Years in Country Music - 1920s

1920s

  • 1929 in country music, "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes" with Carter Family top country record. Gene Autry makes his first recordings.
  • 1928 in country music, "Blue Yodel" recorded by Jimmie Rodgers top country record.
  • 1927 in country music, The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers make first recordings. "Sleep Baby Sleep" with Jimmie Rodgers top country record.
  • 1926 in country music, Formation of The Skillet Lickers. "The Dying Cowboy" with Carl T.Sprague top country record.
  • 1925 in country music, WSM signs on; first WSM Barn Dance. "The Death Of Floyd Collins" recorded by Vernon Dalhart top country record.
  • 1924 in country music, "The Prisoner's Song" recorded by Vernon Dalhart becomes first million-selling country record.
  • 1923 in country music, First radio "barn dance" WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas.
  • 1922 in country music, First commercial recordings of country music by Eck Robertson.
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