1933 in country music
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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1933.
Events
sales grew approximately 15% over 1932
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 | Gene Autry and Jimmy Long | "The Yellow Rose Of Texas"[2] | Melotone 12700 | March 1, 1933 | June 5, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #1 |
| 2 | Gene Autry | "The Last Round-Up"[2] | Melotone 12832 | October 9, 1933 | November 1933 | US BB 1933 #133, US #12 for 1 week, 3 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1933 #2 |
| 3 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Peach-Pickinâ Time Down in Georgia"[3] | Victor 23781 | August 15, 1932 | April 7, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #3 |
| 4 | Tex Ritter | "Rye Whiskey"[2] | Melotone 12664 | February 14, 1933 | June 11, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #4 |
| 5 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Blue Yodel No. 12 (Barefoot Blues)"[4] | Victor 24456 | May 17, 1933 | June 27, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #5 |
| 6 | The Allen Brothers | "Lightning Bug Blues"[5] | Victor 23805 | December 5, 1932 | January 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #6 |
| 7 | Jimmie Rodgers | "No Hard Times - Blue Yodel"[6] | Victor 23751 | August 15, 1932 | February 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #7, 4,258 sales |
| 8 | Gene Autry and Jimmy Long | "Cowboy's Heaven"[2] | Melotone 12652 | March 1, 1933 | April 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #8 |
| 9 | Jimmie Davis and Rubye Blevins (Patsy Montana) | "Jealous Lover"[7] | Victor 23778 | November 4, 1932 | March 24, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #9 |
| 10 | Rambling Red Foley with the Cumberland Ridge Runners | "The Lone Cowboy"[2] | Melotone 12718 | April 11, 1933 | June 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #10 |
| 11 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Gambling Barroom Blues"[8] | Victor 23766 | August 16, 1932 | February 24, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #11 |
| 12 | Rambling Red Foley with the Cumberland Ridge Runners | "Single Life Is Good Enough For Me"[2] | Melotone 12718 | April 11, 1933 | June 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #12 |
| 13 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Miss the Mississippi and You"[9] | Victor 23736 | August 29, 1932 | December 22, 1932 | US Hillbilly 1933 #13, 3,791 sales[10] |
| 14 | Carter Family | "The Church in the Wildwood"[11] | Victor 40317 | October 13, 1932 | March 24, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #14 |
| 15 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Blue Yodel No. 11 (Iâve Got a Gal)"[12] | Victor 23796 | November 27, 1929 | June 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #15 |
| 16 | Bing Crosby | "The Last Round-Up"[2] | Melotone 12832 | October 9, 1933 | November 1933 | US BB 1933 #20, US #2 for 2 weeks, 5 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1933 #16 |
| 17 | Cumberland Ridge Runners with John Lair | "Sally's Not The Same Old Sally" | Perfect 12914 | April 11, 1933 | September 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #17 |
| 18 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Mississippi Delta Blues"[13] | Victor 23816 | May 24, 1933 | July 28, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #18 |
| 19 | Jimmie Rodgers | "Iâm Free (From the Chain Gang Now)"[14] | Victor 23830 | May 17, 1933 | September 8, 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #19 |
| 20 | Gene Autry and Jimmy Long | "Answer To Twenty-One Years"[2] | Melotone 12690 | March 1, 1933 | August 1933 | US Hillbilly 1933 #20 |
Births
- March 10 â Ralph Emery, radio and television personality.
- April 15 â Roy Clark, singer and multi-instrumentalist, host of television's Hee Haw (died 2018).
- April 30 â Willie Nelson, songwriter and key member of the 1970s "outlaw" movement.
- September 1 â Conway Twitty, singer-songwriter who successfully defected from 1950s rock music career to become a giant in the country genre from the 1960s through the early 1990s (died 1993).
- September 3 â Tompall Glaser, member of Tompall & the Glaser Brothers and leading member of the 1970s "outlaw" movement (died 2013).
- October 27 â Floyd Cramer, session pianist who had a series of hits in his own right (died 1997).
- November 21 â Jean Shepard, legendary female vocalist of the 1950sâ1970s and a longtime Grand Ole Opry favorite (died 2016).
Deaths
- May 26 â Jimmie Rodgers, 35, "The Singing Brakeman" who became country music's first bona fide superstar (tuberculosis).
Further reading
- Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music,â 1933 (p. 33) HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)