankshaw Hawkins: “Lonesome 7-7203” (King 1963) Steve Young: “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean” (RCA Victor 1977) Johnny Lee: “Lookin’ for Love” (Full Moon 1980) Tompall & the Glaser Brothers: “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” (Elektra 1981) The International Submarine Band: “Luxury Liner” (LHI 1968) Adolph Hofner & His Texans: “Marina Elina” (Bluebird 1940)

Blind Lemon Jefferson: “Match Box Blues” (Paramount 1927) Mel Tillis & the Statesiders: “Mental Revenge” (MGM 1976) Gene Autry: “Mexicali Rose” (Vocalion 1936) Gregg Allman: “Midnight Rider” (Capricorn 1973) Maddox Brothers and Rose: “Midnight Train” (Four Star 1947) Jimmie Rodgers: “My Rough and Rowdy Ways” (Victor 1929) Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” (MGM 1950) The Allen Brothers: “A New Salty Dog” (Bluebird 1930) Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers: “New Steel Guitar Rag” (RCA Victor 1952) The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Once More” (MGM 1958) Jerry Lee Lewis: “Once More with Feeling” (Smash 1970) Jean Shepard: “The Other Woman” (Capitol 1957) Loretta Lynn: “The Other Woman” (Decca 1963) Ray Price: “The Other Woman” (Columbia 1965) Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard: “Pancho and Lefty” (Epic 1983) Hank Lockin: “Please, Help Me, I’m Falling” (RCA Victor 1960) Tony Joe White: “Polk Salad Annie” (Monument 1969) Dock Boggs: “Pretty Polly” (Brunswick 1927) Roy Newman & His Boys: “Sadie Green (the Vamp of New Orleans)” (Vocalion 1935) Jeanne Pruett: “Satin Sheets” (RCA 1973) Don Gibson: “Sea of Heartbreak” (RCA Victor 1961) Vern Gosdin: “Set ’Em Up Joe” (Columbia 1988) Rosanne Cash: “Seven Year Ache” (Columbia 1981) Joe Tex: “Show Me” (Dial 1967) John Cougar Mellencamp: “Small Town” (Riva 1985) Ernest Tubb: “Soldier’s Last Letter” (Decca 1944) Gail Davies: “Someone is Looking for Someone Like You” (Lifesong 1979) Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Stay a Little Longer” (Columbia 1947) Eddie Cochran: “Summertime Blues” (Liberty 1958) Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band: “Take It Away, Leon” (Columbia 1950) Iry LeJune: “Teche Special” (Folk-Star 1950) Pee-Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Tennessee Waltz” (RCA Victor 1948) Jack Greene: “There Goes My Everything” (Decca 1966) Marty Robbins: “This Much a Man” (Decca 1972) The Browns: “The Three Bells” (RCA Victor 1959) Dick Curless: “A Tombstone Every Mile” (Tower 1965) Terry Fell & the Fellers: “Truck Driving Man” (X 1954) George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “(We’re Not) the Jet Set” (Epic 1974) Allison Krauss: “When You Say Nothing at All” (BNA 1995) Reba McEntire: “Whoever’s in New England” (MCA 1988) Wayne Raney: “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” (King 1949) Faron Young: “Wine Me Up” (Mercury 1969) Henry Whitter: “Wreck of the Southern Old ’97” (OKeh 1924) Trisha Yearwood: “Wrong Side of Memphis” (MCA 1992) Tommy Collins: “You Better Not Do That” (Capitol 1954)

BY DECADE:

1920s1. Dock Boggs: “Country Blues” (Brunswick 1927)2. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (Victor 1928)3. Tommy Johnson: “Cool Drink of Water Blues” (Victor 1928)4. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers: “Lovesick Blues” (OKeh 1928)5. Fiddlin’ John Carson: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (OKeh 1923)6. Blind Alfred Reed: “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (Victor 1929)7. Jimmie Rodgers: “Waiting for a Train” (Victor 1929)8. G.B. Grayson: “Ommie Wise” (Victor 1927)9. The Carter Family: “Single Girl, Married Girl” (Victor 1927)10. DeFord Bailey: “Pan American Blues” (Brunswick 1927)11. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “If I Lose, I Don’t Care” (Columbia 1927)12. Uncle Dave Macon: “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (Vocalion 1924)13. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” (Columbia 1925)14. The Carter Family: “Wildwood Flower” (Victor 1929)15. Eck Robertson: “Sallie Gooden” (Victor 1923)16. Bascom Lamar Lunsford: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” (Brunswick 1928)17. Richard “Rabbit” Brown: “James Alley Blues” (Victor 1927)18. Clarence Ashley: “The Coo Coo Bird” (Columbia 1929)19. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 4 (California Blues)” (Victor 1928)20. Frank Hutchison: “Stackalee” (OKeh 1927)

21. Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters: “My Wife Died Saturday Night” (Brunswick 1928)22. Darby & Tarlton: “Little Bessie” (Columbia 1929)23. Harry McClintock: “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” (Victor 1928)24. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Bully of the Town” (Columbia 1926)25. Ernest Van Stoneman: “The Titanic” (OKeh 1925)26. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers: “Rock About My Saro Jane” (Vocalion 1927)27. Vernon Dalhart: “The Prisoner’s Song” (Victor 1925)28. The Carter Family: “Keep on the Sunny Side” (Victor 1928)+29. Henry Whitter: “Wreck of the Southern Old ’97” (OKeh 1924)30. Dock Boggs: “Pretty Polly” (Brunswick 1927)31. Blind Lemon Jefferson: “Match Box Blues” (Paramount 1927)32. Jimmie Rodgers: “My Rough and Rowdy Ways” (Victor 1929)33. Buell Kazee: “East Virginia” (Brunswick 1929)

1930s1. The Carter Family: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (Banner 1935)2. Milton Brown & His Brownies: “Right or Wrong” (Decca 1936)3. Rex Griffin: “The Last Letter” (Decca 1937)4. Gene Autry: “Back in the Saddle Again” (OKeh 1939)5. Patsy Montana: “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (Vocalion 1935)6. The Monroe Brothers: “What Would You Give in Exchange?” (Bluebird 1936)7. Blue Sky Boys: “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” (Bluebird 1936)8. Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: “Great Speckled Bird” (Vocalion 1936)9. Cliff Bruner & His Boys: “Truck Driver’s Blues” (Decca 1939)10. Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers: “When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles with You)” (Decca 1938)11. Coon Creek Girls: “Sowing on the Mountain” (Vocalion 1938)12. Hackberry Ramblers: “Fais Pas Ca” (Bluebird 1938)13. Amede Ardoin & Dennis McGee: “One Step Des Chameaux” (Brunswick 1930)14. Blue Sky Boys: “Are You From Dixie?” (Bluebird 1939)15. The Delmore Brothers: “Brown’s Ferry Blues” (Bluebird 1933)16. The Modern Mountaineers: “Everybody’s Truckin’” (Bluebird 1937)17. Light Crust Doughboys: “Pussy, Pussy, Pussy” (Vocalion 1938)18. The Mississippi Sheiks: “Sitting on Top of the World” (OKeh 1930)19. The Carter Family: “Worried Man Blues” (Victor 1930)20. Jimmie Rodgers: “Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel” (Bluebird 1933)21. Gene Autry & Jimmy Long: “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine” (Banner 1931)22. Jimmie Rodgers: “Miss the Mississippi an You” (Victor 1932)23. Milton Brown & the Brownies: “Who’s Sorry Now?” (Decca 1935)24. The Shelton Brothers: “Just Because” (Decca 1935)25. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 9 (Standin’ on the Corner)” (Victor 1930)+26. The Allen Brothers: “A New Salty Dog” (Bluebird 1930)27. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Down Yonder” (Bluebird 1934)28. Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies: “Down by the O-H-I-O” (Decca 1935)29. The Carter Family: “Gospel Ship” (Conqueror 1935)30. Roy Newman & His Boys: “Sadie Green (the Vamp of New Orleans)” (Vocalion 1935)31. Gene Autry: “Mexicali Rose” (Vocalion 1936)32. Bing Crosby: “I’m an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)” (Decca 1936)33. Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Honky Tonk Blues” (Vocalion 1937)34. Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris and Steve Ledford: “Little Maggie” (Bluebird 1937)35. The Coon Creek Girls: “Banjo Pickin’ Girl” (Vocalion/OKeh 1938)

1940s1. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Lost Highway” (MGM 1949)2. Ted Daffan’s Texans: “Born to Lose” (OKeh 1942)3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Time Changes Everything” (OKeh 1940)4. Floyd Tillman: “I Love You So Much It Hurts” (Columbia 1948)5. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Columbia 1947)6. Hank Williams: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (MGM 1949)7. Woody Guthrie: “This Land Is Your Land” (Folkways 1945)8. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “Tramp on the Street” (Columbia 1947)9. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (Decca 1943)10. Sons of the Pioneers: “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (RCA Victor 1948)11. Homer & Jethro with June Carter: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (RCA Victor 1949)12. Ernest Tubb: “Walking the Floor Over You” (Decca 1941)13. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Brain Cloudy Blues” (Columbia 1947)14. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” (Columbia 1947)15. The Delmore Brothers: “Freight Train Boogie” (King 1946)16. Floyd Tillman: “Slipping Around” (Columbia 1949)

17. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Mule Skinner Blues” (Bluebird 1940)18. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I Saw the Light” (MGM 1947)19. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “When God Comes to Gather His Jewels” (Columbia 1947)20. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Take Me Back to Tulsa” (OKeh 1941)21. Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans: “Oklahoma Hills” (Capitol 1945)22. Sons of the Pioneers: “Cool Water” (Decca 1941)23. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (Mercury 1949)24. Leon Payne: “I Love You Because” (Capitol 1949)25. Gene Autry: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (OKeh 1942)26. Harry Choates: “Jole Blon” (Gold Star 1946)27. Lead Belly: “Midnight Special” (RCA Victor 1940)28. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Roly Poly” (Columbia 1946)29. Maddox Brothers & Rose: “Honky Tonkin’” (Four Star 1949)30. Ernest Tubb: “Blue Christmas” (Decca 1949)31. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “It’s a Sin” (RCA Victor 1947)32. Jimmie Davis: “You Are My Sunshine” (Decca 1940)33. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wreck on the Highway” (OKeh 1942)34. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wabash Cannon Ball” (Columbia 1947)35. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “Bouquet of Roses” (RCA Victor 1948)36. Spade Cooley: “Shame on You” (OKeh 1945)37. Tex Williams & His Western Caravan: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (Capitol 1947)38. Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (OKeh 1944)39. Nathan Abshire: “Pine Grove Blues” (O.T. 1949)40. Tex Ritter & His Texans: “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (Captiol 1942)41. The Delmore Brothers: “Blues Stay Away From Me” (King 1949)42. The Chuck Wagon Gang: “After the Sunrise” (OKeh 1940)43. Jimmy Wakely: “One Has My Name (the Other Has My Heart)” (Capitol 1948)44. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Big Beaver” (OKeh 1940)45. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Twin Guitar Special” (OKeh 1941)46. Cowboy “Pappy” Copas: “Filipino Baby” (King 1946)47. Merle Travis: “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed” (Capitol 1947)48. Wiley & Gene: “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again” (OKeh 1941)49. Floyd Tillman: “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin” (Columbia 1946)50. Louise Massey & the Westerners: “My Adobe Hacienda” (Columbia 1947)51. Elton Britt & the Skytoppers: “Detour” (RCA Victor 1946)52. Floyd Tillman: “I Gotta Have My Baby Back” (Columbia 1949)53. Texas Ruby with Curly Fox & His Fox Hunters: “Don’t Let That Man Get You Down” (Columbia 1945)54. Bill Nettles: “High-Falutin’ Mama” (Bullet 1947)55. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Don’t Fence Me In” (Decca 1944)+ 56. Adolph Hofner & His Texans: “Marina Elina” (Bluebird 1940)57. Ernest Tubb: “Soldier’s Last Letter” (Decca 1944)58. Tex Ritter: “Blood on the Saddle” (Capitol 1945)59. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Footprints in the Snow” (Columbia 1946)60. Eddy Arnold: “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (‘Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” (RCA Victor 1947)61. Maddox Brothers and Rose: “Midnight Train” (Four Star 1947)62. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Stay a Little Longer” (Columbia 1947)63. Pee-Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Tennessee Waltz” (RCA Victor 1948)64. Arthur Smith: “Guitar Boogie” (MGM 1948)65. Wayne Raney: “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” (King 1949)

1950s1. Elvis Presley: “Don’t Be Cruel” (RCA Victor 1956)2. Ray Price: “Crazy Arms” (Columbia 1956)3. Kitty Wells: “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Decca 1952)4. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “The Wild Side of Life” (Capitol 1952)5. Hank Snow: “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (RCA Victor 1954)6. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Folsom Prison Blues” (Sun 1956)7. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” (MGM 1953)8. Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys: “20/20 Vision” (RCA Victor 1954)9. Marty Robbins: “Singing the Blues” (Columbia 1956)10. Red Foley with the Sunshine Boys Quartet: “(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (for Me)” (Decca 1951)11. Porter Wagoner: “A Satisfied Mind” (RCA Victor 1955)12. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Decca 1954)13. Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Sun 1954)14. Carl Perkins: “Blue Suede Shoes” (Sun 1956)15. Lefty Frizzell: “I Love You a Thousand Ways” (Columbia 1950)16. The Louvin Brothers: “Knoxville Girl” (Capitol 1959)17. Stonewall Jackson: “Life to Go” (Columbia 1958)

18. Webb Pierce: “There Stands the Glass” (Decca 1953)19. Eddy Arnold & His Guitar: “The Cattle Call” (RCA Victor 1955)20. Kitty Wells: “Makin’ Believe” (Decca 1955)21. Carl Perkins: “Turn Around” (Flip 1955)22. Don Gibson: “Oh Lonesome Me” (RCA Victor 1958)23. The Everly Brothers: “Bye Bye Love” (Cadence 1957)24. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Great Balls of Fire” (Sun 1957)25. The Blackwood Brothers Quartet: “His Hand in Mine” (RCA Victor 1954)26. The Statesman Quartet with Hovie Lister: “This Ole House” (RCA Victor 1954)27. Gene Vincent: “Be-Bop-a-Lula” (Capitol 1956)28. Conway Twitty: “It’s Only Make Believe” (MGM 1958)29. Faron Young: “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young” (Capitol 1955)30. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Sixteen Tons” (Capitol 1955)31. Frankie Miller: “Blackland Farmer” (Starday 1959)32. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Howlin’ at the Moon” (MGM 1951)33. Marty Robbins: “El Paso” (Columbia 1959)34. Ray Price: “City Lights” (Columbia 1958)35. The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Ruby, Are You Mad?” (MGM 1956)36. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “You Win Again” (MGM 1952)37. Eddy Arnold: “You Don’t Know Me” (RCA Victor 1956)38. Hank Snow: “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” (RCA Victor 1952)39. Webb Pierce: “Back Street Affair” (Decca 1952)40. Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely: “The Gods Were Angry with Me” (Capitol 1950)41. Webb Pierce: “Slowly” (Decca 1954)42. Lefty Frizzell: “Always Late (with Your Kisses)” (Columbia 1951)43. The Louvin Brothers: “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” (Capitol 1956)44. The Louvin Brothers: “When I Stop Dreaming” (Capitol 1955)45. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “In the Pines” (Decca 1952)46. Tony Bennett: “Cold, Cold Heart” (Columbia 1951)47. Martha Carson: “Satisfied” (Capitol 1951)48. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan: “Are You Walking and a-Talking for the Lord” (Columbia

1953)49. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Uncle Pen” (Decca 1950)50. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Big River” (Sun 1958)51. Jimmy Murphy: “Electricity” (RCA Victor 1951)52. Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys: “Are You Missing Me” (Capitol 1952)53. Ray Price: “Release Me” (Columbia 1953)54. The Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister: “Faith Unlocks the Door” (RCA Victor 1956)55. Harmonica Frank: “Rockin’ Chair Daddy” (Sun 1954)56. Billy Lee Riley & His Little Green Men: “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” (Sun 1957)57. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: “Stratosphere Boogie” (Capitol 1954)58. Chuck Berry: “Maybellene” (Chess 1955)59. Lefty Frizzell: “The Long Black Veil” (Columbia 1959)60. Jim Reeves: “He’ll Have to Go” (RCA Victor 1959)61. Johnnie & Jack & Their Tennessee Mountain Boys: “Poison Love” (RCA Victor 1951)62. Carl Perkins: “Dixie Fried” (Sun 1956)63. Elvis Presley: “Mystery Train” (Sun 1955)64. Red Foley with Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland: “Sugarfoot Rag” (Decca 1950)65. “Little” Jimmy Dickens: “Hillbilly Fever” (Columbia 1950)66. Red Foley: “Midnight” (Decca 1952)67. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Shot Gun Boogie” (Capitol 1950)68. George Jones: “White Lightning” (Mercury 1959)69. Ray Price: “Heartaches By the Number” (Columbia 1959)70. El Conjunto Bernal: “Mi Unica Camino” (Ideal 1958)71. Stuart Hamblen: “(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You” (Columbia 1950)72. Patti Page: “The Tennessee Waltz” (Mercury 1951)73. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “I Walk the Line” (Sun 1956)74. Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Slow Poke” (RCA Victor 1951)75. Webb Pierce: “Wondering” (Decca 1952)76. Lefty Frizzell: “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (Columbia 1950)77. Faron Young: “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)” (Capitol 1954)78. Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy & His Guitar: “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby” (RCA Victor 1950)79. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (Sun 1957)80. Ferlin Husky: “Gone” (Capitol 1957)81. The Crickets: “That’ll Be the Day” (Brunswick 1957)82. Patsy Cline: “Walkin’ After Midnight” (Decca 1957)83. The Stanley Brothers: “Angel Band” (Mercury 1955)84. The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel” (Jubilee 1953)85. Lazy Lester: “I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter” (Excello 1959)86. The Louvin Brothers: “Cash on the Barrel Head” (Captiol 1956)

87. Moon Mullican: “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” (King 1950)88. Carl Smith: “Hey Joe!” (Columbia 1953)89. The Carlisles: “No Help Wanted” (Mercury 1953)90. Kitty Wells: “Mommy For a Day” (Decca 1959)91. Brother Willie Easton: “I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me)” (Regent 1951)92. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (MGM 1953)93. Webb Pierce: “Honky Tonk Song” (Decca 1957)94. Johnny Horton: “I’m Coming Home” (Columbia 1957)95. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” (Columbia 1951)96. Charlie Walker: “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” (Columbia 1958)97. Ray Price: “Wasted Words” (Columbia 1956)98. The Davis Sisters: “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” (RCA Victor 1953)99. The Stanley Brothers: “Mountain Dew” (King 1959)100. Dick Stratton & the Nite Owls: “Music City U.S.A.” (Jamboree 1950)101. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Hey, Good Lookin’” (MGM 1951)102. Slim Whitman: “Indian Love Call” (Imperial 1952)103. Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups: “Country Boy Rock ’n’ Roll” (King 1956)104. Johnny Burnette & the Rock & Roll Trio: “The Train Kept a-Rollin’” (Coral 1956)105. Skeets McDonald: “Don’ Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (Capitol 1952)106. Jean Shepard (with Ferlin Husky): “A Dear John Letter” (Captiol 1953)107. Hank Snow: “The Golden Rocket” (RCA Victor 1950)108. Johnny Horton: “The Battle of New Orleans” (Columbia 1959)109. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Honky Tonk Blues” (MGM 1952)110. Webb Pierce: “I Ain’t Never” (Decca 1959)111. Charlie Feathers with Jody and Jerry: “One Hand Loose” (King 1956)+112. Little Jimmy Dickens: “A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed” (Columbia 1950)113. Red Foley: “Birmingham Bounce” (Decca 1950)114. Iry LeJune: “Teche Special” (Folk-Star 1950)115. Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band: “Take It Away, Leon” (Columbia 1950)116. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” (MGM 1950)117. Carl Smith: “Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way” (Columbia 1951)118. Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers: “New Steel Guitar Rag” (RCA Victor 1952)119. Reno & Smiley: “I’m Using My Bible for a Road Map” (King 1952)120. Mac Wiseman: “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are” (Dot 1952)121. The Farmer Boys: “Humdinger” (Capitol 1953)122. Goldie Hill: “I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes” (Decca 1953)123. Joe Maphis and Rose Lee: “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)” (OKeh 1953)124. Tommy Collins: “You Better Not Do That” (Capitol 1954)125. Terry Fell & the Fellers: “Truck Driving Man” (X 1954)126. Hank Snow: “Let Me Go, Lover!” (RCA Victor 1954)127. Charline Arthur: “Kiss the Baby Goodnight” (RCA Victor 1955)128. Charlie Feathers: “Defrost Your Heart” (Sun 1956)129. Johnny Horton: “Honky Tonk Man” (Columbia 1956)130. Jimmy Martin: “Hit Parade of Love” (Decca 1956)131. Jean Shepard: “The Other Woman” (Capitol 1957)132. Eddie Cochran: “Summertime Blues” (Liberty 1958)133. Floyd Cramer: “Flip Flop and Bop” (RCA Victor 1958)134. The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Once More” (MGM 1958)135. The Browns: “The Three Bells” (RCA Victor 1959)136. Johnny Cash: “I Still Miss Someone” (Columbia 1959)137. Stanley Brothers: “I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow” (King 1959)

