1950 in country music

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1950 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1950.

As certified by Billboard magazine)

Note: Several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played Juke Box Folk (Country & Western) Records," "Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records) and "Country & Western Records Most Played by Folk Disk Jockeys" charts.

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1950.

Events

February 14 — "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley #1 selling Country record becomes first Country cross over on Pop Best Seller chart.
August 19 — Hank Snow
Hank Snow

Clarence Eugene Snow was a Canadian country music artist. In his career, he charted more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980....
begins a 21-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine country charts with his landmark "I'm Movin' On." The song is one of just three that will stay as long atop the charts in chart history.
September 30 — The Grand Ole Opry
Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music radio programming and concert broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, every Friday and Saturday night, as well as Tuesdays from March through December....
is televised for the first time.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

January 7 - "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a character created in a story and song by the same name. The story was created by Robert L. May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward....
" - Gene Autry
Gene Autry

Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
January 7 - "Blue Christmas
Blue Christmas

"Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson . The heart-broken tale of unrequited love during the holidays had long been considered a Christmas staple of country music, having been recorded by Ernest Tubb in 1948....
" - Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb

Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour", was an United States singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song "Walking the Floor Over You" marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music....
January 14 - "I Love You Because" - Leon Payne
Leon Payne

Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter....
January 14 - "Blues Stay Away From Me" - Delmore Brothers
January 21 - "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy

"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" is a popular music song.It was written by Harry Stone and Jack Stapp and published in 1950 in music.Many versions of the song charted in 1950 in music, but the biggest was by Red Foley....
" - Red Foley
Red Foley

Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an United States singer and musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
January 28 - "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" - Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold

Richard Edward Arnold was among the most popular country music singers in United States history and helped to create the Nashville sound....
April 22 - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
May 27 - "Birmingham Bounce" - Red Foley
Red Foley

Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an United States singer and musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
June 17 - "Why Don't You Love Me" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
June 17 - "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" - Moon Mullican
Moon Mullican

Aubrey Wilson Mullican , known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues....
July 15 - "Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
" - Red Foley
Red Foley

Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an United States singer and musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
August 19 - "I'm Movin' On
I'm Movin' On (Hank Snow song)

"I'm Movin' On" is a 1950 country music standard written by Hank Snow. The song, a 12-bar blues, reached number-one on the Billboard country singles chart and was the first of seven number-one hits Snow scored throughout his career on that chart....
" - Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys
Hank Snow

Clarence Eugene Snow was a Canadian country music artist. In his career, he charted more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980....
August 26 - "Goodnight Irene" - Red Foley
Red Foley

Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was an United States singer and musician who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....
and Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb

Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour", was an United States singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song "Walking the Floor Over You" marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music....
December 23 - "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" - Lefty Frizzell
Lefty Frizzell

William Orville 'Lefty' Frizzell was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s and a leading exponent of the Honky Tonk style of country music....
December 30 - "Moanin' the Blues" - Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys

Births

August 7 – Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby....
, singer-songwriter who enjoyed mainstream fame in the late 1980s before becoming a leader in the alternative country
Alternative country

Alternative country is a term used to describe a number of country music genre that tend to differ from Mainstream or pop music country music....
movement; ex-husband of Roseanne Cash.

1950 in country music

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

Top new album releases

Births

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