This Day in Country Music

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Birthdays:-
1907 Wade Mainer born in Buncombe, North Carolina - Singer/banjo player
1924 Ira Louvin born in Rainseville, Alabama - The Louvin Brothers
1928 Hilous Butrum born in Lafayette, Tennessee - Drifting Cowboys
1931 Carl Belew born in Salina, Oklahoma - Singer/songwriter
1948 Paul Davis born in Meridian, Mississippi - Singer/songwriter/producer
1956 Mark Rader born in Middletown, Ohio - Traditional Grass
1956 *Deniese Morrison born in Tamworth, NSW - Released "No Charge" in 1974

Died:-
2000 Neal Matthews died age 70 in Nashville, Tennessee - The Jordanaires
2003 Rose Augustine died age 93 in New York City - Founder of "Guitar Review"
Events:-
1857 Yreka California incorporated - Originally called Thompson's Dry Diggings after Abraham Thompson who discovered gold in the area - Yreka is a Shasta Indian word meaning north mountain - Population 7,290
1899 Dyer in Gibson County, Tennessee incorporated - Originally known as Dyer Station and earlier Bobbittsville
1957 Johnny Cash starts his first CanadianTour
1971 Connie Smith rejoins the Grand Ole Opry

Recorded:-
1936 *Tex Morton recorded "The Flowers Never Bloom in Lonesome Valley", "The Story of Parson Joe", "The Good Old Droving Days", "Neath the Silver Willow Tree"

Released:-
1956 Jimmy Swan "Hey, Baby, Baby/Why Did You Change Your Mind" single released on MGM
1992 The Oakridge Boys "The Collection" album released on MCA
1998 George Strait "One Step At A Time" album released on RCA
1999 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Bang, Bang, Bang" album released on DreamWorks

Charted:-
1962 Bill Anderson "Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands" single charted to #14
1973 Tom T Hall "The Rhymer And The Five And Dimers" album charted to #1
1973 Johnny Cash "Children" single charted to #3 - From movie "The Gospel Road" starring Johnny Cash
1973 Roy Clark "Roy Clark/Superpicker" album charted to #6
1973 Dolly Parton "My Tennessee Mountain Home" album charted to #19
1979 Razzy Bailey "If Love Had A Face" single charted to #6
1979 The Statler Brothers "The Originals" album charted to #8
1983 *Redgum "I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Lime Green)" single debuted at #35 on the Australian Top 40 Chart peaking at #1
1984 Mickey Gilley & Charly McClain "It Takes Believers" album charted to #7
1990 Doug Stone self titled album charted to #12 - His biggest hit

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Birthdays:-
1924 Lee Bonds born in Gadsden, Alabama - Hillbilly singer Lee Bonds and the Shady-Side Playboys - Performed on WGWD Midway Jamboree - First recorded for the Tennessee Record Company in Nashville, songs including "You've Been Crying", "Uh-Huh, Honey", "Heart Breaking Letter", "For Sale, One Broken Heart" & 'Wild-Cattin' Woman" - Signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in March 1953, releasing "Okee-Fi-No-Kee", "Undecided Heart", "No Hope", "A Double Life", "Done Gone Crazy" & "From All Angles"
1936 Glen Campbell born in Delight, Arkansas- Singer, guitarist, composer who recorded with The Hondells & The Beach Boys in the mid 1960's - Nine #1 country albums, five #1 country singles and two #1 pop singles - Own TV show The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour 1968-1972 - Appeared in movies True Grit, Norwood and Strange Homecoming
1936 Roger Whittaker born in Nairobi, Kenya - "The Last Farewell And Other Hits" charted to #10 on Billboard Country Chart
1940 Ray Griff born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1945 Cleve Francis born in Jennings, Louisiana
1945 Pat Enright born in Huntington, Indiana - Nashville Bluegrass Band
1951 Lucky Oceans born Rueben Gosfield in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Steel guitarist from Asleep At The Wheel - Now lives in Australia
1964 *Clark Reid born in Christchurch, New Zealand - Won New Zealand Male Vocalist Of Year in 1996 - Singer/guitarist with Country Super Band
1967 Heath Wright born in Vian, Oklahoma - Singer/songwriter from Ricochet
1978 Kellie Coffey born in Moore, Oklahoma

Died:-
1968 Steve Sholes died - Record industry executive
1996 Fred Kirby died age 86 - Recording artist/DJ
2003 Felice Bryant died age 77 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Events:-
2006 *92.3 Top Country Radio launched in Darwin, Northern Territory - The Top End's first full time country radio station

Recorded:-
1925 Jess Young & His Band recorded 10 sides at Gennett studios in Richmond Indiana - Probably the earliest recordings by a regular working southern string band

Released:-
1997 Scud Mountain Boys "The Early Years: Pine Box & Dance The Night Away" two-for-one album released
1997 Lynn Anderson "Rose Garden" album released
1997 Anita Cochran "Back To You" album released on Warner
1997 The Rarely Herd "What About Him" album released on Pinecastle
1997 Jimmie Rodgers "Memorial Album" album released
1997 Darrell Scott "Aloha From Nashville" album released on Sugar HIll
1997 Son Volt "Straightaways" album released on Warner Brothers
1997 George Strait "Carrying Your Love With Me" album released on RCA
2003 Ed Bruce "12 Classics" album released on Varese
2003 Eddie Rabbitt "Essentials" album released on Warner Strategic
2003 Tom Russell "Modern Art" album released on Hightone
2003 Doug Sahm "Juke Box Music/Last Real Texas Blues Band" 2 for 1 album released
2003 Webb Pierce "Honky Tonk Hero" album released on Fuel 2000

Charted:-
1950 Eddy Arnold "Why Should I Cry?" single charted to #3
1967 Sonny James "Need You" album charted to #1
1967 Patsy Cline "Greatest Hits" album charted to #17
1967 Waylon Jennings "Waylon Sing Ol' Harlan" album charted to #32
1967 Liz Anderson "Mama Spank" single charted to #5 - Her biggest hit
1972 Jerry Wallace "This Is Jerry Wallace" album charted to #7
1972 Tom T Hall "We All Get Together And" album charted to #12
1972 Johnny Bush "I'll Be There" single charted to #17
1978 Jimmy Buffett "Son Of A Son Of A Sailor" album charted to #6
1978 The Kendall "Old Fashioned Love" album charted to #16
1978 Eddy Arnold "Country Lovin'" single charted to #23
1983 Ray Charles "3/4 Time" single charted to #37
1989 Steve Wariner "I Got Dreams" album charted to #32
1995 "Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles" album charted to #13
1995 John Anderson "Mississippi Moon" single charted to #15
2000 Gary Allan "Right Where I Need To Be" single charted to #5 - His biggest hit

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Birthdays:-
1934 Vivian Liberto born Vivian Dorraine Liberto - Met Johnny Cash on July 18, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas - After he was discharged from the Air Force, they married on August 7, 1954 and moved to Memphis - They had four daughters, Rosanne, 1955; Kathy, 1956; Cindy, 1958 & Tara, 1961 - She filed for divorce in June 1966 - She married Richard Distin on January 11, 1968 in Las Vegas and moved to Ventura, California - Ginnifer Goodwin portrayed Vivian Liberto in the film "Walk the Line - Died 24 May 2005 on her daughter Rosanne's 50th birthday
1936 Roy Orbison born Roy Kelton Orbison in Wick, Texas - U.S. singer and songwriter. He formed his first musical group at age 13. His first single, “Ooby Dooby” (1956), was followed in the early 1960s by a string of hits, carefully crafted ballads of loneliness and heartache that included “Only the Lonely,” “I Can't Stop Loving You,” “Crying,” “In Dreams,” and “Oh, Pretty Woman.” He was known for his soaring voice, one of the most operatic in all rock music. His career waned after the death of his wife in a motorcycle accident (1966) and the death of two sons in a fire (196. He made a comeback in the 1980s; with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Tom Petty he formed the band the "Traveling Wilburys" - Died Dec 6 1988
1938 Roland White born in Madawaska, Maine - Nashville Bluegrass Band
1939 Ray Peterson born in Denton, Texas - Two big pop hits in the 1960's "Tell Laura I Love Her" & "Corrina Corrina" Owned Dunes Record label - Moved into country music in the early 1970's based in Nashville - Died 26 January 2005
1948 *Jan Kelly born
1955 Mark Schatz born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Bluegrass bassist
1968 Aaron Barker born in Texas - Singer/songwriter - "The Taste Of Freedom" charted to #73 in 1992

