These songs were country hits in the 1970s and later became cultural standards that continue to endure decades later.

We’re getting on in our look back at seminal songs from the 1970s (a tongue twister if ever there was one). We’ve been going ...

But they deserve to be heard, without a doubt. There are many such songs from the 1970s that fit this description. I cut my initial list back to this short version of just five. If you know them ...