1960s1. Patsy Cline: “Crazy” (Decca 1961)2. George Jones: “The Window Up Above” (Mercury 1960)3. The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: “Rank Strangers” (Starday 1960)4. Tammy Wynette: “Stand By Your Man” (Epic 1968)5. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Mama Tried” (Capitol 1968)6. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “The Fugitive” (Capitol 1966)7. Charlie Rich: “Life’s Little Ups and Downs” (Epic 1969)8. Loretta Lynn: “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)” (Decca 1966)9. Ray Charles: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (ABC-Paramount 1962)10. Connie Smith: “Once a Day” (RCA Victor 1964)11. Connie Smith: “Burning a Hole in My Mind” (RCA Victor 1967)12. Tammy Wynette: “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” (Epic 1967)13. Ray Price: “Make the World Go Away” (Columbia 1963)14. Ray Price: “Night Life” (Columbia 1963)15. Buck Owens: “My Heart Skips a Beat” (Capitol 1964)16. Glen Campbell: “Galveston” (Capitol 1969)

17. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Hungry Eyes” (Capitol 1969)18. Roger Miller: “King of the Road” (Smash 1965)19. Hank Snow: “I’ve Been Everywhere” (RCA Victor 1962)20. Bobby Bare: “Detroit City” (RCA Victor 1963)21. Porter Wagoner: “Green, Green Grass of Home” (RCA 1965)22. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Sing Me Back Home” (Capitol 1967)23. Patsy Cline: “Sweet Dreams (of You)” (Decca 1963)24. Jack Greene: “Statue of a Fool” (Decca 1969)25. Jim Ed Brown: “Pop a Top” (RCA Victor 1967)26. Porter Wagoner: “Misery Loves Company” (RCA Victor 1962)27. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone” (Capitol 1968)28. Buck Owens: “Together Again” (Capitol 1964)29. George Jones & Melba Montgomery: “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds” (United Artists 1963)30. Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fire” (Columbia 1963)31. Jeannie Seely: “Don’t Touch Me” (Monument 1966)32. Marty Robbins: “Begging to You” (Columbia 1964)33. Roy Orbison & the Candy Men: “Oh Pretty Woman” (Monument 1964)34. Red Foley: “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” (Decca 1960)35. Merle Haggard: “Workin’ Man Blues” (Capitol 1969)36. Kay Adams with the Cliffie Stone Group: “Little Pink Mack” (Tower 1966)37. Dave Dudley: “Six Days on the Road” (Golden Wing 1963)38. Stanley Brothers: “How Far to Little Rock” (King 1960)39. The Band: “Up on Cripple Creek” (Capitol 1969)40. Gene Pitney: “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (Musicor 1962)41. Otis Redding: “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” (Volt 1968)42. Tom T. Hall: “Homecoming” (Mercury 1969)43. Joe South & the Believers: “Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home” (Capitol 1969)44. Glen Campbell: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (Capitol 1967)45. Patsy Cline: “She’s Got You” (Decca 1962)46. Roger Miller: “Chug-a-Lug” (Smash 1964)47. Roger Miller: “One Dyin’ and a Buryin’” (Smash 1965)48. Bobbie Gentry: “Ode to Billie Joe” (Capitol 1967)49. Carl & Pearl Butler: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1962)50. Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1969)51. Leroy Van Dyke: “Walk on By” (Mercury 1961)52. Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (Plantation 1968)53. Dusty Springfield: “Son of a Preacher Man” (Atlantic 1969)54. Marty Robbins: “I Was Alone” (Columbia 1968)55. Skeeter Davis: “The End of the World” (RCA Victor 1962)56. Porter Wagoner: “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (RCA 1967)57. Jean Shepard: “Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar)” (Capitol 1964)58. Glen Campbell: “Wichita Lineman” (Capitol 1968)59. Johnny Cash: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” (Columbia 1964)60. Jimmy Martin: “You Don’t Know My Mind” (Decca 1960)61. Johnny Bush: “You Gave Me a Mountain” (Stop 1969)62. Elvis Presley: “Any Day Now” (RCA Victor 1969)63. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “Big in Vegas” (Capitol 1969)64. Bobbie Gentry: “Fancy” (Captiol 1969)65. Brenda Lee: “I’m Sorry” (Decca 1960)66. Stonewall Jackson: “A Wound Time Can’t Erase” (Columbia 1962)67. Bob Dylan: “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (Columbia 1969)68. Solomon Burke: “Just Out of Reach (of My Two Open Arms)” (Atlantic 1961)69. Marty Robbins: “Don’t Worry” (Columbia 1961)70. Ernest Tubb: “Waltz Across Texas” (Decca 1965)71. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “The Last Thing on My Mind” (RCA 1967)72. Loretta Lynn: “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (Decca 1966)73. Elvis Presley: “Little Sister” (RCA 1961)74. Wanda Jackson: “Let’s Have a Party” (Capitol 1960)75. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “A Six Pack to Go” (Capitol 1960)76. Merle Haggard: “Sing a Sad Song” (Talley 1963)77. Roy Orbison: “Crying” (Monument 1961)78. The Flying Burrito Brothers: “Hot Burrito no. 1” (A&M 1969)79. William Bell: “You Don’t Miss Your Water” (Stax 1962)80. Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens: “Just Between the Two of Us” (Tally 1964)81. Loretta Lynn: “Success” (Decca 1962)82. Charley Pride: “Just Between You and Me” (RCA 1966)83. Waylon Jennings: “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” (RCA 1968)84. Lovin’ Spoonful: “Nashville Cats” (Kama Sutra 1966)85. Charlie Rich: “Sittin’ and Thinkin’” (Phillips International 1962)86. The Statler Brothers: “Flowers on the Wall” (Columbia 1965)

87. Del Reeves: “Looking at the World Through a Windshield” (United Artists 1968)88. Arthur Alexander: “You Better Move On” (Dot 1962)89. Sir Douglas Quintet: “At the Crossroads” (Smash 1969)90. James Carr: “The Dark End of the Street” (Goldwax 1967)91. Warner Mack: “The Bridge Washed Out” (Decca 1965)92. George Jones and Brenda Carter: “Milwaukee, Here I Come” (Musicor 1968)93. Jerry Lee Lewis: “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)” (Smash 1968)94. Johnny Paycheck: “Motel Time Again” (Little Darlin’ 1966)95. Hank Snow: “Miller’s Cave” (RCA Victor 1960)96. The Stanley Brothers: “Little Maggie” (Starday 1960)97. Charlie Walker: “Who Will Buy the Wine” (Columbia 1960)98. Billy Walker: “Charlie’s Shoes” (Columbia 1962)99. Conway Twitty: “The Image of Me” (Decca 1968)100. Buck Owens: “Above and Beyond” (Capitol 1960)101. Buck Owens: “Love’s Gonna Live Here” (Capitol 1963)102. Nilsson: “Everybody’s Talkin’” (RCA 1969)103. The Byrds: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (Columbia 1968)104. Lefty Frizzell: “She’s Gone Gone Gone” (Columbia 1965)105. The Monkees: “Last Train to Clarksville” (Colgems 1966)106. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition: “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (Reprise 1969)107. Patsy Cline: “Faded Love” (Decca 1963)108. The Lewis Family: “His Blood Now Covers My Skin” (Starday 1967)109. Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue” (Columbia 1969)110. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Okie from Muskogee” (Capitol 1969)111. Wynn Stewart: “Another Day, Another Dollar” (Challenge 1962)112. Ray Charles: “Busted” (ABC-Paramount 1963)113. Dolly Parton: “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)” (RCA 1968)114. Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts: “Angel of the Morning” (Bell 1968)115. Ernest Tubb: “Thanks a Lot” (Decca 1963)116. Tammy Wynette: “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (Epic 1968)117. Stonewall Jackson: “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” (Columbia 1965)118. Jan Howard: “Evil on Your Mind” (Decca 1966)119. Joe Simon: “The Chokin’ Kind” (Sound Stage 1969)120. Buck Owens: “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (Captiol 1965)121. The Osborne Brothers: “Rocky Top” (Decca 1968)122. Billy Walker: “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Columbia 1961)123. Bobby Hebb: “Night Train to Memphis” (Rich 1960)124. Porter Wagoner: “Skid Row Joe” (RCA 1965)125. Norma Jean: “Heaven Help the Working Girl” (RCA 1967)126. Johnny Bond: “Ten Little Bottles” (Starday 1965)127. Glen Campbell: “Gentle on My Mind” (Capitol 1967)128. David Houston & Tammy Wynette: “My Elusive Dreams” (Epic 1967)129. Vernon Oxford: “Watermelon Time in Georgia” (RCA 1965)130. Ray Price: “Danny Boy” (Columbia 1967)131. The Rolling Stones: “Honky Tonk Women” (London 1969)132. Patsy Cline: “I Fall to Pieces” (Decca 1961)133. George Jones: “She Thinks I Still Care” (United Artists 1962)134. Faron Young: “Hello Walls” (Captiol 1961)135. Bill Anderson: “Still” (Decca 1963)136. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “Holding on to Nothin’” (RCA 1968)137. Del Reeves: “Girl on the Billboard” (United Artists 1965)138. Slim Harpo: “Rainin’ in My Heart” (Excello 1961)139. Fats Domino: “Walking to New Orleans” (Imperial 1960)140. Elvis Presley: “Suspicious Minds” (RCA 1969)141. Jerry Lee Lewis: “She Still Comes Around (to What’s Left of Me)” (Smash 1968)+142. Marion Worth: “I Think I Know” (Columbia 1960)143. Elvis Presley : “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (RCA 1960)144. Hank Lockin: “Please, Help Me, I’m Falling” (RCA Victor 1960)145. Don Gibson: “Sea of Heartbreak” (RCA Victor 1961)146. Ricky Nelson: “Hello Mary Lou” (Imperial 1961)147. Hankshaw Hawkins: “Lonesome 7-7203” (King 1963)148. Loretta Lynn: “The Other Woman” (Decca 1963)149. The Willis Brothers: “Give Me Forty Acres to Turn This Rig Around” (Starday 1964)150. The Beatles: “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” (Capitol 1965)151. Dick Curless: “A Tombstone Every Mile” (Tower 1965)152. Ray Price: “The Other Woman” (Columbia 1965)153. B.J. Thomas & the Triumphs: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Scepter 1966)154. The Bobby Fuller Four: “I Fought the Law” (Mustang 1966)155. Jack Greene: “There Goes My Everything” (Decca 1966)

