Country Poll Winners
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— ' The Cash Box, Music Page 53 July 6, 1957 COUNTRY POLL WINNERS Each disk jockey listed three choices in each and one point for each third choice. Of the total artist could possibly receive was 50% since even if every disk jockey voted the same artist number points awarded for each number of points cast, the following is the per- category. Three were one, it would still add up to only 50% of the six artist received. in categoi’y. first choice, two points for each second choice, centage each The maximum an points available each WHICH RECORDS DID YOU PROGRAM MOST WHICH FEMALE VOCALISTS DID YOU IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS? PROGRAM MOST? “SINGING THE BLUES”—MARTY ROBBINS 10.2% KITTY WELLS 36.5% Anita Carter - 1.2 “Crazy Arms”—Ray Price 8.0 Jean Shepard 17.2 Jeanette Hicks 1.1 Line” Johnny Cash 6.4 Patsy Cline 12.8 Charline Arthur 1.0 “I Walk The — - “Young Love”—Sonny James — 5.0 Wanda Jackson 10.0 “There You Go”—Johnny Cash 3.7 Goldie Hill 6.2 97.2% “Gone”—Ferlin Husky 3.6 Martha Carson 5.3 Others 2.8% “Don’t Be Cruel”—Elvis Presley 3.5 Mimi Roman 3.4 1 “Searching”—Kitty Wells 3.3 Rose Maddox 2.5 100 . 0 % “Love Me Tender”—Elvis Presley 3.2 “I’ve Got A New Heartache”—Ray Price 3.1 2.9 WHICH VOCAL GROUPS DID YOU “I Take The Chance”—The Browns _ _ 2.8 “Am I Losing You”—Jim Reeves PROGRAM MOST? “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”—Elvis Presley 2.7 “I’m Tired”—Webb Pierce 2.7 LOUVIN BROTHERS .... 23.7% Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs 2.7 “Walkin’ After Midnight” Patsy Cline 2.7 — Nita, Rita & Ruby 2.0 “Conscience, I’m Guilty” Hank Snow 2.5 — Wilburn Brothers 19.3 Rusty & Doug 1.7 “Be-Bop-A-Lulu”—Gene Vincent 2.2 Jim Edward, Maxine & Bonnie Jordainaires . 1.7 “Too Much” Elvis Presley 2.1 — Brown 11.0 Jimmy & Johnny 1.6 “Knee Deep In The Blues”—Marty Robbins 2.0 Carlisles 7.7 Homer & Jethro 1.0 “You Are The One” Carl Smith 2.0 — Johnnie & Jack 7.3 “According To My Heart”—Jim Reeves 1.8 Porter Wagoner Trio 5.0 87.7% “All Shook Up”—Elvis Presley 1.4 Maddox Brothers & Rose 3.0 Others 12.3% “Gonna Find Me A Bluebird”—Marvin Rainwater 1.4 “A White Sport Coat”—Marty Robbins 1.3 “Four Walls”—Jim Reeves — 1.3 WHICH BANDS DID YOU PROGRAM MOST? “Honky Tonk Song”—Webb Pierce 1.2 1.2 “Train Of Love”—Johnny Cash HANK THOMPSON’S BRAZOS Bob Wills 9.8 1.1 “Before I Met You”—Carl Smith VALLEY BOYS 42.2% Tex Williams 3.3 1.1 “Hound Dog”—Elvis Presley Pee Wee King 15.3 1.0 “Any Old Time”—Webb Pierce - Bill Wimberly 10.2 90.8% 1.0 “I’m A One Woman Man”—Johnny Horton Millers Brothers 10.0 Others 9.2% “I Miss You Already”—Faron Young 1.0 “Stolen Moments”—Hank Snow 1.0 “Fraulein”—Bobby Helms 1.0 WHICH SMALL INSTRUMENTAL GROUPS DID “Bye Bye Love”—Everly Brothers 