1945 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1945.

List of years in country music (table)

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

US Single Artist
February 3 "I'm Losing My Mind Over You" Al Dexter
"March 17 "There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder" Jimmie Davis
March 31 "Shame on You" Spade Cooley
"April 14 "Smoke on the Water" Bob Wills
May 19 "At Mail Call Today" Gene Autry
July 7 "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
July 28 "Oklahoma Hills" Jack Guthrie
August 25 "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" Tex Ritter
October 27 "With Tears in My Eyes" Wesley Tuttle
November 17 "Sioux City Sue" Dick Thomas
November 24 "Shame on You" Lawrence Welk Orchestra with Red Foley
December 8 "It's Been So Long Darling" Ernest Tubb
December 15 "Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Other Major Hits

Single Artist
"Careless Darlin'" Ernest Tubb
"Christmas Carols At The Old Corral" Tex Ritter
"Don't Fence Me In" Gene Autry
"Don't Hang Around Me Anymore" Gene Autry
"Don′t Live a Lie" Gene Autry
"Each Minute Seems a Million Years" Eddy Arnold
"Each Night at Nine" Floyd Tillman
"Hang Your Head In Shame" Bob Wills
"Hang Your Head In Shame" Red Foley
"Headin' Down the Wrong Highway" Ted Daffan
"Hitler's Last Letter to Hirohito" Carson Robison
"I Never Let You Worry My Mind" Red Foley
"I Want To Be Sure" Gene Autry
"I′ll Be Back" Gene Autry
"I'll Wait For You Dear" Al Dexter
"I'm A Branding My Darling With My Heart" Jack Guthrie
"I'm A Convict With Old Glory in My Heart" Elton Britt
"I'm Gonna Build a Big Fence Around Texas" Gene Autry
"I'm Lost Without You" Al Dexter
"I've Taken All I'm Gonne Take" Gene Autry
"Jealous Heart" Tex Ritter
"Keep My Memory In Your Heart" Ernest Tubb
"Mexico Joe" Ivie Anderson
"A Pair of Broken Hearts" Spade Cooley
"Shadow on Your Heart" Ted Daffan
"Smoke on the Water" Boyd Heath
"Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" Sons of the Pioneers
"Texas Playboy Rag" Bob Wills
"Time Won't Heal My Broken Heart" Ted Daffan
"Tomorrow Never Comes" Ernest Tubb
"Triflin' Gal" Al Dexter
"You Don't Care What Happens to Me" Bob Wills
"You're Breaking My Heart" Ted Daffan

Births

  • January 16 — Ronnie Milsap, blind, blue-eyed soul-styled singer who became one of country music's most popular entertainers of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • March 14 — Michael Martin Murphey, Western-styled singer-songwriter who enjoyed mainstream success in the 1980s as a country-pop performer.
  • May 23 – Misty Morgan, singer-songwriter who, with husband Jack Blanchard, had a string of animal-themed hit recordings in the 1970s.
  • June 5 — Don Reid, lead singer and main songwriter of The Statler Brothers.
  • June 20 — Anne Murray, Canadian vocalist who became one of that country's most successful country music performers during the 1970s and 1980s.

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.
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