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Country Music's
500 Greatest Singles

From "Heartaches by the number",
written in 2003 by David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren.

Marsh 1001
the song is also listed in "The Heart of Rock and Soul, The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made" by Dave Marsh.

Rank
 Year
 Title / Artist
Label
1   1970    Help me make it through the Night / Sammi Smith  Mega 0015 
2   1949    Lost Highway / Hank Williams   M.G.M.10506 
3   1961    Crazy / Patsy Cline  Decca 31317 
4   1935    Can the circle be unbroken (Bye and Bye) / Carter Family  Banner 33465 
5   1956    Don't Be Cruel / Elvis Presley  RCA Victor  Marsh 1001 
6   1956    Crazy Arms / Ray Price  Colombia 21510  Marsh 1001 
7   1960    The Window Up Above / George Jones  Mercury 71700 
8   1971    Coat Of Many Colors / Dolly Parton   RCA Victor 
9   1960    Rank Stranger / Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys  Starday 506  Marsh 1001 
10   1942    Born To Lose  / Ted Daffan's Texans  Okeh 6706 
11   1968    Stand By Your Man / Tammy Wynette  Epic 10398  Marsh 1001 
12   1952    It Was Not God Who Make Honky Tonky Angles / Kitty Wells  Decca9-28232 
13   1952    The Wild Side Of Life / Hank Thompson And His Brazo Valley Boys  Capitol F1942 
14   1971    Carolyn / Merle Haggard and The Strangers  Capitol 3222 
15   1971    How Much More Can She Stand / Conway Twitty  Decca 32801 
16   1971    After The Fire Is Gone / Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn  Decca 32776 
17   1936    Right or Wrong / Milton Brown & His Brownies  Decca 5342 
18   1940    Time Changes Everything / Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys  Okeh 05753 
19   1954    I Don't Hurt Anymore / Hank Snow  RCA Victor 47-5698 
20   1948    I Love You So Much It Hurts / Floyd Tillman  Colombia20430 
21   1956    Folsom Prison Blues / Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two  Sun 232 
22   1968    Mama Tried / Merle Haggard and The Strangers  Capitol 2219 
23   1966    The Fugitive / Merle Haggard and The Strangers  Capitol 5803 
24   1986    Someday / Steve Earle  MCA 52920 
25   1969    Life's Little Ups And Downs / Charlie Rich  Epic 5-10492  Marsh 1001 
26   1937    The Last Letter / Rex Griffin  Decca 5383 
27   1979    Farewell Party / Gene Watson  Capitol 4680 
28   1927    Country Blues  / Dock Boggs   Brunswick 131 
29   1953    I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive / Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys  MGM 11366 
30   1939    Back In The Saddle Again / Gene Autry  Okeh 05080,Columbia 37010,Vocalion 05080,Conqueror9341 
31   1935    I Wanna Be Cowboy's Sweetheart / Patsy Montana  Conqueror 8575,Okeh 03010,Vocalion 030310 
32   1966    Don't Come Home A'Drinkin (With Lovin on Your Mind) / Loretta Lynn  Decca 32045 
33   1975    The Pill / Loretta Lynn  MCA 40358  Marsh 1001 
34   1954    20/20 Vision / Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys  RCA Victor 5958 
35   1928    Blue Yodel (T for Texas) / Jimmie Rodgers  Victor 21142 
36   1928    Cool Drinks Of Water Blues / Tommy Johnson  victor 21279 
37   1956    Singing the Blues / Marty Robbins  Columbia 4-21545 
38   1951    (There'll Be) Pease In The Valley(For Me) / Red Foley With The Sunshine Boys Quartet  Decca 9-46319 
39   1955    A Satisfied Mind / Porter Wagoner   RCA Victor 47-6105 
40   1954    Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  Decca 9-29289 
41   1947    Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  Columbia 37888 
42   1954    Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Elvis Presley,Scotty and Bill  Sun 209  Marsh 1001 
43   1956    Blue Suede Shoes / Carl Perkins  Sun 234  Marsh 1001 
44   1962    I Can't Stop Loving You / Ray Charles  ABC Paramount 10330 
45   1964    Once a Day / Connie Smith  RCA Victor 47-8416 
46   1967    Burning a Hole in My Mind / Connie Smith  RCA Victor 4-9335 
47   1949    I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Hank Williams  MGM10560 
48   1973    Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul / Stoney Edwards  Capitol 3671 
49   1928    Lovesick Blues / Emmett Miller &His Georgia Crackers  Okeh 41062 
50   1950    I Love You a Thousand Ways / Lefty Frizzell  Columbia 4-20739 
51   1967    Your Good Girl Gonna Go Bad / Tammy Wynette  Epic 10134 
52   1963    Make The World Go Away. / Ray Price  Columbia 42827 
53   1963    Night Life / Ray Price  Columbia 42827 
54   1972    I Take It On Home / Charlie Rich  Epic 10867 
55   1964    My Heart Skips A Beat / Buck Owens  Capitol 5136 
56   1969    Galveston / Glen Campbell  Capitol 2428 
57   1923    The Little Old Log Cabin in The Lane  / Fiddlin John Carson  Okeh 4890 
