Six weeks ago, I have already discussed the beginnings of the Nashville Sound s in the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s was clearly the dominant trend in country music. Designed by producers like Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley "smoot here" should sound Country of rural hillbilly image and remove the big city to make compatible. Not coincidentally, artists like Ray Price , originally a representative of the Honky Tonk style, title as City lights on and were therefore no. 1 hits on the country charts (1958, here in a TV recording about 1962):
not only in the country charts in the front, also to no. 5 of the pop charts ended in 1961 Leroy Van Dyke with Walk On By , according to calculations by Billboard magazine in 1994, the best selling country music at all (in this case in a TV recording from 1965, with organ- accompaniment):
A typical feature of the Nashville sound was playing the piano by Floyd Cramer , among others, already on Elvis Presley was heard plates. Cramer himself succeeded in 1960 with the instrumental Last date a hit. But let none other than Johnny Cash tell the story (in a TV recording ca 1970-71):
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