Country Music from the Seventies

by Bonnie Conrad

Country music has undergone more changes
than most other genres over the years...

Come Monday
Jimmy Buffett
Tales of MargaritaVision

...Country music has evolved and changed along with the tastes and preference of the American listening public. Every country music fan has their favorite style of country music, but country music of the seventies remains one of the most popular subgenres of country music.

As country music continues to change and evolve, the country music created during the seventies remains some of the best ever...

For the Good Times
Ray Price

Country Bumpkin
Cal Smith

I'm So Afraid of
Losing You Again
Charley Pride

Heaven's Just A Sin Away
The Kendalls

Top Hits of 1970

Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty
My Woman, My Woman, My Wife - Marty Robbins
Everything Is Beautiful - Ray Stevens

Thank God & Greyhound - Roy Clark
What's Made Mikwaukee Famous - Jerry Lee Lewis
Fightin' Side of Me - Merle Haggard
Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson
Tennessee Bird Walk - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
There's a Story (Goin' Round) - Dottie West & Don Gibson

Everything Is Beautiful was a song on the album Everything Is Beautiful. It hit #1 on the country and pop charts...

Partial Lyrics: There is none so blind as he who will not see
We must not close our minds, we must let our thought be free,
For every hour that passes by, you know the world gets a little bit older, It's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder (Ray Stevens)

- Songs of the Seventies,
1971 - Easy Loving {Freddie Hart}
1971 - She's All I've Got Johnny Paycheck
1972- The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A {Donna Fargo}
1973- Behind Closed Doors {Charlie Rich}
1975- Before The Next Teardrop Falls (Freddie Fender)
1976- Good Hearted Woman {Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson)
1977- Lucille (Kenny Rogers)
1979- The Devil Went Down To Georgia (Charlie Daniel's Band)
1979- Coca Cola Cowboy Mel Tillis
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Jolene- Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton really does have the voice of an angel.

Video from the Ryman

Easy Loving, Freddie Hart
Everyday is Thanksgiving. That would be a beautiful dream. Freddie Hart always had the most beautiful love songs.

Uneasy Rider- The Charlie Daniels Band
This is one Charlie Daniels classic that has been over looked.

I reached out and kicked ol' green teeth right in the knee ~ kick ass video
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Take this job, and shove it- Johnny Paycheck
This is a real cool song!

Rub it in Billy Crash Craddock Not rated yet
Im related to billy crash Craddock. my Grandpas cousin. And my last name is Craddock.

Stop and Smell The Roses, Mac Davis Not rated yet
I sing Stop and Smell The Roses at karaoke all the time. People really enjoy this song!

Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, Mac Davis Not rated yet
I remember this one from the Mac Davis Show. When I sang this to an old (ex)girlfriend she didn't like it.

Margaritavilla, Jimmy Buffett Not rated yet
I know you have Come Monday on the seventies page and Jimmy's woman is hot, but I don't know why Margaritaville wasn't listed.

Rub it in, Billy Crash Craddock Not rated yet
Lie beside me on the sand
Put some lotion in your hand
Come on and make me feel nice
Kiss me once or twice
Say you love me again

Then rub it in,...

Johnny Russell - Rednecks White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer Not rated yet
What a classic! ... There's no other place I'd rather be.. rednecks white socks and blue ribbon beer, we don't fit in with that white collar crowd.. we'...