58   1929    How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live / Blind Alfred Reed  Victor V-40236 
59   1969    Hungry Eyes  / Merle Haggard and The Strangers  Capitol 2383  Marsh 1001 
60   1976    Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again? / James Talley  Capitol 4297 
61   1945    This Land Is Your Land / Woody Guthrie  Folkways 2481 
62   1947    Tramp on the Street / Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks  Columbia 4-52013 
63   1965    King of the Road / Roger Miller  Smash 1965 
64   1929    Waiting for a Train / Jimmie Rodgers  Victor 40014 
65   1962    I've Been Everywhere / Hank Snow  RCA Victor 47-8072 
66   1963    Detroit City / Bobby Bare  RCA Victor 47-8183  Marsh 1001 
67   1936    What Would You Give In Exchange? / Monroe Brothers  Bluebird 6309 
68   1982    Atlantic City / Bruce Springsteen   Columbia C4-8513(Canada) 
69   1994    Independence Day / Martina McBride  RCA 62828 
70   1943    Pistol Packin' Mama / Bing Crosby & the Andrew Sisters,with Vic Schoen & His Ochestra  Decca 23277 
71   1927    Ommie Wise / G.B.Grayson  Victor 21625 
72   1936    Down on the Banks of the Ohio / Blue Sky Boys  Bluebird B-6480 
73   1959    Knoxville Girl / Louvin Brothers  Capitol 4117 
74   1958    Life to Go / Stonewall Jackson  Columbia 41257 
75   1965    Green Green Grass of Home / Porter Wagoner   RCA Victor 8622 
76   1967    Sing Me Back Home / Merle Haggard and The Strangers  Capitol 2017 
77   1963    Sweet Dreams (of You) / Patsy Cline  Decca 31483 
78   1970    Coal Miner's Daughter / Loretta Lynn  Decca 32749 
79   1969    Statue of a Fool / Jack Green   Decca 32490 
80   1953    There Stands The Grass / Webb Pierce  Decca 28834 
81   1967    Pop a Top / Jim Ed Brown   RCA Victor 9192 
82   1962    Misery Loves Company / Porter Wagoner   RCA Victor 7967 
83   1975    She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles) / Gary Stewart  RCA Victor 10222  
84   1976    The Battle  / George Jones  Epic 50187 
85   1970    Rose Garden / Lynn Anderson  Columbia 45252 
86   1955    The Cattle Call / Eddy Arnold  RCA Victor 6139 
87   1948    Tumbing Tumbleweeds / Sons of the Pioneers  RCA Victor 20-1904 
88   1972    Dallas  / Flatlanders  Palntation 92 
89   1983    Amarillo by Morning / George Strait  MCA 52162 
90   1955    Makin' Believe / Kitty Wells  Decca 29419 
91   1968    How Long Will My Baby Be Gone / Buck Owens and the Buckaroos  Capitol 2080 
92   1964    Together Again / Buck Owens  Capitol 5136 
93   1963    We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds / George Jones and Melba Montgomery  United Artists 575 
94   1963    Ring of Fire / Johnny Cash  Columbia 42788 
95   1949    Baby It's Cold Outside / Homer and Jethro With June Carter  RCA Victor 21-0078 
96   1927    Single Girl, Married Girl / Carter Family  Victor 20937 A 
97   1966    Don't Touch Me / Jeannie Seely  Monument 933 
98   1964    Begging to You  / Marty Robbins  Columbia 42890 
99   1955    Turn Around / Carl Perkins  Flip 501 
100   1970    For The Good Times / Ray Price  Columbia 45178 
101   1975    Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain / Willie Nelson  Columbia 10176 
102   1941    Walking The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb  Decca 5958 
103   1958    Oh Lonesome Me / Don Gibson  RCA Victor 7133 
104   1957    Bye Bye Love / Everly Brothers  Cadence 1315 
105   1964    Oh Pretty Woman / Roy Orbison & the Candy Man  Monument 851  Marsh 1001 
106   1957    Great Balls Of Fire / Jerry Lee Lewis  Sun 281  Marsh 1001 
107   1936    Great Specle Bird / Roy Acuff And His Crazy Tennesseans  Vocalion04252,Okeh 04252,Conqueror8740 
108   1954    His Hands in Mine / Blackwood Brothers and Quartet  RCA Victor 5709 
109   1954    This Ole House / Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister  RCA Victor 5850 
110   1956    Be-Bop-a-Lula / Gene Vincent  Capitol 3450  Marsh 1001 
111   1958    It's Only Make Believe / Conway Twitty  MGM 12677  Marsh 1001 
112   1955    Live Fast,Love Hard,Die Young / Faron Young  Capitol 3056 
113   1947    Brain Cloudy Blues / Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys  Columbia 877 
114   1950    Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy / Red Foley  Decca 46205 
115   1947    It's Mighty Dark To Travel / Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  Columbia 20526 
116   1927    Pan American Blues / Deford Bailey  Brunswick 146 
117   1946    Freight Train Boogie / Delmore Brothers  king 570 
118   1959    Sixteen Tons  / Tennessee Ernie Ford  Capitol 3262 
119   1955    Black Land Farmer / Frankie Miller  Starday 424 
120   1969    Workin Mans Blue / Merle Haggard and The Strangers  Capitol 2503 
121   1980    They'll Never Keep Us Down / Hazel Dickens  Rounder 4511 
