Here they are, the all-time greatest hits from the history of Country Music.
The very best music.

The Greatest Country Single Hits of them all
The Year Is
1961


Bill Anderson - Po' Folks - 07-1961 Decca
Eddy Arnold - One Grain Of Sand - 10-1961 RCA Victor
Ernest Ashworth - Forever Gone - 05-1961 Decca
Margie Bowes - Little Miss Belong To No One  07-1961 21  Mercury

Johnny Cash With The Gene Lowery Singers - Oh Lonesome Me - 02-1961 Sun
Johnny Cash - The Rebel-Johnny Yuma  06-1961 24  Columbia

Johnny Cash - Tennessee Flat-Top Box - 12-1961 Sun
Chick And His Hot Rods [Reno And Smiley] - Jimmy Caught The Dickens (Pishing Ernest In The Tub)  09-1961 27  King
Buzz Clifford - Baby Sittin' Boogie  03-1961 28  Columbia
Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces - 04-1961 Decca

Patsy Cline - Crazy - 11-1961 2 Decca
Shirley Collie - Dime A Dozen  06-1961 25  Liberty
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper - Wreck On The Highway - 06-1961  Hickory *

Cowboy Copas - Flat Top - 04-1961 Starday
Cowboy Copas - Sunny Tennessee - 07-1961 Starday
Cowboy Copas - Signed Sealed And Delivered - 09-1961 Starday

Floyd Cramer - San Antonio Rose - 06-1961 RCA Victor
Floyd Cramer - Last Date - 11-1960 RCA Victor
Skeeter Davis - The Hand You're Holding Now - 04-1961 RCA Victor
Skeeter Davis - Optimistic - 10-1961 RCA Victor
Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John - 10-1961 Columbia
Roy Drusky - I'd Rather Loan You Out - 02-1961 Decca
Roy Drusky - Three Hearts In A Tangle - 03-1961 Decca
Roy Drusky - I Went Out Of My Way (To Make You Happy) - 09-1961 Decca
Dave Dudley - Maybe I Do  10-1961 28  Vee

Bobby Edwards - You're The Reason - 09-1961 Crest
Ralph Emery - Hello Fool - 08-1961 Liberty
The Everly Brothers - Ebony Eyes - 03-1961 25  Warner

Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys - Go Home - 10-1961 Columbia
Bob Gallion - One Way Street - 06-1961 Hickory
Bob Gallion - Sweethearts Again - 12-1961 Hickory
Don Gibson - What About Me  03-1961 22  RCA Victor

Don Gibson - Sea Of Heartbreak - 06-1961 RCA Victor
Don Gibson - Lonesome Number One - 12-1961 RCA Victor
Claude Gray - I'll Just Have A Cup Of Coffee (Then I'll Go) - 01-1961 Mercury
Claude Gray - My Ears Should Burn (When Fools Are Talked About) - 06-1961 3 Mercury
Connie Hall - Sleep, Baby, Sleep - 04-1961 Decca
George Hamilton IV - Three Steps To The Phone (Millions Of Miles) - 06-1961 RCA Victor
George Hamilton IV - To You And Yours (From Me And Mine) - 11-1961 RCA Victor
Johnny Hardy - In Memory Of Johnny Horton - 02-1961 J&J
Freddie Hart - Lying Again  01-1961 27  Columbia
Freddie Hart - What A Laugh!  11-1961 23  Columbia
Billie Jean Horton - Ocean Of Tears  08-1961 29  20th Fox

Johnny Horton - Sleepy-Eyed John - 04-1961 Columbia
Ferlin Husky - Willow Tree  10-1961 23  Capitol
Stonewall Jackson - Greener Pastures  03-1961 26  Columbia
Stonewall Jackson - Hungry For Love  08-1961 27  Columbia

Wanda Jackson - Right or Wrong - 07-1961 Capitol
Wanda Jackson - In The Middle Of A Heartache - 11-1961 Capitol
George Jones - Family Bible - 05-1961 Mercury
George Jones - Tender Years - 06-1961 Mercury
George Jones and Margie Singleton - Did I Ever Tell You - 09-1961 Mercury *
Claude King - Big River, Big Man - 07-1961 Columbia
Claude King - The Comancheros - 11-1961 Columbia
Jerry Lee Lewis - What'd I Say  05-1961 27  Sun
Jerry Lee Lewis - Col Cold Heart  08-1961 22  Sun

Hank Locklin - From Here To There To You - 06-1961 RCA Victor
Hank Locklin - You're The Reason - 09-1961 RCA Victor
Hank Locklin - Happy Birthday To Me - 10-1961 RCA Victor
Lonzo & Oscar - Country Music Time  06-1961 26  Starday

The Louvin Brothers - I Love You Best Of All - 03-1961 Capitol
The Louvin Brothers - How's The World Treating You  09-1961 26  Capitol

Rose Maddox - Kissing My Pillow - 01-1961 Capitol
Rose Maddox - I Want To Live Again - 02-1961 Capitol
Rose Maddox - Conscience I'm Guilty - 08-1961 Capitol
Leon McAuliffe - Cozy Inn - 08-1961 Cimarron
Frankie Miller - Black Land Farmer - 07-1961 Starday [re-entry; first entry 04-1959]
Roger Miller - When Two Worlds Collide - 06-1961 RCA Victor
Lattie Moore - Drunk Again  01-1961 25  King

