This is a list of notable events in state music that took place in 1962.
Overview of the events of 1962 in country music
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Events [edit]
- September 25 – Loretta Lynn is inducted into the Grand Ole Opry at 30 years of historic period.
- Nov three — Billboard renames its Hot C&Westward Sides chart "Hot Country Singles," a name information technology volition keep for the side by side 27 years. The nautical chart length remains xxx positions.
No dates [edit]
- Rhythm and blues vocaliser Ray Charles releases his landmark album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. The anthology of pop-styled covers of land standards is vastly influential in the genre.
Summit hits of the twelvemonth [edit]
Number one hits [edit]
U.s.a. [edit]
(as certified by Billboard)
| Date | Single Proper noun | Creative person | Wks. No.1 | Spec. Note |
| March ten | Misery Loves Company | Porter Wagoner | ii | [2] - Returns to Number One March 24.
- Wagoner's first Billboard Number One since "A Satisfied Listen" in 1955.
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| March 17 | That's My Pa | Sheb Wooley | 1 | [C] |
| March 31 | She'due south Got Y'all | Patsy Cline | five | [2], [B] - Returns to Number One May 5.
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| Apr 28 | Charlie's Shoes | Billy Walker | 2 | [2], [C] - Returns to Number One May 12.
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| May 19 | She Thinks I Still Care | George Jones | vi | |
| June 30 | Wolverton Mountain | Claude King | ix | [1], [C] |
| September i | Devil Woman | Marty Robbins | 8 | |
| October 27 | Mama Sang a Vocal | Bill Anderson | seven | [2], [A] - Returns to Number 1 on November 17, and and so on December 22.
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| November x | I've Been Everywhere | Hank Snow | 2 | [2] - Returns to Number One Dec 15.
- Snow's get-go Billboard Number Ane since "Let Me Go, Lover!" in 1954.
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| December 29 | Don't Let Me Cross Over | Carl Butler and Pearl | 11 | [ii], [C] - Returns to Number One on January 12, January 26, and then on February 16.
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- Notes
- 1 ^ No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard.
- 2 ^ Song dropped from No. i and later returned to top spot.
- A ^ Commencement Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
- B ^ Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
- C ^ Only Billboard No. one hit for that creative person to engagement.
Other major hits [edit]
| US | Unmarried | Artist |
| 5 | Agonized, Breaking Heart | George Jones |
| 2 | Evict Amigo | Jim Reeves |
| 7 | Afterward Loving You | Boil Arnold |
| 11 | Air Mail to Heaven | Carl Smith |
| 5 | Alla My Love | Webb Pierce |
| 13 | Anywhere At that place's People | Lawton Williams |
| xvi | Best Dressed Beggar (In Boondocks) | Carl Smith |
| 12 | Large Fool of the Year | George Jones |
| 16 | Black Cloud | Leroy Van Dyke |
| ten | The Burning of Atlanta | Claude King |
| xvi | Cajun Queen | Jimmy Dean |
| 3 | Call Me Mr. In-Between | Burl Ives |
| 10 | Cold Dark Waters | Porter Wagoner |
| 7 | The Comancheros | Claude King |
| iv | The Comeback | Faron Young |
| 5 | Cow Town | Webb Pierce |
| 2 | Crazy | Patsy Cline |
| 8 | Crazy Wild Desire | Webb Pierce |
| 20 | Daddy Stopped In | Claude Gray |
| 10 | Day Into Night | Kitty Wells |
| 9 | Honey Ivan | Jimmy Dean |
| xviii | Don't Go Near the Eskimos | Ben Colder |
| 4 | Don't Go Near the Indians | King Allen |
| 3 | Everybody simply Me | Ernest Ashworth |
| 7 | Footsteps of a Fool | Judy Lynn |
| 9 | Funny Style of Laughin' | Burl Ives |
