Favorite BIG #1 HITS Through the Years: 1971 Country

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Ooh. A friend just posted some live footage of Dale Watson in Athens, Georgia, where I am not tonight, sadly. But that's what friends are for! I got to experience a few minutes of the show! From there I'll turn my attention back to 1971 and pick another #1 big smash hit, just to show that I actually do know #1 big smash hits. I'm looking at both country and pop for the first 25 years I've been around. Here's the next country song. 1971 (Country): Easy Loving - Freddie Hart This song gives me goosebumps. It's on my 100 favorites list. Apparently I'm not the only one who had a liking to this song, either: it was the #1 country single of 1971, and the CMA "Song of the Year" two years in a row. (There have been two other songs to accomplish that: "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Always on My Mind.") Oh, and this also made the top 20 on the pop chart!! Not a "free love" song but more a song about most true kind of love imaginable. This guy knows how blessed he is: "every day's Thanksgiving, to count all my blessings I wouldn't know where to start." See, country music's not all cry in your beer stuff. Easy Loving Written by Freddie Hart Recorded by Freddie Hart Released as a single, 1971 #1 for three weeks #1 song of 1971 In a beautiful dream: