1944 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1944.

Events

January 8 – Billboard publishes its first "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records" chart, the first widespread method of tracking the nationwide popularity of current country music songs. The first No. 1 song is "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. The new chart is the predecessor to today's Hot Country Songs chart.
February 26 – Less than two months after the chart's inception, jazz and rhythm & blues performer Louis Jordan becomes the first African-American performer to top the Most Played Juke Box Folk chart (with "Ration Blues"). It is a big year for African-American performers: Jordan has a second No. 1 hit later in the year with "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby", while the Nat King Cole-led trio reach the top with "Straighten Up and Fly Right". Jordan and Cole are the only black performers to have a No. 1 hit until 1969, when Charley Pride breaks the streak.

(As certified by Billboard magazine)

US	Single	Artist
January 8	"Pistol Packin' Mama"	Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
February 5	"Pistol Packin' Mama"	Al Dexter
February 26	"Ration Blues"	Louis Jordan
March 11	"Rosalita"	Al Dexter
March 18	"They Took the Stars Out of Heaven"	Floyd Tillman
March 25	"So Long Pal"	Al Dexter
April 1	"Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry"	Al Dexter
June 10	"Straighten Up and Fly Right"	The King Cole Trio
July 29	"Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby"	Louis Jordan
September 2	"Soldiers Last Letter"	Ernest Tubb
September 23	"Smoke on the Water"	Red Foley
December 23	"I'm Wastin' My Tears on You"	Tex Ritter

Single	Artist
"Born To Lose"	Ted Daffan
"G.I. Blues"	Floyd Tillman
"I Hang My Head And Cry"	Gene Autry
"I'll Forgive You But I Can't Forget"	Roy Acuff
"I'm Sending You Red Roses"	Jimmy Wakely
"I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes"	Gene Autry
"If It's Wrong To Love You"	Charles Mitchell
"Is It Too Late Now?"	Jimmie Davis
"Look Who's Talkin'"	Ted Daffan
"New San Antonio Rose"	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
"No Letter Today"	Ted Daffan
"The Prodigal Son"	Roy Acuff
"She Broke My Heart In Three Places"	Hoosier Hot Shots
"Texas Blues"	Foy Willing
"There's A Blue Star Shining Bright"	Red Foley
"There's A Chill On The Hill"	Jimmie Davis
"There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder"	Tex Ritter
"Try Me One More Time"	Ernest Tubb
"We Might As Well Forget It"	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
"When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again"	Cindy Walker
"Write Me Sweetheart"	Roy Acuff
"Yesterday's Tears"	Ernest Tubb
"You're from Texas"	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

January 26 – Dave Rowland, singer and member of (Dave & Sugar) (died 2018).
April 27 – Herb Pedersen, musician and member of The Desert Rose Band.
June 21 – Kenny O'Dell, singer-songwriter (died 2018).
July 20 – T.G. Sheppard, pop-styled country performer and one of the most successful stars of the 1970s and 1980s.
July 30 – Chris Darrow, American musician (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) (died 2020).[1]
August 8 – Michael Johnson, pop singer who had a string of country hits in the 1980s (died 2017)
August 19 – Eddy Raven, singer-songwriter who successfully fused elements of cajun music with contemporary country sounds.
December 4 – Chris Hillman, ex-member of The Byrds who formed the 1980s country-rock band The Desert Rose Band.
December 11 – Brenda Lee, "Little Miss Dynamite", pop-rockabilly singer who went to country music in the late 1960s.

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