12 Country Hits That Dominated the 1960s — Then Quietly Faded Away

12 country songs ruled the charts throughout the 1960s some for weeks, some for months selling millions of copies and defining entire summers on the radio. Then, one by one, they quietly disappeared from memory. Leroy Van Dyke spent a record-breaking 19 weeks at Number One with "Walk On By" before going back to auctioneering. Jim Reeves scored the biggest hit of his career after his own death. Bobbie Gentry wrote and produced "Ode to Billie Joe" a mystery she never explained, and one America still hasn't solved. This video counts down all 12 forgotten Number Ones of country music's golden decade, and the real stories behind why the world let them fade. Subscribe to Country Springs for more deep dives into the songs country radio forgot to mention. #ClassicCountry #1960sCountry #CountryMusicHistory #ForgottenHits #OldSchoolCountry #CountrySprings