# Best #1 Country Song of the Year 1960 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766 "2014-12-20T20:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **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:** [December 20, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/1 "2014-12-20T20:21:55Z")
And now we enter the 1960s, which many consider to be the golden decade for popular music, C&W included (it’ll be interesting to see if my current favorite country music decade, the '70s, remains my favorite or if I switch allegiances to the '60s). There are a whopping five songs to choose from this year, including Marty Robbins’s “El Paso” carrying over from last year. Which is your choice? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/2 "2014-12-20T22:43:23Z")
If I’d realized I’d have another chance to vote for “El Paso,” I would’ve given the nod to “White Lightning” in the 1959 thread. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/3 "2014-12-20T23:09:01Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > If I’d realized I’d have another chance to vote for “El Paso,” I would’ve given the nod to “White Lightning” in the 1959 thread. 🆒 Me too. Meanhile, can someone tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/4 "2014-12-21T00:40:18Z")
No fair letting _El Paso_ be in two years. 🙂 I voted for Jim Reeves because it caused me to purchase all of his albums as they came out. Combined with Patsy Cline about the same time, they were the King and Queen of the new country music generation. Hank Locklin would be second choice with a great old time sound. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/5 "2014-12-21T04:34:50Z")
“He’ll Have to Go” because I already voted for “El Paso.” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Dracula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@Count\_Dracula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Dracula)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/6 "2014-12-21T04:42:51Z")
It’s good to talk about the old days when country and western music was really country and western music. This stuff now days is something but I don’t really know what but it ain’t country. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/7 "2014-12-21T16:08:06Z")
> [@Count\_Dracula](#): > > It’s good to talk about the old days when country and western music was really country and western music. This stuff now days is something but I don’t really know what but it ain’t country. I really like Tom Petty’s descriptor: [“bad rock with a fiddle”](http://tasteofcountry.com/tom-petty-blasts-country-music/). ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/8 "2014-12-24T05:13:13Z")
Gave them a listen and not my cup of tea. “Alabam” was the better one. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/9 "2014-12-24T05:33:41Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > Gave them a listen and not my cup of tea. “Alabam” was the better one. Over even the phenomenal “El Paso”? (He asked, after casting his vote for the nearly-as-great “He’ll Have to Go”, since he didn’t want to vote for the same song two years in a row.) Wow. Maybe I need to give “Alabam” another listen. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-country-song-of-the-year-1960/707766/10 "2014-12-25T04:52:19Z")
> [@Eddie\_F](#): > > Over even the phenomenal “El Paso”? (He asked, after casting his vote for the nearly-as-great “He’ll Have to Go”, since he didn’t want to vote for the same song two years in a row.) > > Wow. > > Maybe I need to give “Alabam” another listen. “El Paso” came in second, but I liked “Alabam” better on initial listen.