Favorite BIG #1 HITS Through the Years: 1977 Country
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86875)
United States
March 11, 2018 8:08pm CST
As I've meandered through the first 25 years of my life, looking at a select #1 song in both country and pop from that year, I've been careful to not pick two songs by the same artist. I've only had a repeat artist on one countdown: the Marshall Tucker Band, who occupied the top two spots on my "southern rock" countdown. This is close, but technically, the label has something different listed, and it's listed differently in the Whitburn, and that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!! 
Here's today's #1 country song.
1977 (Country): The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You) - Waylon Jennings
Just Waylon here, not Waylon and Willie as with the 1976 song. Oddly enough, this song came from an album titled....Waylon & Willie.
While "Waylon and Willie and the boys" were topping country and pop charts with "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)," Waylon was also continuing his fly-in-the-face-of-pop-country country music by singing about one of the staples of country music: the jukebox. (Hey, Hillbilly, you know you need a jukebox countdown.... 
)
Instead of playing songs to help a guy forget a lost love, here the narrator comes in with ten bucks in quarters to play the songs that remind him of the old flame, proclaiming, "I don't want to get over you." The title, "the Wurlitzer Prize," is a play on Pulitzer Prize. (For those of you too young to remember, Wurlitzer was the premiere jukebox manufacturer in the country back in those days.)
This is a song that prompted a lot of quarters fed to a jukebox itself!
The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)
Written by Chips Moman and Bobby Emmons
Recorded by Waylon Jennings
From Waylon & Willie, 1977
#1 for two weeks
A fresh roll of quarters:
Here's today's #1 country song.
1977 (Country): The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You) - Waylon Jennings
Just Waylon here, not Waylon and Willie as with the 1976 song. Oddly enough, this song came from an album titled....Waylon & Willie.
While "Waylon and Willie and the boys" were topping country and pop charts with "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)," Waylon was also continuing his fly-in-the-face-of-pop-country country music by singing about one of the staples of country music: the jukebox. (Hey, Hillbilly, you know you need a jukebox countdown.... )
Instead of playing songs to help a guy forget a lost love, here the narrator comes in with ten bucks in quarters to play the songs that remind him of the old flame, proclaiming, "I don't want to get over you." The title, "the Wurlitzer Prize," is a play on Pulitzer Prize. (For those of you too young to remember, Wurlitzer was the premiere jukebox manufacturer in the country back in those days.)
This is a song that prompted a lot of quarters fed to a jukebox itself!
The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)
Written by Chips Moman and Bobby Emmons
Recorded by Waylon Jennings
From Waylon & Willie, 1977
#1 for two weeks
A fresh roll of quarters:
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4 responses
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Mar 18
An incredible coincidence. You posted this on Mar 11 and I visited Jennings grave on that same day.
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@FourWalls (86875)
• United States
16 Mar 18
Yes indeed. Glad you visited his grave. I don't want to get over him, either. What a talent.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
12 Mar 18
First time I've heard his song, thank you for sharing it.
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@teamfreak16 (43664)
• Denver, Colorado
9 Apr 18
"Can't you see me standing here with my back against the record machine?" Wait, that's Van Halen. 
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