"12 Best-Selling Country Songs of the 1970s"

Twelve of the biggest-selling country songs of the entire 1970s — and the wild true stories behind every single one. A song Neil Diamond rejected before it made someone else a star. A demo thrown in the trash by its own songwriter after his wife barely reacted. A record label that mistook a future classic album for an unfinished tape. A trio nicknamed "the country ABBA" who broke through with a song two other artists had already flopped with. From Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" to Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas," Anne Murray's "You Needed Me," John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," Emmylou Harris' "Together Again," Ronnie Milsap's "It Was Almost Like a Song," and more — this is the definitive countdown of the decade's biggest country hits, backed by the stories that never made the liner notes. #CountryMusic #ClassicCountry #70sCountry #OutlawCountry #WillieNelson #WaylonJennings #JohnDenver #AnneMurray #EmmylouHarris #CountryHits #MusicHistory #CountryLegends #NashvilleHistory #GreatestHits #MusicTrivia