Here are the 1976 Hot Country Singles, Part Two. They were all #1 for a single week, in part a function of market manipulation.
It’s fascinating to me that I know many of the artists, but not the music, at least in this decade: Bill Anderson, Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, and Tammy Wynette, to name a few.
You’ll Lose A Good Thing – Freddy Fender
Till I Can Make It On My Own – Tammy Wynette; her stated personal favorite among all that she had written and recorded.
Drinking My Baby (Off My Mind) – Eddie Rabbit
Together Again – Emmylou Harris, a 1964 Buck Owens song; I think I own this on vinyl
Don’t The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time – Mickey Gilley
My Eyes Can Only See as Far As You – Charlie Pride
What Goes On When The Sun Goes Down – Ronnie Milsap
After All The Good Is Gone – Conway Twitty. He broke through in 1955. He died during surgery in 1993 at the age of 59. Conway was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
I’ll Get Over You – Crystal Gayle; my greatest hits albums of hers I’ve got from my late FIL’s collection
All These Things – Joe Stampley
The Door Is Always Open – Dave and Sugar
Golden Ring – George Jones and Tammy Wynette
Say It Again – Don Williams
Covers
Bring It On Home To Me – Mickey Gilley. Yes, the Sam Cooke classic from 1962
If You’ve Got The Money, I’ve Got The Time – Willie Nelson, a #1 hit for Left Frizell, who co-wrote it, in 1950
Here’s Some Love – Tanya Tucker
The Games That Daddies Play – Conway Twitty. He didn’t write every one of his hits, but he did pen this one
Among My Souvenirs – Marty Robbins. This was a $1 song by Paul Whiteman in 1928!
Cherokee Maiden – Merle Haggard. Bob Wills had first recorded this song in 1941:
These are the hot country singles of 1976, or at least the first half of them or so. There are a total of 40 of them on the Billboard charts, a function in part of the labels’ and maybe even disc jockeys’ desire to create more and more number one hits. No song hit the top of the charts for more than three weeks.
Here are more 1976 pop #1s. The first group includes songs that reached #1 on the Billboard charts but spent 7 weeks or fewer in the top 10.
These are the top pop singles of 1976. Okay, many of them. The songs that were #1 on the Billboard charts for multiple weeks, plus those that were there for only one week but were in the Top 10 for at least 10 weeks, are represented.