1952 in Country Music - Events

Events

  • July 14 — The Eddy Arnold Show, a brief summer replacement series, debuts on CBS-TV.
  • August 23 — Kitty Wells becomes the first female solo artist to score a No. 1 hit on the Billboard country charts with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." The song, an answer to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life," spends two weeks atop the chart and forever changes how women were seen, both in song and professionally.
  • November 22 — Nashville's first Disc Jockey Convention takes place.

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