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Country Songs That Crossed Over To Top 40 Radio

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Country Songs That Crossed Over To Top 40 Radio

Post by Deleted User 14888 » Sat Feb 09, 2019 8:30 pm

Here’s a couple tunes that are Country and made the Top 40 Pop Charts,
“The Most Beautiful Girl” by Charlie Rich 1973
“If Not For You” by Olivia Newton John 1971
“I Never Promised You A Rose Garden” by Lynn Anderson 1970
“Smoky Mountain Rain” by Ronnie Milsap 1980
“Galveston” by Glen Campbell 1969
“Lady” by Kenny Rogers 1980
“I Can Help” by Billy Swan 1974
“Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro 1968
“Take Me Home,Country Roads” by John Denver 1971
“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” by Crystal Gayle 1977
That’s some of the tunes that crossed over from Country to Top 40,
Can you think of more?



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Re: Country Songs That Crossed Over To Top 40 Radio

Post by Deleted User 4520 » Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:15 pm

Lady by Kenny Rogers is so amazing! Do you consider Juice Newton country? Ever on Top 40?



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Re: Country Songs That Crossed Over To Top 40 Radio

Post by stopnswop2 » Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:17 pm

Juice Newton is sorta a Country/Pop crossover


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Post by Deleted User 14888 » Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:24 pm

TheForce wrote:
Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:15 pm
Lady by Kenny Rogers is so amazing! Do you consider Juice Newton country? Ever on Top 40?
There’s tons of Crossover tunes so we could be here for a while, I have a lot of this stuff on CD, I had a chance to do a Country Format in Seattle for a few weeks as a fill in Jock it was pretty cool. And yes Juice Newton is country and has crossed over to pop as well.
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Post by stopnswop2 » Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:25 pm

Some more Country/Pop Crossover artists:

Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Lee Ann Womack, Bonnie Raitt, Lonestar, Taylor Swift, Sheryl Crow, The Dixie Chicks, John Denver, Wynonna Judd, Maywood, The Eagles, Pussycat, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt,


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Post by stopnswop2 » Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:26 pm

My favorite Juice Newton song is "Queen Of Hearts"


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Re: Country Songs That Crossed Over To Top 40 Radio

Post by CK-722 » Sat Feb 09, 2019 10:10 pm

El Paso-Marty Robbins

From 1959-1960, The Quintessential Country to Top 40 Crossover.


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Re: Country Songs That Crossed Over To Top 40 Radio

Post by innate-in-you » Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:11 am

CK-722 wrote:
Sat Feb 09, 2019 10:10 pm
El Paso-Marty Robbins

From 1959-1960, The Quintessential Country to Top 40 Crossover.
Is that the one that was a C&W/T40/AC/R&B crossover?

Sadly, crossover hits used to be common. They became far less common during the Disco era.
There were a few after Disco subsided in popularity, but were still somewhat rare.

The last one I can recall hearing was Ronnie Milsap's Prisoner of the highway being played on Hot Hits 96.3 WHYT in the middle eighties.

What's amazing to me is thinking that All I want to do is Dream by the Everly Brothers being multi-crossover, including #1 R&B!



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Re: Country Songs That Crossed Over To Top 40 Radio

Post by CK-722 » Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:44 am

No. There was no MOR/AC Chart until 1961. And other than being played on some R & B stations to widen their appeal, it did not make the Billboard R & B Chart.


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