1.0 YOU PROGRAM MOST? 92.4% CHET ATKINS & RHYTHM Arthur Smith & His Others 7.6% ROCKERS 30.0% Crackerjacks 2.1 Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs- 13.2 Bud Isaacs 2.0 Del Wood 1.8 Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant 10.1 WHICH ALBUMS DID YOU PROGRAM MOST? Stanley Bros. & Clinch Don Reno & Red Smiley 7.6 Mountain Clan 1.3 “ELVIS”—ELVIS PRESLEY 18.6% Joe Maphis & Group 5.6 “Hymns”—Tennessee Ernie Ford 13.5 Country Boys 3.2 79.3% “Singing Down The Lane”—Jim Reeves 6.7 Sid King’s 5 Strings 2.4 Others 20.7% “Tragic Songs Of Life”—Louvin Brothers 6.3 “Sweethearts Or Strangers”—Faron Young 5.2 WHICH UP & COMING MALE VOCALISTS “North Of The Rio Grande”—Hank Thompson 5.0 “Lusty Land”—Tennessee Ernie Ford 3.8 DO YOU THINK ARE MOST PROMISING? “Southern Gentleman” Sonny James =. 3.6 — BOBBY HELMS 11.0% Wayne Stuart 2.0 “Hits From The Hills”—Eddy Arnold 3.6 George Jones 9.0 Justin Tubb 1.6 “Elvis Presley” 3.2 Melvin Endsley ___ 6.0 Ric Cart.ey 1.5 Marvin Rainwater 4.2 Steve Schulte “Words And Music Country Style”—Tommy Collins 3.0 1.5 Mel Tillis 4.0 David Huston 1.4 “Songs Of The Heart And Home” Ferlin Husky 3.0 — Dave Rich 3.7 Jimmy Newman 1.3 “Jim Edward, Maxine & Bonnie Brown” 1 2.6 Jerry Reed 3.3 James O’Gwynn 1.2 “Jimmie Rodgers Songs”—Ernest Tubb 2.4 Johnny Cash 3.0 Chuck Bowers 1.1 Benny Barnes Gordon “Wondering Boy”—Webb Pierce 2.1 2.6 Curtis 1.1 Van Howard 2.3 “Songs Of The Brazos Valley” Hank Thompson 2.0 — Lee Emerson 2.2 66.01% “Country Classics”—Hank Snow 1.6 Benny Martin 2.0 Others 34.0% “Session With Chet Atkins” _ _ 1.3 “Ramblin’ Man”—Hank Williams , 1.2 WHICH UP & COMING FEMALE VOCALISTS “Sons Of The Pioneers (25 Favorites)” 1.1 “Spirituals”—Tennessee Ernie Ford 1.0 DO YOU THINK ARE MOST PROMISING? “Songs Of A Love Affair”—Jean Shepard 1.0 PATSY CLINE 30.0% Rose Maddox . 2.8 “Finger Style”—Chet Atkins 1.0 Mimi Roman 1 11.6 Judy Lynn 2.7 “Gospel Songs”—Martha Carson 1.0 Bonnie Guitar 10.0 Thelma Blackmon 2.0 Wanda Jackson 6.0 Jeanette Hicks 2.0 Brenda Lee 6.0 Martha Lynn 1.0 93.8% Janis Martin Others 6.2% 5.8 Louise Duncan 5.2 Myrna Lorrie 3.6 91.7% WHICH MALE VOCALISTS DID YOU Ann Raye 3.0 Others 8.3% PROGRAM MOST? WHICH UP & COMING VOCAL GROUPS MARTY ROBBINS 23.1% Carl Smith 3.2 DO YOU THINK ARE MOST PROMISING? Ray Price 10.0 Ernest Tubb 3.1 Webb Pierce __ 8.7 Hank Thompson 3.0 EVERLY BROTHERS 20.7% Odie & Jody 4.1 Elvis Presley 6.9 Ferlin Husky 2.5 Jordanaires 4.0 Jim Reeves Rusty & Doug . 18.0 6.2 Johnny Horton 1.9 Jimmy & Johnny 3.3 Johnny Jim Edward, Maxine & Cash 5.3 Bobby Helms 1.1 Osborne Brothers 2.2 Faron Young Bonnie Brown 10.0 5.2 Red Foley 1.1 Joe Maphis & Rose Lee 2.0 Sonny James 4.7 Wilburn Brothers 9.3 Hank Snow 3.4 92.7% Collins Kids 6.8 87.0% Eddy Arnold .: 3.3 Others 7.3% Louvin Brothers 6.6 Others 13.0%.