Country-Musik 1970

Die Liste bietet e​ine Übersicht über d​as Jahr 1970 i​m 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 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 Country Music Hall of Fame

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

Die wichtigsten Auszeichnungen

Grammys

• Best Female Country Vocal Performance – Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden
• Best Male Country Vocal Performance – Ray Price – For The Good Times
• Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group – Johnny Cash & June Carter – If I Were A Carpenter
• Best Country Instrumental Performance – Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed – Me And Jerry
• Best Country Song – Marty Robbins – My Woman, My Woman, My Wife

Academy of Country Music

• Entertainer Of The Year – Merle Haggard
• Song Of The Year – "For The Good Times" – Ray Price – Kris Kristofferson
• Single Of The Year – "For The Good Times" – Ray Price
• Album Of The Year – For The Good Times – Ray Price
• Top Male Vocalist – Merle Haggard
• Top Female Vocalist – Lynn Anderson
• Top Vocal Group – The Kimberleys
• Top New Male Vocalist – Buddy Alan
• Top New Female Vocalist – Sammi Smith

Country Music Association

• 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