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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1974.

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Events

  • March 16 — The Grand Ole Opry moves from the Ryman Auditorium, its home of the past 41 years, to the newly constructed 4,400 Grand Ole Opry House, on the Opryland complex. President Richard Nixon is a guest at the Ryman's last show. The Ryman would essentially sit vacant for the next two decades before being renovated in the early 1990s as a historical landmark and concert hall.
  • July 17 — Don Rich, a key member of Buck Owens' backing band, The Buckaroos, is killed in a motorcycle crash on State Route 99 north of Bakersfield, California; he was 32. Owens is deeply saddened by Rich's death, and it will gravely affect his career for many years.[1]

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  • Country purists - long troubled by a growing trend of pop music-influenced country - have an ACE up their sleeves, when they form the Association of Country Entertainers. The group forms as a result of an outcry over the 1974 Country Music Association awards program, where pop diva Olivia Newton-John won Female Vocalist of the Year, and Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass was awarded another Instrumental Group of the Year.
  • The proliferation of No. 1 hits, as certified by Billboard, extends into 1974, when 40 songs reach the top of the Hot Country Singles chart. In fact, just nine songs - 10, if one counts Merle Haggard's "If We Make It Through December," which spent two of its four weeks at No. 1 in January - remain at the top spot for more than one week.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

United States

(as certified by Billboard)

Date Single Name Artist Wks. No.1 Spec. Note
January 19 I Love Tom T. Hall 2
February 2 Jolene Dolly Parton 1
February 9 World of Make Believe Bill Anderson 1
February 16 That's the Way Love Goes Johnny Rodriguez 1
February 23 Another Lonely Song Tammy Wynette 2
March 9 There Won't Be Anymore Charlie Rich 2 [1]
March 23 There's a Honky Tonk Angel (Who'll Take Me Back In) Conway Twitty 1
March 30 Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) Tanya Tucker 1
April 6 A Very Special Love Song Charlie Rich 3
April 27 Hello Love Hank Snow 1 [B]
May 4 Things Aren't Funny Anymore Merle Haggard 1
May 11 Is It Wrong (For Loving You) Sonny James 1 [B]
May 18 Country Bumpkin Cal Smith 1
May 25 No Charge Melba Montgomery 1 [C]
June 1 Pure Love Ronnie Milsap 1 [A]

Written by Eddie Rabbitt.
June 8 I Will Always Love You Dolly Parton 1
June 15 I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore Charlie Rich 1
June 22 This Time Waylon Jennings 1 [A]
June 29 Room Full of Roses Mickey Gilley 1 [A]
July 6 She Thinks I Still Care Anne Murray 2 [A]
July 20 Marie Laveau Bobby Bare 1 [C]
July 27 You Can't Be a Beacon If Your Light Don't Shine Donna Fargo 1
August 3 Rub It In Billy "Crash" Craddock 2 [A]
August 17 "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" Conway Twitty
and Loretta Lynn		 1
August 24 Old Man from the Mountain Merle Haggard 1
August 31 The Grand Tour George Jones 1
September 7 Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends Ronnie Milsap 2
September 21 I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me Don Williams 1 [A]
September 28 I'm a Ramblin' Man Waylon Jennings 1
October 5 I Love My Friend Charlie Rich 1
October 12 Please Don't Stop Loving Me Porter Wagoner
and Dolly Parton		 1 [B] - Porter Wagoner
October 19 I See the Want To in Your Eyes Conway Twitty 2
November 2 I Overlooked an Orchid Mickey Gilley 1
November 9 Love Is Like a Butterfly Dolly Parton 1
November 16 Country Is Tom T. Hall 1
November 23 Trouble in Paradise Loretta Lynn 1
November 30 Back Home Again John Denver 1 [A]
December 7 She Called Me Baby Charlie Rich 1
December 14 I Can Help Billy Swan 2 [C]
December 28 What a Man My Man Is Lynn Anderson 1 [B]
Notes
  • 1^ No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard.
  • A^ First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • B^ Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • C^ Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

Canada

(as certified by RPM)

