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

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Events

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

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

Note: Several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played Juke Box Folk (Country & Western) Records," "Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records) and "Country & Western Records Most Played by Folk Disk Jockeys" charts.

Top new album releases

Births

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

Deaths

Further reading

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







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