Moon Mullican - Ragged But Right - 05-1961 Starday
Jim Nesbitt - Please Mr. Kennedy - 04-1961 Dot
Jimmy  Newman - Everybody's Dying For Love - 04-1961 Decca
Jimmy Newman - Alligator Man  12-1961+ 22  Decca
James O'Gwynn - House Of Blue Lovers  02-1961 21

Buck Owens - Foolin' Around - 01-1961 Capitol
Buck Owens - High As The Mountains  03-1961 27  Capitol

Buck Owens and Rose Maddox - Mental Cruelty - 05-1961 Capitol *
Buck Owens and Rose Maddox - Loose Talk - 05-1961 Capitol *
Buck Owens - Under The Influence Of Love - 08-1961 Capitol
Pati Page - Mom And Dad's Waltz  07-1961 21  Mercury

Webb Pierce - Let Forgiveness In - 02-1961 Decca
Webb Pierce - Sweet Lips - 05-1961 3 Decca
Webb Pierce - Walking The Streets - 09-1961 Decca
Webb Pierce - How Do You Talk To A Baby - 10-1961 Decca
Ray Price - Heart Over Mind - 03-1961 5  Columbia
Ray Price - The Twenty-Fourth Hour - 03-1961 13  Columbia
Ray Price - Soft Rain - 10-1961 3  Columbia
Ray Price - Here We Are Again  11-1961 26  Columbia

Lewis Pruitt - Crazy Bullfrog - 04-1961 Decca
Del Reeves - Be Quiet Mind - 11-1961 Decca
Jim Reeves - The Blizzard - 03-1961 RCA Victor
Jim Reeves - What Would You Do? - 07-1961 RCA Victor
Jim Reeves - Stand At Your Window - 10-1961 RCA Victor
Jim Reeves - Losing Your Love - 12-1961 RCA Victor
Jim Reeves - (How Can I Write On Paper) What I Feel In My Heart - 12-1961 RCA Victor
Reno and Smiley - Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die - 05-1961 King
Reno and Smiley - Love Oh Love, Oh Please Come Home  King

Tex Ritter - I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven - 06-1961 Capitol
Marty Robbins - Don't Worry - 02-1961 Columbia
Marty Robbins - Jimmy Martinez  06-1961 24  Columbia

Marty Robbins - It's Your World - 09-1961 Columbia
Rusty & Doug - Louisiana Man - 02-1961 10 Hickory
Rusty & Doug - Diggy Liggy Lo - 08-1961 14 Hickory
Ray Sanders - Lonelyville - 04-1961 Liberty
Jimmy Smart - Shorty - 03-1961 Plaid
Carl Smith - You Make Me Live Again  02-1961 29  Columbia

Carl Smith - Kisses Never Lie - 07-1961 Columbia
Lou Smith - I'm Wondering  - 04-1961 21  Salvo

Warren Smith - Odds And Ends (Bits And Pieces) - 02-1961 Liberty
Warren Smith and Shirley Collie - Why, Baby, Why  09-1961 23  Liberty *
Warren Smith - Call Of The Wild  09-1961 26  Liberty
Elmer Snodgrass - What A Terrible Feeling  01-1961 25  Decca

Hank Snow - Beggar To A King - 05-1961 RCA Victor
Hank Snow - The Restless One - 10-1961 RCA Victor
Joe South - You're The Reason - 08-1961 Fairlane
Wynn Stewart - Big, Big Love - 12-1961 Challenge
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys - Oklahoma Hills - 05-1961 Capitol
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys - Teach Me How To Lie [flip of above]  05-1961 25  Capitol

Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys - Hangover Tavern - 09-1961 Capitol
Ernest Tubb - Thoughts Of A Fool - 06-1961 Decca
Ernest Tubb - Through That Door - 11-1961 Decca
Leroy Van Dyke - Walk On By - 09-1961 Mercury
Porter Wagoner - Your Old Love Letters - 03-1961 RCA Victor
Billy Walker - Funny How Time Slips Away  10-1961 23  Columbia
Charlie Walker - Facing The Wall  01-1961 25  Columbia

Kitty Wells - The Other Cheek (b/w Fickle Fun) - 03-1961 19 (29)  Decca
Kitty Wells - Heartbreak U.S.A. - 05-1961 Decca
Kitty Wells - There Must Be Another Way To Live - 06-1961 Decca
Kitty Wells - Day Into Night - 12-1961+ 10  Decca
Slim Whitman - The Bells That Broke My Heart  07-1961 30  Imperial

The Wilburn Brothers - Blue Blue Day - 07-1961 Decca
Lawton Williams - Anywhere There's People  10-1961+ 13  Mercury
Bob Wills with Tommy Duncan and The Texas Playboys - The Image Of Me  01-1961 26  Liberty *
Coleman Wilson - Passing Zone Blues  07-1961 23  King

Don Winters - Too Many Times - 07-1961 Decca
Don Winters - Shake Hands With A Loser  07-1961 27  Decca
Marion Worth - There'll Always Be Sadness  05-1961 21  Columbia
Faron Young - A World So Full Of Love  01-1961 28  Capitol

Faron Young - Hello Walls - 03-1961 1 Capitol
Faron Young - Congratulations  05-1961 28  Capitol

Faron Young - Backtrack - 10-1961 8 Capitol
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