Country Annual Top 10 Hits 1970-1979

Below, the songs in my Country Music Library that were top 10 hits in the years indicated. They may be on 45s, By artist or various artist LPs, Reel tapes, Cassettes, or CDs, and are the original recordings. (See below for special notes for this page).

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**1970**
RANK	#(WKS)	SONG TITLE	ARTIST
1	1(4)	Hello darlin'	Conway Twitty
2	1(4)	Baby baby (I know you're a lady)	David Houston
3	1(4)	Don't keep me hangin' on	Sonny James
4	1(4)	Just a matter of time	Sonny James
5	1(3)	Endlessly	Sonny James
6	1(3)	He loves me all the way	Tammy Wynette
7	1(3)	The fightin' side of me	Merle Haggard
8	1(3)	My Love	Sonny James
9	1(2)	Tennessee bird walk	Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
10	1(2)	Is anybody goin' to San Antone	Charley Pride

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**1971**
1	1(5)	When you're hot, you're hot	Jerry Reed
2	1(4+)	Kiss an angel good morning	Charley Pride
3	1(4+)	Rose Garden	Lynn Anderson
4	1(4)	Empty arms	Sonny James
5	1(4)	I'm just me	Charley Pride
6	1(3)	Easy lovin'	Freddie Hart
7	1(3)	Help me make it through the night	Sammi Smith
8	1(3)	I won't mention it again	Ray Price
9	1(3)	How can I unlove you	Lynn Anderson
10	1(3)	I'd rather love you	Charley Pride

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**1972**
1	1(6)	My hang up is you	Freddie Hart
2	1(3)	Happiest girl in the whole U.S.A.	Donna Fargo
3	1(3)	Carolyn	Merle Haggard
4	1(3)	It's gonna take a little bit longer	Charley Pride
5	1(3)	Chantilly lace	Jerry Lee Lewis
6	1(3)	Got the all overs for you (all over me)	Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats
7	1(3)	Funny Face	Donna Fargo
8	1(3)	She's too good to be true	Charley Pride
9	1(2)	If you leave me tonight I'll cry	Jerry Wallace
10	1(2)	It's four in the morning	Faron Young

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**1973**
1	1(3)	You've never been this far before	Conway Twitty
2	1(3)	Satin sheets	Jeanne Pruett
3	1(3)	The most beautiful girl	Charlie Rich
4	1(2+)	She's got to be a saint	Ray Price
5	1(2)	Behind closed doors	Charlie Rich
6	1(2)	She needs someone to hold her (when she cries)	Conway Twitty
7	1(2)	Ridin' my thumb to Mexice	Johnny Rodriguez
8	1(2)	Teddy bear song	Barbara Fairchild
9	1(2)	We're gonna hold on	George Jones & Tammy Wynette
10	1(2)	Love is the foundation	Loretta Lynn

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**1974**
1	1(3+)	If we make it through December	Merle Haggard
2	1(3)	A very special love song	Charlie Rich
3	1(2)	There won't be anymore	Charlie Rich
4	1(2)	Rub it in	Billy "Crash" Craddock
5	1(2)	Another lonely song	Tammy Wynette
6	1(2)	I love	Tom T. Hall
7	1(2)	He thinks I still care	Anne Murray
8	1(2)	I see the want to in your eyes	Conway Twitty
9	1(2)	Please don't tell me how the story ends	Ronnie Milsap
10	1(2)	I can help	Billy Swan

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**1975**
1	1(3)	Rhinestone cowboy	Glen Campbell
2	1(2)	Blue eyes crying in the rain	Willie Nelson
3	1(2)	Touch a hand	Conway Twitty
4	1(2)	Wasted days and wasted nights	Freddy Fender
5	1(2)	Daydreams about nigings	Ronnie Milsap
6	1(2)	Before the next teardrop falls	Freddy Fender
7	1(2)	Always wanting you	Merle Haggard
8	1(1+)	Convoy*	C.W. McCall
9	1(1)	Feelins'	Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
10	1(1)	It's time to pay the fiddler	Cal Smith

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**1976**
1	1(4+)	Convoy*	C.W. McCall
2	1(3)	Good hearted woman	Waylon & Willie
3	1(3)	Teddy bear	Red Sovine
4	1(2)	Thinkin' of a rendezvous	Johnny Duncan
5	1(2)	Somebody somewhere (don't know what he's missin' tonight)	Loretta Lynn
6	1(2)	You and me	Tammy Wynette
7	1(2)	One piece at a time	Johnny Cash
8	1(2)	Good woman blues	Mel Tillis
9	1(2)	El Paso city	Marty Robbins
10	1(2)	(I'm a) Stand by my woman man	Ronnie Milsap

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**1977**
1	1(6)	Luckenbach, Texas (back to the basics of love)	Waylon Jennings
2	1(4+)	Here you come again	Dolly Parton
3	1(4)	Don't it make my brown eyes blue	Crystal Gayle
4	1(4)	Heaven's just a sin away	The Kendalls
5	1(3)	It was almost like a song	Ronnie Milsap
6	1(3)	Rollin' with the flow	Charlie Rich
7	1(2)	Lucille	Kenny Rogers
8	1(2)	Near you	George Jones & Tammy Wynette
9	1(2)	The Wurlitzer prize (I don't want to get over you)	Waylon Jennings
10	1(2)	Southern nights	Glen Campbell

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**1978**
1	1(4)	Mammas dont let your babies grow up to be cowboys	Waylon & Willie
2	1(3)	Sleeping single in a double bed	Barbara Mandrell
3	1(3)	Only one love in my life	Ronnie Milsap
4	1(3)	Heartbreaker	Dolly Parton
5	1(3)	I've always been crazy	Waylon Jennings
6	1(2+)	The Gambler	Kenny Rogers
7	1(2)	Take this job and shove it	Johnny Paycheck
8	1(2)	Talking in your sleep	Crystal Gayle
9	1(2)	Don't break the heart that loves you	Margo Smith
10	1(2)	Someone loves you honey	Charley Pride

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**1979**
1	1(3)	Every which way but loose	Eddie Rabbitt
2	1(3)	Amanda	Waylon
3	1(3)	I just fall in love again	Anne Murray
4	1(3)	Golden tears	Dave & Sugar
5	1(3)	If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me	Bellamy Brothers
6	1(2+)	Happy birthday darlin'	Conway Twitty
7	1(2)	She believes in me	Kenny Rogers
8	1(2)	You're the only one	Dolly Parton
9	1(2)	Come with me	Waylon
10	1(2)	Why have you left the one you left me for	Crystal Gayle

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Notes: (*) indicates that the song was a top 10 hit in more than one year. (+) sign after the (WKS) indicates not a full additional week in the calendar year listed, but good enough to make the top 10. It's rank in each year is proportional to the weeks spent at #1 in that year. BOLD PRINT indicates song was also a hit on the pop charts at the same time (but not necessarily a pop top 10 hit). 1971 was only the second year since the Country chart debuted in 1944 that ALL the top 10 hits also charted on the "Hot 100" pop chart (1958 was the first)."Waylon Jennings" recorded as "Waylon" from late 1978 through early 1983. His duets with "Willie Nelson" were listed only as "Waylon & Willie". The decade's biggest chart hit is in RED.