“Tall Dark Stranger” #1 Country 9/27/1969

This week’s #1 country song was the 20th for Buck Owens. He was arguably the most successful male country singer of the 60’s; Owens had just begun co-hosting “Hee Haw.” However, things weren’t quite the same after his guitarist Don Rich died in a motorcycle accident in 1974. Buck struggled a bit until a 1988 duet, “Streets Of Bakersfield” with Dwight Yoakam, took him back to the top again. The video, well-produced for the era, is from a short-lived ABC-TV show called “Music Scene.”