122   1971    One's On The Way / Loretta Lynn  Decca 32900  Marsh 1001 
123   1966    Little Pink Mack / Kay Adams and The Cliffie Stone Group  Tower 269 
124   1939    Truck Drivers Blues / Cliff Burner and His Blues  Decca 5725 
125   1963    Six Days on the Road / Dave Dudley  Golden Wing 3020  Marsh 1001 
126   1951    Howlin' at the Moon / Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys  MGM 10961 
127   1960    How Far to Little Rock / Stanley Brothers  King 5306 
128   1970    Amos Moses / Jerry Reed  RCA 9904  
129   1927    If I Lose, I Don't Cry / Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers  Columbia 152 15-D 
130   1969    Up on Cripple Creek / Band  Capitol 2635 
131   1924    Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy / Uncle Dave Macon  Vocalion 14848 
132   1925    Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues / Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers  Columbia 15038-D 
133   1959    El Paso / Marty Robbins  Columbia 41511 
134   1962    (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance / Gene Pitney  Musicor 1020  Marsh 1001 
135   1958    City Lights / Ray Price  Columbia 41191 
136   1968    (Sittin on) the Dock Of Bay / Otis Redding  Volt 157  Marsh 1001 
137   1969    The Home Coming / Tom T.Hall  Mercury 72951  Marsh 1001 
138   1969    Don't It Make You Want To Go Home  / Joe South and the Believers  Capitol 2592  Marsh 1001 
139   1967    By the Time I Get To Phoenix / Glen Campbell  Capitol 2015 
140   1956    Ruby, Are You Mad / Osborn Brothers and Red Allen  MGM 12308 
141   1952    You Win Again / Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys  MGM K11318 
142   1956    You Don't Know Me / Eddy Arnold  RCA Victor 6502 
143   1962    She's Got You / Patsy Cline  Decca 31354  Marsh 1001 
144   1971    She's All I Got  / Johnny Paycheck  Epic 10783 
145   1964    Chug-a-Lug / Roger Miller  Smash 1926 
146   1965    One Dyin' and Buryin' / Roger Miller  Smash 1994  Marsh 1001 
147   1980    He Stopped Loving Her Today / George Jones  Epic 50867  Marsh 1001 
148   1975    Today I Started Loving You Again / Sammi Smith  Mega 1236 
149   1974    Love Hurts / Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris  Reprise1192 
150   1952    (Now and Then There's)A Fool Such As I / Hank Snow  RCA Victor 5034 
151   1967    Ode to Billy Joe / Bobbie Gentry  Capitol 5950 
152   1962    Don't Let Me Cross Over / Carl and Pearl Butler  Columbia 42593 
153   1969    Don't Let Me Cross Over / Jerry Lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis  Smash 2220 
154   1952    Back Street Affair / Webb Pierce  Decca 28369 
155   1961    Walk on By / Leroy Van Dyke  Mercury 71834 
156   1949    Slipping Around / Floyd Tillman  Columbia 20581 
157   1986    On the Other Hand / Randy Travis  Warner Bros.28962  Marsh 1001 
158   1940    Mule Skinner Blues / Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  Bluebird B-8568 
159   1970    Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No.8) / Dolly Parton   RCA 9863 
160   1990    The Dance / Garth Brooks  Capitol 44629 
161   1950    The Gods Were Angry With me / Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely  Capitol 800 
162   1938    When You Are Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) / Cliff Burner's Texas Wanderers  Decca 5660 
163   1954    Slowly / Webb Pierce  Decca 28991 
164   1951    Always Late (With Your Kisses) / Lefty Frizzell  Columbia4-20837 
165   1956    I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Louvin Brothers  Capitol 3300 
166   1955    When I Stop Dreaming / Louvin Brothers  Capitol 3177 
167   1952    In The Pines / Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  Decca 28416 
168   1951    Cold,Cold Heart / Tony Bennet  Columbia 39449 
169   1968    Harper Valley P.T.A / Jeannie C.Riley  Plantation 3 
170   1969    Son of a Preacher Man / Dusty Springfield  Atlantic 2580 
171   1951    Satisfied  / Martha Carson  Capitol 1900 
172   1983    Swingin' / John Anderson  Warner 29788 
173   1968    I Walk Alone / Marty Robbins  Columbia 44633 
174   1971    The Year That Clayton Daleney Died / Tom T.Hall  Mercury 73221 
175   1970    Lord Is That Me / Jack Green   Decca 32631 
176   1970    (You've Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann / Little Jimmy Dickens  Decca 32644 
177   1962    The End of the World / Skeeter Davis  RCA Victor 8098 
178   1967    The Cold Hard Fact of Life / Porter Wagoner   RCA Victor 9067  Marsh 1001 
179   1947    I Saw the Light / Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys  MGM 10271 
180   1953    Are You Walking and A-talking for the Lord / Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper  Columbia 21131-8 
181   1947    When God Comes to Gather His Jewels / Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks  Columbia 20389 
