1948 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 1948.
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Events
- April 3 — Radio station KWKH of Shreveport, Louisiana airs the Louisiana Hayride for the first time.
- May 15 — Billboard begins a sales-based Best Selling Folk Retail Records chart, the magazine's second chart to track the popularity of country songs. The new chart complements the existing Most Played Juke Box Folk Records chart, and begins a practice of multiple charts (and possible simultaneous No. 1 songs) that will continue for the next 10 years.
- July 24 — Roy Acuff announces his intention to run for governor of Tennessee. Running as the Republican candidate, he will lose to Democratic candidate Gordon Browning in the November election.
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- Eddy Arnold dominates the Billboard charts, scoring five No. 1 songs (six, if one counts Arnold's "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)", which had been No. 1 since November 1947). Only Jimmy Wakely's "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" breaks Arnold's streak. Four other songs by Arnold also make the country charts.
Top hits of the year
Number one hits
(As certified by Billboard magazine)
| US | Single | Artist |
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| April 8 | "Anytime" | Eddy Arnold |
| June 5 | "Bouquet of Roses" | Eddy Arnold |
| June 5 | "Texarkana Baby" | Eddy Arnold |
| September 18 | "Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)" | Eddy Arnold |
| November 13 | "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" | Jimmy Wakely |
| December 25 | "A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)" | Eddy Arnold |
- Note: Starting on May 15, a second chart – the Best Selling Folk Retail Records chart – begins tracking the popularity of country songs, in addition to the Most Played Juke Box Folk Records chart. This means that for the first time, there could be more than one No. 1 hit on a given date.
Other major hits
| Single | Artist |
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| "Banjo Polka" | Tex Williams |
| "Blue Shadows On The Trail" | Roy Rogers |
| "Bubbles in My Beer" | Bob Wills |
| "Buttons and Bows" | Gene Autry |
| "Chime Bells" | Elton Britt |
| "Cool Water" | Sons of the Pioneers |
| "Dad Gave My Dog Away" | T. Texas Tyler |
| "Deck Of Cards" | T. Texas Tyler |
| "Deck Of Cards" | Tex Ritter |
| "Doghouse Boogie" | Hawkshaw Hawkins |
| "Don't Telegraph (Tell A Woman)" | Tex Williams |
| "Forever Is Ending Today" | Ernest Tubb |
| "Green Light" | Hank Thompson |
| "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" | Ernest Tubb |
| "Honky Tonkin'" | Hank Williams |
| "Humpty Dumpty Heart" | Hank Thompson |
| "I Love You So Much It Hurts" | Floyd Tillman |
| "I'm a Long Gone Daddy" | Hank Williams |
| "I'm My Own Grandpa" | Lonzo and Oscar |
| "Keeper of My Heart" | Bob Wills |
| "Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello" | Ernest Tubb |
| "Life Gets Teejus Don't It" | Carson Robison |
| "Life Gets Teejus Don't It" | Tex Williams |
| "Memories of France" | T. Texas Tyler |
| "Merle's Boogie Woogie" | Merle Travis |
| "Molly Darling" | Eddy Arnold |
| "My Daddy Is Only A Picture" | Eddy Arnold |
| "Never Trust a Woman" | Tex Williams |
| "Oklahoma Waltz" | Johnny Bond |
| "Pan American" | Hawkshaw Hawkins |
| "Peepin' Through The Keyhole" | Cliffie Stone |
| "Rock and Rye Rag" | Tex Ritter |
| "Rye Whiskey" | Tex Ritter |
| "Seaman's Blues" | Ernest Tubb |
| "Signed Sealed and Delivered" | Cowboy Copas |
| "Signed Sealed and Delivered" | Jimmy Wakely |
| "Signed Sealed and Delivered" | Bob Atcher |
| "Suspicion" | Tex Williams |
| "Sweeter Than the Flowers" | Moon Mullican |
| "Talking Boogie" | Tex Williams |
| "Tennessee Moon" | Cowboy Copas |
| "Tennessee Waltz" | Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart |
| "Tennessee Waltz" | Cowboy Copas |
| "That Wild And Wicked Look in Your Eye" | Ernest Tubb |
| "Then I Turned and Walked Slowly Away" | Eddy Arnold |
| "Thorn in My Heart" | Bob Wills |
| "Waltz of The Wind" | Roy Acuff |
| "What a Fool I Was" | Eddy Arnold |
| "Who Me?" | Tex Williams |
Births
- January 28 — Hasse Andersson, Swedish country musician.
- February 8 — Dan Seals, singer-songwriter who successfully turned from pop music to country during the 1980s (died 2009).
- March 23 — David Olney, American singer-songwriter (died 2020).[1]
- April 21 — Paul Davis, pop-styled singer-songwriter who had several hits during the 1980s (died 2008).
- May 2 — Larry Gatlin, singer-songwriter who enjoyed mainstream success in the 1970s and 1980s.
- May 4 — Tim DuBois, music executive.
- May 18 — Joe Bonsall, member of the country-gospel group The Oak Ridge Boys (he's the first tenor).
- June 3 — Fred LaBour, also known as Too Slim, member of Riders in the Sky.
- June 8 — Mats Rådberg, Swedish country musician. (died 2020).
- September 26 — Olivia Newton-John, Australian-born pop vocalist who enjoyed major crossover success in country during the mid-1970s.
- October 2 — Chris LeDoux, world champion bareback rider who sang about the rodeo circuit and cowboy life (died 2005).
- November 6 — Glenn Frey, one of the founding members of country-rock band Eagles (died 2016).
- December 7 — Gary Morris, country-pop singer of the 1980s.
- December 25 — Barbara Mandrell, country-pop singer and multi-instrumentalist of the 1970s and 1980s; host of own television series.
- December 27 - Les Taylor, member of the 1980s group Exile.
Deaths
- January 15 — Jack Guthrie, 32, folk-styled country singer best known for "Oklahoma Hills" (tuberculosis).
- September 15 — Vernon Dalhart, 55, pioneering influence of the 1920s.
Further reading
- Kingsbury, Paul, Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989, Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
- Millard, Bob, Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music, HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
- Whitburn, Joel. Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition. 2005.
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