November 3 — Billboard renames its Hot C&W Sides chart "Hot Country Singles," a name it will keep for the next 27 years. The chart length remains 30 positions.
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1972 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science Contents 1 Events 1 1 No dates 2 Top hits of the year 2 1 Number one hits 2 1 1 United States 2 2 Other major hits 3 Top new album releases 3 1 Other top releases 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees 7 Major awards 7 1 Grammy Awards 8 Further reading 9 Other links 10 External linksEvents editSeptember 25 Loretta Lynn is inducted into the Grand Ole Opry at 30 years of age November 3 Billboard renames its Hot C amp W Sides chart Hot Country Singles a name it will keep for the next 27 years The chart length remains 30 positions No dates edit Rhythm and blues singer Ray Charles releases his landmark album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music The album of pop styled covers of country standards is vastly influential in the genre Top hits of the year editNumber one hits edit United States edit as certified by Billboard Date Single Name Artist Wks No 1 Spec NoteMarch 10 Misery Loves Company Porter Wagoner 2 2 Returns to Number One March 24 Wagoner s first Billboard Number One since A Satisfied Mind in 1955 March 17 That s My Pa Sheb Wooley 1 C March 31 She s Got You Patsy Cline 5 2 B Returns to Number One May 5 April 28 Charlie s Shoes Billy Walker 2 2 C Returns to Number One May 12 May 19 She Thinks I Still Care George Jones 6June 30 Wolverton Mountain Claude King 9 1 C September 1 Devil Woman Marty Robbins 8October 27 Mama Sang a Song Bill Anderson 7 2 A Returns to Number One on November 17 and then on December 22 November 10 I ve Been Everywhere Hank Snow 2 2 Returns to Number One December 15 Snow s first Billboard Number One since Let Me Go Lover in 1954 December 29 Don t Let Me Cross Over Carl Butler and Pearl 11 2 C Returns to Number One on January 12 January 26 and then on February 16 Notes1 No 1 song of the year as determined by Billboard 2 Song dropped from No 1 and later returned to top spot A First Billboard No 1 hit for that artist B Last Billboard No 1 hit for that artist C Only Billboard No 1 hit for that artist to date Other major hits edit US Single Artist5 Aching Breaking Heart George Jones2 Adios Amigo Jim Reeves7 After Loving You Eddy Arnold11 Air Mail to Heaven Carl Smith5 Alla My Love Webb Pierce13 Anywhere There s People Lawton Williams16 Best Dressed Beggar In Town Carl Smith12 Big Fool of the Year George Jones16 Black Cloud Leroy Van Dyke10 The Burning of Atlanta Claude King16 Cajun Queen Jimmy Dean3 Call Me Mr In Between Burl Ives10 Cold Dark Waters Porter Wagoner7 The Comancheros Claude King4 The Comeback Faron Young5 Cow Town Webb Pierce2 Crazy Patsy Cline8 Crazy Wild Desire Webb Pierce20 Daddy Stopped In Claude Gray10 Day Into Night Kitty Wells9 Dear Ivan Jimmy Dean18 Don t Go Near the Eskimos Ben Colder4 Don t Go Near the Indians Rex Allen3 Everybody but Me Ernest Ashworth7 Footsteps of a Fool Judy Lynn9 Funny Way of Laughin Burl Ives14 Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands Bill Anderson3 A Girl I Used to Know George Jones13 Go On Home Patti Page10 Happy Journey Hank Locklin11 He Stands Real Tall Del Reeves8 Hello Out There Carl Belew11 Honky Tonk Man Johnny Horton7 How Can I Write On Paper What I Feel in My Heart Jim Reeves5 I Can Mend Your Broken Heart Don Gibson17 I Can t Stop My Lovin You Buck Owens9 I Guess I ll Never Learn Charlie Phillips2 I m Gonna Change Everything Jim Reeves16 I m Looking High and Low for My Baby Ernest Tubb12 I ve Just Destroyed the World I m Loving In Ray Price3 If a Woman Answers Hang Up the Phone Leroy Van Dyke6 If You Don t Know I Ain t Gonna Tell You George Hamilton IV8 In the Jailhouse Now Johnny Cash6 In the Middle of a Heartache Wanda Jackson4 It Keeps Right On A Hurtin Johnny Tillotson16 Just Ain t Flatt amp Scruggs20 Kentucky Means Paradise Glen Campbell8 Kickin Our Hearts Around Buck Owens9 Leona Stonewall Jackson20 A Letter to My Heart Jim Reeves2 A Little Bitty Tear Burl Ives10 Little Black Book Jimmy Dean3 A Little Heartache Eddy Arnold2 Lonesome Number One Don Gibson2 Losing Your Love Jim Reeves12 Love Can t Wait Marty Robbins7 My Name Is Mud James O Gwynn11 Nobody s Fool but Yours Buck Owens3 Old Rivers Walter Brennan11 One Look at Heaven Stonewall Jackson13 Open Pit Mine George Jones3 PT 109 Jimmy Dean5 Pride Ray Price18 Pride Goes Before a Fall Jim Reeves20 Sally Was a Good Old Girl Hank Cochran11 Save the