Country's top 100

star-telegram.com ^ | 07/29/07 | Shirley Jinkins and Malcolm Mayhew

[Chi-townChief]

It’s OK I’ve seen better lists: Definitely missing Hank Snow’s I’m Movin On, Bill Monroe’s version of Orange Blossom Special, Buck Owens’ Tiger by the Tail, Marty Robbins’ Don’t Worry ‘bout Me, and, of course, “outlaw” David Allen Coe’s great version of Steve Goodman’s Perfect Country and Western Song.

[Huntress]

This a pretty good list, but it needs a few additions and deletions.

Additions:

Sea of Heartbreak by Don Gibson
In the Jailhouse by Webb Pierce
Unwound by George Strait
Streets of Bakersfield by Buck Owens and Dwight Yoakum
One’s on the Way by Loretta Lynn
He’ll Have to Go by Jim Reeves

Deletions:

Hurt by Johnny Cash (gimmicky NIN cover)
Stand by Me by Mickey Gilley (Just listen to the Ben E. King version)
Hello Darlin’ by Conway Twitty (I LOATHE this song)
My Favorite Memory by Merle Haggard (Merle had lots of better songs)
The two Dixie Chicks songs on the list (These should be cut on general principle)

[dfwgator]

I bet Natalie is upset that two of their songs were on a “Country” list.

[Sybeck1]

This list is terrible. Where is “Amarillo by Morning”? That’s a top 20 song for sure.

[SAJ]

Maybe the best country song ever.

[Michael.SF.]

I hate it when they do this!!

#9 Crying Time - Ray Charles??

Great song, great performance, but it was not a "Country Song" the way ray sang it. That would be like giving Pat Boone credit for as a "soul" artist for some of his cover versions.

Buck Owens wrote and performed the song and should get credit.

Here is a taste of Buck's version (warning, Rhinestone Cowboy alert!): Crying Time - by Buck Owens

[Michael.SF.]

It’s OK I’ve seen better lists: Definitely missing Hank Snow’s I’m Movin On,

I agree. Hank Snow definitely should be on the list. Cash did a decent cover version of that song as well.

[Chi-townChief]

Speaking of which, Vaughn Monroe’s “non-country” version of Ghost Riders in the Sky is pretty classic.

[Michael.SF.]

I was drawing a blank on some other titles of Hank Snow's songs, here are some others that should have been considered for this list:

I Don't Hurt Anymore
(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
I've Been Everywhere

I think I was confusing "I've been Everywhere" with 'Movin on' when I said that Johnny Cash did a cover version, though he may have covered both.

[Chi-townChief]

Golden Rocket and Rhumba Boogie were a couple more of his hits.

[Michael.SF.]

The more I think of this list, the less I like it. Also missing:

Red River Valley - By someone, anyone, it is a classic

You are my Sunshine - Jimmie Davis

Back in the Saddle Again - Gene Autry

[Michael.SF.]

oops. I meant to include Golden Rocket, it is one of my favorites. My mistake.

[Chi-townChief]

One more huge oversight: Ferlin Husky’s Wings of a Dove.

[MotleyGirl70]

11.The Devil Went Down to Georgia, the Charlie Daniels Band

40.Blue, LeAnn Rimes Rimes' yodel-friendly delivery of this Bill Mack composition moved the darling of Dallas-Fort Worth into the national spotlight and helped revive a love of classic sounds.

These two are my favorites on the list.

[Tribune7]

It looks like a pretty good list.

[Michael.SF.]

It looks like a pretty good list.

Pretty good is correct, but it is supposed to be the best.

;)

[Tribune7]

:-)

[Emmett McCarthy]

I’ve heard that Waylon hated “Luckenbach, Texas” so much that he told his band leader to move it around so that he wouldn’t know when it was coming. That way he wouldn’t have to dread it. Just go on and sing it and get it over with and move on.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

No “Badakadonk” song by Trace Atkins?