Billboard Top Country Singles of 1964

This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the year's top country singles of 1964.[1]

Buck Owens had two of the top three singles with "My Heart Skips a Beat" (No. 1) and "Together Again" (No. 3). Owens had two additional No. 1 hits with "Love's Gonna Live Here" and "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)".

Jim Reeves, who died in a plane crash in July 1964, also had two top five singles with "Welcome to My World" (No. 2) and "I Guess I'm Crazy" (No. 4).

Rank Peak[note 1][2] Title Artist(s) Label
1 1 "My Heart Skips a Beat" Buck Owens Capitol
2 2 "Welcome to My World" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
3 1 "Together Again" Buck Owens Capitol
4 1 "I Guess I'm Crazy" Jim Reeves RCA Victor
5 4 "I Don't Love You Anymore" Charlie Louvin Capitol
6 1 "Saginaw, Michigan" Lefty Frizzell Columbia
7 2 "Burning Memories" Ray Price Columbia
8 1 "Understand Your Man" Johnny Cash Columbia
9 1 "Dang Me" Roger Miller Smash
10 2 "Memory #1" Webb Pierce Decca
11 7 "This White Circle On My Finger" Kitty Wells Decca
12 4 "I Love to Dance with Annie" Ernest Ashworth Hickory
13 4 "Password" Kitty Wells Decca
14 5 "Keeping Up with the Joneses" Faron Young and Margie Singleton Mercury
15 3 "The Cowboy in the Continental Suit" Marty Robbins Columbia
16 3 "Wine, Women and Song" Loretta Lynn Decca
17 1 "B.J. the D.J." Stonewall Jackson Columbia
18 5 "Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)" Jean Shepard Capitol
19 1 "Begging to You" Marty Robbins Columbia
20 3 "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" Johnny Cash Columbia
21 1 "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)" Buck Owens Capitol
22 7 "Looking for More in '64" Jim Nesbitt Chart
23 5 "Sorrow On the Rocks" Porter Wagoner RCA Victor
24 4 "Before I'm Over You" Loretta Lynn Columbia
25 5 "Five Little Fingers" Bill Anderson Decca
26 (tie) 7 "Love Is No Excuse" Jim Reeves and Dottie West RCA Victor
26 (tie) 5 "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" Hank Williams, Jr. M-G-M
28 10 "A Week in the Country" Ernest Ashworth Hickory
29 12 "Then I'll Stop Loving You" The Browns RCA Victor
30 "Circumstances" Billy Walker Columbia
31 4 "Don't Be Angry" Stonewall Jackson Columbia
32 5 "Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was on the Right)" George Jones United Artists
33 1 "Love's Gonna Live Here" Buck Owens Capitol
34 13 Timber I'm Falling Ferlin Husky Capitol
35 5 "Molly" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
36 11 "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn Decca
37 13 "Invisible Tears" Ned Miller Fabar
38 6 "Baltimore" Sonny James Capitol
39 7 "Please Talk to My Heart" Ray Price Columbia
40 3 "Chug-a-Lug" Roger Miller Smash
41 11 "Sam Hill" Claude King Columbia
42 8 "Peel Me a Nanner" Roy Drusky Mercury
43 1 "Once a Day" Connie Smith RCA Victor
44 3 "The Race Is On" George Jones United Artists
45 4 "Miller's Cave" Bobby Bare RCA Victor
46 (tie) 9 "D.J. for a Day" Jimmy C. Newman Decca
46 (tie) 12 "You Are My Flower" Flatt & Scruggs Columbia
48 (tie) 10 "Where Does a Little Tear Come From" George Jones United Artists
48 (tie) 14 "Easy Come – Easy Go" Bill Anderson Decca
50 10 "Here Comes My Baby" Dottie West RCA Victor

See also

edit

Notes

edit
  1. ^ This column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts.

References

edit
  1. ^ "Top Country Singles - 1964" (PDF). The Billboard. December 26, 1964. p. 14.
  2. ^ Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN 0823076326.