1947 in country music

See also: 1946 in country music, 1947 in music, other events of 1947, 1948 in country music and the List of years in Country Music

Contents 1 Events 2 Top hits of the year 2.1 Number one hits 2.2 Other major hits 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Further reading

Events

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

• January 18 - "Rainbow at Midnight" - Ernest Tubb
• February 8 - "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" - Merle Travis
• May 17 - "New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde)" - Red Foley and the Cumberland Valley Boys
• May 24 - "What is Life Without Love" - Eddy Arnold
• June 7 - "Sugar Moon" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
• July 19 - "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" - Tex Williams
• November 1 - "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" - Eddy Arnold

Other major hits

• Baby Doll - Sons Of The Pioneers
• Bang Bang - Jimmie Davis

• Cigarettes Whiskey And Wild Wild Women - Sons Of The Pioneers
• Don't Look Now - Ernest Tubb
• Fat Gal - Merle Travis
• Feudin' And Fightin' - Dorothy Shay
• Filipino Baby - Ernest Tubb
• Here Comes Santa Claus - Gene Autry
• I Couldn' Believe It Was True - Eddy Arnold
• I'll Step Aside - Ernest Tubb

• Move It On Over - Hank Williams
• Never Trust A Woman - Red Foley
• Never Trust A Woman - Tex Williams
• Our Own Jolie Blon - Roy Acuff
• Pretty Blond - Moon Mullican

• Steel Guitar Rag - Merle Travis
• Teardrops From My Eyes - Sons Of The Pioneers
• Temptation - Red Engles and Jo Stafford
• That's What I Like About The West - Tex Williams
• To My Sorrow - Eddy Arnold

Births

• September 26 - Lynn Anderson, top female country singer of the 1970s; best-remembered for her crossover pop smash, "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden".
• December 19 - Janie Fricke, 1970s session/backup singer who grew to indivdiual stardom during the early and mid 1980s.

Deaths

Further reading

• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," 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 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.

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