1988 IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Events

★ May 21 — Country music stars highlight a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. Featured: Alabama, The Judds, George Strait and Randy Travis. The concert is a big success.

No dates

★ Time-Life Records releases the first volume of its "Country USA" series. The series, which would eventually include 23 volumes, each chronicles one year per volume - 1950 through 1972. Each volume - offered on two record albums, or one cassette or compact disc - contains liner notes from some of country music's most respected historians. In many cases, the songs offered on each volume represented the first time they had ever been re-released on compact disc. "Country USA" was offered through television and magazine advertisements.

★ The Country Music Association Awards introduced a new award, ''Vocal Event of the Year'', awarding collaborative efforts by two or more artists who normally don't work together. (Previously such efforts had to included with ''Best Duo or Group'' nominations.) The first recipient was the group of Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt for their ''Trio'' album.

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

''(As certified by Billboard magazine)''

'Date'	'Song Name'	'Artist'	'Wks. No. 1'	'Spec. Note'
January 9	I Can't Get Close Enough	Exile	1	^B
January 16	One Friend	Dan Seals	1
January 23	Where Do the Nights Go	Ronnie Milsap	1
January 30	Goin' Gone	Kathy Mattea	1	^A
February 6	Wheels	Restless Heart	1
February 13	Tennessee Flat Top Box	Rosanne Cash	1	A cover of a song her legendary father Johnny Cash made famous in 1962.
February 20	Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star	Merle Haggard	1	^B
February 27	I Won't Take Less Than Your Love	Paul Davis, Tanya Tucker, and Paul Overstreet	1	^{C - Paul Davis} ^{A - Paul Overstreet}
March 5	Face to Face	Alabama featuring K.T. Oslin	1
March 12	Too Gone Too Long	Randy Travis	1
March 19	Life Turned Her That Way	Ricky Van Shelton	1
March 26	Turn It Loose	The Judds	1
April 2	Love Will Find Its Way to You	Reba McEntire	1
April 9	Famous Last Words of a Fool	George Strait	1
April 16	I Wanna Dance With You	Eddie Rabbitt	1
April 23	I'll Always Come Back	K.T. Oslin	1
April 30	It's Such a Small World	Rodney Crowell with Rosanne Cash	1	^{A - Rodney Crowell} This was the lead-off single to Crowell's ''Diamonds and Dirt'' album, which sprouted five No. 1 hits in 1988-1989, and represented the peak of this alternative country singer's mainstream popularity.
May 7	Cry, Cry, Cry	Highway 101	1
May 14	I'm Gonna Get You	Eddy Raven	1
May 21	Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses	Kathy Mattea	2
June 4	What She is (is a Woman in Love)	Earl Thomas Conley	1
June 11	I Told You So	Randy Travis	2
June 25	He's Back and I'm Blue	The Desert Rose Band	1	^A
July 2	If It Don't Come Easy	Tanya Tucker	1
July 9	Fallin' Again	Alabama	1
July 16	If You Change Your Mind	Rosanne Cash	1
July 23	Set 'Em Up Joe	Vern Gosdin	1
July 30	Don't We All Have the Right	Ricky Van Shelton	1
August 6	Baby Blue	George Strait	1
August 13	Don't Close Your Eyes	Keith Whitley	1	^A
August 20	Bluest Eyes in Texas	Restless Heart	1
August 27	The Wanderer	Eddie Rabbitt	1	A cover of the classic Dion hit.
September 3	I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried	Rodney Crowell	1
September 10	(Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes	Highway 101	1
September 17	Joe Knows How to Live	Eddy Raven	1
September 24	Addicted	Dan Seals	1
October 1	We Believe in Happy Endings	Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris	1	^{B - Emmylou Harris}
October 8	Honky Tonk Moon	Randy Travis	1
October 15	Streets of Bakersfield	Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens	1	^{A - Dwight Yoakam} ^{B - Buck Owens} This song represented a (temporary, as it turned out) resurgence in groundbreaking artist Buck Owens' mainstream popularity, after hitting his peak in the 1960s and early 1970s.
October 22	Strong Enough to Bend	Tanya Tucker	1	^B
October 29	Gonna Take a Lot of River (Mississippi, Monongahela, Ohio)	The Oak Ridge Boys	1	The first No. 1 Oak Ridge Boys song to feature new member Steve Sanders, who had replaced William Lee Golden a year earlier.
November 5	Darlene	T. Graham Brown	1	^B
November 12	Runaway Train	Rosanne Cash	1	Written by former Kingston Trio member John Stewart.
November 19	I'll Leave This World Loving You	Ricky Van Shelton	2	^'1'
December 3	I Know How He Feels	Reba McEntire	1
December 10	If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')	George Strait	1	A cover of Faron Young's 1955 country hit.
December 17	A Tender Lie	Restless Heart	1	^B
December 24	When You Say Nothing at All	Keith Whitley	2