182   1938    Sowing on the Mountain / Coon Creek Girls  Vocalion 04278,Conqueror 9113 
183   1929    Wildwood Flower / Carter Family  Victor V-40000 
184   1923    Sallie Gooden / Eck Robertson  Victor 18956 
185   1950    Uncle Pen / Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys  Decca 46283 
186   1964    Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar) / Jean Shepard  Capitol 5169 
187   1968    Wichita Lineman / Glen Campbell  Capitol 2302 
188   1941    Take Me Back To Tulsa / Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys  Okeh 06101 
189   1945    Oklahoma Hills / Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans  Capitol 201 
190   1964    The Ballad of Ira Hayes  / Johnny Cash   Columbia 43058 
191   1941    Cool Water / Sons of the Pioneers  Decca 5939 
192   1958    Big River / Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two  Sun 283 
193   1951    Elecricity / Jimmy Murphy  RCA Victor 21-0447 
194   1949    Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys  Mercurry 6247 
195   1952    Are You Missing Me  / Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys  Capitol F2233 
196   1960    You Don't Know My Mnd / Jimmy Marin  Decca 31157 
197   1972    Delta Dawn / Tanya Tucker  Columbia 45588 
198   1953    Release Me / Ray Price  Columbia 21214 
199   1969    You Gave Me a Mountain / Johnny Bush  Stop 257 
200   1928    I Wish Was a Mole in the Ground / Bacon Lamar Lunsford  Brunswick 219B 
201   1956    Faith Unlocks the Door / Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister  RCA Victor 6723 
202   1949    I Love You Because / Leon Payne  Capitol 40238 
203   1969    Any Day Now / Elvis Presley  RCA Victor 47-9741 
204   1954    Rockin' Chair Daddy / Harmonica Frank  Sun 205 
205   1957    Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll / Billy Lee Riley and the Little Green Men  Sun 260 
206   1954    Stratosphere Boogie / Jimmy Byrant & Speedy West  Capitol 2964 
207   1955    Maybellene / Chuck Berry  Chess 1604  Marsh 1001 
208   1969    Big in Vegas / Buck Owens and the Buckaroos  Capitol 2646 
209   1969    Fancy / Bobbie Gentry  Capitol 2675 
210   1979    Just Like Real People / Kendalls  Ovation 1125  Marsh 1001 
211   1960    I'm Sorry  / Brenda Lee  Decca 31093 
212   1962    Wound Time Can't Erase / Stonewell Jackson  Columbia 42229 
213   1989    Better Man / Clint Black  RCA 8781 
214   1998    Wide Open Spaces / Dixie Chicks  Monument 79009 
215   1942    Deep in the Heart of Texas / Gene Autry  Okeh 06643 
216   1965    Waltz Across Texas / Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadours  Decca 31824 
217   1976    Golden Ring / George Jones and Tammy Wynette  Epic 50235 
218   1974    Would You Lay With Me( in a Field of Stones) / Tanya Tucker  Epic 45991 
219   1969    Tonight I'll Be Staying with You / Bob Dylan  Columbia 45004 
220   1984    Absolutely Sweet Marie / Jason & the Scorchers  EMI X-7111 
221   1927    James Alley Blues / Richard "Rabbit" Brown  Victor 
222   1959    The Long Black Veil / Lefty Frizzell  Columbia 41384 
223   1961    Just Out of Reach(of My Open Arms) / Solomon Burke   Atlantic 2114  Marsh 1001 
224   1961    Don't Worry / Marty Robbins  Columbia 41922 
225   1970    A Good Year for the Roses / George Jones  Musicor 1425  Marsh 1001 
226   1967    The Last Thing on My Mind / Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton  RCA Victor 9269 
227   1974    As Soon As I Hang Up the Phone / Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty  MCA 40251 
228   1959    He'll Have To Go / Jim Reeves   RCA Victor 7643 
229   1929    The Coo-Coo Bird / Clarence Ashley  Columbia 15489 
230   1951    Poison Love / Jonnie and Jack and Their Tennessee Mountain Boy  RCA Victor 48-0377 
231   1966    You Ain't Woman Enough / Loretta Lynn  Decca 31966 
232   1973    Jolene / Dolly Parton   RCA Victor 0145 
233   1946    Jole Blon / Harry Choates  Gold Star 1314 
234   1956    Dixie Fried / Carl Perkins  Sun249 
235   1938    Fais Pas Ca  / Hackberry Ramblers  Bluebird 2040 
236   1930    One Step Des Chameaux / Dennis McGee & Amede Ardoin  Brunswick 559 
237   1940    Midnight Special / Lead Belly  RCA Victor 27266 
238   1955    Mystery Train / Elvis Presley  Sun 223  Marsh 1001 
239   1961    Little Sister / Elvis Presley  RCA Victor 47-7908  Marsh 1001 
240   1950    Sugarfoot Rag / Red Foley with Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland  Decca 46204 
241   1950    Hillbilly Fever / Little Jimmy Dickens  Columbia 20677 
242   1952    Midnight  / Red Foley  Decca 28420 
243   1950    The Shot Gun Boogie / Tennesse Ernie Ford  Capitol F1295 
244   1946    Roly Poly / Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys  Columbia 36966 
