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- Events
- Top hits of the year
- Births
- Deaths
- Further reading
{{Multiple issues|{{no footnotes|date=May 2015}}{{Refimprove|date=May 2015}} }}This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1937. {{YYYY music|1937}}{{Year nav topic5|1937|country music}} Events - October 30 – Johnnie Wright and Kitty Wells are married.
Top hits of the year- "Breezin' Along With the Breeze" – Hoosier Hot Shots
- "Great Speckled Bird" – Roy Acuff
- "I'm A Wild and Reckless Cowboy"- Patsy Montana
- "The One Rose"- Gene Autry
- "Right Or Wrong" – Bob Wills
- "Singing My Troubles Away"- The Delmore Brothers
- "You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven" – Roy Acuff
Births - March 20 – Jerry Reed, "swamp rock"-styled singer and guitarist best known for novelty hits, most notably "When You're Hot, You're Hot." (died 2008)
- April 6 – Merle Haggard, innovator of the Bakersfield Sound and a huge country star since the 1960s. (died 2016)
- June 15 – Waylon Jennings, influential rock-styled country performer and originator of the 1970s "outlaw" movement (died 2002).
- August 26 – Don Bowman, musician, songwriter and comedian, original host of radio's American Country Countdown (died 2013).
- November 1 – Bill Anderson, prolific singer-songwriter and television personality whose success has lasted more than 50 years; known as "Whisperin' Bill."
- November 30 – Jimmy Bowen, prominent record producer and executive from the 1970s through 1990s.
- December 16 – Jim Glaser, singer-songwriter and member of Tompall & the Glaser Brothers.
- December 26 – Ronnie Prophet, Canadian country music singer (died 2018).
Deaths {{Empty section|date=January 2012}} Further reading - Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 ({{ISBN|0-8118-3572-3}})
- Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 ({{ISBN|0-06-273244-7}})
- Whitburn, Joel. "Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.
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