1929 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1929.

Events

December – Release in the United States of short film The Singing Brakeman starring country singer Jimmie Rodgers.

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	Carter Family	"Wildwood Flower"^[2]^[3]	Victor 40000	May 10, 1928 (1928-05-10)	January 10, 1929 (1929-01-10)	US BB 1928 #23, US Hillbilly 1929 #1, US #3 for 1 week, 10 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales,^[1] National Recording Registry 2006
2	Jimmie Rodgers	"Waiting For A Train"^[4]	Victor 40014	October 22, 1928 (1928-10-22)	February 8, 1929 (1929-02-08)	US BB 1929 #168, US #14 for 1 week, 3 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #2, 1,000,000 sales^[1]^[5]
3	Jimmie Rodgers	"My Carolina Sunshine Girl"^[6]	Victor 40096	October 20, 1928 (1928-10-20)	August 22, 1929 (1929-08-22)	US Hillbilly 1929 #3, 1,000,000 sales^[5]
4	Carter Family	"I'm Thinking To-night Of My Blue Eyes"^[7]	Victor 40089	February 14, 1929 (1929-02-14)	June 11, 1929 (1929-06-11)	US BB 1929 #116, US #10 for 1 week, 4 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #4
5	Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers	"If The Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul"^[8]	Victor 40010	October 29, 1928 (1928-10-29)	March 22, 1929 (1929-03-22)	US Hillbilly 1929 #5, 11,376 sales^[9]
6	Jimmie Rodgers	"My Old Pal" / "Daddy and Home"^[10]	Victor 21757	June 12, 1928 (1928-06-12)	January 1929 (1929-01)	US Hillbilly 1929 #6, 1,000,000 sales^[5]
7	Charlie McCoy and Bo Chatman	"Corrine, Corrina"^[11]^[12]	Brunswick 7080	November 1928 (1928-11)	August 1929 (1929-08)	US Hillbilly 1929 #7
8	Al Craver (aka Vernon Dalhart)	"Farm Relief Song"^[13]^[1]	Columbia 15449-D	August 22, 1929 (1929-08-22)	October 1929 (1929-10)	US BB 1929 #77, US #7 for 1 week, 4 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #8
9	Jimmie Rodgers	"You and My Old Guitar" / "My Little Lady"^[14]	Victor 40072	June 12, 1928 (1928-06-12)	June 7, 1929 (1929-06-07)	US Hillbilly 1929 #9, 1,000,000 sales^[5]
10	Jimmie Rodgers	"Frankie and Johnnie" / "Everybody Does It in Hawaii"^[15]	Victor 22143	August 10, 1929 (1929-08-10)	November 22, 1929 (1929-11-22)	US Hillbilly 1929 #10
11	Blind Willie McTell	"Statesboro Blues"^[16]^[3]	Victor 38001	October 17, 1928 (1928-10-17)	January 4, 1929 (1929-01-04)	US Hillbilly 1929 #11, National Recording Registry 2015
12	Jimmie Rodgers	"I’m Lonely and Blue" / "The Sailor’s Plea"^[17]	Victor 40054	February 14, 1928 (1928-02-14)	April 19, 1929 (1929-04-19)	US Hillbilly 1929 #12, 236,231 sales^[17]^[5]
13	Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton	"Slow Wicked Blues"^[18]	Columbia 15419	April 15, 1929 (1929-04-15)	May 31, 1929 (1929-05-31)	US Hillbilly 1929 #13
14	Carolina Tar Heels	"Peg And Awl"^[19]	Victor 40010	May 24, 1930 (1930-05-24)	August 1930 (1930-08)	US Hillbilly 1929 #14
15	Jimmie Rodgers	"Blue Yodel No. 5 (It’s Raining Here)" / "I’m Sorry We Met"^[20]	Victor 22072	February 23, 1929 (1929-02-23)	September 20, 1929 (1929-09-20)	US Hillbilly 1929 #15
16	Carter Family	"Lulu Wall"^[21]	Victor 40126	February 14, 1929 (1929-02-14)	October 24, 1929 (1929-10-24)	US Hillbilly 1929 #16
17	Bud Billings (Frank Luther) and Carson Robison	"The Utah Trail"^[22]	Brunswick 4296	March 1929 (1929-03)	August 1929 (1929-08)	US BB 1929 #229, US #19 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1929 #17
18	Eck Robertson	"There's a Brown Skin Girl Down the Road Somewhere"^[23]	Victor 40145	August 12, 1929 (1929-08-12)	November 1929 (1929-11)	US Hillbilly 1929 #18
19	Clarence Pinetop Smith	"Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"^[24]	Vocalion 1245	December 29, 1928 (1928-12-29)	March 1929 (1929-03)	US Hillbilly 1929 #19
20	Nelstone's Hawaiians	Just Because^[25]	Victor 40273	November 30, 1929 (1929-11-30)	December 1929 (1929-12)	US Hillbilly 1929 #20

Births

January 17 – Grady Martin, session guitarist and member of Nashville's "A Team" (died 2001)
March 13 – Jan Howard, Grand Ole Opry star. Best known for "Evil on Your Mind" (died 2020).
March 27 – Don Warden, best known for his years on The Porter Wagoner Show and as the manager of Wagoner and Dolly Parton (died 2017).
May 1 – Sonny James, singer of the 1950s through early 1980s who once had 16 consecutive No. 1 songs—many of them covers of pop hits—on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart; "The Southern Gentleman". (died 2016)
June 23 – June Carter Cash, member of the legendary Carter Family and wife of Johnny Cash (died 2003)
July 9 – Jesse McReynolds, Grand Ole Opry star.
August 12 – Buck Owens, key innovator of the "Bakersfield Sound," which resulted in immense popularity from the 1960s onward; co-host of Hee Haw from 1969–1986. (died 2006)

Deaths

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Record Research.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-45029. Wildwood flower / Carter Family - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ ^a ^b "Complete National Recording Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-47223. Waiting for a train / Jimmie Rodgers - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Bluegrass Messengers - Jimmie Rodgers". www.bluegrassmessengers.com. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-47215. My Carolina sunshine girl / Jimmie Rodgers - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-49859. I'm thinking to-night of my Blue Eyes / Carter Family - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-47237. If the light has gone out in your soul / Holiness Singers ; Ernest Phipps - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ "Victor V-40010 (10-in. double-faced Hillbilly) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-45090. My old pal / Jimmie Rodgers - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
^ "Brunswick matrix NOR761. Corrine Corrina / Bo Carter ; Chas. McCoy - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
^ "BRUNSWICK Records - 7000 "Race" series 78rpm numerical discography". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
^ "Columbia matrix W148913. Farm relief song / Al Craver - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-45094. You and my old guitar / Jimmie Rodgers - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
^ "Victor 22143 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-47187. Statesboro blues / Blind Willie McTell - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
^ ^a ^b "Victor V-40054 (10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
^ "Columbia matrix W148296. Slow wicked blues / Tom Darby ; Jimmie Tarlton - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-47165. Peg and awl / Carolina Tar Heels - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
^ "Victor 22072 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced). (Album WPT-22) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-49865. The foggy mountain top / Carter Family - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
^ "Brunswick matrix E29474. The Utah Trail / Frank Luther ; Carson Robison - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-55347. There's a brown skin girl down the road somewhere / Eck Robertson - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
^ "Vocalion 78rpm numerical listing discography: 1000 - 1499 race series". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
^ "Victor matrix BVE-56637. Just because / Nelstone's Hawaiians - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-09.