| fourteen | Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands | Beak Anderson |
| 3 | A Daughter I Used to Know | George Jones |
| 13 | Go along Home | Patti Page |
| 10 | Happy Journey | Hank Locklin |
| xi | He Stands Real Tall | Del Reeves |
| 8 | Hello Out There | Carl Belew |
| xi | Honky Tonk Man | Johnny Horton |
| 7 | (How Tin can I Write On Paper) What I Feel in My Eye | Jim Reeves |
| v | I Tin can Mend Your Broken Heart | Don Gibson |
| 17 | I Tin can't Stop (My Lovin' You) | Cadet Owens |
| 9 | I Guess I'll Never Learn | Charlie Phillips |
| 2 | I'k Gonna Change Everything | Jim Reeves |
| 16 | I'm Looking High and Depression for My Infant | Ernest Tubb |
| 12 | I've Merely Destroyed the World (I'g Loving In) | Ray Price |
| 3 | If a Woman Answers (Hang Up the Phone) | Leroy Van Dyke |
| 6 | If You Don't Know I Ain't Gonna Tell You | George Hamilton IV |
| 8 | In the Jailhouse Now | Johnny Cash |
| 6 | In the Middle of a Heartache | Wanda Jackson |
| four | Information technology Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' | Johnny Tillotson |
| 16 | Only Ain't | Flatt & Scruggs |
| xx | Kentucky Means Paradise | Glen Campbell |
| 8 | Kickin' Our Hearts Around | Buck Owens |
| 9 | Leona | Stonewall Jackson |
| 20 | A Letter to My Heart | Jim Reeves |
| 2 | A Little Bitty Tear | Burl Ives |
| ten | Little Black Book | Jimmy Dean |
| 3 | A Little Heartache | Eddy Arnold |
| ii | Lonesome Number One | Don Gibson |
| 2 | Losing Your Love | Jim Reeves |
| 12 | Love Can't Await | Marty Robbins |
| 7 | My Proper name Is Mud | James O'Gwynn |
| 11 | Nobody's Fool but Yours | Buck Owens |
| three | Old Rivers | Walter Brennan |
| 11 | One Look at Heaven | Stonewall Jackson |
| 13 | Open Pit Mine | George Jones |
| 3 | PT-109 | Jimmy Dean |
| 5 | Pride | Ray Cost |
| xviii | Pride Goes Earlier a Fall | Jim Reeves |
| 20 | Emerge Was a Skillful Erstwhile Girl | Hank Cochran |
| eleven | Save the Final Trip the light fantastic toe for Me | Buck Owens |
| 18 | Second Selection | Stonewall Jackson |
| 11 | Send Me the Pillow You Dream On | Johnny Tillotson |
| 18 | Shame on Me | Bobby Blank |
| 16 | Argent Threads and Gold Needles | The Springfields |
| 17 | Slow Poison | Johnnie & Jack |
| 14 | So Wrong | Patsy Cline |
| sixteen | Somebody Save Me | Ferlin Croaking |
| 12 | Sometimes I'm Tempted | Marty Robbins |
| 17 | Sometimes You lot Simply Can't Win | George Jones |
| 19 | Sooner or Later | Webb Pierce |
| 6 | Success | Loretta Lynn |
| vii | Have Time | Webb Pierce |
| vii | Tears Broke Out on Me | Eddy Arnold |
| eleven | Tennessee Apartment Top Box | Johnny Cash |
| 8 | Then a Tear Fell | Earl Scott |
| 17 | There'due south Always 1 (Who Loves a Lot) | Roy Drusky |
| 7 | Iii Days | Faron Young |
| fifteen | To a Sleeping Beauty | Jimmy Dean |
| 7 | Touch on Me | Willie Nelson |
| 4 | Problem'due south Back in Town | The Wilburn Brothers |
| 18 | Nether the Cover of Night | Dave Dudley |
| five | Unloved Unwanted | Kitty Wells |
| 10 | The Violet and the Rose | Little Jimmy Dickens |
| 5 | Wall to Wall Love | Bob Gallion |
| xi | Waltz of the Angels | George Jones and Margie Singleton |
| 13 | The Waltz Yous Saved for Me | Ferlin Husky |
| vii | We Missed You lot | Kitty Wells |
| 14 | We're Gonna Get Fishin' | Hank Locklin |
| x | When I Get Through with You | Patsy Cline |
| 9 | Where I Ought to Be | Skeeter Davis |
| 15 | Where the Sometime Ruby River Flows | Jimmie Davis |
| viii | Will Your Lawyer Talk to God | Kitty Wells |
| 5 | Willie the Weeper | Billy Walker |
| x | Willingly | Willie Nelson and Shirley Collie |
| three | A Wound Time Tin can't Erase | Stonewall Jackson |