156. Joe Tex: “Show Me” (Dial 1967)157. The International Submarine Band: “Luxury Liner” (LHI 1968)158. Linda Martell: “Color Him Father” (Plantation 1969)159. Tony Joe White: “Polk Salad Annie” (Monument 1969)160. Faron Young: “Wine Me Up” (Mercury 1969)

1970s1. Sammi Smith: “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Mega 1970)2. Dolly Parton: “Coat of Many Colors” (RCA Victor 1971)3. Merle Haggard: “Carolyn” (Capitol 1971)4. Conway Twitty: “How Much More Can She Stand” (Decca 1971)5. Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn: “After the Fire Is Gone” (Decca 1971)6. Gene Watson: “Farewell Party” (Capitol 1979)7. Loretta Lynn: “The Pill” (MCA 1975)8. Stoney Edwards: “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” (Capitol 1973)9. Charlie Rich: “I Take It on Home” (Epic 1972)10. James Talley: “Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?” (Capitol 1976)11. Loretta Lynn: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Decca 1970)12. Gary Stewart: “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” (RCA Victor 1975)13. George Jones: “The Battle” (Epic 1976)14. Lynn Anderson: “Rose Garden” (Columbia 1970)15. The Flatlanders: “Dallas” (Plantation 1972)16. Ray Price: “For the Good Times” (Columbia 1970)17. Willie Nelson: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (Columbia 1975)18. Loretta Lynn: “One’s on the Way” (Decca 1971)19. Jerry Reed: “Amen Moses” (RCA 1970)20. Johnny Paycheck: “She’s All I Got” (Epic 1971)21. Sammi Smith: “Today I Started Loving You Again” (Mega 1975)22. Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts” (Reprise 1974)23. Dolly Parton: “Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel no. 8)” (RCA 1970)24. Tom T. Hall: “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” (Mercury 1971)25. Jack Green: “Lord Is That Me” (Decca 1970)26. Little Jimmy Dickens: “(You’ve Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” (Decca 1970)27. Tanya Tucker: “Delta Dawn” (Columbia 1972)28. The Kendalls: “Just Like Real People” (Ovation 1979)29. George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “Golden Ring” (Epic 1976)30. Tanya Tucker: “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” (Epic 1974)31. George Jones: “A Good Year for the Roses” (Musicor 1970)32. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone” (MCA 1974)33. Dolly Parton: “Jolene” (RCA 1973)34. Merle Haggard: “If We Make It Through December” (Capitol 1973)35. Johnny Rodriguez: “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” (Mercury 1973)36. Freddy Fender: “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (ABC/Dot 1975)37. Conway Twitty: “Fifteen Years Ago” (Decca 1970)38. Billy Joe Shaver: “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” (Monument 1973)39. Janis Joplin: “Me and Bobby McGee” (Columbia 1971)40. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Buddah 1973)41. Jerry Jeff Walker: “L.A. Freeway” (MCA 1973)42. Sammi Smith: “Kentucky” (Mega 1972)43. Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” (MCA 1974)44. Joe Sampley: “Soul Song” (Dot 1972)45. Mel Street: “Lovin’ on Back Streets” (Metromedia 1972)46. George Jones: “A Picture of Me (without You)” (Epic 1972)47. Charley Pride: “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (RCA 1971)48. Rodney Crowell: “Elvira” (Warner Bros. 1978)49. Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band: “Garden Party” (Decca 1972)50. Gene Watson: “You Could Know as Much About a Stranger” (Capitol 1976)51. Dolly Parton: “I Will Always Love You” (RCA 1974)52. Tammy Wynette: “Till I Get It Right” (Epic 1972)53. Waylon Jennings: “Good Hearted Woman” (RCA Victor 1972)54. Waylon Jennings: “Amanda” (RCA Victor 1979)55. Waylon Jennings: “Dreaming My Dreams with You” (RCA Victor 1975)56. George Jones: “The Door” (Epic 1974)57. Elvis Presley: “He Touched Me” (RCA 1972)58. Cal Smith: “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking” (Decca 1972)59. Johnny Paycheck: “Take This Job and Shove It” (Epic 1977)60. Hank Williams, Jr.: “Family Tradition” (Elektra/Curb 1979)61. Bob Luman: “Lonely Women Make Good Lovers” (Epic 1972)62. Mel Street: “I Met a Friend of Yours Today” (GRT 1976)63. Kris Kristofferson: “Why Me” (Monument 1973)

64. Billy Swan: “I Can Help” (Monument 1974)65. Dolly Parton: “Daddy Come and Get Me” (RCA Victor 1970)66. Lefty Frizzell: “I Never Go Around Mirrors” (ABC 1974)67. The Kendalls: “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away” (Ovation 1977)68. Moe Bandy: “It’s a Cheating Situation” (Columbia 1979)69. O.B. McClinton: “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” (Enterprise 1972)70. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “Lead Me On” (Decca 1971)71. John Prine: “Illegal Smile” (Atlantic 1972)72. Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” (Columbia 1978)73. Tony Booth: “Irma Jackson” (MGM 1970)74. Swamp Dogg: “These Are Not My People” (Roker 1970)75. Neil Young: “Sugar Mountain” (Reprise 1970)76. Billie Jo Spears: “Blanket on the Ground” (United Artists 1975)77. Hank Snow: “Hello Love” (RCA 1974)78. Conway Twitty: “You’ve Never Been This Far Before” (MCA 1973)79. Elvis Presley: “Burning Love” (RCA Victor 1972)80. Charlie Rich: “Nice ’n’ Easy” (Epic 1970)81. Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Fantasy 1970)82. John Conlee: “Rose Colored Glasses” (ABC 1978)83. Crystal Gayle: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (United Artists 1977)84. Willie Nelson: “Bloody Mary Morning” (Atlantic 1974)85. Charlie Rich: “Who Will the Next Fool Be” (Sun 1970)86. Tanya Tucker: “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” (Columbia 1973)87. Charlie Rich: “The Most Beautiful Girl” (Epic 1973)88. Conway Twitty: “Linda on My Mind” (MCA 1975)89. Jessi Colter: “I’m Not Lisa” (Capitol 1975)90. David Allan Coe: “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” (Columbia 1975)91. Waylon Jennings: “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” (RCA Victor 1975)92. Joe South & the Believers: “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” (Captiol 1970)93. Olivia Newton-John: “If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” (MCA 1974)+94. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Once More with Feeling” (Smash 1970)95. Red Simpson: “I’m a Truck” (Capitol 1971)96. Marty Robbins: “This Much a Man” (Decca 1972)97. Connie Smith: “If It Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave It Alone)” (RCA Victor 1972)98. Gregg Allman: “Midnight Rider” (Capricorn 1973)99. Jeanne Pruett: “Satin Sheets” (RCA 1973)100. Moe Bandy: “I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today” (GRC 1974)101. George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “(We’re Not) the Jet Set” (Epic 1974)102. Mel Tillis & the Statesiders: “Mental Revenge” (MGM 1976)103. Millie Jackson: “If You’re Not Back in Love by Monday” (Spring 1977)104. Steve Young: “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean” (RCA Victor 1977)105. Gail Davies: “Someone is Looking for Someone Like You” (Lifesong 1979)

1980s1. Steve Earle: “Someday” (MCA 1986)2. Bruce Springsteen: “Atlantic City” (Columbia 1982)3. George Strait: “Amarillo By Morning” (MCA 1983)4. Hazel Dickins: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” (Rounder 1980)5. George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (Epic 1980)6. Randy Travis: “On the Other Hand” (Warner Bros. 1986)7. John Anderson: “Swingin’” (Warner Bros. 1983)8. Clint Black: “Better Man” (RCA 1989)9. Jason & the Scorchers: “Absolutely Sweet Marie” (EMI 1984)10. Lucinda Williams: “Passionate Kisses” (Rough Trade 1989)11. John Anderson: “Wild and Blue” (Warner Bros. 1982)12. Dottie West: “A Lesson in Leavin’” (United Artists 1980)13. Reba McEntire: “Have I Got a Deal for You” (MCA 1985)14. Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens: “Streets of Bakersfield” (Reprise 1988)15. Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris: “These Memories of You” (Warner Bros. 1987)16. Lone Justice: “Ways to Be Wicked” (Geffen 1985)17. Ricky Skaggs: “Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown” (Sugar Hill/Epic 1983)18. Lacy J. Dalton: “16th Avenue” (Epic 1982)19. Don Williams: “I Believe in You” (MCA 1980)20. The Judds: “Grandpa (Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days)” (RCA/Curb 1986)21. Dolly Parton: “9 to 5” (RCA 1980)22. Patty Loveless: “Don’t Toss Us Away” (MCA 1989)23. Rosanne Cash: “Runaway Train” (Columbia 1988)24. George Strait: “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” (MCA 1984)25. Willie Nelson: “Always on My Mind” (Columbia 1982)

26. The Kentucky Headhunters: “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” (Mercury 1989)27. Juice Newton: “Queen of Hearts” (Capitol 1981)28. Dwight Yoakam: “Guitars, Cadillacs” (Reprise 1986)29. Los Lobos: “Will the Wolf Survive” (Slash 1985)+30. Emmylou Harris: “Beneath Still Waters” (Warner Bros. 1980)31. Johnny Lee: “Lookin’ for Love” (Full Moon 1980)32. Rosanne Cash: “Seven Year Ache” (Columbia 1981)33. Tompall & the Glaser Brothers: “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” (Elektra 1981)34. Ricky Skaggs: “Heartbroke” (Epic 1982)35. Guy Clark: “Homegrown Tomatoes” (Warner Bros. 1983)36. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard: “Pancho and Lefty” (Epic 1983)37. John Cougar Mellencamp: “Small Town” (Riva 1985)38. The O’Kanes: “Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You” (Columbia 1987)39. Reba McEntire: “Whoever’s in New England” (MCA 1988)40. Vern Gosdin: “Set ’Em Up Joe” (Columbia 1988)41. Keith Whitley: “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” (RCA 1989)

