1920s in country music
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See also: Prior to 1920 in country music, The 1930s in country music, 1920s in music and the List of years in Country Music
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[edit] Events
[edit] 1923
- Radio station WSM signs on the air, and is credited for helping spread the popularity of the flegling country music genre.
[edit] 1924
- Vernon Dalhart records "The Prisoner's Song" and "Wreck of Old 97."
[edit] 1925
- May 30 - "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart on the music charts, and quickly became country music's first-ever million-seller. The song eventually stayed on top of the charts for 12 weeks (in two separate runs, including a second seven-week reign at the end of the year) and would go on to sell 7 million copies.
- November - Nashville radio station WSM begins a national institution with its first broadcast of the WSM Barn Dance - the weekly program that would go on to be known as the Grand Ole Opry.
[edit] 1927
- July through August - Ralph Peer rents a warehouse in Bristol, Tennessee, for two weeks; the ensuing Bristol sessions produce several hits and introduce Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to America.
[edit] 1928
- Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family have their first national hits. Historians credit them as country music's first all-time great recording stars.
[edit] Top hits of the decade
[edit] 1922
- "Dear Old Southland" - Vernon Dalhart
- "I Want My Mammy" - Vernon Dalhart
- "Sally Gooden"
- "Tuck Me to Sleep (In My Old 'Tucky Home)" - Vernon Dalhart
[edit] 1923
- "The Little Old Cabin in the Lane" - Fiddlin' John Carson
[edit] 1924
- "Arkansas Traveler" - Fiddlin' John Carson with the Virginia Reelers
- "Fare You Well, Old Joe Clark" - Fiddlin' John Carson
- "John Henry Blues" - Fiddlin' John Carson
- "The Prisoner's Song" - Vernon Dalhart
- "Whistling the Blues Away" - Wendell Hall and Carson Robison
- "You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until She is Gone" - Fiddlin' John Carson
[edit] 1925
- "In the Baggage Coach Ahead" - Vernon Dalhart
- "The Letter Edged in Black" - Vernon Dalhart
- "Old Dan Tucker" - Fiddlin' John Carson
- "Way Down Home" - Gene Austin and Carson Robison
- "The Wreck of the Old 97" - Vernon Dalhart
[edit] 1926
- "The Convict and the Rose" - Vernon Dalhart
- "The Death of Floyd Collins" - Vernon Dalhart
- "The Governor's Pardon" - Vernon Dalhart
- "There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight - Rudolph Valentino" - Vernon Dalhart
- "Turkey in the Straw" - Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers
- "The Wreck of the Shenandoah" - Vernon Dalhart
[edit] 1927
- "John Henry (Steel-Drivin' Man) - Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers
- "Lindenberg (the Eagle of the U.S.A.)" - Vernon Dalhart
- "Lucky Lindy" - Vernon Dalhart
- "My Carolina Home" - Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison
[edit] 1928
- "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)" - Jimmie Rodgers
- "Blue Yodel No. 3" - Jimmie Rodgers
- "Brakeman's Blues" - Jimmie Rodgers
- "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" - Carter Family
- "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" - Vernon Dalhart
- "In the Jailhouse Now" - Jimmie Rodgers
- "Keep on the Sunny Side" - Carter Family
- "A Memory That Time Cannot Erase" - Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison
- "My Blue Ridge Mountain Home" - Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison
- "The Soldier's Sweetheart" - Jimmie Rodgers
- "Wildwood Flower" - Carter Family
[edit] 1929
- "Farm Relief Song" - Vernon Dalhart (as Al Craver)
- "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" - Carter Family
- "Little Darling, Pal of Mine" - Carter Family
- "Soldier's Joy" - Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers
- "The Utah Trail" - Frank Luther and Carson Robison
- "Waiting For a Train" - Jimmie Rodgers
[edit] Births
In 1929 June Carter of the Carter Family was born. A famous country singer and the wife Johnny Cash from the late sixties on. Died in 2003.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Further reading
- Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
- Whitburn, Joel. "Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music," Record Research Inc., Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 1986 (ISBN 0-89820-083-0).
