The Songs of Country #4 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Roger Miller

Roger Miller wrote the lyrics of the song on a credit card application in 1965. It now hangs in the Country Music Hall of Fame. The song was played on the pop charts as well as on the country charts. "King Of The Road" inspired the name of a motor inn.

Answer: Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn wrote the song in 1966. It went to Number Two on the country charts. The lyrics for the song supposedly came to Loretta after she met a woman whose husband was in the audience with his girlfriend.

Answer: Charley Pride

Charley was the first African American singer to have a Number One country record and the first artist to win Male Vocalist of the Year for two consecutive years. "Just Between You And Me" reached Number Ten on the country charts in 1967.

Answer: Merle Haggard

Merle wrote the lyrics of this song for his wife Bonnie. Merle had just finished a 93 day tour in 1970 and began working on it while at Los Angeles International Airport (also known as LAX). Merle credits Johnny Cash for his music career because he was serving a prison sentence in San Quentin when Johnny Cash performed at the prison. Loretta Lynn said this was her favorite song.

Answer: Connie Smith

Connie Smith recorded the Bill Anderson song in 1964. Connie became the first female singer to have a debut song turn Number One. She married Marty Stuart in 1997. They met for the first time when he was eleven years old.

Answer: Bobbie Gentry

Bobbie Gentry wrote and performed the song in 1967. The song won Bobbie three Grammy Awards. A 1976 movie "Ode To Billy Joe" with Robby Benson as Billy Joe was inspired by the Bobbie Gentry song.

Answer: Jeannie C. Riley

Tom T. Hall wrote the song in 1968 for Jeannie C. Riley to perform. The song was based on a true story from Hall's youth in Olive Hill, Kentucky. In 1968, "Harper Valley PTA" won the Single of the Year at the CMA Awards.

Answer: Flatts and Scruggs

Lester Flatts and Earl Scruggs made the theme song of "The Beverly Hillbillies" a Number One song on country charts with the help of writer Paul Henning. Neither singer wanted to work on the song, but after Earl's wife watched the pilot episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" she talked her husband and Lester into providing the music for the lyrics to the theme song.

Answer: Tammy Wynette

Bobby Braddock and Curly Putnam wrote the song for Tammy Wynette. The song held significant meaning for her as her second marriage was ending in 1968 when the song debuted. The song spells out certain words so the singer's four-year old will not know what is being discussed.

Answer: Jeannie Seely

The song was written in 1966 by Hank Cochran, Jeannie's future husband. "Don't Touch Me" went to Number Two and won Jeannie a Grammy Award. When performing the song at the Opry for the first time in 1966, Jeannie's mini-skirt almost got her kicked off the Opry stage.