1924 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1924.

Events

• First broadcast of WLS Barn Dance in Chicago, led by the "Solemn Old Judge" George D. Hay.
• Beginning of the "Old Times Tunes" series on Okeh Records.
• Beginning of the "Special Records for Southern States" series on Vocalion Records.

No dates

• Vernon Dalhart records "The Prisoner's Song" and "Wreck of the Old 97."

Top hits of the year

• "Arkansas Traveler" - Fiddlin' John Carson with the Virginia Reelers
• "Fare You Well, Old Joe Clark" - Fiddlin' John Carson
• "John Henry Blues" - Fiddlin' John Carson
• "Run, Nigger, Run" - Fiddlin' John Carson
• "Little Rosewood Casket" - Ernest Thompson
• "Old Joe Clark" - Fiddlin' Powers and Family
• "The Prisoner's Song" - Vernon Dalhart
• "Rock All Our Babies To Sleep - Riley Puckett
• "Whistling the Blues Away" - Wendell Hall and Carson Robison
• "Wreck of the Old 97" - Vernon Dalhart
• "You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until She is Gone" - Fiddlin' John Carson

Births

• January 6 - Earl Scruggs, early bluegrass pioneer who, with Lester Flatt, formed the Foggy Mountain Boys (died 2012).
• June 20 - Chet Atkins, session musician and record producer, primarily with RCA Records (died 2001).
• June 28 - George Morgan, pop-styled singer of the 1940s and 1950s; Grand Ole Opry stalwart and father of 1990s star Lorrie Morgan (died 1975).
• July 22 - Margaret Whiting, female country and pop vocalist of the 1940s and early 1950s; first female vocalist to top the Billboard country charts (1949's "Slippin' Around," as part of a duet with Jimmy Wakely). (died 2011)
• September 19 - Don Harron, Canadian comedian and playwright best known to country audiences as "Charlie Farquharson" on television's Hee Haw (died 2015).

Further reading

• Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN 0-8118-3572-3)
• Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)
• Whitburn, Joel. "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2005.