1929 in country music
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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1929.
Events
- December â Release in the United States of short film The Singing Brakeman starring country singer Jimmie Rodgers.
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 | Carter Family | "Wildwood Flower"[2][3] | Victor 40000 | May 10, 1928 | January 10, 1929 | US BB 1928 #23, US Hillbilly 1929 #1, US #3 for 1 week, 10 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales,[1] National Recording Registry 2006 |
| 2 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Waiting For A Train"[4] | Victor 40014 | October 22, 1928 | February 8, 1929 | US BB 1929 #168, US #14 for 1 week, 3 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #2, 1,000,000 sales[1][5] |
| 3 | Jimmie Rodgers | "My Carolina Sunshine Girl"[6] | Victor 40096 | October 20, 1928 | August 22, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #3, 1,000,000 sales[5] |
| 4 | Carter Family | "I'm Thinking To-night Of My Blue Eyes"[7] | Victor 40089 | February 14, 1929 | June 11, 1929 | US BB 1929 #116, US #10 for 1 week, 4 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #4 |
| 5 | Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers | "If The Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul"[8] | Victor 40010 | October 29, 1928 | March 22, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #5, 11,376 sales[9] |
| 6 | Jimmie Rodgers | "My Old Pal" / "Daddy and Home"[10] | Victor 21757 | June 12, 1928 | January 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #6, 1,000,000 sales[5] |
| 7 | Charlie McCoy and Bo Chatman | "Corrine, Corrina"[11][12] | Brunswick 7080 | November 1928 | August 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #7 |
| 8 | Al Craver (aka Vernon Dalhart) | "Farm Relief Song"[13][1] | Columbia 15449-D | August 22, 1929 | October 1929 | US BB 1929 #77, US #7 for 1 week, 4 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #8 |
| 9 | Jimmie Rodgers | "You and My Old Guitar" / "My Little Lady"[14] | Victor 40072 | June 12, 1928 | June 7, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #9, 1,000,000 sales[5] |
| 10 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Frankie and Johnnie" / "Everybody Does It in Hawaii"[15] | Victor 22143 | August 10, 1929 | November 22, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #10 |
| 11 | Blind Willie McTell | "Statesboro Blues"[16][3] | Victor 38001 | October 17, 1928 | January 4, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #11, National Recording Registry 2015 |
| 12 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Iâm Lonely and Blue" / "The Sailorâs Plea"[17] | Victor 40054 | February 14, 1928 | April 19, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #12, 236,231 sales[17][5] |
| 13 | Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton | "Slow Wicked Blues"[18] | Columbia 15419 | April 15, 1929 | May 31, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #13 |
| 14 | Carolina Tar Heels | "Peg And Awl"[19] | Victor 40010 | May 24, 1930 | August 1930 | US Hillbilly 1929 #14 |
| 15 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Blue Yodel No. 5 (Itâs Raining Here)" / "Iâm Sorry We Met"[20] | Victor 22072 | February 23, 1929 | September 20, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #15 |
| 16 | Carter Family | "Lulu Wall"[21] | Victor 40126 | February 14, 1929 | October 24, 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #16 |
| 17 | Bud Billings (Frank Luther) and Carson Robison | "The Utah Trail"[22] | Brunswick 4296 | March 1929 | August 1929 | US BB 1929 #229, US #19 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #17 |
| 18 | Eck Robertson | "There's a Brown Skin Girl Down the Road Somewhere"[23] | Victor 40145 | August 12, 1929 | November 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #18 |
| 19 | Clarence Pinetop Smith | "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"[24] | Vocalion 1245 | December 29, 1928 | March 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #19 |
| 20 | Nelstone's Hawaiians | Just Because[25] | Victor 40273 | November 30, 1929 | December 1929 | US Hillbilly 1929 #20 |
Births
- January 17 â Grady Martin, session guitarist and member of Nashville's "A Team" (died 2001)
- March 13 â Jan Howard, Grand Ole Opry star. Best known for "Evil on Your Mind" (died 2020).
- March 27 â Don Warden, best known for his years on The Porter Wagoner Show and as the manager of Wagoner and Dolly Parton (died 2017).
- May 1 â Sonny James, singer of the 1950s through early 1980s who once had 16 consecutive No. 1 songsâmany of them covers of pop hitsâon the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart; "The Southern Gentleman". (died 2016)
- June 23 â June Carter Cash, member of the legendary Carter Family and wife of Johnny Cash (died 2003)
- July 9 â Jesse McReynolds, Grand Ole Opry star.
- August 12 â Buck Owens, key innovator of the "Bakersfield Sound," which resulted in immense popularity from the 1960s onward; co-host of Hee Haw from 1969â1986. (died 2006)
Deaths
Erich Wichman Nicolas Nikolayevitch Henry Arthur Jones Heiner Muller Julio Antonio Mella H. B. Higgins Cornelis W Lely Liang Qichao