★ ^'1' - No. 1 song of the year, as determined by ''Billboard magazine''.

★ ^A - First ''Billboard'' No. 1 hit for that artist.

★ ^B - Last ''Billboard'' No. 1 hit for that artist to date.

Other major hits

★ "A Little Bit in Love" - Patty Loveless (#2)

★ "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" - Dwight Yoakam (#9)

★ "Americana" - Moe Bandy (#8)

★ "Another Place, Another Time" - Don Williams (#5)

★ "Baby I'm Yours" - Steve Wariner (#2)

★ "The Best I Know How" - The Statler Brothers (#15)

★ "Blue Love" - The O'Kanes (#10)

★ "Blue to the Bone" - Sweethearts of the Rodeo (#5)

★ "Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues" - The Charlie Daniels Band (#10)

★ "Button Off My Shirt" - Ronnie Milsap (#4)

★ "Chill Factor" - Merle Haggard (#9)

★ "Chiseled in Stone" - Vern Gosdin (#6)

★ "Crying Shame" - Michael Johnson (#4)

★ "Desperately" - Don Williams (#7)

★ "Do You Believe Me Now?" - Vern Gosdin (#4)

★ "Don't Give Candy to a Stranger" - Larry Boone (#10)

★ "Everybody's Sweetheart" - Vince Gill (#11)

★ "The Factory" - Kenny Rogers (#6)

★ "The Gift" - The McCarters (#4)

★ "Give a Little Love" - The Judds (#2)

★ "Givers and Takers" - Schuyler, Knobloch and Bickhardt (#8)

★ "Goodbye Time" - Conway Twitty (#7)

★ "Heaven Can't Be Found" - Hank Williams, Jr. (#4)

★ "I Didn't (Every Chance I Had)" - Johnny Rodriguez (#12)

★ "I Don't Have Far to Fall" - Skip Ewing (#8)

★ "I Have You" - Glen Campbell (#7)

★ "I Loved You Yesterday" - Lyle Lovett (#24)

★ "I Prefer the Moonlight" - Kenny Rogers (#2)

★ "I Should Be With You" - Steve Wariner (#2)

★ "I Still Believe" - Lee Greenwood (#12)

★ "I Will Whisper Your Name" - Michael Johnson (#7)

★ "I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today - Barbara Mandrell (#5)

★ "I Wouldn't Be a Man" - Don Williams (#9)

★ "I'll Give All My Love Tonight" - The Bellamy Brothers (#6)

★ "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow" - Billy Joe Royal (#5)

★ "I'm Down to My Last Cigarette" - k.d. lang (#21)

★ "I'm Gonna Love Her on the Radio" - Charley Pride (#13)

★ "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl" - Michael Martin Murphey (#3)

★ "I've Been Lookin'" - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (#2)

★ "If My Heart Had Windows" - Patty Loveless (#10)

★ "If Ole Hank Could Only See Us Now" - Waylon Jennings (#16)

★ "If the South Woulda Won" - Hank Williams, Jr. (#8)

★ "It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'" - Billy Joe Royal (#17)

★ "It's You Again" - Exile (#21)