1990s1. Martina McBride: “Independence Day” (RCA 1994)2. Garth Brooks: “The Dance” (Capitol 1990)3. Dixie Chicks: “Wide Open Spaces” (Monument 1998)4. Deana Carter: “Did I Shave My Legs for This?” (Capitol 1997)5. Mark Chesnutt: “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” (MCA 1992)6. Faith Hill: “This Kiss” (Warner Bros. 1998)7. Trisha Yearwood: “XXX’s and OOO’s” (MCA 1994)8. Garth Brooks: “Friends in Low Places” (Capitol 1990)9. Shania Twain: “Any Man of Mine” (Mercury 1995)10. Alan Jackson: “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” (Arista 1991)11. Patty Loveless with George Jones: “You Don’t Seem to Miss Me” (Epic 1997)12. Deana Carter: “Strawberry Wine” (Capitol 1996)13. Pam Tillis: “All the Good Ones Are Gone” (Arista 1997)14. Kim Richey: “I Know” (Mercury 1997)15. BR5-49: “Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)” (Arista 1997)16. LeAnn Rimes: “Blue” (Curb 1996)17. Alan Jackson: “Gone Country” (Arista 1994)18. Lee Ann Womack (with Sons of the Desert): “I Hope You Dance” (MCA Nashville 2000)+19. Alan Jackson: “Here in the Real World” (Arista 1990)20. Travis Tritt: “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” (Warner Bros. 1991)21. Vince Gill: “I Still Believe in You” (MCA 1992)22. Trisha Yearwood: “Wrong Side of Memphis” (MCA 1992)23. Allison Krauss: “When You Say Nothing at All” (BNA 1995)24. The Mavericks: “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down” (MCA 1996)

CHRONOLOGICAL (each year in order)

19231. Fiddlin’ John Carson: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (OKeh 1923)2. Eck Robertson: “Sallie Gooden” (Victor 1923)

19241. Uncle Dave Macon: “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (Vocalion 1924)+Henry Whitter: “Wreck of the Southern Old ’97” (OKeh 1924)

19252. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” (Columbia 1925)3. Ernest Van Stoneman: “The Titanic” (OKeh 1925)4. Vernon Dalhart: “The Prisoner’s Song” (Victor 1925)

19261. Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Bully of the Town” (Columbia 1926)

19272. Dock Boggs: “Country Blues” (Brunswick 1927)3. G.B. Grayson: “Ommie Wise” (Victor 1927)4. The Carter Family: “Single Girl, Married Girl” (Victor 1927)5. DeFord Bailey: “Pan American Blues” (Brunswick 1927)

6. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers: “If I Lose, I Don’t Care” (Columbia 1927)7. Richard “Rabbit” Brown: “James Alley Blues” (Victor 1927)8. Frank Hutchison: “Stackalee” (OKeh 1927)9. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers: “Rock About My Saro Jane” (Vocalion 1927)+Blind Lemon Jefferson: “Match Box Blues” (Paramount 1927)Dock Boggs: “Pretty Polly” (Brunswick 1927)

19281. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)” (Victor 1928)2. Tommy Johnson: “Cool Drink of Water Blues” (Victor 1928)3. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers: “Lovesick Blues” (OKeh 1928)4. Bascom Lamar Lunsford: “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground” (Brunswick 1928)5. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 4 (California Blues)” (Victor 1928)6. Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters: “My Wife Died Saturday Night” (Brunswick 1928)7. Harry McClintock: “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” (Victor 1928)8. The Carter Family: “Keep on the Sunny Side” (Victor 1928)

19291. Blind Alfred Reed: “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (Victor 1929)2. Jimmie Rodgers: “Waiting for a Train” (Victor 1929)3. The Carter Family: “Wildwood Flower” (Victor 1929)4. Clarence Ashley: “The Coo Coo Bird” (Columbia 1929)5. Darby & Tarlton: “Little Bessie” (Columbia 1929)+Jimmie Rodgers: “My Rough and Rowdy Ways” (Victor 1929)Buell Kazee: “East Virginia” (Brunswick 1929)

19301. Amede Ardoin & Dennis McGee: “One Step Des Chameaux” (Brunswick 1930)2. The Mississippi Sheiks: “Sitting on Top of the World” (OKeh 1930)3. The Carter Family: “Worried Man Blues” (Victor 1930)4. Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel no. 9 (Standin’ on the Corner)” (Victor 1930)+The Allen Brothers: “A New Salty Dog” (Bluebird 1930)

19311. Gene Autry & Jimmy Long: “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine” (Banner 1931)

19321. Jimmie Rodgers: “Miss the Mississippi an You” (Victor 1932)

19332. The Delmore Brothers: “Brown’s Ferry Blues” (Bluebird 1933)3. Jimmie Rodgers: “Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel” (Bluebird 1933)

1934+ Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers: “Down Yonder” (Bluebird 1934)

19351. The Carter Family: “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (Banner 1935)2. Patsy Montana: “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” (Vocalion 1935)3. Milton Brown & the Brownies: “Who’s Sorry Now?” (Decca 1935)4. The Shelton Brothers: “Just Because” (Decca 1935)+Milton Brown & the Musical Brownies: “Down by the O-H-I-O” (Decca 1935)Roy Newman & His Boys: “Sadie Green (the Vamp of New Orleans)” (Vocalion 1935)The Carter Family: “Gospel Ship” (Conqueror 1935)

19361. Milton Brown & His Brownies: “Right or Wrong” (Decca 1936)2. The Monroe Brothers: “What Would You Give in Exchange?” (Bluebird 1936)3. Blue Sky Boys: “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” (Bluebird 1936)4. Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: “Great Speckled Bird” (Vocalion 1936)+Gene Autry: “Mexicali Rose” (Vocalion 1936)Bing Crosby: “I’m an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)” (Decca 1936)

19371. Rex Griffin: “The Last Letter” (Decca 1937)

2. The Modern Mountaineers: “Everybody’s Truckin’” (Bluebird 1937)+Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris and Steve Ledford: “Little Maggie” (Bluebird 1937)Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Honky Tonk Blues” (Vocalion 1937)

19381. Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers: “When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles with You)” (Decca 1938)2. Coon Creek Girls: “Sowing on the Mountain” (Vocalion 1938)3. Hackberry Ramblers: “Fais Pas Ca” (Bluebird 1938)4. Light Crust Doughboys: “Pussy, Pussy, Pussy” (Vocalion 1938)+The Coon Creek Girls: “Banjo Pickin’ Girl” (Vocalion/OKeh 1938)

19391. Gene Autry: “Back in the Saddle Again” (OKeh 1939)2. Cliff Bruner & His Boys: “Truck Driver’s Blues” (Decca 1939)3. Blue Sky Boys: “Are You From Dixie?” (Bluebird 1939)

19401. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Time Changes Everything” (OKeh 1940)2. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Mule Skinner Blues” (Bluebird 1940)3. Lead Belly: “Midnight Special” (RCA Victor 1940)4. Jimmie Davis: “You Are My Sunshine” (Decca 1940)5. The Chuck Wagon Gang: “After the Sunrise” (OKeh 1940)6. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Big Beaver” (OKeh 1940)+Adolph Hofner & His Texans: “Marina Elina” (Bluebird 1940)

19411. Ernest Tubb: “Walking the Floor Over You” (Decca 1941)2. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Take Me Back to Tulsa” (OKeh 1941)3. Sons of the Pioneers: “Cool Water” (Decca 1941)4. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Twin Guitar Special” (OKeh 1941)5. Wiley & Gene: “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again” (OKeh 1941)

19421. Ted Daffan’s Texans: “Born to Lose” (OKeh 1942)2. Gene Autry: “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (OKeh 1942)3. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wreck on the Highway” (OKeh 1942)4. Tex Ritter & His Texans: “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (Captiol 1942)

19431. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (Decca 1943)

19442. Al Dexter & His Troopers: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (OKeh 1944)3. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra: “Don’t Fence Me In” (Decca 1944)+Ernest Tubb: “Soldier’s Last Letter” (Decca 1944)

19451. Woody Guthrie: “This Land Is Your Land” (Folkways 1945)2. Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans: “Oklahoma Hills” (Capitol 1945)3. Spade Cooley: “Shame on You” (OKeh 1945)4. Texas Ruby with Curly Fox & His Fox Hunters: “Don’t Let That Man Get You Down” (Columbia 1945)+Tex Ritter: “Blood on the Saddle” (Capitol 1945)

19461. The Delmore Brothers: “Freight Train Boogie” (King 1946)2. Harry Choates: “Jole Blon” (Gold Star 1946)3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Roly Poly” (Columbia 1946)4. Cowboy “Pappy” Copas: “Filipino Baby” (King 1946)5. Floyd Tillman: “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin” (Columbia 1946)6. Elton Britt & the Skytoppers: “Detour” (RCA Victor 1946)+Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Footprints in the Snow” (Columbia 1946)

19471. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Columbia 1947)

2. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “Tramp on the Street” (Columbia 1947)3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Brain Cloudy Blues” (Columbia 1947)4. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel” (Columbia 1947)5. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I Saw the Light” (MGM 1947)6. Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks: “When God Comes to Gather His Jewels” (Columbia 1947)7. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “It’s a Sin” (RCA Victor 1947)8. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys: “Wabash Cannon Ball” (Columbia 1947)9. Tex Williams & His Western Caravan: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (Capitol 1947)10. Merle Travis: “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed” (Capitol 1947)11. Louise Massey & the Westerners: “My Adobe Hacienda” (Columbia 1947)12. Bill Nettles: “High-Falutin’ Mama” (Bullet 1947)+Eddy Arnold: “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (‘Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)” (RCA Victor 1947)Maddox Brothers and Rose: “Midnight Train” (Four Star 1947)Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: “Stay a Little Longer” (Columbia 1947)

19481. Floyd Tillman: “I Love You So Much It Hurts” (Columbia 1948)2. Sons of the Pioneers: “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (RCA Victor 1948)3. Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys: “Bouquet of Roses” (RCA Victor 1948)4. Jimmy Wakely: “One Has My Name (the Other Has My Heart)” (Capitol 1948)+Pee-Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Tennessee Waltz” (RCA Victor 1948)Arthur Smith: “Guitar Boogie” (MGM 1948)

19491. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Lost Highway” (MGM 1949)2. Hank Williams: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (MGM 1949)3. Homer & Jethro with June Carter: “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (RCA Victor 1949)4. Floyd Tillman: “Slipping Around” (Columbia 1949)5. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (Mercury 1949)6. Leon Payne: “I Love You Because” (Capitol 1949)7. Maddox Brothers & Rose: “Honky Tonkin’” (Four Star 1949)8. Ernest Tubb: “Blue Christmas” (Decca 1949)9. Nathan Abshire: “Pine Grove Blues” (O.T. 1949)10. The Delmore Brothers: “Blues Stay Away From Me” (King 1949)11. Floyd Tillman: “I Gotta Have My Baby Back” (Columbia 1949)+Wayne Raney: “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” (King 1949)

