Billboards (country) #1 Songs 1955 to 1965

[RockinEd]

over half of these songs were big pop hits nearly all of them charted in the pop hot 100 after 1958

Buck Owens was a cool as Johnny Cash and had been accepted by rock fans--then he made the stupid decision to join HEE HAW

[catman5169]

@cavemanomar...Chet Atkins only did one vocal to my knowledge,,,in the '70's if memory serves me...never made it very high on Billboard....it was called Frog Kissin'.

[renew2day]

@ 3:26. Not Patsy Cline. @ 4:59 I'm sure it's not Connie Smith. Ms. Smith had blonde hair. For Massagra, here's a few: 0:33 The Louvin Brothers. 1:15 Jim Reeves 1:21 Bobby Helms 1:29 Ray Price 1:43 Don Gibson 2:10 Johnny Horton 2:15 Stonewall Jackson 2:18 The Browns 2:33 Hank Locklin 2:52 Kitty Wells 3:12 Leroy Van Dyke 3:23 Sheb Wooley 3:31 Billy Walker 3:47 Bill Anderson 3:51 Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper 4:08 Hawkshaw Hawkins 4:20 George Hamilton IV 4:24 Ernest Ashworth

[renew2day]

In those days, some records would make it on all three charts, simultaneously: Popular, Country and Rhythm and Blues.

Johnny Horton had some outstanding "B" sides on his hits. Songs like "Whispering Pines; The Mansion You Stole and All For the Love of a Girl, were soulful and skillfully crafted.

[masaqqra]

who can name those artist for my, please?

[H20MichaelMyers]

Heartbreak Hotel (NOT COUNTRY)

[exnevadan]

"Gone" at 0:57 should be Ferlin Husky, not Faron Young. Still great compilation!

[idiotic76]

@exnevadan Heh! I KNEW someone would have already commented on that!

Anyway, this is TERRIFIC, Whodoyouthink8!

[kyannos]

Marty and Jim NICE

[cavemanomar]

who is the singer in 3:19? is he chet atkins?

[VilquinProductions]

cavemanomar, the singer at 3:19 was Porter Wagoner. I didn't think Chet Atkins sung at all, he did more along the line of instrumentals.

[cavemanomar]

thanks, i checked it on wikipedia, Atkins did some singing from now and then, he didn't have a #1 single though he had a #1 album.

i also didn't recognise the man on 2:34

[cavemanomar]

that was cowboy copas in his hit alabam

[cavemanomar]

thank u a lot, that's pure gold. Can u make or tell somebody else to make a similar one about #2 and another for #3 from the same period? for those shouldn't be forgotten.

[svo65]

good video, many great songs. going searching for some of them right now to put on my favorites.

[brocky60]

war schlecht :-[

[cranie4]

Is this the list of the #1's on the Billboard COUNTRY charts? Seems extremely heavy on the CW artists to not be.

[whodoyouthink8]

Yes, it's the country chart. Sorry that should have been in the title.