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1964 in country music
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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 1964.
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Events
- January 11 — Billboard increases the length of its Hot Country Singles chart to 50 positions, up from 30 and publishes the first Top Country Albums chart.
- February 1 — Buck Owens' mega-hit, "Love's Gonna Live Here", finishes its 16-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Until 2012, it would be the most recent song to spend 10 or more weeks atop the chart.
- July 31 — A private aircraft piloted by Jim Reeves crashes during a thunderstorm near Nashville, Tennessee. Both Reeves and business partner Dean Manuel are killed in the crash; their bodies are found two days later following a massive search for the two missing men. Reeves, already a huge country star, would leave behind hundreds of unreleased recordings; many of those songs became huge posthumous hits during the next decade. Reeves' death comes just 16 months after the airplane crash deaths of Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, leaving a huge void among country music fans.
- November 28 — "Once a Day," by Connie Smith, begins an eight-week stay at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Until 2012, it is the longest-running No. 1 song by a solo female act, and will make the 23-year-old Smith — a native of Elkhart, Indiana — an overnight sensation.
Top hits of the year
Number-one hits
United States
(as certified by Billboard)
| Date | Single Name | Artist | Wks. No.1 | CAN peak | Spec. Note |
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| February 8 | Begging to You | Marty Robbins | 2 | — |
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| February 15 | B.J. the D.J. | Stonewall Jackson | 1 | — |
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| March 7 | Saginaw, Michigan | Lefty Frizzell | 4 | — |
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| April 4 | Understand Your Man | Johnny Cash | 6 | — | |
| May 16 | My Heart Skips a Beat | Buck Owens | 7 | — | ,
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| June 6 | Together Again | Buck Owens | 2 | — | |
| July 18 | Dang Me | Roger Miller | 6 | 3 |
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| August 29 | I Guess I'm Crazy | Jim Reeves | 7 |
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| October 17 | I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) | Buck Owens | 6 | ||
| November 28 | Once a Day | Connie Smith | 8 | — |
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Canada
(as certified by RPM)
| Date | Single Name | Artist | Wks. No.1 | U.S. peak | Spec. Note |
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| September 14 | I Guess I'm Crazy | Jim Reeves | 1 | ||
| September 28 | I Don't Love You Anymore | Charlie Louvin | 1 | 4 | |
| October 5 | I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me) | Buck Owens | 2 | ,
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| October 12 | Please Talk to My Heart | Ray Price | 2 | 7 | ,
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| November 9 | Give Me Forty Acres (To Turn This Rig Around) | Willis Brothers | 1 | 9 | |
| November 30 | The Lumberjack | Hal Willis | 1 | 5 | |
| December 21 | Don't Come Crying | Ron McLeod | 3 | — |
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Other major hits
Singles released by American artists
| US | CAN | Single | Artist |
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| 19 | — | Ask Marie | Sonny James |
| 8 | 5 | Bad News | Johnny Cash |
| 3 | 2 | The Ballad of Ira Hayes | Johnny Cash |
| 6 | — | Baltimore | Sonny James |
| 4 | — | Before I'm Over You | Loretta Lynn |
| 2 | — | Burning Memories | Ray Price |
| 17 | — | Chickashay | David Houston |
| 14 | — | Chit Akins, Make Me a Star | Don Bowman |
| 3 | 3 | Chug-a-Lug | Roger Miller |
| 7 | — | Circumstances | Billy Walker |
| 3 | 3 | The Cowboy in the Continental Suit | Marty Robbins |
| 2 | 5 | Cross the Brazos at Waco | Billy Walker |
| 9 | — | D.J. for a Day | Jimmy C. Newman |
| 13 | 4 | Dern Ya | Ruby Wright |
| 4 | 3 | Don't Be Angry | Stonewall Jackson |
| 14 | — | Easy Come – Easy Go | Bill Anderson |
| 9 | 2 | Finally | Kitty Wells and Webb Pierce |
| 5 | — | Five Little Fingers | Bill Anderson |
| 5 | — | 500 Miles Away from Home | Bobby Bare |
| 15 | — | Followed Closely by My Teardrops | Hank Locklin |
| 9 | 3 | Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston | George Hamilton IV |
| 15 | — | Girl from Spanish Town | Marty Robbins |
| 8 | — | Go Cat Go | Norma Jean |
| 8 | — | Gonna Get Along Without You Now | Skeeter Davis |
| 17 | — | He Says the Same Things to Me | Skeeter Davis |
| 19 | — | Helpless | Joe Carson |
| 10 | — | Here Comes My Baby | Dottie West |
| 19 | — | Howdy Neighbor Howdy | Porter Wagoner |
| 4 | — | I Love to Dance with Annie | Ernest Ashworth |
| 11 | — | I'll Go Down Swinging | Porter Wagoner |
| 14 | — | I'm Hanging Up the Phone | Carl Butler and Pearl |
| 13 | — | If the Back Door Could Talk | Webb Pierce |
| 13 | — | Invisible Tears | Ned Miller |
| 12 | — | Jealous Hearted Me | Eddy Arnold |
| 16 | — | Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming In | Johnny & Jonie Mosby |
| 5 | — | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Faron Young and Margie Singleton |
| 7 | — | Last Day in the Mines | Dave Dudley |
| 11 | — | Let's Go All the Way | Norma Jean |
| 14 | — | Lonely Girl | Carl Smith |
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