Last Dance for Me Buck Owens18 Second Choice Stonewall Jackson11 Send Me the Pillow You Dream On Johnny Tillotson18 Shame on Me Bobby Bare16 Silver Threads and Golden Needles The Springfields17 Slow Poison Johnnie amp Jack14 So Wrong Patsy Cline16 Somebody Save Me Ferlin Husky12 Sometimes I m Tempted Marty Robbins17 Sometimes You Just Can t Win George Jones19 Sooner or Later Webb Pierce6 Success Loretta Lynn7 Take Time Webb Pierce7 Tears Broke Out on Me Eddy Arnold11 Tennessee Flat Top Box Johnny Cash8 Then a Tear Fell Earl Scott17 There s Always One Who Loves a Lot Roy Drusky7 Three Days Faron Young15 To a Sleeping Beauty Jimmy Dean7 Touch Me Willie Nelson4 Trouble s Back in Town The Wilburn Brothers18 Under the Cover of Night Dave Dudley5 Unloved Unwanted Kitty Wells10 The Violet and the Rose Little Jimmy Dickens5 Wall to Wall Love Bob Gallion11 Waltz of the Angels George Jones and Margie Singleton13 The Waltz You Saved for Me Ferlin Husky7 We Missed You Kitty Wells14 We re Gonna Go Fishin Hank Locklin10 When I Get Through with You Patsy Cline9 Where I Ought to Be Skeeter Davis15 Where the Old Red River Flows Jimmie Davis8 Will Your Lawyer Talk to God Kitty Wells5 Willie the Weeper Billy Walker10 Willingly Willie Nelson and Shirley Collie3 A Wound Time Can t Erase Stonewall Jackson15 You Take the Future And I ll Take the Past Hank SnowTop new album releases editSingle Artist Record LabelAll Aboard the Blue Train Johnny Cash SunGeorge Jones Sings Bob Wills George Jones United ArtistsHappy Journey Hank Locklin RCAHomecoming in Heaven George Jones United ArtistsHymns from the Heart Johnny Cash ColumbiaModern Sounds in Country and Western Music Ray Charles ABC ParamountMy Favorites of Hank Williams George Jones United ArtistsSentimentally Yours Patsy Cline DeccaThe Sound of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash ColumbiaWonderful Wanda Wanda Jackson CapitolOther top releases edit Single Artist Record LabelAccording to My Heart Goldie Hill DeccaBashful Brother Oswald Bashful Brother Oswald StardayBill Anderson Sings Country Heart Songs Bill Anderson DeccaCaribbean Guitar Chet Atkins RCACross Country Webb Pierce DeccaDevil Woman Marty Robbins ColumbiaDown Home Chet Atkins RCAFamily Favorites Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper with the Clinch Mountain Clan HickoryHank Locklin Hank Locklin RCAHomer and Jethro and the Convention Homer and Jethro RCALive It Up Laugh it Up Johnny Bond StardayThe Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark Roy Clark CapitolMarty After Midnight Marty Robbins ColumbiaThe New Favorites of George Jones George Jones United ArtistsNight Life Ray Price ColumbiaOld Rivers Walter Brennan LibertyOne More Time Eddy Arnold RCAOur Man Down South Eddy Arnold RCAPorter Wagoner and Skeeter Davis Sing Duets Porter Wagoner and Skeeter Davis RCAA Touch of Velvet Jim Reeves RCAA Tribute to Roy Acuff The King of Country Music Hank Locklin RCAYou re for Me Buck Owens CapitolBirths editJanuary 13 Trace Adkins singer songwriter whose style meshes honky tonk and dance influenced rock February 4 Clint Black first major new star of the 1990s and key player in the new traditionalist movement February 6 Richie McDonald former lead singer of Lonestar February 7 Garth Brooks the man who revolutionalized country music and forever changed its direction during the 1990s February 11 Sheryl Crow pop singer who has also had substantial success as a country singer starting in the 2000s April 2 Billy Dean contemporary styled singer songwriter who had the peak of his success in the 1990s May 2 Ty Herndon contemporary styled singer who had most of his success in the mid to late 1990s August 23 Emilio Navaira singer songwriter of country and Tejano music died 2016 November 26 Linda Davis prominent backing vocalist who had a series of solo hits in the 1990s Deaths editThis section is empty You can help by adding to it July 2010 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees editRoy Acuff 1903 1992 Major awards editGrammy Awards edit Best Country and Western Recording Funny Way of Laughin Burl IvesFurther reading editKingsbury Paul The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music 70 Years of the Songs the Stars and the Stories Villard Books Random House Opryland USA 1995 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 Other links editCountry Music Association Inductees of the Country Music Hall of FameExternal links editCountry Music Hall of Fame Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 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