1934 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1934.
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Events
Top hits of the year
| Single | Artist |
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| "Down Yonder" | Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers |
| "Loveless Love" | Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies |
| "My Mary" | W. Lee O'Daniel and His Light Crust Doughboys with Leon Huff |
| "Ragged but Right" | Riley Puckett |
| "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" | Sons of the Pioneers |
| "When the White Azaleas Start Blooming" | Louise Massey |
Births
- March 31 – John D. Loudermilk, singer and songwriter (died 2016).
- April 1 – Jim Ed Brown, pop-styled singer who enjoyed success as part of a family group (The Browns), as a solo artist and as part of a duet (with Helen Cornelius), spanning the 1950s through early 1980s (died 2015).
- August 5 – Vern Gosdin, "The Voice" of many honky tonk-styled hits from the 1970s through early 1990s (died 2009).
- August 27 – Frances Preston, music executive (died 2012).
- October 24 – Sanger D. Shafer, AKA "Whitey" Shafer, songwriter (died 2019).[1]
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.
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