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Country Music from the Seventies



by Bonnie Conrad

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

...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.


Come Monday
Jimmy Buffett
Tales of MargaritaVision


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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I was born a West Virginian Eddy Bailes  starstarstarstarstar
I've been look for the cd and can't find one. Does any one have it.

West Virginia Song and Video

Reconsider Me Narvel Felts  starstarstarstarstar
Probably the greatest falsetto voice ever in country music.

every which way but loose eddie rabbitt  starstarstarstarstar
this is a classic song from the movie of the same title. "right turn, clyde!"

Margaritavilla, Jimmy Buffett  starstarstarstarstar
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.

Jolene- Dolly Parton  starstarstarstarstar
Dolly Parton really does have the voice of an angel.

Video from the Ryman

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

The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA/ Donna Fargo  starstarstarstarstar
One of country music's biggest stars of the 70's. Donna was the first female singer with back to back million selling singles.


The Happiest Girl ...

Uneasy Rider- The Charlie Daniels Band  starstarstarstarstar
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  starstarstarstarstar
This is a real cool song!

What's Made Milwaukee Famous, Jerry Lee Lewis  starstarstarstar
Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the greatest country music artists i think. This was filmed in Memphis at the Holiday Inn Sept. of '69


Dolly Parton Jolien  Not rated yet
I LOVE THIS SONG BECAUSE IT IS SO WUNDERFUL AND MY CHILDRENS NAME IS JOLIEN

Stranger by Johnny Duncan and Janie Frickie  Not rated yet
This is a really underrated classic. Duncan's smooth baritone and Frickie's harmonies are awesome. It's one of those songs that you like the first time ...

Bobby Bare, Marie Laveau  Not rated yet
The most famous of the voodoo queens that ever existed
Is Marie Laveau, down in Louisanaa
There's a lot of wierd, ungodly tales about Marie,
She's supposed ...

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!

I'm Gonna Hire A Wino, David Frizzell   Not rated yet
How funny is this!



It ain't David singin' but it's a cool video.

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.

(I'll Give You) A Daisy A Day - Jed Strunk  Not rated yet
One of the sweetest songs ever

Video...


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'...

Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone, Roy Clark  Not rated yet
Hew Haw great Roy Clark makes me smile.