| 15 | Yous Take the Future (And I'll Take the Past) | Hank Snowfall |
Height new album releases [edit]
| Single | Artist | Record Label |
| All Aboard the Blue Train | Johnny Cash | Sunday |
| George Jones Sings Bob Wills | George Jones | United Artists |
| Happy Journey | Hank Locklin | RCA |
| Homecoming in Sky | George Jones | United Artists |
| Hymns from the Heart | Johnny Greenbacks | Columbia |
| Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music | Ray Charles | ABC-Paramount |
| My Favorites of Hank Williams | George Jones | United Artists |
| Sentimentally Yours | Patsy Cline | Decca |
| The Audio of Johnny Cash | Johnny Greenbacks | Columbia |
| Wonderful Wanda | Wanda Jackson | Capitol |
Other top releases [edit]
| Single | Artist | Record Characterization |
| According to My Heart | Goldie Hill | Decca |
| Bashful Brother Oswald | Bashful Blood brother Oswald | Starday |
| Bill Anderson Sings Land Middle Songs | Nib Anderson | Decca |
| Caribbean area Guitar | Chet Atkins | RCA |
| Cross Country | Webb Pierce | Decca |
| Devil Adult female | Marty Robbins | Columbia |
| Down Home | Chet Atkins | RCA |
| Family Favorites | Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan | Hickory |
| Hank Locklin | Hank Locklin | RCA |
| Homer and Jethro and the Convention | Homer and Jethro | RCA |
| Alive Information technology Up, Express joy information technology Upward | Johnny Bail | Starday |
| The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark | Roy Clark | Capitol |
| Marty After Midnight | Marty Robbins | Columbia |
| The New Favorites of George Jones | George Jones | United Artists |
| Night Life | Ray Price | Columbia |
| Old Rivers | Walter Brennan | Liberty |
| Ane More than Time | Eddy Arnold | RCA |
| Our Human being Down Due south | Eddy Arnold | RCA |
| Sings Duets (with Porter Wagoner) | Skeeter Davis | RCA |
| A Touch of Velvet | Jim Reeves | RCA |
| A Tribute to Roy Acuff: The King of State Music | Hank Locklin | RCA |
| You're for Me | Buck Owens | Capitol |
Births [edit]
- January 13 — Trace Adkins, singer-songwriter whose manner meshes honky-tonk and dance-influenced stone.
- February four — Clint Black, first major new star of the 1990s and key player in the new traditionalist movement.
- February 6 — Richie McDonald, onetime atomic number 82 vocalizer of Lonestar.
- February vii — Garth Brooks, the human being who revolutionalized country music and forever inverse its direction during the 1990s.
- February 11 — Sheryl Crow, pop singer who has besides had substantial success as a country singer starting in the 2000s.
- April ii — Billy Dean, contemporary-styled singer-songwriter who had the peak of his success in the 1990s.
- May 2 — Ty Herndon, gimmicky-styled singer who had most of his success in the mid-to-late 1990s.
- August 23 — Emilio Navaira, singer-songwriter of country and Tejano music (died 2016).
- November 26 — Linda Davis, prominent backing vocalist who had a serial of solo hits in the 1990s.
Deaths [edit]
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Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees [edit]
Major awards [edit]
Grammy Awards [edit]
- Best Country and Western Recording — "Funny Way of Laughin'", Burl Ives
Further reading [edit]
- 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 United states of america, 1995
- Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-iii)
- Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
- Whitburn, Joel, "Acme Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.
Other links [edit]
- Land Music Association
- Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
External links [edit]
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