Buck Owens

Thanks to his hammy run on TV's Hee Haw coupled with a lengthy retirement from recording, it's easy to forget that throughout the '60s, Buck Owens ruled the country charts. Although he continued to score hits into the early '70s, the lion's share of his 42 Top 10 country hits came in the '60s -- including 20 that went to #1. Most remarkably, he did it all by bucking the system, forgoing the...