Date Single Name Artist Wks. No.1 Spec. Note
January 12 Amazing Love Charley Pride 1
January 19 If We Make It Through December Merle Haggard 1
January 26 I Love Tom T. Hall 2
February 9 Hey Loretta Loretta Lynn 1
February 16 Jolene Dolly Parton 1 [A]
February 23 World of Make Believe Bill Anderson 1
March 2 A Love Song Anne Murray 2
March 16 There Won't Be Anymore Charlie Rich 1
March 23 Another Lonely Song Tammy Wynette 1
March 30 There's a Honky Tonk Angel (Who'll Take Me Back In) Conway Twitty 1
April 6 Sweet Magnolia Blossom Billy "Crash" Craddock 1
April 13 A Very Special Love Song Charlie Rich 3
  • RPM didn't publish on May 4.
May 11 Hello Love (Hank Snow song) Hank Snow 2 [B]
May 25 No Charge Melba Montgomery 1 [C]
June 1 Honeymoon Feelin' Roy Clark 1 [B]
June 8 The Streak Ray Stevens 1 [C]
June 15 If You Love Me (Let Me Know) Olivia Newton-John 2 [A]
June 29 When the Morning Comes Hoyt Axton 1 [C]
July 6 We Could Charley Pride 1
July 13 This Time Waylon Jennings 1
July 20 I'm Not Through Loving You Yet Conway Twitty 1
July 27 They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy Loretta Lynn 1
August 3 Marie Laveau Bobby Bare 1 [C]
August 10 As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone Conway Twitty and
Loretta Lynn		 1
August 17 Rub It In Billy "Crash" Craddock 1
August 24 You Can't Be a Beacon
(If Your Light Don't Shine)		 Donna Fargo 1
August 31 Old Man from the Mountain Merle Haggard 1
September 7 Talkin' to the Wall Lynn Anderson 2
September 21 Dance with Me (Just One More Time) Johnny Rodriguez 1
September 28 Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends Ronnie Milsap 1 [A]
October 5 I Love My Friend Charlie Rich 2
October 19 Bonaparte's Retreat Glen Campbell 1
October 26 I See the Want To in Your Eyes Conway Twitty 1
November 2 Woman to Woman Tammy Wynette 1
November 9 Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town Charley Pride 1
November 16 I Honestly Love You Olivia Newton-John 2
November 30 Carefree Highway Gordon Lightfoot 1
December 7 Country Is Tom T. Hall 1 [B]
December 14 I Can Help Billy Swan 1 [C]
December 21 Back Home Again John Denver 1 [A]
December 28 She Called Me Baby Charlie Rich 1
Notes
  • A^ First RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • B^ Last RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.
  • C^ Only RPM No. 1 hit for that artist.

Other major hits

Singles released by American artists

Singles released by Canadian artists

US CAN Single Artist
4 Anna Marie Bruce Miller
11 Ballad of the Hotel Waitress Roy MacCaull
20 The Balladeer Jim and Don Haggart
10 Battle of New Orleans Mike Graham
2 Bitter Sweet Songs Dick Damron
2 Bittersweet Donna Moon
19 Blues Comin' Round Marg Osburne
14 Cardboard Cowboys Bob Ruzicka
9 Eastbound Highway Orval Prophet
19 Ghost Story Mike Graham
8 Great Canadian Tour Ian Tyson
18 Happy Anniversary Con Archer
13 He Jim and Don Haggart
91 18 The Hill Ray Griff
15 His Kind of Woman Dianne Leigh
12 House of Glass Allan Capson
17 I Love Your Kind of Lovin' Lynn Jones
10 I'd Go Through It All Again Carroll Baker
4 Kids in the Kitchen Family Brown
16 Little Boy Blue Carroll Baker
14 Love Is Simple Family Brown
3 Momma Brown R. Harlan Smith
6 Our Loving Times Mercey Brothers
19 Our Summer Song Tommy Ambrose
15 Shoeshine Workin' Song Murray McLauchlan
11 Sing-a-Long with Me Linda Brown
5 3 Son of a Rotten Gambler Anne Murray
14 Standing on the Promises Newman Sisters
11 Sweet Jesus Roy Payne
3 Ten Little Fingers Carroll Baker
65 12 That Doesn't Mean (I Don't Love My God) Ray Griff
15 What Used to Be a River Jim and Don Haggart
10 Whisper to Me Tina Roy Payne
13 A Window Mannikin Jo-Anne

Top new album releases

Other top albums

Births

Deaths

  • January 2 — Tex Ritter, 68, silver screen cowboy and western artist (heart attack).
  • July 17 — Don Rich, 32, right-hand man of Buck Owens and key member of the Buckaroos (motorcycle crash).

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Major awards

Grammy Awards

Juno Awards

Academy of Country Music

Country Music Association

Further reading

  • Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
  • Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
  • Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

References

  1. ^ The Baron of Bakersfield

Other links

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