# Best #1 Country Song of the Year 1945 \[POLL\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1945-poll/705849 "2014-11-28T21:17:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1945-poll/705849/1 "2014-11-28T21:17:43Z")
We come to 1945, the year WWII ended and the nation collectively got busy building suburbia and making babies in earnest. The country charts, as was pointed out by **Smapti** in [1944’s poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=741924), wasn’t yet referred to as “country”; instead, it was known as the Most Played Juke Box Folk Records chart. So, which tune makes you tap your feet (or do you otherwise enjoy) the most? ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1945-poll/705849/2 "2014-11-28T21:35:35Z")
This is also the first year where the wonderful genre Western Swing really (REALLY) dominates. And I think, unlike with the 1944 poll, most people won’t be scratching their heads while looking at/listening to the songs on this list, RE: how the hell are these songs country (or even folk)? ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1945-poll/705849/3 "2014-11-28T23:21:08Z")
I’m not even 30 and so I went with Gene Autry, he’s the only one I know.