245   1949    Honky Tonkin' / Maddox Brothers & Rose  Four Star 1238 
246   1960    Let's Have a Party / Wanda Jackson  Capitol 4397 
247   1959    White Lightning / George Jones  Mercury 71406 
248   1960    A Six Pack to Go / Hank Thompson And His Brazo Valley Boys  Capitol 4334 
249   1973    If We Make It Through December / Merle Haggard  Capitol 3746  Marsh 1001 
250   1949    Blue Christmas / Ernest Tubb  Decca 46186 
251   1959    Heartaches by the Number  / Ray Price  Columbia 41374  Marsh 1001 
252   1963    Sing a Sad Song / Merle Haggard  Tally 155 
253   1973    Ridin' My Thunb To Mexico / Johnny Rodriguez  Mercury 73416 
254   1958    Mi Unico Camino / El Conjunto Bernal  Ideal 1637A 
255   1961    Crying / Roy Orbison   Monument 447  Marsh 1001 
256   1975    Before the Next Tear Drop Falls / Freddy Fender  ABC/Dot 17540 
257   1969    Hot Burrito #1 / Flying Burrito Brothers  A&M 1067 
258   1962    You don't Miss Your Water / William Bell  Stax 116  Marsh 1001 
259   1970    Fifteen Years Ago / Conway Twitty  Decca 32742 
260   1964    Just Between the Two of Us / Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens  Tally 181 
261   1989    Passionate Kisses / Lucinda Williams  Rough Trade 66 
262   1997    Did I Shave My Legs for This / Deana Carter  Capitol 58672 
263   1962    Success / Loretta Lynn  Decca 31384 
264   1950    (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You / Stuart Hamblen  Columbia 4-20714 
265   1947    It's a Sin / Eddy Arnold  RCA Victor 20-2241 
266   1940    You Are My Sunshine / Jimmie Davis  Decca 5813 
267   1966    Just Between You and Me / Charley Pride  RCA Victor 9000 
268   1939    Are You From Dixie? / Blue Sky Boys  Bluebird B-8294 
269   1973    I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train / Billy Joe Shaver  Monument 8580 
270   1971    Me and Bobby McGee / Janis Joplin  Columbia 45314 
271   1973    Midnight Train to Georgia / Gladys Knight & the Pips  Buddah 383  Marsh 1001 
272   1973    L.A.Freeway / Jerry Jeff walker  MCA 40054 
273   1928    Blue Yodel No.4 (California Blues) / Jimmie Rodgers  Victor 40014 
274   1951    The Tennessee Waltz / Pattie Page  Mercucry 5534-X45 
275   1972    Kentucky / Sammi Smith  Mega 0056 
276   1968    Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line / Waylon Jennings  RCA Victor 9561 
277   1966    Nashville Cats / Lovin' Spoonful  Kama Sutra 
278   1956    I walk The Line / Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two  Sun 241 
279   1962    Sittin' and Thinkin' / Charlie Rich  Phillips International 3582 
280   1965    Flowers on the Wall / Statler Brothers  Columbia 43315 
281   1968    Looking at the World Through a Windshield / Del Reeves  United Artists 50332 
282   1942    Wreck on the Highway / Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys  Okeh 6685 
283   1947    Wabash Cannon Ball / Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys  Columbia 37008 
284   1974    Sweet Home Alabama / Lynyrd Skynyrd  MCA 40258  Marsh 1001 
285   1962    You Better Move On / Arthur Alexander  Dot 16309  Marsh 1001 
286   1972    Soul Song / Joe Stampley  Dot 17442 
287   1969    At the Crossroads / Sir Douglas Quintet  Smash 2253 
288   1967    The Dark End of the Street / James Carr  Goldwax 317  Marsh 1001 
289   1972    Lovin' on Back Streets / Mel Street  Metromedia 901 
290   1948    Bouquet of Roses / Eddy Arnold  RCA Victor 20-2806 
291   1951    Slow Poke / Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys  RCA Victor 48-0489 
292   1945    Shame on You / Spade Cooley  Okeh 6731 
293   1947    Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!(That Cigarette) / Tex Williams & His Western Caravan  Capitol Americana 40001 
294   1933    Browns Ferry Blues / Delmore Brothers  Bluebird B-5403 
295   1965    The Bridge Washed Out / Warner Mack  Decca 31774 
296   1968    Milwaukee, Here I Come / George Jones and Brenda Carter  Musicor 1325 
297   1968    What's Made Milwaukee Famous(Has Made Loser Out of Me / Jerry Lee Lewis  Smash 2164 
298   1966    Motel Time Again / Johnny Paycheck  Little Darlin' 0016 
299   1944    Pistol Packin' Mama / Al Dexter & His Troopers  Okeh 6708 
300   1992    Bubba Shot the Jukebox / Mark Chesnutt  MCA 54471 
301   1960    Miller's Cave / Hank Snow  RCA Victor 7748 
302   1927    Stackalee / Frank Hutchison  Okeh 45106 
303   1982    Wild and Blue / John Anderson  Warner Brothers 29917 
304   1960    Little Maggie / Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys  Starday 45-522 
305   1960    Who will Buy the Wine / Charlie Walker  Columbia 41633 
306   1962    Charlie's Shoes / Billy Walker  Columbia 42287 
307   1968    The Image of Me / Conway Twitty  Decca 32272 
308   1972    A Picture of Me ( without You) / George Jones  Epic 10917 