Died:-
1988 Ocie Stockard died age 78 in Fort Worth, Texas - Western Swing multi-instrumentalist
2006 Phil Walden born in U.S. - Founded Capricorn Records in Macon, Georgia with acts including Allman Brothers Band, Marshall Band & Dickie Betts - In 1974, Kitty Wells signed to label and recorded "Forever Young" - Had success with Kenny O'Dell and signed Kenny Chesney to his first recording contract in 1993 - Born Jan 11 1940

Events:-
1879 Guelph in Ontario, Canada incorporated as a city
1900 Hillbilly the word was first used in print in the "New York Journal" Spelt differently "Hill-Billie" was a "free and untrampled white citezen of Alabama who lived in the hills" - "He had no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him"
1948 KSTP-TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 KTAR-TV (now KPNX) channel 12 in Pheonix, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WCOV-TV channel 20 in Montgomery, Alabama (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
2000 Johnny Cash honored by the Library Of Congress with their Living Legend award
2004 The Poverty Plainsmens truck crashed off an Alberta, Canada highway injuring many band members - Co-founder Sean Smith was left with a severe spinal cord injury that left him paralysed from the chest down rendering him a quadraplegic
2006 Joe Don Rooney Rascal Flatts guitarist married Playboy's 2005 Playmate of the Year, Tiffany Fallon in San Jose del cabo, Mexico

Recorded:-

Released:-
2002 Daryle Singletary "That's Why I Sing This Way album released on Audium
2002 Darden Smith "Sunflower" album released on Dualtone
2002 Kenny Chesney "No Shoes, No Shirt, Not Problems" album released on BNA
2002 Stevens Sisters "Little By Little" album released on Rounder
2002 James Talley "Tombstone" album released on Cimarron
2006 *Matt Manning "My Richmond River Home" album launched in his home town at the Casino RSM Club, N.S.W. - Matt's second album recorded with Kross Kut Records

Charted:-
1955 Eddy Arnold "In Time" single charted to #6
1966 Loretta Lynn "I Like Em Country" album charted to #2
1966 Bonnie Owens And Merle Haggard "Just Between The Two Of Us" album charted to 4
1966 Jimmy Newman "Artificial Rose" album charted to #10
1966 Buddy Cagle "Tonight I'm Coming Home" single charted to #31
1977 Gary Stewart"Your Place Or Mine" album charted to #17
1977 Narvel Felts "The Touch Of Felts" album charted to #30
1983 Gene Watson "Sometimes I Get Lucky" album charted to #16
1988 The O'Kanes "Tired Of The Runnin'" album charted to #21
1988 Alabama "Fallin' Again" single charted to #1
1994 John Anderson "I Wish I Could Have Been There" single charted to #4

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Birthdays:-
1900 Bobby Gregory born in Staunton, Virginia
1916 Eldon Shamblin born in Weatherford, Oklahoma - guitarist/arranger - Texas Playboys
1923 *Maurie Hutchins born Maurice Joseph Francis Hutchins in Ipswich - Maurie married Jean Varrie at St Thomas' Church, Ipswich on 28 April 1947 - They were both avid country music fans and regularly attended "Coal City Country Music Club", "Country Music Heritage Association" & "West Moreton Country Music Club" in the Ipswich area - Maurie died on 13 July 2005
1938 *Keith Blinman born in Wollongong, NSW - Lead singer of the Blue Stars - Founder of the Cowra Country Music Club in 1981 - Died 29 June 1994
1943 Richard Sterban born in Camden, New Jersey - Oakridge Boys
1949 Larry Rice born Danville, Kentucky - Bluegrass musician, songwriter, mandolinist - Eldest of the four Rice brothers - Played in bluegrass band The Haphazards in California in the early 1960's - Joined J.D. Crowe and the Kentucky Mountain Boys in the late 1970's - (Died 13 May 2006)
1979 Rebecca Lynn Howard born in Salyerville, Kentucky
---- B. Jeff Stone born
---- *Tom Maxwell

Died:-
1947 Willa Cather died in New York - American novelist born in Virginia in 1873 - Many of her novels were set in the West, focusing on the American pioneer experience - Novels include "O Pioneers", "My Antonia" & "Death Comes To The Archbishop"
1957 Haywire Mac - Harry K McClintock died in San Pedro, California
1974 Bud Abbott died - He teamed up with Lou Costello in 1936 to form a vaudeville comedy act - Abbott & Costello radio show ran from 1940-1949 - They made more than 30 films from 1940-1956
1979 Gale Binkley died age 83 - Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers
1995 Sammy Jackson died age 58 - U.S. actor and disc jockey
2006 Bonnie Owens died age 73, in a Bakersfield, California hospice, one month after her former husband Buck Owens - She had been suffering from Alzheimers Disease - Born Bonnie Campbell, 1 October 1932

