Country-Musik 1954

Die Liste bietet eine Übersicht über das Jahr 1954 im Genre Country-Musik.

Ereignisse

Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash und George Jones nehmen ihre ersten Schallplatten auf.^[1][2][3]

Top-Hits des Jahres

Nummer-eins-Hits

• 2. Januar – Let me be the One – Hank Locklin
• 2. Januar – There stands the Glasses – Webb Pierce^[4]
• 9. Januar – Bimbo – Jim Reeves^[5]
• 20. Februar – Slowly – Webb Pierce
• 20. Januar – Wake up, Irene – Hank Thompson and his Brazo Valley Boys^[6]
• 15. Mai – I really don't want to know – Eddy Arnold^[7]
• 12. Juni – (Oh Baby Mine) I Get so lonely – Johnnie and Jack
• 19. Juni – I don't hurt anymore – Hank Snow and his Rainbow Ranch Boys^[8]
• 3. Juli – Even Tho – Webb Pierce^[9]
• 31. Juli – One by one – Red Foley & Kitty Wells^[10]
• 6. November – More and more – Web Pierce^[11]

Anmerkung: Es werden alle drei Hitparaden, die "Most Played By Jockeys", die "Most Played in Jukeboxes" sowie die "Best Sellers in Stores", gewertet.^[12]

Weitere Hits

• As Far as I'm Concerned – Red and Betty Foley
• Back Up Buddy – Carl Smith
• Backward, Turn Backward – Pee Wee King
• Beware of "It" – Johnnie & Jack
• Bimbo –Pee Wee King
• Breakin' the Rules – Hank Thompson
• Call Me Up (And I'll Come Calling On You) – Marty Robbins
• Changing Partners – Pee Wee King
• Cheatin's a Sin – Kitty Wells
• Christmas Can't Be Far Away – Eddy Arnold
• Courtin' in the Rain – T. Texas Tyler
• Cry, Cry, Darling – Jimmy C. Newman
• Dog-Gone It, Baby, I'm in Love – Carl Smith
• Don't Drop It – Terry Fell
• A Fooler, A Faker – Hank Thompson
• Go, Boy, Go – Carl Smith
• Good Deal, Lucille – Al Terry
• Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight – Johnnie & Jack
• Hep Cat Baby – Eddy Arnold
• Hernando’s Hideaway – Homer and Jethro
• Honey, I Need You – Johnnie & Jack
• Honey Love – The Carlisles
• Honky-Tonk Girl – Hank Thompson
• Hootchy Kootchy Henry (From Hawaii) – Mitchell Torok
• I Love You – Ginny Wright & Jim Reeves
• I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) – Ray Price
• I'm a Stranger in My Home – Kitty Wells and Red Foley
• I'm Walking the Dog – Webb Pierce
• If You Don't Somebody Else Will – Jimmy & Johnny
• If You Don't Somebody Else Will – Ray Price
• Jilted – Red Foley
• Looking Back to See – |Goldie Hill & Justin Tubb
• Looking Back to See – The Browns
• Much Too Young to Die – Ray Price
• My Everything – Eddy Arnold
• Never – Marilyn Myers and Wesley Tuttle
• The New Green Light – Hank Thompson
• Out Behind the Barn – Little Jimmy Dickens
• Place for Girls Like You – Faron Young
• Pretty Words – Marty Robbins
• Release Me – Jimmy Heap & Perk Williams
• Release Me – Ray Price
• Release Me – Kitty Wells
• River of No Return – Tennessee Ernie Ford
• Rose–Marie – Slim Whitman
• Run 'em Off – Lefty Frizzell
• Secret Love – Slim Whitman
• Shake-a-Leg – The Carlisles
• She Done Give Her Heart to Me – Sonny James
• Singing Hills – Slim Whitman
• Sparking Brown Eyes – Webb Pierce and The Wilburn Brothers
• Tain't Nice (To Talk Like That) – The Carlisles
• Thank You for Calling – Billy Walker
• That Crazy Mambo Thing – Hank Snow
• Then I'll Stop Loving You – Jim Reeves
• This Is the Thanks I Get (For Loving You) – Eddy Arnold
• This Ole House – Stuart Hamblen
• Thou Shalt Not Steal – Kitty Wells
• Two Glasses, Joe – Ernest Tubb
• We've Gone Too Far – Hank Thompson
• Whatcha Gonna Do Now – Tommy Collins
• You All Come – Arlie Duff
• You Better Not Do That – Tommy Collins
• You Can't Have My Love – Wanda Jackson with Billy Gray
• You're Not Mine Anymore – Webb Pierce

Geboren

• 8. Januar – Tom Skinner
• 19. Mai – Webb Wilder
• 13. Juli – Louise Mandrell
• 18. Juli – Ricky Skaggs
• 30. Oktober – Jeannie Kendall
• 13. Dezember – John Anderson
• 25. Dezember – Steve Wariner

Gestorben

• 1. Dezember – Fred Rose

Einzelnachweise

1. ↑ Olaf Neumann: Schlüsseljahr der Rock-Musik. Vor 70 Jahren gab es den Urknall des Rock'n'Roll. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. 20. März 2022, abgerufen am 14. April 2022. 
2. ↑ Timon Menge & Christof Leim: Zeitsprung: Am 7.8.1954 heiraten Johnny Cash und Vivian Liberto. In: Udiscover. 31. Juli 2019, abgerufen am 14. April 2022. 
3. ↑ Detlef Diederichsen: Schuld und Sühne. Countrylegende George Jones. In: taz. 19. September 2009, abgerufen am 14. April 2022. 
4. ↑ The Billboard, 2. Januar 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
5. ↑ The Billboard, 9. Januar 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
6. ↑ The Billboard, 20. Februar 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
7. ↑ The Billboard, 15. Mai 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
8. ↑ The Billboard, 19. Juni 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
9. ↑ The Billboard, 10. Juli 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
10. ↑ The Billboard, 31. Juli 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
11. ↑ The Billboard, 6. Nov. 1954 in der Google-Buchsuche
12. ↑ Joel Whitburn: Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005. Record Research, 2006, ISBN 0-89820-165-9.