309   1952    Wondering / Webb Pierce  Decca 9-46364 
310   1949    Pine Grove Blues / Nathan Abshire  O.T.102A 
311   1928    My Wife Died Saturday Night / Dr.Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters  Brunswick 271 
312   1950    If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time / Lefty Frizzell  Columbia 4-20739 
313   1960    Above and Beyond / Buck Owens  Capitol 4337 
314   1971    Kiss an Angle Good Mornin' / Charley Pride  RCA 0550 
315   1954    If You Ain't Lovin'(You Ain't Lovin') / Faron Young  Capitol 2953 
316   1998    This Kiss / Faith Hill  Warner Bros.17247-2 
317   1950    Cuddle Buggin' Baby / Eddy Arnold  RCA Victor 48-0342 
318   1978    Elvira / Rodney Crowell  Warner Bros. 8637 
319   1957    Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On / Jerry Lee Lewis  Sun 267  Marsh 1001 
320   1937    Everybody's Truckin' / Modern Mountaineers  Bluebird 6911 
321   1938    Pussy, Pussy,Pussy / Light Crust Doughboys  Vocalion 04560 
322   1963    Love's Gonna Live Here / Buck Owens  Capitol 5025  Marsh 1001 
323   1969    Everybody's Talkin' / Nilsson  RCA Victor 447-0838 
324   1968    You Ain't Nowhere / Byrds  Columbia 44499 
325   1965    She's Gone Gone Gone / Lefty Frizzell  Columbia 43256 
326   1966    Last Train to Clarksville / Monkees  Colgems 1001 
327   1969    Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town / Kenny Rodgers & the First Edition  Reprise 0829 
328   1972    Garden Party / Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band  Decca 32980  Marsh 1001 
329   1976    You Could Know As Much About a Stranger / Gene Watson  Capitol 4214 
330   1963    Faded Love / Patsy Cline  Decca 31522 
331   1974    I Will Always Love You / Dolly Parton   RCA 0234 
332   1972    Till I Get It Right / Tammy Wynette  Epic 10940 
333   1972    Good Hearted Woman / Waylon Jennings  RCA Victor 0615 
334   1994    XXX's and OOO's(An American Girl) / Trisha Yearwood  MCA 54898 
335   1979    Amanda / Waylon Jennings  RCA 11596  Marsh 1001 
336   1980    A Lesson in Leavin' / Dottie West  United Artists 1339 
337   1975    Dreaming My Dreams with You / Waylon Jennings  RCA 10270 
338   1974    The Door / George Jones  Epic 50038 
339   1957    Gone / Ferlin Husky  Capitol 3628 
340   1957    That'll Be the Day / Crickets  Brunswick 55009 
341   1957    Walkin' After Midnight / Patsy Cline  Decca 30221 
342   1955    Angle Band / Stanley Brothers  Mercury MG20349 
343   1953    Crying in the Chapel / Orioles  Jubilee 5122 
344   1972    He Touched Me / Elvis Presley  RCA 74-0651 
345   1972    His Blood Now Covers My Sin / Lewis Family  Starday 801 
346   1972    The Lord Knows I'm Drinking / Cal Smith  Decca 33040 
347   1990    Friends In Low Places / Garth Brooks  Capitol 44647 
348   1930    Sitting on Top of the World / Mississippi Sheiks  Okeh 8784 
349   1959    I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter / Lazy Lester  Excello 2143 
350   1969    A Boy Named Sue / Johnny Cash  Columbia 44944 
351   1969    Okie from Muskogee / Merle Haggard and The Strangers  Capitol 2626 
352   1977    Take This Job and Shove It / Johnny Paycheck  Epic 50469 
353   1962    Another Day , Another Dollar / Wynn Stewart  Challenge 9164 
354   1959    Cash on the Barrel Head / Louvin Brothers  Capitol 3523 
355   1963    Busted / Ray Charles  ABC Paramount 10481 
356   1968    In the Good Old Days(When Times Were Bad) / Dolly Parton   RCA Victor 9657 
357   1985    Have I Got a Deal for You / Reba McEntire  MCA 52604 
358   1995    Any Man of Mine / Shania Twain  Mercury 856448 
359   1991    Don't Rock the Jukebox / Alan Jackson  Arista 2220 
360   1979    Family Tradition / Hank Williams Jr.  Elektra/Curb 46046 
361   1988    Streets of Bakersfield / Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens  Reprise 27964 
362   1950    I'll Sail My Ship Alone / Moon Mullican  King 830 
363   1968    Angel of the Morning / Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts  Bell 705 
364   1972    Lonely Woman Makes Good Lovers / Bob Luman  Epic 10905 
365   1976    I Met a Friend of Yours Today / Mel Street  GRT 057 
366   1973    Why Me  / Kris Kristofferson  Monument 257 4577 
367   1974    I Can Help / Billy Swan  Monument 8621 
368   1953    Hey Joe! / Carl Smith  Columbia 21129 
369   1953    No Help Wanted / Carlisles  Mercury 70028 
370   1963    Thanks a lot / Ernest Tubb  Decca 31526 
371   1942    Jingle Jangle Jingle / Tex Ritter & His Texans  Capitol 110 
372   1968    D-I-V-O-R-C-E / Tammy Wynette  Epic 10315 
373   1959    Mommy for a Day / Kitty Wells  Decca 30804 
374   1970    Daddy Come and Get Me / Dolly Parton   RCA Victor 9784 
375   1929    Little Bessie / Darby & Tarlton  Columbia 15492-D 
376   1949    Blues Stay Away From Me / Delmore Brothers  King 803 
