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1956 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1956.

List of years in country music (table)
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Events

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Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

Note: Several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes," "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" and "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" charts.

Other major hits

  • "The Blackboard of My Heart" - Hank Thompson
  • "Eat, Drink and Be Merry (Tomorrow You'll Cry)" - Porter Wagoner
  • "Folsom Prison Blues" - Johnny Cash
  • "Honky Tonk Man" - Johnny Horton
  • "I Take the Chance" - The Browns featuring Jim Ed Brown
  • "I've Got Five Dollars and it's Saturday Night" - Faron Young
  • "It's a Great Life (If You Don't Weaken)" - Faron Young
  • "Searching (For Someone Like You)" - Kitty Wells
  • "Sweet Dreams" - Faron Young
  • "You're Still Mine" - Faron Young
  • "I'm A One Woman Man"-Johnny Horton
  • "You're Free To Go"-Carl Smith
  • "You Are The One"-Carl Smith
  • "Be Bop A Lula"- Gene Vincent
  • "So Doggone Lonesome"-Johnny Cash
  • "You Don't Know Me"-Eddy Arnold
  • "You And Me"- Red Foley & Kitty Wells
  • "You're Running Wild"-Louvin Brothers
  • "According To My Heart"-Jim Reeves
  • "Yes I Know Why"-Webb Pierce
  • "Just One More" - George Jones
  • "Poor Man's Riches"-Benny Barne
  • "My Lips Are Sealed"-Jim Reeves
  • "If Jesus Came To Your House"-Porter Wagoner
  • "Love Me Tender"-Elvis Presley
  • "I've Got A New Heartache"-Ray Price
  • "For Rent"-Sonny James–
  • "Before I Met You"-Carl Smith
  • "Wicked Lies"-Carl Smith

Top new album releases

Births

  • January 18 — Mark Collie, country artist of the early 1990s.
  • March 26 — Charly McClain, country vocalist of the early-to-mid-1980s.
  • June 19 — Doug Stone, popular country vocalist during the early- to mid-1990s.
  • July 6 — John Jorgenson, member of The Desert Rose Band.
  • September 22 — Debby Boone, granddaughter of Red Foley who enjoyed country success of her own in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • October 23 — Dwight Yoakam, neotraditionalist since the mid-1980s who helped revitalize interest in the Bakersfield Sound.
  • December 9 — Sylvia Kirby, pop-styled female vocalist of the early-1980s who became best known as "Sylvia."
  • December 21 — Lee Roy Parnell, alternative country star who enjoyed mainstream country success during the mid-1990s.
  • December 30 — Suzy Bogguss, folk-styled country artist who rose to fame in the early 1990s.

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.