19501. Lefty Frizzell: “I Love You a Thousand Ways” (Columbia 1950)2. Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely: “The Gods Were Angry with Me” (Capitol 1950)3. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Uncle Pen” (Decca 1950)4. Red Foley with Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland: “Sugarfoot Rag” (Decca 1950)5. “Little” Jimmy Dickens: “Hillbilly Fever” (Columbia 1950)6. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Shot Gun Boogie” (Capitol 1950)7. Stuart Hamblen: “(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You” (Columbia 1950)8. Lefty Frizzell: “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” (Columbia 1950)9. Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy & His Guitar: “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby” (RCA Victor 1950)10. Moon Mullican: “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” (King 1950)11. Dick Stratton & the Nite Owls: “Music City U.S.A.” (Jamboree 1950)12. Hank Snow: “The Golden Rocket” (RCA Victor 1950)+Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” (MGM 1950)Little Jimmy Dickens: “A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed” (Columbia 1950)Iry LeJune: “Teche Special” (Folk-Star 1950)Leon McAuliffe & His Western Swing Band: “Take It Away, Leon” (Columbia 1950)Red Foley: “Birmingham Bounce” (Decca 1950)

19511. Red Foley with the Sunshine Boys Quartet: “(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (for Me)” (Decca 1951)2. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Howlin’ at the Moon” (MGM 1951)3. Lefty Frizzell: “Always Late (with Your Kisses)” (Columbia 1951)4. Tony Bennett: “Cold, Cold Heart” (Columbia 1951)5. Martha Carson: “Satisfied” (Capitol 1951)6. Jimmy Murphy: “Electricity” (RCA Victor 1951)7. Johnnie & Jack & Their Tennessee Mountain Boys: “Poison Love” (RCA Victor 1951)8. Patti Page: “The Tennessee Waltz” (Mercury 1951)

9. Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: “Slow Poke” (RCA Victor 1951)10. Brother Willie Easton: “I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me)” (Regent 1951)11. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys: “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’” (Columbia 1951)12. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Hey, Good Lookin’” (MGM 1951)+Carl Smith: “Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way” (Columbia 1951)

19521. Kitty Wells: “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (Decca 1952)2. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “The Wild Side of Life” (Capitol 1952)3. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “You Win Again” (MGM 1952)4. Hank Snow: “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” (RCA Victor 1952)5. Webb Pierce: “Back Street Affair” (Decca 1952)6. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “In the Pines” (Decca 1952)7. Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys: “Are You Missing Me” (Capitol 1952)8. Red Foley: “Midnight” (Decca 1952)9. Webb Pierce: “Wondering” (Decca 1952)10. Slim Whitman: “Indian Love Call” (Imperial 1952)11. Skeets McDonald: “Don’ Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (Capitol 1952)12. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Honky Tonk Blues” (MGM 1952)+Mac Wiseman: “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are” (Dot 1952)Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers: “New Steel Guitar Rag” (RCA Victor 1952)Reno & Smiley: “I’m Using My Bible for a Road Map” (King 1952)

19531. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” (MGM 1953)2. Webb Pierce: “There Stands the Glass” (Decca 1953)3. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan: “Are You Walking and a-Talking for the Lord” (Columbia

1953)4. Ray Price: “Release Me” (Columbia 1953)5. The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel” (Jubilee 1953)6. Carl Smith: “Hey Joe!” (Columbia 1953)7. The Carlisles: “No Help Wanted” (Mercury 1953)8. Hank Williams with the Drifting Cowboys: “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (MGM 1953)9. The Davis Sisters: “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” (RCA Victor 1953)10. Jean Shepard (with Ferlin Husky): “A Dear John Letter” (Captiol 1953)+Joe Maphis and Rose Lee: “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)” (OKeh 1953)The Farmer Boys: “Humdinger” (Capitol 1953)Goldie Hill: “I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes” (Decca 1953)

19541. Hank Snow: “I Don’t Hurt Anymore” (RCA Victor 1954)2. Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys: “20/20 Vision” (RCA Victor 1954)3. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Decca 1954)4. Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill: “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Sun 1954)5. The Blackwood Brothers Quartet: “His Hand in Mine” (RCA Victor 1954)6. The Statesman Quartet with Hovie Lister: “This Ole House” (RCA Victor 1954)7. Webb Pierce: “Slowly” (Decca 1954)8. Harmonica Frank: “Rockin’ Chair Daddy” (Sun 1954)9. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: “Stratosphere Boogie” (Capitol 1954)10. Faron Young: “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)” (Capitol 1954)+Tommy Collins: “You Better Not Do That” (Capitol 1954)Terry Fell & the Fellers: “Truck Driving Man” (X 1954)Hank Snow: “Let Me Go, Lover!” (RCA Victor 1954)

19551. Porter Wagoner: “A Satisfied Mind” (RCA Victor 1955)2. Eddy Arnold & His Guitar: “The Cattle Call” (RCA Victor 1955)3. Kitty Wells: “Makin’ Believe” (Decca 1955)4. Carl Perkins: “Turn Around” (Flip 1955)5. Faron Young: “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young” (Capitol 1955)6. Tennessee Ernie Ford: “Sixteen Tons” (Capitol 1955)7. The Louvin Brothers: “When I Stop Dreaming” (Capitol 1955)8. Chuck Berry: “Maybellene” (Chess 1955)9. Elvis Presley: “Mystery Train” (Sun 1955)10. The Stanley Brothers: “Angel Band” (Mercury 1955)+

Charline Arthur: “Kiss the Baby Goodnight” (RCA Victor 1955)

19561. Elvis Presley: “Don’t Be Cruel” (RCA Victor 1956)2. Ray Price: “Crazy Arms” (Columbia 1956)3. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Folsom Prison Blues” (Sun 1956)4. Marty Robbins: “Singing the Blues” (Columbia 1956)5. Carl Perkins: “Blue Suede Shoes” (Sun 1956)6. Gene Vincent: “Be-Bop-a-Lula” (Capitol 1956)7. The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Ruby, Are You Mad?” (MGM 1956)8. Eddy Arnold: “You Don’t Know Me” (RCA Victor 1956)9. The Louvin Brothers: “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” (Capitol 1956)10. The Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister: “Faith Unlocks the Door” (RCA Victor 1956)11. Carl Perkins: “Dixie Fried” (Sun 1956)12. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “I Walk the Line” (Sun 1956)13. The Louvin Brothers: “Cash on the Barrel Head” (Captiol 1956) 14. Ray Price: “Wasted Words” (Columbia 1956)15. Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups: “Country Boy Rock ’n’ Roll” (King 1956)16. Johnny Burnette & the Rock & Roll Trio: “The Train Kept a-Rollin’” (Coral 1956)17. Charlie Feathers with Jody and Jerry: “One Hand Loose” (King 1956)+Charlie Feathers: “Defrost Your Heart” (Sun 1956)Jimmy Martin: “Hit Parade of Love” (Decca 1956)Johnny Horton: “Honky Tonk Man” (Columbia 1956)

19571. The Everly Brothers: “Bye Bye Love” (Cadence 1957)2. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Great Balls of Fire” (Sun 1957)3. Billy Lee Riley & His Little Green Men: “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” (Sun 1957)4. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (Sun 1957)5. Ferlin Husky: “Gone” (Capitol 1957)6. The Crickets: “That’ll Be the Day” (Brunswick 1957)7. Patsy Cline: “Walkin’ After Midnight” (Decca 1957)8. Webb Pierce: “Honky Tonk Song” (Decca 1957)9. Johnny Horton: “I’m Coming Home” (Columbia 1957)+Jean Shepard: “The Other Woman” (Capitol 1957)

19581. Stonewall Jackson: “Life to Go” (Columbia 1958)2. Don Gibson: “Oh Lonesome Me” (RCA Victor 1958)3. Conway Twitty: “It’s Only Make Believe” (MGM 1958)4. Ray Price: “City Lights” (Columbia 1958)5. Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two: “Big River” (Sun 1958)6. El Conjunto Bernal: “Mi Unica Camino” (Ideal 1958)7. Charlie Walker: “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” (Columbia 1958)+Floyd Cramer: “Flip Flop and Bop” (RCA Victor 1958)Eddie Cochran: “Summertime Blues” (Liberty 1958)The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen: “Once More” (MGM 1958)

19591. The Louvin Brothers: “Knoxville Girl” (Capitol 1959)2. Frankie Miller: “Blackland Farmer” (Starday 1959)3. Marty Robbins: “El Paso” (Columbia 1959)4. Lefty Frizzell: “The Long Black Veil” (Columbia 1959)5. Jim Reeves: “He’ll Have to Go” (RCA Victor 1959)6. George Jones: “White Lightning” (Mercury 1959)7. Ray Price: “Heartaches By the Number” (Columbia 1959)8. Lazy Lester: “I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter” (Excello 1959)9. Kitty Wells: “Mommy For a Day” (Decca 1959)10. The Stanley Brothers: “Mountain Dew” (King 1959)11. Johnny Horton: “The Battle of New Orleans” (Columbia 1959)12. Webb Pierce: “I Ain’t Never” (Decca 1959)+Stanley Brothers: “I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow” (King 1959)The Browns: “The Three Bells” (RCA Victor 1959)Johnny Cash: “I Still Miss Someone” (Columbia 1959)

1960

1. George Jones: “The Window Up Above” (Mercury 1960)2. The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys: “Rank Strangers” (Starday 1960)3. Red Foley: “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” (Decca 1960)4. Stanley Brothers: “How Far to Little Rock” (King 1960)5. Brenda Lee: “I’m Sorry” (Decca 1960)6. Jimmy Martin: “You Don’t Know My Mind” (Decca 1960)7. Wanda Jackson: “Let’s Have a Party” (Capitol 1960)8. Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: “A Six Pack to Go” (Capitol 1960)9. Hank Snow: “Miller’s Cave” (RCA Victor 1960)10. The Stanley Brothers: “Little Maggie” (Starday 1960)11. Charlie Walker: “Who Will Buy the Wine” (Columbia 1960)12. Buck Owens: “Above and Beyond” (Capitol 1960)13. Bobby Hebb: “Night Train to Memphis” (Rich 1960)14. Fats Domino: “Walking to New Orleans” (Imperial 1960)+Marion Worth: “I Think I Know” (Columbia 1960)Elvis Presley : “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (RCA 1960)Hank Lockin: “Please, Help Me, I’m Falling” (RCA Victor 1960)