377   1987    Those Memories of You / Dolly Parton,Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris  Warner Bros. 28248 
378   1974    I Never Go around Mirrors / Lefty Frizzell  ABC 11416 
379   1951    I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me) / Brother Willie Eason  Regent 1043 
380   1940    After the Sunrise / Chuck Wagon Gang  Okeh 05682,Columbia 37450 
381   1930    Worried Man Blues / Carter Family  Victor 40317 
382   1965    I washed My Hands in Muddy Water / Stonewell Jackson  Columbia 43197 
383   1985    Ways to Be Wicked / Lone Justice  Geffen 29023 
384   1966    Evil on Your Mind / Jan Howard  Decca 31933 
385   1969    The Chokin' Kind / Joe Simon  Sound Stage 7 2628 
386   1953    Your Cheatin' Heart / Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys  MGM 11416 
387   1983    Don't Cheat in Our Hometown / Ricky Skaggs  Sugar Hill/Epic 04345 
388   1948    One Has My Name (the Other Has My Heart) / Jimmy Wakely  Capitol 15162 
389   1977    Heaven's Just a Sin Away / Kendalls  Ovation 11O3 
390   1979    It's a Cheating Situation / Moe Bandy  Columbia 10889 
391   1972    Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You / O.B.McClinton  Enterprise 9059 
392   1971    Lead Me On / Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty  Decca 32873 
393   1965    I've Got a Tiger by the Tail / Buck Owens  Capitol 5336A 
394   1957    Honky Tonk Song / Webb Pierce  Decca 30255 
395   1957    I'm Coming Home / Johnny Horton  Columbia 40813 
396   1968    Rocky Top / Osborn Brothers  Decca 32242 
397   1951    Don't Get Above Your Raisin' / Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys  Columbia 20854 
398   1940    Big Beaver  / Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys  Okeh 05905 
399   1958    Pick Me Up on Your Way Down / Charlie Walker  Columbia 41211 
400   1956    Wasted Words / Ray Price  Columbia 21562 
401   1997    You Don't Seem to Miss Me / Patty Loveless with George Jones  Epic 78704 
402   1961    Funny How Time Slips Away / Billy Walker  Columbia 42050 
403   1953    I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know / David Sisters  RCA Victor 5345 
404   1972    Illlegal Smile / John Prine  Atlantic 45-3218 
405   1978    Whiskey River / Willie Nelson  Columbia 10877 
406   1959    Mountain Dew / Stanley Brothers  King 5347 
407   1941    Twin Guitar Special / Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys  Okeh 06327,Conqueror 9819 
408   1946    Filipino Baby / Cowboy "Pappy" Copas  King 505 
409   1970    Irma Jackson / Tony Booth  MGM14112 
410   1970    These Are Not My People / Swamp Dogg  Roker 505 
411   1960    Night Train to Memphis / Bobby Hebb  Rich 1001 
412   1982    16th Avenue / Lacy J.Dalton  Epic 03184 
413   1950    Music City U.S.A. / Dick Stratton & the Nite Owls  Jamboree 510 
414   1965    Skid Row Joe / Porter Wagoner  RCA Victor 8723 
415   1928    The Big Rock Candy Mountains / Harry McClintock  Victor 21704-B 
416   1972    Sugar Mountain / Neil Young  Reprise 1065 
417   1980    I Believe in You / Don Williams  MCA 41304 
418   1986    Grandpa (Tell Me'bout the Good Old Days) / Judds  RCA/Curb 14290 
419   1967    Heaven Help the Working Girl / Norma Jean  RCA Victor 47-9362 
420   1980    9 to 5 / Dolly Parton  RCA Victor 12316 
421   1947    So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Merle Travis  Capitol 349 
422   1951    Hey, Good Lookin' / Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys  MGM 11000 
423   1996    Strawberry Wine / Deana Carter  Capitol 58585 
424   1975    Blanket on the Ground / Billie Jo Spears  United Artists 584 
425   1974    Hello Love / Hank Snow  RCA Victor 0215 
426   1952    Indian Love Call / Slim Whitman  Imperial 45-8156 
427   1997    All the Good Ones Are Gone / Pam Tillis  Arista 13084 
428   1997    I Know / Kim Richey  Mercury 574184 
429   1989    Don't Toss Us Away / Patty Loveless   MCA 53477 
430   1988    Runaway Train / Roseanne Cash  Columbia 07988  Marsh 1001 
431   1997    Little Romona(Gone Hillbilly Nuts) / BR5-49  Arista 13046 
432   1956    Country Boy Rock'N' Roll / Don Reno,Red Smiley,and the Tennessee Cut-Ups  King 1510 
433   1956    The Train Kept A-Rollin' / Johnny Burnette and the Rock & Roll Trio  Coral 61719 
434   1973    You've Never Been This Far Before / Conway Twitty  MCA 40094 
435   1972    Burning Love / Elvis Presley  RCA 74-0769 
436   1970    Nice 'n' Easy / Charlie Rich  Epic 10662 
437   1970    Lookin' Out My Back Door / Creedence Clearwater Revival  Fantasy 645 
438   1978    Rose Colored Glasses / John Conlee  ABC 12356 
439   1977    Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue / Crystal Gayle  United Artists 1016 
440   1952    Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes / Skeets McDonald  Capitol F2216 
