40 Timeless Country Music Classics
Have you ever heard a song and no matter how many times it gets played it never gets old? Some have been redone and sometimes the melody of it changes but the words always remain the same. They hit you with the same feeling, love, relation, sorrow and happiness. Sometimes new is better than old and sometimes a classic is something irreplaceable. Well here are a few songs I feel will forever remain timeless no matter how many times they are played.
1. A Six Pack to Go ~ Hank Thompson
2. Barstool Mountain ~ Moe Bandy
3. Blanket on the Ground ~ Jeanne Pruett
4. Borrowed Angel ~ Mel Street
5. City Lights ~ Ray Price
6. Commercial Affection ~ Mel Street
7. Country Sunshine ~ Dottie West
8. Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger ~ Charley Pride
9. Don't Go City Girl On Me ~ Tommy Overstreet
10. Don't Worry ~ Marty Robbins
11. Fifteen Years Ago ~ Conway Twitty
12. For the Good Times ~ Ray Price
13. Friend, Don't Take Her ~ Johnny Paycheck
14. Going Where the Lonely Go ~ Merle Haggard
15. Heartaches By the Number ~ Ray Price
16. Help Me Make It Through the Night ~ S. Smith
17. Hello Love ~ Hank Snow
18. Hello Walls ~ Faron Young
19. I Can't Stop Loving You ~ Don Gibson
20. I Fall to Pieces ~ Patsy Cline
21. I Love You Because ~ Carl Smith
22. I've Found Someone of My Own ~ Cal Smith
23. It's Such a Pretty World Today ~ Wynn Stewart
24. Love In the Hot Afternoon ~ Gene watson
25. Pick Me Up On Your Way Down ~ C.Walker
26. Pop A Top ~ Jim Ed Brown
27. Rake and Ramblin Man ~ Don Williams
28. Room Full of Roses ~ Mickey Gilley
29. She's Acting Single ~ Gary Stewart
30. Statue of a Fool ~ Jack Greene
31. Take Me to Your World ~ Tammy Wynette
32. Talking In Your Sleep ~ Crystal Gayle
33. Thanks a Lot ~ Ernest Tubb
34. There Stands the Glass ~ Webb Pierce
35. Things Have Gone to Pieces
36. To Get to You ~ Jerry Wallace
37. Way Out Texas way ~ Asleep At the Wheel
38. Woman, Sensuous Woman ~ Don Gibson
39. You' all Come Back Saloon ~ Oak Ridge Boys
40. You're Looking At Country ~ Loretta Lynn
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Researched and compiled by Richard Bell, Roots of Country Music, Feb. 3, 2010.
