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Eugene Church · 04-11-2023, 07:30 PM

MY LIFE IN 1960
EC's Life's Not So Nifty in '60

After perusing the country chart for a good song to play for you buckaroos and little darlin's, too, I just became of aware that 1960 was not a good year for country music... it certainly wasn't nifty in '60... sure there were a few biggies that crossed over to the pop charts and scored top 10 hits there -- "He'll Have To Go" by Jim Reeves, "Wings of a Dove" by Ferlin Husky and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" by Hank Lochlin, but nothing else were mentioning.

Gentleman Jim Reeves was enormously popular in country music and also in MOR music ("Middle of the Road")... that was the first form of adult contemporary music... the MOR stations played a lot of the Nashville Sound... country music with lush strings instead of fiddles and pop background singers like the Anita Kerr Singers... it was easy listening at its best.

Here's one of Jim Reeves' classics "Am I Losing You".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtUcORyHhwA

04-11-2023, 07:30 PM	#1294
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,913	MY LIFE IN 1960 EC's Life's Not So Nifty in '60 After perusing the country chart for a good song to play for you buckaroos and little darlin's, too, I just became of aware that 1960 was not a good year for country music... it certainly wasn't nifty in '60... sure there were a few biggies that crossed over to the pop charts and scored top 10 hits there -- "He'll Have To Go" by Jim Reeves, "Wings of a Dove" by Ferlin Husky and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" by Hank Lochlin, but nothing else were mentioning. Gentleman Jim Reeves was enormously popular in country music and also in MOR music ("Middle of the Road")... that was the first form of adult contemporary music... the MOR stations played a lot of the Nashville Sound... country music with lush strings instead of fiddles and pop background singers like the Anita Kerr Singers... it was easy listening at its best. Here's one of Jim Reeves' classics "Am I Losing You". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtUcORyHhwA Last edited by Eugene Church; 04-11-2023 at 07:31 PM.