★ "Just Lovin' You" - The O'Kanes (#5)

★ "Just One Kiss" - Exile (#9)

★ "The Last Resort" - T. Graham Brown (#4)

★ "Letter Home" - The Forester Sisters (#9)

★ "Love Helps Those" - Paul Overstreet (#3)

★ "Love of a Lifetime" - Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band (#4)

★ "Lyin' In His Arms Again" The Forester Sisters (#5)

★ "Mama Knows" - Shenandoah (#5)

★ "Midnight Highway" - Southern Pacific (#14)

★ "Money" - K.T. Oslin (#13)

★ "New Shade of Blue" - Southern Pacific (#2)

★ "No More One More Time" - Jo-El Sonnier (#7)

★ "Oh What a Love" - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (#5)

★ "One For the Money" - T.G. Sheppard (#2)

★ "One Step Forward" - Desert Rose Band (#2)

★ "Old Folks" - Ronnie Milsap with Mike Reid (#2)

★ "One True Love" - The O'Kanes (#4)

★ "Out of Sight and on My Mind" - Billy Joe Royal (#10)

★ "Please, Please Baby" - Dwight Yoakam (#6)

★ "Real Good Feel Good Song" - Mel McDaniel (#9)

★ "Rebels Without a Clue" - The Bellamy Brothers (#9)

★ "Rough and Rowdy Days" - Waylon Jennings (#6)

★ "Santa Fe" - The Bellamy Brothers (#5)

★ "Satisfy You"- Sweethearts of the Rodeo (#5)

★ "Saturday Night Special" - Conway Twitty (#9)

★ "She Couldn't Love Me Anymore" - T. Graham Brown (#4)

★ "She Doesn't Cry Anymore" - Shenandoah (#9)

★ "She's No Lady" - Lyle Lovett (#17)

★ "Shouldn't It Be Easier Than This" - Charley Pride (#5)

★ "Sincerely" - The Forester Sisters (#8)

★ "Some Old Side Road" - Keith Whitley (#16)

★ "Spanish Eyes" - Willie Nelson with Julio Iglesias (#8)

★ "Still Within the Sound of My Voice" - Glen Campbell (#5)

★ "Strangers Again" - Holly Dunn (#7)

★ "Summer Wind" - Desert Rose Band (#2)

★ "Sunday Kind of Love" - Reba McEntire (#5)

★ "Sure Thing" - Foster & Lloyd (#8)

★ "Talkin' to Myself Again" - Tammy Wynette (#16)

★ "Talkin' to the Wrong Man - Michael Martin Murphey (#4)

★ "Tear Stained Letter" - Jo-El Sonnier (#9)

★ "Tell Me True" - Juice Newton (#8)

★ "Texas in 1880" - Foster & Lloyd (#18)

★ "Thanks Again" - Ricky Skaggs (#17)

★ "That's My Job" - Conway Twitty (#6)

★ "That's That" - Michael Johnson (#9)

★ "That's What Your Love Does to Me" - Holly Dunn (#5)

★ "This Missin' You Heart of Mine" - Sawyer Brown (#2)

★ "Timeless and True Love" - The McCarters (#5)

★ "Touch and Go Crazy" - Lee Greenwood (#5)

★ "True Heart" - The Oak Ridge Boys (#5)

★ "Under the Boardwalk" - Lynn Anderson (#24)

★ "Untold Stories" - Kathy Mattea (#4)

★ "We Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" - Eddie Rabbitt (#7)

★ "We Never Touch at All" - Merle Haggard (#22)

★ "What Do You Want From Me This Time?" - Foster & Lloyd (#6)

★ "Wilder Days" - Baillie & the Boys (#9)

★ "Wildflowers" - The Trio (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt) (#6)

★ "Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)" - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (#4)

★ "You Can't Fall in Love When You're Cryin'" - Lee Greenwood (#20)

★ "Young Country" - Hank Williams, Jr. (#2)

Top new album releases

★ ''Across the Rio Grande'' — Holly Dunn (MTM)

★ ''Alabama Live'' — Alabama (RCA)

★ ''Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room'' — Dwight Yoakam (Reprise)

★ ''Full Circle'' — Waylon Jennings (MCA)

★ ''Greatest Hits'' — The Judds (RCA)

★ ''Highway 101²'' — Highway 101 (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Honky Tonk Angel'' — Patty Loveless (MCA)

★ ''If My Heart Had Windows'' — Patty Loveless (MCA)

★ ''If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin''' — George Strait (MCA)

★ ''Loving Proof'' — Ricky Van Shelton (Columbia)

★ ''Old 8x10'' — Randy Travis (Warner Bros.)

