1977 in country music

1 Events
2 Top hits of the year
- 2.1 Number one hits
- 2.2 Other major hits
3 Top new album releases
- 3.1 Other new albums
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
7 Major Awards
8 Further reading
9 Other links
10 External links

Events

June 25 – Waylon Jennings smash, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" spends its sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart. It is just the third (and as it turned out, final) six-week No. 1 song of the 1970s, and will be the last song to spend as long atop the charts for 20 years (until 1997's "It's Your Love" by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill).
June 26 – Elvis Presley performs his final concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana.
December 31 – Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again" spends its fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart. It will be the last song to spend that long atop the chart until 1990's "Love Without End, Amen" by George Strait.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

January 8 - "Broken Down in Tiny Pieces" - Billy "Crash" Craddock
January 15 - "You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye)" - Crystal Gayle
January 22 - "I Can't Believe She Gives it All to Me" - Conway Twitty
January 29 - "Let My Love Be Your Pillow" - Ronnie Milsap
February 5 - "Near You" - George Jones and Tammy Wynette
February 19 - "Moody Blue"/"She Thinks I Still Care" - Elvis Presley
February 26 - "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" - Tom Jones
March 5 - "Heart Healer" - Mel Tillis
March 12 - "She's Just an Old Love Turned Memory" - Charley Pride
March 19 - "Southern Nights" - Glen Campbell
April 2 - "Lucille" - Kenny Rogers
April 16 - "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better" - Johnny Duncan
April 23 - "She's Got You" - Loretta Lynn
April 30 - "She's Pulling Me Back Again" - Mickey Gilley
May 7 - "Play, Guitar Play" - Conway Twitty
May 14 - "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" - Don Williams
May 21 - "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
July 2 - "That Was Yesterday" - Donna Fargo
July 9 - "I'll Be Leaving Alone" - Charley Pride
July 16 - "It Was Almost Like a Song" - Ronnie Milsap
August 6 - "Rollin' With the Flow" - Charlie Rich
August 20 - "Way Down" - Elvis Presley
August 27 - "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" - Crystal Gayle
September 24 - "I've Already Loved You in My Mind" - Conway Twitty
October 1 - "Daytime Friends" - Kenny Rogers
October 8 - "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" - The Kendalls
November 5 - "I'm Just a Country Boy" - Don Williams
November 12 - "More to Me" - Charley Pride
November 19 - "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" - Waylon Jennings
December 3 - "Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton

Other major hits

"Adios Amigo" - Marty Robbins
"(After Sweet Memories) Play Born to Lose Again" – Dottsy
"Are You Ready for the Country" - Waylon Jennings
"Blue Bayou" - Linda Ronstadt
"Bluest Heartache of the Year" - Kenny Dale
"Born Believer" - Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
"Burning Memories" - Mel Tillis
"Chains of Love" - Mickey Gilley
"Cheap Perfume and Candlelight" - Bobby Borchers
"Country Party" - Johnny Lee
"Cowboys Ain't Supposed to Cry" - Moe Bandy
"Crazy" - Linda Ronstadt
"The Danger of a Stranger" - Stella Parton
"Desperado" - Johnny Rodriguez
"Don't Be Angry" - Donna Fargo
"Don't Go City Girl on Me" - Tommy Overstreet
"Don't Let Me Touch You" - Marty Robbins
"Don't Throw it All Away" - Dave & Sugar
"East Bound and Down" - Jerry Reed
"Easy Look" - Charlie Rich
"Everyday I Have to Cry Some" - Joe Stampley
"Fools Fall in Love" - Jacky Ward
"From Graceland to the Promiseland" - Merle Haggard
"Georgia Keeps Pulling On My Ring" - Conway Twitty
"Hangin' On" - Vern Gosdin
"Head to Toe" - Bill Anderson
"Heard it in a Love Song" – Marshall Tucker Band
"Here I Am Drunk Again" - Moe Bandy
"Hold Me" - Barbara Mandrell
"Honky Tonk Memories" - Mickey Gilley
"I Can't Help Myself (Here Comes That Feeling)" - Eddie Rabbitt
"I Can't Love You Enough" - Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
"I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" - Marty Robbins
"I Don't Wanna Cry" - Larry Gatlin with Family & Friends
"I Got the Hoss" - Mel Tillis
"I Love You a Thousand Ways" - Willie Nelson
"I Was There" - The Statler Brothers
"I'll Do it All Over Again" - Crystal Gayle
"I'm Getting Good at Missing You (Solitaire)" - Rex Allen Jr.
"I'm Not Easy" - Billie Jo Spears
"I'm Sorry for You My Friend" — Moe Bandy
"I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)" - Johnny PayCheck
"If It Ain't Love By Now" - Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
"If Love Was a Bottle of Wine" - Tommy Overstreet
"If Practice Makes Perfect" - Johnny Rodriguez
"If We're Not Back in Love by Monday" - Merle Haggard
"If You Want Me" - Billie Jo Spears
"It's a Cowboy Lovin' Night" - Tanya Tucker
"It's So Easy" - Linda Ronstadt
"The King is Gone" - Ronnie McDowell
"Knee Deep in Loving You" - Dave & Sugar
"Let Me Down Easy" - Cristy Lane
"(Let's Get Together) One Last Time" - Tammy Wynette
"Liars One, Believers Zero" - Bill Anderson
"Light of a Clear Blue Morning" - Dolly Parton
"Love is Just a Game" - Larry Gatlin with Family & Friends
"Making Believe" - Emmylou Harris
"Margaritaville" – Jimmy Buffett
"Married But Not to Each Other" - Barbara Mandrell
"Midnight Angel" - Barbara Mandrell
"Mockingbird Hill" - Donna Fargo
"The Movies" - Statler Brothers
"The Old Man and His Horn" - Gene Watson
"One of a Kind" - Tammy Wynette
"Paper Rosie" - Gene Watson
"The Rains Came" - Freddy Fender
"Ramblin' Fever" - Merle Haggard
"Ridin' Rainbows" - Tanya Tucker
"Right Time of the Night" - Jennifer Warnes
"Roses for Mama" - C.W. McCall
"Saying Hello, Saying I Love You, Saying Goodbye" - Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
"Shame On Me" - Donna Fargo
"Shame Shame On Me (I've Had Plans to be Your Man)" - Kenny Dale
"She Just Loved the Cheatin' Out of Me" - Moe Bandy
"She Took More Than Her Share" - Moe Bandy
"Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets" - Johnny PayCheck
"A Song in the Night" - Johnny Duncan
"Southern California" - George Jones and Tammy Wynette
"Standard Lie Number One" - Stella Parton
"Statues Without Hearts" - Larry Gatlin with Family & Friends
"Still the One" - Bill Anderson
"Sunflower" - Glen Campbell
"Sweet Music Man" - Kenny Rogers
"A Tear Fell" - Billy "Crash" Craddock
"That's the Way Love Should Be" - Dave & Sugar
"There She Goes Again" - Joe Stampley
"Things" - Anne Murray
"'Til the End" - Vern Gosdin
"Torn Between Two Lovers" - Mary MacGregor
"Two Dollars in the Jukebox" - Eddie Rabbitt
"Two Less Lonely People" - Rex Allen Jr.
"Uncloudy Day" - Willie Nelson
"We Can't Go On Living Like This" - Eddie Rabbitt
"When It's Just You and Me" - Dottie West
"Why Can't He Be You" - Loretta Lynn
"Why Lovers Turn to Strangers" - Freddie Hart
"Wrap Your Love All Around Your Man" - Lynn Anderson
"Y'all Come Back Saloon" - Oak Ridge Boys
"Yesterday's Gone" - Vern Gosdin
"You Light Up My Life" - Debby Boone
"(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" - Emmylou Harris
"You're Free to Go" - Sonny James
"Your Man Loves You Honey" - Tom T. Hall

Births

November 17 — Aaron Lines, Canadian country singer of the 2000s, most know for his hit "You Can't Hide Beautiful".
November 20 — Josh Turner, deep bass-voiced singer of the 2000s, styled in bluegrass and other traditional country styles.

Deaths

August 16 - Elvis Presley, 42, "The King" (heart failure).
October 14 – Bing Crosby, 74, one of popular music's all-time leading performers; several of his 1930s and 1940s hits became hugely popular with country fans (including "Pistol Packin' Mama," the first-ever Billboard magazine country No. 1 song). (heart attack)

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

Merle Travis (1917-1983)

Major Awards

Grammy awards

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female -- "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" - Crystal Gayle
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male -- "Lucille" - Kenny Rogers
Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group -- "Heaven's Just A Sin Away" - Kendalls (Jeannie Kendall, Royce Kendall)
Best Country Instrumental Performance -- "Country Instrumentalist Of The Year" - Hargus "Pig" Robbins
Best Country Song -- "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" - Richard Leigh

Academy of Country Music

Entertainer Of The Year -- Dolly Parton
Song Of The Year -- "Lucille" - Kenny Rogers - Roger Bowling, Hal Bynum
Single Of The Year -- "Lucille" - Kenny Rogers
Album Of The Year -- Kenny Rogers - Kenny Rogers
Top Male Vocalist -- Kenny Rogers
Top Female Vocalist -- Crystal Gayle
Top Vocal Group -- Statler Brothers
Top New Male Vocalist -- Eddie Rabbitt
Top New Female Vocalist -- Debby Boone

Country Music Association

Entertainer of the Year -- Ronnie Milsap
Male Vocalist of the Year -- Ronnie Milsap
Female Vocalist of the Year -- Crystal Gayle
Instrumental Group of the Year –- Original Texas Playboys
Vocal Group of the Year -- Statler Brothers
Vocal Duo of the Year -- Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius
Single of the Year -- "Lucille," Kenny Rogers
Song of the Year -- "Lucille," Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum
Album of the Year -- Ronnie Milsap Live, Ronnie Milsap
Instrumentalist of the Year -- Roy Clark

External links

Country Music Hall of Fame

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