441   1941    When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again / Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan  Okeh 06374 
442   1953    Dear John Letter / Jean Shepard (with Ferlin Husky)  Capitol 2502 
443   1946    Driviin' Nails in My Coffin / Floyd Tillman  Columbia 36998 
444   1965    10 Little Bottles / Johnny Bond  Starday 704 
445   1974    Bloody Mary Morning / Willie Nelson  Atlantic 3020 
446   1984    Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind  / George Strait  MCA 52458 
447   1982    Always on My Mind / Willie Nelson  Columbia 02741 
448   1967    Gentle on My Mind / Glen Campbell  Capitol 5939 
449   1967    My Elusive Dreams / David Houstan & Tammy Wynette  Epic 10194 
450   1947    My Adobe Hacienda / Louise Massey and the Westerners  Columbia 37332 
451   1965    Watermelon Time in Georgia / Vernon Oxford  RCA Victor 47-8759 
452   1946    Detour / Elton Britt & the Sky Toppers  RCA Victor 20-1817 
453   1961    Who Will the Next Fool Be / Charlie Rich  Phillips Int. 3566 
454   1967    Danny Boy / Ray Price  Columbia 44042 
455   1926    Bully of the Town / Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers  Columbia 15074-D 
456   1949    I Gotta Have My Baby Back / Floyd Tillman  Columbia 20641 
457   1933    Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel / Jimmie Rodgers  Bluebird 5281 
458   1969    Honky Tonk Women / Rolling Stones  London 910  Marsh 1001 
459   1931    That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine / Gene Autry and Jimmy Long  Banner 32349, Orio 8109,Vocalion 02991,Okeh 02991 
460   1950    The Golden Rocket / Hank Snow  RCA Victor 48-0400 
461   1932    Miss the Mississippi and You / Jimmie Rodgers  Victor 23739 
462   1959    The Battle of New Orleans / Johnny Horton  Columbia 41339 
463   1925    The Titanic / Ernest V.Stoneman  Okeh 40288 
464   1973    Blood Red Goin' Down / Tanya Tucker  Columbia 45892 
465   1996    Blue / LeeAnn Rimes  Curb 76959 
466   1961    I Fall to Pieces / Patsy Cline  Decca 31205  Marsh 1001 
467   1962    She Thinks I Still Care / George Jones  United Artists 424  Marsh 1001 
468   1961    Hello Walls / Faron Young  Capitol 4533 
469   1963    Still / Bill Anderson  Decca 31485 
470   1973    The Most Beautiful Girl / Charlie Rich  Epic 11040 
471   1968    Holding On to Nothin' / Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton  RCA Victor 9490 
472   1965    Girl on the Billboard / Del Reeves  United Artists 824 
473   1961    Rainin' in My Heart / Slim Harpo  Excello 2194 
474   1989    Walk Softly on this Heart of Mine / Kentucky Headhunters  Mecury 874744 
475   1960    Walking to New Orleans / Fats Domino  Imperial 5675  Marsh 1001 
476   1935    Who's Sorry Now? / Milton Brown & His Brownies  Decca 5158 
477   1945    Don't Let That Man Get You Down / Texas Ruby with Curly Fox & His Fox Hunters  Columbia 36901 
478   1969    Suspicious Minds / Elvis Presley  RCA 47-9764  Marsh 1001 
479   1968    She Still Comes Around(to Love What's Left of Me) / Jerry Lee Lewis  Smash 2186 
480   1935    Just Because / Shelton Brothers  Decca 5100 
481   1981    Queen of Hearts / Juice Newton  Capitol 4997 
482   1947    High-Faultin' Mama / Bill Nettles  Bullet 637 
483   1952    Honky Tonk Blues / Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys  MGM 11160 
484   1927    Rock About My Saro Jane / Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit-Jar Drinkers  Vocalion 5152 
485   1959    I Ain't Never / Webb Pierce  Decca 30923 
486   1956    One Hand Loose / Charlie Feathers, with Jody and Jerry  King 4997 
487   1975    Linda on My Mind / Conway Twitty  MCA 40339 
488   1975    I'm Not Lisa / Jessi Colter  Capitol 4009 
489   1975    You Never Even Called Me by My Name / David Allan Coe  Columbia 10159 
490   1986    Guitars, Cadillacs / Dwight Yoakam  Reprise 28688 
491   1994    Gone Country / Alan Jackson  Arista 12778 
492   1925    The Prisoner's Song / Vernon Dalhart  Victor 19427 
493   1975    Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way / Waylon Jennings  RCA Victor 10379 
494   1970    Walk a Mile in My Shoes / Joe South and the Believers  Capitol 2704 
495   1930    Blue Yodel No.9 (Standin' on the Corner) / Jimmie Rodgers  Victor 23580 
496   1985    Will the Wolf Survive? / Los Lobos  Slash 29093 
497   1944    Don't Fence Me In / Bing Crosby & the Andrew Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Ochestra  Decca 23364 
498   1974    If You Love Me( Let Me Know) / Olivia Newton-John  MCA 40209 
499   1928    Keep On the Sunny Side / Carter Family  Victor 21434 
500   2000    I Hope You Dance / Lee Ann Womack( with Sons of the Desert)  MCA Nashville 172158 


Thanks to Babie for entering the list.