★ ''Reba'' — Reba McEntire (MCA)

★ ''Strong Enough to Bend'' — Tanya Tucker (Capitol)

Compilation albums

★ ''Country USA (Time-Life Music series)'' — Various Artists (Time-Life)

Other

★ ''Big Dreams in a Small Town'' - Restless Heart (RCA)

★ ''Chisled in Stone'' – Vern Gosdin (Epic)

★ ''Come As You Were'' – T. Graham Brown (Capitol)

★ ''Diamonds and Dirt'' – Rodney Crowell (Columbia)

★ ''I Wanna Dance With You'' - Eddie Rabbitt (RCA)

★ ''Wild Streak'' – Hank Williams, Jr. (Warner Bros.)

On television

Regular series

★ ''Dolly'' (1987-1988)

★ ''Hee Haw'' (1969-1993, syndicated)

Specials

Births

★ May 24 -- Billy Gilman, the youngest artist to ever have a country hit record (2000's "One Voice").

Deaths

★ September 20 -- Leon McAuliffe, 71, prominent member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys and a star in his own right.

★ December 6 -- Roy Orbison, 52, American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees

★ Loretta Lynn (born 1935)

★ Roy Rogers (1911–1998)

Major Awards

Grammy awards

★ 'Best Country Vocal Performance, Female' -- "Hold Me" - K.T. Oslin

★ 'Best Country Vocal Performance, Male' -- "Old 8x10" - Randy Travis

★ 'Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal' -- "Give A Little Love" - Judds (Naomi Judd, Wynonna Judd)

★ 'Best Country Vocal Collaboration' -- "Crying" - Roy Orbison and k.d. lang

★ 'Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist)' -- "Sugarfoot Rag" - Asleep At The Wheel

★ 'Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal Or Instrumental)' -- "Southern Flavor" - Bill Monroe

★ 'Best Country Song' -- "Hold Me" - K.T. Oslin, songwriter

Academy of Country Music

★ 'Entertainer Of The Year' -- Hank Williams Jr.

★ 'Song Of The Year' -- "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" - Kathy Mattea - Charles Nelson, Paul Nelson

★ 'Single Of The Year' -- "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" - Kathy Mattea

★ 'Album Of The Year' -- This Woman - K.T. Oslin

★ 'Top Male Vocalist' -- George Strait

★ 'Top Female Vocalist' -- K.T. Oslin

★ 'Top Vocal Duo' -- The Judds

★ 'Top Vocal Group' -- Highway 101

★ 'Top New Male Vocalist' -- Rodney Crowell

★ 'Top New Female Vocalist' -- Suzy Bogguss

★ 'Video Of The Year' -- Young Country" - Hank Williams Jr. (Director: Bill Fishman)

Country Music Association

★ 'Entertainer of the Year' -- Hank Williams Jr.

★ 'Male Vocalist of the Year' -- Randy Travis

★ 'Female Vocalist of the Year' -- K.T. Oslin

★ 'Horizon Award' -- Ricky Van Shelton

★ 'Vocal Group of the Year' -- Highway 101

★ 'Vocal Duo of the Year' -- The Judds

★ 'Vocal Event of the Year' -- Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt

★ 'Album of the Year' -- Hank Williams Jr.

★ 'Song of the Year' -- K.T. Oslin

★ 'Single of the Year' -- Kathy Mattea

★ 'Musician of the Year' -- Chet Atkins

External links

★ Country Music Hall of Fame

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