- Source: 1971 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1971.
Events
= No dates
=Seeking younger, more urban viewers, CBS cancels nearly all of its rural-themed programming. Among the most notable casualties:
The Beverly Hillbillies – a sitcom which had aired since 1962, about the misadventures of an Appalachia clan who become oil tycoons.
Green Acres – another sitcom about a New York attorney and his wife who move to the country and start farming.
Hee Haw – the country music-variety show starring Roy Clark and Buck Owens.
Fans of Hee Haw were quickly soothed when the show entered syndication in the fall. The show was an immediate success, and viewers would continue to make their weekly visit to Kornfield County for the next 20 years. Meanwhile, both The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres would continue to live on in syndication. ABC, also hoping to draw in younger viewers, canceled, among other shows, The Johnny Cash Show. Although not country-music oriented, The Lawrence Welk Show, which had among its older-leaning demographics country music fans, is also canceled, but like Hee Haw will be revived in the fall in syndication to great success.
Up-and-coming country music star Mickey Gilley and business partner Sherwood Cryer open Gilley's, a bar/honky tonk that was featured in the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, and became famous for featuring up-and-coming country acts and its mechanical bulls.
Top hits of the year
= Number one hits
=United States
(as certified by Billboard)
Canada
(as certified by RPM)
= Other major hits
=Singles released by American artists
Singles released by Canadian artists
Top new album releases
Births
January 17 – Kid Rock (born Robert Ritchie), white rap vocalist who had major country hits with "Picture" (duet with Sheryl Crow) and "All Summer Long."
February 5 — Sara Evans, female vocalist from the late 1990s–2000s (decade).
March 4 – Jason Sellers, singer-songwriter.
March 10 – Daryle Singletary, neotraditonialist singer of the 1990s (died 2018).
April 26 — Jay DeMarcus, member of Rascal Flatts.
May 16 — Rick Trevino, Mexican-American singer who had several hits in the 1990s.
April 30 — Carolyn Dawn Johnson, singer-songwriter.
July 23 — Alison Krauss, bluegrass artist, vocalist and leader of Union Station.
October 20 – Jimi Westbrook, member of Little Big Town.
Deaths
February 7 — Dock Boggs, 73, influential old-time country singer.
February 28 – Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, 72, old-time fiddle player.
June 12 — J. E. Mainer, 72, old-time fiddle player and early country music star.
August 7 – Henry D. "Homer" Haynes, 50, of the Homer and Jethro comedy duo.
August 20 — Tom Darby, 79, one half of the duo Darby and Tarlton, an early country music duo.
Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
Arthur Edward Satherley (1889–1986)
Major awards
= Grammy Awards
=Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Help Me Make It Through the Night", Sammi Smith
Best Male Country Vocal Performance — "When You're Hot, You're Hot", Jerry Reed
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal — "After the Fire Is Gone", Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
Best Country Instrumental Performance — "Snowbird" Chet Atkins
Best Country Song — "Help Me Make It Through the Night", Kris Kristofferson (Performer: Sammi Smith)
= Juno Awards
=Country Male Vocalist of the Year — Stompin' Tom Connors
Country Female Vocalist of the Year — Myrna Lorrie
Country Group or Duo of the Year — Mercey Brothers
= Academy of Country Music
=Entertainer of the Year — Freddie Hart
Song of the Year — "Easy Loving", Freddie Hart (Performer: Freddie Hart)
Single of the Year — "Easy Loving", Freddie Hart
Album of the Year — Easy Loving, Freddie Hart
Top Male Vocalist — Freddie Hart
Top Female Vocalist — Loretta Lynn
Top Vocal Duo — Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
Top New Male Vocalist — Tony Booth
Top New Female Vocalist — Barbara Mandrell
= Country Music Association
=Entertainer of the Year — Charley Pride
Song of the Year — "Easy Loving", Freddie Hart (Performer: Freddie Hart)
Single of the Year — "Help Me Make It Through the Night", Sammi Smith
Album of the Year — I Won't Mention It Again, Ray Price
Male Vocalist of the Year — Charley Pride
Female Vocalist of the Year — Lynn Anderson
Vocal Duo of the Year — Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
Vocal Group of the Year — Osborne Brothers
Instrumentalist of the Year — Jerry Reed
Instrumental Group of the Year — Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass
References
Further reading
Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories," Villard Books, Random House; Opryland USA, 1995
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.
Other links
Country Music Association
Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
External links
Country Music Hall of Fame
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