19611. Patsy Cline: “Crazy” (Decca 1961)2. Leroy Van Dyke: “Walk on By” (Mercury 1961)3. Solomon Burke: “Just Out of Reach (of My Two Open Arms)” (Atlantic 1961)4. Marty Robbins: “Don’t Worry” (Columbia 1961)5. Elvis Presley: “Little Sister” (RCA 1961)6. Roy Orbison: “Crying” (Monument 1961)7. Billy Walker: “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Columbia 1961)8. Patsy Cline: “I Fall to Pieces” (Decca 1961)9. Faron Young: “Hello Walls” (Captiol 1961)10. Slim Harpo: “Rainin’ in My Heart” (Excello 1961)+Don Gibson: “Sea of Heartbreak” (RCA Victor 1961)Ricky Nelson: “Hello Mary Lou” (Imperial 1961)

19621. Ray Charles: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (ABC-Paramount 1962)2. Hank Snow: “I’ve Been Everywhere” (RCA Victor 1962)3. Porter Wagoner: “Misery Loves Company” (RCA Victor 1962)4. Gene Pitney: “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (Musicor 1962)5. Patsy Cline: “She’s Got You” (Decca 1962)6. Carl & Pearl Butler: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1962)7. Skeeter Davis: “The End of the World” (RCA Victor 1962)8. Stonewall Jackson: “A Wound Time Can’t Erase” (Columbia 1962)9. William Bell: “You Don’t Miss Your Water” (Stax 1962)10. Loretta Lynn: “Success” (Decca 1962)11. Charlie Rich: “Sittin’ and Thinkin’” (Phillips International 1962)12. Arthur Alexander: “You Better Move On” (Dot 1962)13. Billy Walker: “Charlie’s Shoes” (Columbia 1962)14. Wynn Stewart: “Another Day, Another Dollar” (Challenge 1962)15. George Jones: “She Thinks I Still Care” (United Artists 1962)

19631. Ray Price: “Make the World Go Away” (Columbia 1963)2. Ray Price: “Night Life” (Columbia 1963)3. Bobby Bare: “Detroit City” (RCA Victor 1963)4. Patsy Cline: “Sweet Dreams (of You)” (Decca 1963)5. George Jones & Melba Montgomery: “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds” (United Artists 1963)6. Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fire” (Columbia 1963)7. Dave Dudley: “Six Days on the Road” (Golden Wing 1963)8. Merle Haggard: “Sing a Sad Song” (Talley 1963)9. Buck Owens: “Love’s Gonna Live Here” (Capitol 1963)10. Patsy Cline: “Faded Love” (Decca 1963)11. Ray Charles: “Busted” (ABC-Paramount 1963)12. Ernest Tubb: “Thanks a Lot” (Decca 1963)13. Bill Anderson: “Still” (Decca 1963)+Hankshaw Hawkins: “Lonesome 7-7203” (King 1963)Loretta Lynn: “The Other Woman” (Decca 1963)

1964

1. Connie Smith: “Once a Day” (RCA Victor 1964)2. Buck Owens: “My Heart Skips a Beat” (Capitol 1964)3. Buck Owens: “Together Again” (Capitol 1964)4. Marty Robbins: “Begging to You” (Columbia 1964)5. Roy Orbison & the Candy Men: “Oh Pretty Woman” (Monument 1964)6. Roger Miller: “Chug-a-Lug” (Smash 1964)7. Jean Shepard: “Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar)” (Capitol 1964)8. Johnny Cash: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” (Columbia 1964)9. Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens: “Just Between the Two of Us” (Tally 1964)10. Roger Miller: “King of the Road” (Smash 1965)+The Willis Brothers: “Give Me Forty Acres to Turn This Rig Around” (Starday 1964)

19651. Porter Wagoner: “Green, Green Grass of Home” (RCA 1965)2. Roger Miller: “One Dyin’ and a Buryin’” (Smash 1965)3. Ernest Tubb: “Waltz Across Texas” (Decca 1965)4. The Statler Brothers: “Flowers on the Wall” (Columbia 1965)5. Warner Mack: “The Bridge Washed Out” (Decca 1965)6. Lefty Frizzell: “She’s Gone Gone Gone” (Columbia 1965)7. Stonewall Jackson: “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” (Columbia 1965)8. Buck Owens: “I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” (Captiol 1965)9. Porter Wagoner: “Skid Row Joe” (RCA 1965)10. Johnny Bond: “Ten Little Bottles” (Starday 1965)11. Vernon Oxford: “Watermelon Time in Georgia” (RCA 1965)12. Del Reeves: “Girl on the Billboard” (United Artists 1965)+The Beatles: “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” (Capitol 1965)Dick Curless: “A Tombstone Every Mile” (Tower 1965)Ray Price: “The Other Woman” (Columbia 1965)

19661. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “The Fugitive” (Capitol 1966)2. Loretta Lynn: “Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on Your Mind)” (Decca 1966)3. Jeannie Seely: “Don’t Touch Me” (Monument 1966)4. Kay Adams with the Cliffie Stone Group: “Little Pink Mack” (Tower 1966)5. Loretta Lynn: “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (Decca 1966)6. Charley Pride: “Just Between You and Me” (RCA 1966)7. Lovin’ Spoonful: “Nashville Cats” (Kama Sutra 1966)8. Johnny Paycheck: “Motel Time Again” (Little Darlin’ 1966)9. The Monkees: “Last Train to Clarksville” (Colgems 1966)10. Jan Howard: “Evil on Your Mind” (Decca 1966)+B.J. Thomas & the Triumphs: “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Scepter 1966)The Bobby Fuller Four: “I Fought the Law” (Mustang 1966)Jack Greene: “There Goes My Everything” (Decca 1966)

19671. Connie Smith: “Burning a Hole in My Mind” (RCA Victor 1967)2. Tammy Wynette: “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” (Epic 1967)3. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Sing Me Back Home” (Capitol 1967)4. Jim Ed Brown: “Pop a Top” (RCA Victor 1967)5. Glen Campbell: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (Capitol 1967)6. Bobbie Gentry: “Ode to Billie Joe” (Capitol 1967)7. Porter Wagoner: “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (RCA 1967)8. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “The Last Thing on My Mind” (RCA 1967)9. James Carr: “The Dark End of the Street” (Goldwax 1967)10. The Lewis Family: “His Blood Now Covers My Skin” (Starday 1967)11. Norma Jean: “Heaven Help the Working Girl” (RCA 1967)12. Glen Campbell: “Gentle on My Mind” (Capitol 1967)13. David Houston & Tammy Wynette: “My Elusive Dreams” (Epic 1967)14. Ray Price: “Danny Boy” (Columbia 1967)+Joe Tex: “Show Me” (Dial 1967)

19681. Tammy Wynette: “Stand By Your Man” (Epic 1968)2. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Mama Tried” (Capitol 1968)3. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone” (Capitol 1968)4. Otis Redding: “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” (Volt 1968)

5. Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (Plantation 1968)6. Marty Robbins: “I Was Alone” (Columbia 1968)7. Glen Campbell: “Wichita Lineman” (Capitol 1968)8. Waylon Jennings: “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line” (RCA 1968)9. Del Reeves: “Looking at the World Through a Windshield” (United Artists 1968)10. George Jones and Brenda Carter: “Milwaukee, Here I Come” (Musicor 1968)11. Jerry Lee Lewis: “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)” (Smash 1968)12. Conway Twitty: “The Image of Me” (Decca 1968)13. The Byrds: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (Columbia 1968)14. Dolly Parton: “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)” (RCA 1968)15. Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts: “Angel of the Morning” (Bell 1968)16. Tammy Wynette: “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (Epic 1968)17. The Osborne Brothers: “Rocky Top” (Decca 1968)18. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton: “Holding on to Nothin’” (RCA 1968)19. Jerry Lee Lewis: “She Still Comes Around (to What’s Left of Me)” (Smash 1968)+The International Submarine Band: “Luxury Liner” (LHI 1968)

19691. Charlie Rich: “Life’s Little Ups and Downs” (Epic 1969)2. Glen Campbell: “Galveston” (Capitol 1969)3. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Hungry Eyes” (Capitol 1969)4. Jack Greene: “Statue of a Fool” (Decca 1969)5. Merle Haggard: “Workin’ Man Blues” (Capitol 1969)6. The Band: “Up on Cripple Creek” (Capitol 1969)7. Tom T. Hall: “Homecoming” (Mercury 1969)8. Joe South & the Believers: “Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home” (Capitol 1969)9. Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis: “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” (Columbia 1969)10. Dusty Springfield: “Son of a Preacher Man” (Atlantic 1969)11. Johnny Bush: “You Gave Me a Mountain” (Stop 1969)12. Elvis Presley: “Any Day Now” (RCA Victor 1969)13. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos: “Big in Vegas” (Capitol 1969)14. Bobbie Gentry: “Fancy” (Captiol 1969)15. Bob Dylan: “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You” (Columbia 1969)16. The Flying Burrito Brothers: “Hot Burrito no. 1” (A&M 1969)17. Sir Douglas Quintet: “At the Crossroads” (Smash 1969)18. Nilsson: “Everybody’s Talkin’” (RCA 1969)19. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition: “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (Reprise 1969)20. Johnny Cash: “A Boy Named Sue” (Columbia 1969)21. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: “Okie from Muskogee” (Capitol 1969)22. Joe Simon: “The Chokin’ Kind” (Sound Stage 1969)23. The Rolling Stones: “Honky Tonk Women” (London 1969)24. Elvis Presley: “Suspicious Minds” (RCA 1969)+Linda Martell: “Color Him Father” (Plantation 1969)Tony Joe White: “Polk Salad Annie” (Monument 1969)Faron Young: “Wine Me Up” (Mercury 1969)

19701. Sammi Smith: “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Mega 1970)2. Loretta Lynn: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (Decca 1970)3. Lynn Anderson: “Rose Garden” (Columbia 1970)4. Ray Price: “For the Good Times” (Columbia 1970)5. Jerry Reed: “Amen Moses” (RCA 1970)6. Dolly Parton: “Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel no. 8)” (RCA 1970)7. Jack Green: “Lord Is That Me” (Decca 1970)8. Little Jimmy Dickens: “(You’ve Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” (Decca 1970)9. George Jones: “A Good Year for the Roses” (Musicor 1970)10. Conway Twitty: “Fifteen Years Ago” (Decca 1970)11. Dolly Parton: “Daddy Come and Get Me” (RCA Victor 1970)12. Tony Booth: “Irma Jackson” (MGM 1970)13. Swamp Dogg: “These Are Not My People” (Roker 1970)14. Neil Young: “Sugar Mountain” (Reprise 1970)15. Charlie Rich: “Nice ’n’ Easy” (Epic 1970)16. Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Fantasy 1970)17. Charlie Rich: “Who Will the Next Fool Be” (Sun 1970)18. Joe South & the Believers: “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” (Captiol 1970)+Jerry Lee Lewis: “Once More with Feeling” (Smash 1970)

