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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 1964. ==Events== * January 11 — ''Billboard'' increases the length of its Hot Country Singles chart to 50 positions, up from 30. * February 1 — Buck Owens' mega-hit, "Love's Gonna Live Here," finishes its 16-week run at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. To date, it is the most recent song to spend 10 or more weeks atop the chart. * July 31 — A private aircraft piloted by Jim Reeves crashes during a thunderstorm near Nashville, Tennessee. Both Reeves and business partner Dean Manuel are killed in the crash; their bodies are found two days later following a massive search for the two missing men. Reeves, already a huge country star, would leave behind hundreds of unreleased recordings; many of those songs became huge posthumous hits during the next decade. Reeves' death comes just 16 months after the airplane crash deaths of Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, leaving a huge void among country music fans. * November 28 — "Once a Day," by Connie Smith, begins an eight-week stay at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. Until 2012, it is the longest-running No. 1 song by a solo female act, and will make the 23-year-old Smith — a native of Elkhart, Indiana — an overnight sensation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1964 in country music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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