256 Country music The Eighties in America
Billboard Country Music Hit Singles of the 1980’sYear Song Performer
1980 “Tennessee River,” “Why Lady Why” Alabama
“My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,” “On the Road Again” Willie Nelson
“Could I Have This Dance?” Anne Murray
“He Stopped Loving Her Today” George Jones
“Cowboys and Clowns,” “Misery Loves Company,” “My Heart” Ronnie Milsap
“Bar Room Buddies” Merle Haggard
1981 “Feels So Right,” “Love in the First Degree,” “Old Flame” Alabama
“Fool-Hearted Memory” George Strait
“Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” Willie Nelson
“Blessed Are the Believers” Anne Murray
“Still Doin’ Time” George Jones
“9 to 5,” “But You Know I Love You” Dolly Parton
“Elvira” Oak Ridge Boys
1982 “Close Enough to Perfect,” “Mountain Music,” “Take Me Down” Alabama
“If You Think You Want a Stranger (There’s One Coming Home)” George Strait
“Always on My Mind,” “Just to Satisfy You” Willie Nelson
“Yesterday’s Wine” George Jones and Merle
Haggard
“Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?” Dolly Parton
“Any Day Now,” “He Got You” Ronnie Milsap
“Break It to Me Gently” Juice Newton
1983 “Dixieland Delight,” “Lady Down on Love,” “The Closer You Get” Alabama
“Can’t Even Get the Blues,” “You’re the First Time I’ve Thought
About Leaving” Reba McEntire
“Amarillo by Morning,” “You Look So Good in Love,” “A Fire
You Can’t Put Out” George Strait
“Pancho and Lefty” Willie Nelson and Merle
Haggard
“A Little Good News” Anne Murray
“Islands in the Stream” Dolly Parton
“Stranger in My House” Ronnie Milsap
1984 “(There’s a) Fire in the Night,” “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You
Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band),” “Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler),”
“When We Make Love” Alabama
“How Blue” Reba McEntire
“Mama He’s Crazy,” “Why Not Me” The Judds
“Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?,” “Let’s Fall to Pieces
Together,” Right or Wrong" George Strait
“Just Another Woman in Love,” “Nobody Loves Me Like You Do” Anne Murray
“Still Losin’ You” Ronnie Milsap