19711. Dolly Parton: “Coat of Many Colors” (RCA Victor 1971)2. Merle Haggard: “Carolyn” (Capitol 1971)3. Conway Twitty: “How Much More Can She Stand” (Decca 1971)4. Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn: “After the Fire Is Gone” (Decca 1971)5. Loretta Lynn: “One’s on the Way” (Decca 1971)6. Johnny Paycheck: “She’s All I Got” (Epic 1971)7. Tom T. Hall: “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” (Mercury 1971)8. Janis Joplin: “Me and Bobby McGee” (Columbia 1971)9. Charley Pride: “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (RCA 1971)10. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “Lead Me On” (Decca 1971)+Red Simpson: “I’m a Truck” (Capitol 1971)

19721. Charlie Rich: “I Take It on Home” (Epic 1972)2. The Flatlanders: “Dallas” (Plantation 1972)3. Tanya Tucker: “Delta Dawn” (Columbia 1972)4. Sammi Smith: “Kentucky” (Mega 1972)5. Joe Sampley: “Soul Song” (Dot 1972)6. Mel Street: “Lovin’ on Back Streets” (Metromedia 1972)7. George Jones: “A Picture of Me (without You)” (Epic 1972)8. Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band: “Garden Party” (Decca 1972)9. Tammy Wynette: “Till I Get It Right” (Epic 1972)10. Waylon Jennings: “Good Hearted Woman” (RCA Victor 1972)11. Elvis Presley: “He Touched Me” (RCA 1972)12. Cal Smith: “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking” (Decca 1972)13. Bob Luman: “Lonely Women Make Good Lovers” (Epic 1972)14. O.B. McClinton: “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” (Enterprise 1972)15. John Prine: “Illegal Smile” (Atlantic 1972)16. Elvis Presley: “Burning Love” (RCA Victor 1972)+Marty Robbins: “This Much a Man” (Decca 1972)Connie Smith: “If It Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave It Alone)” (RCA Victor 1972)

19731. Stoney Edwards: “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” (Capitol 1973)2. Dolly Parton: “Jolene” (RCA 1973)3. Merle Haggard: “If We Make It Through December” (Capitol 1973)4. Johnny Rodriguez: “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” (Mercury 1973)5. Billy Joe Shaver: “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” (Monument 1973)6. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Buddah 1973)7. Jerry Jeff Walker: “L.A. Freeway” (MCA 1973)8. Kris Kristofferson: “Why Me” (Monument 1973)9. Conway Twitty: “You’ve Never Been This Far Before” (MCA 1973)10. Tanya Tucker: “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” (Columbia 1973)11. Charlie Rich: “The Most Beautiful Girl” (Epic 1973)+Jeanne Pruett: “Satin Sheets” (RCA 1973)Gregg Allman: “Midnight Rider” (Capricorn 1973)

19741. Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris: “Love Hurts” (Reprise 1974)2. Tanya Tucker: “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” (Epic 1974)3. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty: “As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone” (MCA 1974)4. Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” (MCA 1974)5. Dolly Parton: “I Will Always Love You” (RCA 1974)6. George Jones: “The Door” (Epic 1974)7. Billy Swan: “I Can Help” (Monument 1974)8. Lefty Frizzell: “I Never Go Around Mirrors” (ABC 1974)9. Hank Snow: “Hello Love” (RCA 1974)10. Willie Nelson: “Bloody Mary Morning” (Atlantic 1974)11. Olivia Newton-John: “If You Love Me (Let Me Know)” (MCA 1974)+George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “(We’re Not) the Jet Set” (Epic 1974)Moe Bandy: “I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today” (GRC 1974)

19751. Loretta Lynn: “The Pill” (MCA 1975)2. Gary Stewart: “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” (RCA Victor 1975)

3. Willie Nelson: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (Columbia 1975)4. Sammi Smith: “Today I Started Loving You Again” (Mega 1975)5. Freddy Fender: “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (ABC/Dot 1975)6. Waylon Jennings: “Dreaming My Dreams with You” (RCA Victor 1975)7. Billie Jo Spears: “Blanket on the Ground” (United Artists 1975)8. Conway Twitty: “Linda on My Mind” (MCA 1975)9. Jessi Colter: “I’m Not Lisa” (Capitol 1975)10. David Allan Coe: “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” (Columbia 1975)11. Waylon Jennings: “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way” (RCA Victor 1975)

19761. James Talley: “Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?” (Capitol 1976)2. George Jones: “The Battle” (Epic 1976)3. George Jones & Tammy Wynette: “Golden Ring” (Epic 1976)4. Gene Watson: “You Could Know as Much About a Stranger” (Capitol 1976)5. Mel Street: “I Met a Friend of Yours Today” (GRT 1976)+Mel Tillis & the Statesiders: “Mental Revenge” (MGM 1976)

19771. Johnny Paycheck: “Take This Job and Shove It” (Epic 1977)2. The Kendalls: “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away” (Ovation 1977)3. Crystal Gayle: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (United Artists 1977)+Steve Young: “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean” (RCA Victor 1977)Millie Jackson: “If You’re Not Back in Love by Monday” (Spring 1977)

19781. Rodney Crowell: “Elvira” (Warner Bros. 1978)2. Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” (Columbia 1978)3. John Conlee: “Rose Colored Glasses” (ABC 1978)

19791. Gene Watson: “Farewell Party” (Capitol 1979)2. The Kendalls: “Just Like Real People” (Ovation 1979)3. Waylon Jennings: “Amanda” (RCA Victor 1979)4. Hank Williams, Jr.: “Family Tradition” (Elektra/Curb 1979)5. Moe Bandy: “It’s a Cheating Situation” (Columbia 1979)+Gail Davies: “Someone is Looking for Someone Like You” (Lifesong 1979)

19801. Hazel Dickins: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” (Rounder 1980)2. George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (Epic 1980)3. Dottie West: “A Lesson in Leavin’” (United Artists 1980)4. Don Williams: “I Believe in You” (MCA 1980)5. Dolly Parton: “9 to 5” (RCA 1980)+Emmylou Harris: “Beneath Still Waters” (Warner Bros. 1980)Johnny Lee: “Lookin’ for Love” (Full Moon 1980)

19811. Juice Newton: “Queen of Hearts” (Capitol 1981)+Tompall & the Glaser Brothers: “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” (Elektra 1981)Rosanne Cash: “Seven Year Ache” (Columbia 1981)

19822. Bruce Springsteen: “Atlantic City” (Columbia 1982)3. John Anderson: “Wild and Blue” (Warner Bros. 1982)4. Lacy J. Dalton: “16th Avenue” (Epic 1982)5. Willie Nelson: “Always on My Mind” (Columbia 1982)+Ricky Skaggs: “Heartbroke” (Epic 1982)

19831. George Strait: “Amarillo By Morning” (MCA 1983)2. John Anderson: “Swingin’” (Warner Bros. 1983)3. Ricky Skaggs: “Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown” (Sugar Hill/Epic 1983)+

Guy Clark: “Homegrown Tomatoes” (Warner Bros. 1983)Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard: “Pancho and Lefty” (Epic 1983)

19841. Jason & the Scorchers: “Absolutely Sweet Marie” (EMI 1984)2. George Strait: “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” (MCA 1984)

19851. Reba McEntire: “Have I Got a Deal for You” (MCA 1985)2. Lone Justice: “Ways to Be Wicked” (Geffen 1985)3. Los Lobos: “Will the Wolf Survive” (Slash 1985)+John Cougar Mellencamp: “Small Town” (Riva 1985)

19861. Steve Earle: “Someday” (MCA 1986)2. Randy Travis: “On the Other Hand” (Warner Bros. 1986)3. The Judds: “Grandpa (Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days)” (RCA/Curb 1986)4. Dwight Yoakam: “Guitars, Cadillacs” (Reprise 1986)

19871. Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris: “These Memories of You” (Warner Bros. 1987)+The O’Kanes: “Can’t Stop My Heart from Loving You” (Columbia 1987)

19881. Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens: “Streets of Bakersfield” (Reprise 1988)2. Rosanne Cash: “Runaway Train” (Columbia 1988)+Reba McEntire: “Whoever’s in New England” (MCA 1988)Vern Gosdin: “Set ’Em Up Joe” (Columbia 1988)

19891. Clint Black: “Better Man” (RCA 1989)2. Lucinda Williams: “Passionate Kisses” (Rough Trade 1989)3. Patty Loveless: “Don’t Toss Us Away” (MCA 1989)4. The Kentucky Headhunters: “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” (Mercury 1989)+Keith Whitley: “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” (RCA 1989)

19901. Garth Brooks: “The Dance” (Capitol 1990)2. Garth Brooks: “Friends in Low Places” (Capitol 1990)+Alan Jackson: “Here in the Real World” (Arista 1990)

19911. Alan Jackson: “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” (Arista 1991)+Travis Tritt: “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” (Warner Bros. 1991)

19921. Mark Chesnutt: “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” (MCA 1992)+ Vince Gill: “I Still Believe in You” (MCA 1992)Trisha Yearwood: “Wrong Side of Memphis” (MCA 1992)

19941. Martina McBride: “Independence Day” (RCA 1994)2. Trisha Yearwood: “XXX’s and OOO’s” (MCA 1994)3. Alan Jackson: “Gone Country” (Arista 1994)

19951. Shania Twain: “Any Man of Mine” (Mercury 1995)+Allison Krauss: “When You Say Nothing at All” (BNA 1995)

19961. Deana Carter: “Strawberry Wine” (Capitol 1996)2. LeAnn Rimes: “Blue” (Curb 1996)

+The Mavericks: “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down” (MCA 1996)

19971. Deana Carter: “Did I Shave My Legs for This?” (Capitol 1997)2. Patty Loveless with George Jones: “You Don’t Seem to Miss Me” (Epic 1997)3. Pam Tillis: “All the Good Ones Are Gone” (Arista 1997)4. Kim Richey: “I Know” (Mercury 1997)5. BR5-49: “Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)” (Arista 1997)

19981. Dixie Chicks: “Wide Open Spaces” (Monument 1998) 2. Faith Hill: “This Kiss” (Warner Bros. 1998)

20001. Lee Ann Womack (with Sons of the Desert): “I Hope You Dance” (MCA Nashville 2000)