1928 in country music
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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1928.
Events
- "The first edition of Bradley Kincaid's 1928 songbook called My Favorite Mountain Ballads sold more than 100,000 copies;[1]
Top Hillbilly (Country) Recordings
The following songs were extracted from records included in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954,[1] record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified.Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label | Recorded | Released | Chart Positions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)"[2][3] / Away Out On the Mountain" | Victor 21142 | November 30, 1927 | May 1928 | US BB 1928 #20, US #2 for 1 weeks, 11 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #1, 2,000,000 sales[1][4] |
| 2 | Jimmie Rodgers | "In the Jailhouse Now"[5] / "Ben Dewberryâs Final Run" | Victor 21245 | February 15, 1928 | July 1928 | US BB 1928 #158, US #14 for 1 weeks, 3 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #2, 1,000,000 sales[1][4] |
| 3 | Jimmie Rodgers | "The Brakemanâs Blues"[6] | Victor 21291 | February 14, 1928 | June 1928 | US BB 1928 #68, US #7 for 1 weeks, 7 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #3, 1,000,000 sales[4] |
| 4 | Carter Family | "Keep on the Sunny Side"[7] | Victor 21434 | May 9, 1928 | July 20, 1928 | US BB 1928 #88, US #9 for 1 weeks, 5 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #4, 141,981 sales, Grammy Hall of Fame 2006 |
| 5 | Hugh Cross and Riley Puckett | "Red River Valley"[8] | Columbia 15206 | November 3, 1927 | January 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #5 |
| 6 | Jimmie Rodgers | ""Blue Yodel No. 3 (Evening Sun Yodel)"[9] / "Never No Moâ Blues" | Victor 21531 | February 15, 1928 | October 1928 | US BB 1928 #108, US #10 for 1 weeks, 4 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #6, 1,000,000 sales[4] |
| 7 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Blue Yodel No. II (My Lovin' Gal Lucille)"[10] | Victor 21291 | February 15, 1928 | June 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #7, 1,000,000 sales[4] |
| 8 | Darby and Tarlton | "Birmingham Jail"[11] | Columbia 15212D | November 10, 1927 | March 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #8, 200,000 sales[12] |
| 9 | Bradley Kincaid | "Barbara Allen"[13] | Silvertone 5186 | February 27, 1928 | April 5, 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #9 |
| 10 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Treasures Untold"[14] / "Mother Was A Lady (If Brother Jack Were Here)" | Victor 21433 | February 14, 1928 | August 3, 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #10, 1,000,000 sales[4] |
| 11 | Vernon Dalhart | "Halleluja! I'm a Bum"[15] | Columbia 1488 | July 30, 1928 | November 1928 | US BB 1928 #58, US #6 for 1 week, 5 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #11 |
| 12 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Lullaby Yodel"[16] / "Memphis Yodel" | Victor 21636 | June 12, 1928 | December 1928 | , US Hillbilly 1928 #12, 1,000,000 sales[4] |
| 13 | Jimmie Rodgers | "My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans" / "Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea"[17] | Victor 21574 | June 12, 1928 | November 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #13, 1,000,000 sales[4] |
| 14 | Georgia Yellow Hammers | "The Picture On the Wall"[18] | Victor 20943 | August 9, 1927 | January 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #14, 100,000 sales[12] |
| 15 | Carter Family | "Little Darling Pal of Mine"[19] | Victor 21638 | May 9, 1928 | December 1928 | US BB 1929 #166, US #14 for 1 week, 2 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #15 |
| 16 | Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen | "Casey Jones"[20] | Columbia 15237 | March 28, 1927 | April 1928 | US BB 1928 #216, US #19 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #16 |
| 17 | Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison | "A Memory That Time Cannot Erase"[21] | Victor 21094 | July 21, 1927 | March 1928 | US BB 1928 #215, US #19 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1928 #17 |
| 18 | Blind Lemon Jefferson | "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"[22] | Paramount 12608 | February 26, 1928 | May 4, 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #18 |
| 19 | Darby and Tarlton | "Columbus Stockade Blues"[11] | Columbia 15212 | November 10, 1927 | March 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #19 |
| 20 | Jules Verne Allen | "The Dying Cowboy"[23] | Victor 23834 | April 21, 1928 | May 4, 1928 | US Hillbilly 1928 #20 |
Births
- March 31 â Lefty Frizzell, honky-tonk singer-songwriter (died 1975).
- April 3 â Don Gibson, singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1950s through late 1970s (died 2003).
- May 3 â Dave Dudley, singer best known for his truck-driving anthems ("Six Days on the Road") (died 2003).
- August 10 â Jimmy Dean, singer-songwriter best known for "Big Bad John" and other 1960s ballads; television host and businessman/founder of eponymously named sausage company (died 2010).
- December 17 â George Lindsey, comedian-actor who played Goober Pyle on television's The Andy Griffith Show and Hee Haw (died 2012).
Further reading
- Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947â1989," 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 1944â2005 â 6th Edition." 2005.
Notes
1. ^ a b c d e f Bradley Kincaid, Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame. Accessed 25 August 2007.