# Country-Musik 1970

Die Liste bietet eine Übersicht über das Jahr 1970 im Genre Country-Musik.

## Top Hits des Jahres
### Nummer-1-Hits

* 3. Januar – Baby Baby (I Know You're a Lady) – David Houston
* 31. Januar – A Week in a Country Jail – Tom T. Hall
* 14. Februar – It's Just a Matter of Time – Sonny James
* 14. März – The Fightin' Side of Me – Merle Haggard
* 4. April – The Tennessee Birdwalk – Jack Blanchard und Misty Morgan
* 18. April – Is Anybody Goin' to San Antoné? – Charley Pride
* 2. Mai – My Woman, My Woman, My Wife – Marty Robbins
* 9. Mai – The Pool Shark – Dave Dudley
* 16. Mai – My Love – Sonny James
* 6. Juni – Hello Darlin‘ – Conway Twitty
* 4. Juli – He Loves Me All the Way – Tammy Wynette
* 25. Juli – Wonder Could I Live There Anymore – Charley Pride
* 8. August – Don't Keep Me Hangin' On – Sonny James
* 5. September – All for the Love of Sunshine – Hank Williams Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation
* 19. September – For the Good Times – Ray Price
* 26. September – There Must Be More to Love Than This – Jerry Lee Lewis
* 10. Oktober – Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash
* 24. Oktober – Run, Woman, Run – Tammy Wynette
* 7. November – I Can't Believe That You Stopped Loving Me – Charley Pride
* 21. November – Fifteen Years Ago – Conway Twitty
* 28. November – Endlessly – Sonny James
* 19. Dezember – Coal Miner’s Daughter – Loretta Lynn
* 26. Dezember – Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson

### Weitere Hits

* After Closing Time – David Houston und Barbara Mandrell
* All I Have to Do Is Dream – Glen Campbell und Bobbie Gentry
* All My Hard Times – Roy Drusky
* Amos Moses – Jerry Reed
* Angels Don't Lie – Jim Reeves
* Big in Vegas – Buck Owens
* Brown-Eyed Handsome Man – Waylon Jennings
* Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man – Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton
* Everything a Man Could Ever Need – Glen Campbell
* Goin' Steady – Faron Young
* The Great White Horse – Buck Owens und Susan Raye
* Heart Over Mind – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
* Heaven Everyday – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
* Heavenly Sunshine – Ferlin Husky
* How I Got to Memphis – Bobby Bare
* I Can't Be Myself – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
* I Do My Swinging at Home – David Houston
* I Know How – Loretta Lynn
* I Never Once Stopped Loving You – Connie Smith
* I Never Picked Cotton – Roy Clark
* I Walked Out of Heaven – Hank Williams Jr.
* I Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You – Jack Greene und Jeannie Seely
* I'll See Him Through – Tammy Wynette
* I've Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes – Crystal Gayle
* If I Ever Fall in Love (With a Honky Tonk Girl) – Faron Young
* If I Were a Carpenter – Johnny Cash und June Carter Cash
* If It's All the Same to You – Bill Anderson und Jan Howard
* It's Only Make-Believe – Glen Campbell
* Jesus Take a Hold – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
* Jolie Girl – Marty Robbins
* The Kansas City Song – Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
* Kentucky Rain – Elvis Presley
* Long Long Texas Road – Roy Drusky
* Love is a Sometimes Thing – Bill Anderson
* Morning – Jim Ed Brown
* Mule Skinner Blues – Dolly Parton
* Occasional Wife – Faron Young
* Once More With Feeling – Jerry Lee Lewis
* One Song Away – Tommy Cash
* Right or Left at Oak Street – Roy Clark
* Rise and Shine – Tommy Cash
* Salute to a Switchblade – Tom T. Hall
* She's a Little Bit Country – George Hamilton IV.
* She's Mine – George Jones
* Shoeshine Man – Tom T. Hall
* Six White Horses – Tommy Cash
* Snowbird – Anne Murray
* Someday We'll Be Together – Bill Anderson und Jan Howard
* Stay There Til I Get There – Lynn Anderson
* Street Singer – Merle Haggard and the Strangers
* The Taker – Waylon Jennings
* Thank God and Greyhound – Roy Clark
* That’s How I Got to Memphis – Bobby Bare
* That's When She Started to Stop Loving You – Conway Twitty
* Then He Touched Me – Jean Shepard
* There's a Story Goin' Round – Don Gibson und Dottie West
* Where Have All Our Heroes Gone – Bill Anderson
* Wonders of the Wine – David Houston
* You Wouldn't Know Love – Ray Price

## Alben (Auswahl)

* Fightin' Side of Me – Merle Haggard (Capitol)
* For the Good Times – Ray Price (Columbia)
* Hello Darlin – Conway Twitty (Decca)
* Just Plain Charley – Charley Pride (RCA)
* Skid Row Joe: Down in the Alley – Porter Wagoner (RCA)
* Snowbird – Anne Murray (Capitol)

## Geboren

* 25. Oktober – Chely Wright

## Gestorben

* 1. April – Paul Cohen (62), einflussreicher Produzent (Decca)

## Neue Mitglieder der Hall of Fames
### Country Music Hall of Fame

* The Original Carter Family
** A. P. Carter (1891–1960)
** Sara Carter (1898–1979)
** Mother Maybelle Carter (1909–1978)

### Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

* Gene Autry
* Johnny Bond
* Albert Brumley
* A.P. Carter
* Ted Daffan
* Vernon Dalhart
* Rex Griffin
* Stuart Hamblen
* Pee Wee King
* Vic McAlpin
* Bob Miller
* Leon Payne
* Jimmie Rodgers
* Fred Rose
* Redd Stewart
* Floyd Tillman
* Merle Travis
* Ernest Tubb
* Cindy Walker
* Hank Williams
* Bob Wills

## Die wichtigsten Auszeichnungen
### Grammys

* Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female – Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man
* Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male – Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue
* Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group – Waylon Jennings & The Kimberlys – Macarthur Park
* Best Country Instrumental Performance – The Nashville Brass & Danny Davis – The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds
* Best Country Song – Shel Silverstein – A Boy Named Sue, Interpret: Johnny Cash

### Academy of Country Music Awards

* Single of the Year – Okie from Muskogee, Merle Haggard
* Album of the Year – Okie from Muskogee, Merle Haggard
* Top Male Vocalist – Merle Haggard
* Top Female Vocalist – Tammy Wynette
* Top Vocal Duo – Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens
* Top Vocal Group – The Kimberleys
* Top New Male Vocalist – Freddy Weller
* Top New Female Vocalist – Donna Fargo

### Country Music Association Awards

* Entertainer of the Year – Merle Haggard
* Male Vocalist of the Year – Merle Haggard
* Female Vocalist of the Year – Tammy Wynette
* Instrumental Group of the Year – Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass
* Comedian of the Year – Roy Clark
* Vocal Group of the Year – Tompall Glaser and the Glaser Brothers
* Vocal Duo of the Year – Porter Wagoner und Dolly Parton
* Single of the Year – Okie Fom Muskogee – Merle Haggard
* Song of the Year – Sunday Morning Coming Down – Kris Kristofferson
* Album of the Year – Okie From Muskogee – Merle Haggard
* Instrumentalist of the Year – Jerry Reed
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