WEIU-TV will air “Country Music,” a film by Ken Burns from noon to 10pm Saturday, May 30, and the final four episodes on Sunday, May 31, also starting at noon.
In conjunction, we’re revealing the top 101 country songs of all-time, as voted on by you. We are giving them to you in alphabetical order, so you can continue to argue the order of #1 – #101.
Here’s our pick for #1
Bub: He Stopped Loving Her Today/George Jones
Renee: Crazy/Patsy Cline
REVEALING 30 OF WMCI’S TOP 101
A Better Man/Clint Black
All the Gold in California/Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers
Always On My Mind/Willie Nelson
Amarillo By Morning/George Strait
Amazed/Lonestar
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way/Waylon Jennings
Battle of New Orleans/Johnny Horton
Behind Closed Doors/Charlie Rich
Believe/Brooks and Dunn
Big Bad John/Jimmy Dean
Blue/LeAnn Rimes
Boot Scootin’ Boogie/Brooks and Dunn
Chattahoochee/Alan Jackson
Coal Miner’s Daughter/Loretta Lynn
Coat of Many Colors/Dolly Parton
Convoy/C.W. McCall
Country Bumpkin/Cal Smith
Coward of the County/Kenny Rogers
Crazy/Patsy Cline
Cruise/Florida Georgia Line
Dixieland Delight/Alabama
El Paso/Marty Robbins
Elvira/Oak Ridge Boys
Family Tradition/Hank Williams Jr.
Fancy/Reba McEntire
Farewell Party/Gene Watson
Feels So Right/Alabama
Fishin’ In The Dark/Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Flowers On The Wall/Statler Brothers
Folsom Prison Blues/Johnny Cash
For the Good Times/Ray Price
Forever and Ever, Amen/Randy Travis
Friends In Low Places/Garth Brooks
Go Rest High on That Mountain/Vince Gill
Good Ole Boys Like Me/Don Williams
He Stopped Loving Her Today/George Jones
He’ll Have To Go/Jim Reeves
Hello Darlin’/Conway Twitty
Humble and Kind/Tim McGraw
I Cross My Heart/George Strait
I Fall to Pieces/Patsy Cline
I Hope You Dance/Lee Ann Womack
I Swear/John Michael Montgomery
I Walk the Line/Johnny Cash
I Will Always Love You/Dolly Parton
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Hank Williams
I’ve Been Everywhere/Hank Snow
If We Make it Through December/Merle Haggard
In Color/Jamey Johnson
Independence Day/Martina McBride
Islands in the Stream/Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels/Kitty Wells
Jesus, Take the Wheel/Carrie Underwood
Jolene/Dolly Parton
Killin’ Time/Clint Black
King of the Road/Roger Miller
Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’/Charley Pride
Live Like You Were Dying/Tim McGraw
Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man/Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Lovin’ Her Was Easier Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again/Tompall and the Glaser Brothers
Lucille/Kenny Rogers
Make the World Go Away/Eddy Arnold
Mama Tried/Merle Haggard
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys/Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
Mountain Music/Alabama
Mr. Misunderstood/Eric Church
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys/Willie Nelson
Need You Now/Lady Antebellum
Neon Moon/Brooks and Dunn
Okie From Muskogee/Merle Haggard
‘Ol Red/Blake Shelton
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine/Tom T. Hall
Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line/Waylon Jennings
Pure Love/Ronnie Milsap
Rhinestone Cowboy/Glen Campbell
Rose Garden/Lynn Anderson
Should’ve Been a Cowboy/Toby Keith
Sixteen Tons/Tennessee Ernie Ford
Smoky Mountain Rain/Ronnie Milsap
Somebody Like You/Keith Urban
Stand By Your Man/Tammy Wynette
Strawberry Wine/Deanna Carter
Sunday Morning Coming Down/Johnny Cash
Swingin’/John Anderson
Take Me Home, Country Roads/John Denver
Tennessee Whiskey/Chris Stapleton
The Cowboy Rides Away/George Strait
The Dance/Garth Brooks
The Gambler/Kenny Rogers
The Good Stuff/Kenny Chesney
The House That Built Me/Miranda Lambert
There Goes My Everything/Jack Greene
Unwound/George Strait
When I Call Your Name/Vince Gill
When You Say Nothing at All/Keith Whitley
Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)/Alan Jackson
Where’ve You Been/Kathy Mattea
Whiskey Lullaby/Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes/George Jones
Why Not Me/Judds
You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma/David Frizzell & Shelly West
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