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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 1961.
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Events
- March 17 – September 22 — NBC-TV airs Five Star Jubilee, a weekly show featuring five rotating hosts: Rex Allen, Snooky Lanson, Tex Ritter, Carl Smith and Jimmy Wakely.
- June 14 — Patsy Cline is seriously injured after a car accident. While in the hospital, the song "I Fall to Pieces" becomes a huge country-pop crossover hit.
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- The Country Music Association (CMA) develops and finalizes plans for the new Country Music Hall of Fame, to honor performers and others who were influential in the history of the genre. The first three inductees, honored on November 3, are all posthumous:
- Jimmie Rodgers, a songwriter who – despite poor health – merged hillbilly and blues music into a revolutionary new sound.
- Fred Rose, a pioneering song publisher who formed the Acuff-Rose music publishing company in the 1940s. Also a talented songwriter, and record producer/executive.
- Hank Williams Sr., legendary singer-songwriter whose songs are still sought after today.
- With just a $1,500 budget, bronze plaques honoring each of the singers would be cast, a tradition that continues today.
- Spade Cooley is arrested in connection with the beating death of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans. He is convicted and sentenced to prison. En route to prison, he suffers a heart attack, from which he will recover.
Top hits of the year
Number one hits
United States
(as certified by Billboard)
Date | Single Name | Artist | Wks. No.1 | Spec. Note |
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January 9 | North to Alaska | Johnny Horton | 5 | |
February 27 | Don't Worry | Marty Robbins | 10 | |
May 8 | Hello Walls | Faron Young | 9 |
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July 10 | Heartbreak U.S.A. | Kitty Wells | 4 | |
August 7 | I Fall to Pieces | Patsy Cline | 2 | |
August 21 | Tender Years | George Jones | 7 |
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September 25 | Walk on By | Leroy Van Dyke | 19 | |
November 20 | Big Bad John | Jimmy Dean | 2 |
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- Notes
- No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard.
- Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
- First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
- Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
- Only Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist to date.
Other major hits
US | Single | Artist |
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8 | Backtrack | Faron Young |
9 | Be Quiet Mind | Del Reeves |
5 | Beggar to a King | Hank Snow |
18 | Big, Big Love | Wynn Stewart |
7 | Big River, Big Man | Claude King |
16 | Black Land Farmer | Frankie Miller |
4 | The Blizzard | Jim Reeves |
14 | Blue Blue Day | The Wilburn Brothers |
14 | Conscience I'm Guilty | Rose Maddox |
16 | Cozy Inn | Leon McAuliffe |
11 | Crazy Bullfrog | Lewis Pruitt |
15 | Did I Ever Tell You | George Jones and Margie Singleton |
14 | Diggy Liggy Lo | Rusty & Doug |
14 | Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die | Reno and Smiley |
14 | Everybody's Dying for Love | Jimmy C. Newman |
16 | Family Bible | George Jones |
9 | Flat Top | Cowboy Copas |
2 | Foolin' Around | Buck Owens |
15 | Forever Gone | Ernest Ashworth |
20 | Forget the Past | Faron Young |
12 | From Here to There to You | Hank Locklin |
10 | Go Home | Flatt & Scruggs |
11 | The Hands You're Holding Now | Skeeter Davis |
12 | Hangover Tavern | Hank Thompson |
7 | Happy Birthday to Me | Hank Locklin |
5 | Heart Over Mind | Ray Price |
4 | Hello Fool | Ralph Emery |
7 | How Do You Talk to a Baby | Webb Pierce |
5 | I Dreamed of a Hill-Billy Heaven | Tex Ritter |
12 | I Love You Best of All | The Louvin Brothers |
15 | I Want to Live Again | Rose Maddox |
9 | I Went Out of My Way (To Make You Happy) | Roy Drusky |
10 | I'd Rather Loan You Out | Roy Drusky |
4 | I'll Just Have a Cup of Coffee (Then I'll Go) | Claude Gray |
17 | In Memory of Johnny Horton | Johnny Hardy |
3 | It's Your World | Marty Robbins |
11 | Kisses Never Lie | Carl Smith |
14 | Kissing My Pillow | Rose Maddox |
11 | Last Date | Floyd Cramer |
5 | Let Forgiveness In | Webb Pierce |
20 | Lonelyville | Ray Sanders |
4 | Loose Talk | Buck Owens and Rose Maddox |
10 | Louisiana Man | Rusty & Doug |
7 | Loving You (Was Worth This Broken Heart) | Bob Gallion |
8 | Mental Cruelty | Buck Owens and Rose Maddox |
3 | My Ears Should Burn (When Fools Are Talked About) | Claude Gray |
5 | My Last Date (With You) | Skeeter Davis |
7 | Odds and Ends (Bits and Pieces) | Warren Smith |
13 | Oh Lonesome Me | Johnny Cash |
7 | Oklahoma Hills | Hank Thompson |
17 | One Grain of Sand | Eddy Arnold |
14 | One Step Ahead of My Past | Hank Locklin |
20 | One Way Street | Bob Gallion |
10 | Optimistic | Skeeter Davis |
19 | The Other Cheek | Kitty Wells |
11 | Please Mr. Kennedy | Jim Nesbitt |
9 | Po' Folks | Bill Anderson |
12 | Polka on a Banjo | Flatt & Scruggs |
15 | Ragged but Right | Moon Mullican |
11 | The Restless One | Hank Snow |
9 | Right or Wrong | Wanda Jackson |
8 | San Antonio Rose | Floyd Cramer |
2 | Sea of Heartbreak | Don Gibson |
16 | Shorty | Jimmy Smart |
10 | Signed Sealed and Delivered | Cowboy Copas |
20 | Sleep, Baby, Sleep | Connie Hall |
9 | Sleepy-Eyed John | Johnny Horton |
3 | Soft Rain | Ray Price |
16 | Stand at Your Window | Jim Reeves |
12 | Sunny Tennessee | Cowboy Copas |
6 | Sweet Dreams | Don Gibson |
3 | Sweet Lips | Webb Pierce |
20 | Sweethearts Again | Bob Gallion |
20 | There Must Be Another Way to Live | Kitty Wells |
16 | Thoughts of a Fool | Ernest Tubb |
2 | Three Hearts in a Tangle | Roy Drusky |
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