Events:-
1890 *The Man From Snowy River poem by A.B. (Banjo) Paterson is first published in "The Bulletin"
1936 First Unscheduled Television Event - Fireman responding to an alarm in Camden, New Jersey are televised - The first time an unplanned event had been broadcast on television, ushering in future live TV news coverage
1962 First Coast-To-Coast Satellite Telecast - Signals from California were bounced off the first experimental communications satellite, Echo 1, and received in Massachusetts
1963 Brenda Lee married Ronnie Shacklett (A building contractor) in Nashville, Tennessee
1984 Jerry Lee Lewis age 48, married Kerrie McCarver age 22 - His sixth marriage
1993 Farm Aid VI concert held at Ames, Iowa - Artists include country and rock performers Johnny Cash, Dwight Yoakam, The Highwaymen, Ricky Van Shelton, Arlo Guthrie, Marty Stuart, Martina McBride, Ringo Starr, Kentucky Headhunters, Charlie Daniels Band and more - The concerts organised by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, help to raise money for family farmers in the U.S.A.

Recorded:-
1958 Johnnie & Jack recorded "Poison Love"
1960 Flatt & Scruggs recorded "Polka On The Banjo"
1986 Tom T Hall recorded "Down At The Mall"

Released:-
2001 Red Allen "The Folkways Years 1964-1983" album released on Smithsonian Folkways
2001 Alejandro Escovedo "A Man Under The Influence" album released on Bloodshot
2001 Tim McGraw"Set This Circus Down" album released on Curb
2001 Jimmie Rodgers "Brakeman's Blues" album released on Catfish

Charted:-
1951 Rex Allen "Sparrow In The Tree Top" single charted to #10
1965 Floyd Cramer "Hits From The Country Hall Of Fame" album charted to #10
1971 Sonny James "Empty Arms" album charted to #9
1976 Tom Bresh "Home Made Love" single charted to #6
1976 Earl Scruggs Revue "The Earl Scruggs Revue, Volume II" album charted to #32
1976 James Talley "Tryin' Like The Devil" album charted to #40
1981 T G Shepard "I Love 'Em All" album charted to #7
1982 Hank Williams Jr "High Notes" album charted to #3
1982 Dolly Parton "Heartbreak Express" album charted to #5
1982 Ed Bruce "Love Found You And Me" single charted to #13
1982 Johnny Cash/Jerry Lee Lewis/Carl Perkins "The Survivors" charted to #21
1982 Bobby Bare "Ain't Got Nothin' To Lose" album charted to #29
1996 Hank Williams Jr "A.K.A. Wham Bam Sam" album charted to #40
1999 Mark Chesnutt "This Heartache Never Sleeps" single charted to #17

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Birthdays:-
1909 Karl Marx Farr born in Rochelle, Texas - Sons Of The Pioneers
1915 Cliff Bruner born in Houston, Texas - Fiddle/traditional country, western swing & honky tonk
1925 Betty Jean 'Patsy' Dillon born in U.S. - Hillbilly singer
1928 Ralph Lewis born in U.S. - Led his own band, the Carolina Pals before joining Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in July 1974 as a guitarist, also playing fiddle and mandolin
1928 Vassar Clements born Vassar Cartlton Clements in Kinard, South Carolina - Fiddler - Died August 16 2005
1932 Vin Bruce born Ervin Bruce in Cut Off, Louisiana - Cajun singer
1940 O B McClinton born in Senatobia, Mississippi
1945 Stu Cook born in Oakland, California - Southern Pacific & Creedence Clearwater Revival
1945 Larry Robbins born in Dickerson, Maryland - Johnson Mountain Boys
1954 Rob Crosby born in Summpter, South Carolina - Singer/songwriter
1966 Jeffrey Hawkins born in Arlington, Texas - Little Texas

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Events:-
1985 "Big River" Roger Miller's musical opened on Broadway
1997 "The Dukes Of Hazzard Reunion" TV movie aired on U. S. TV

Recorded:-
1983 The Wildcats recorded "Lousiana Hayride"
1983 Janet and The Roadsters recorded "Heartbeat"
1999 *Kenny Bartley "Purple Flares" album recorded in East Fremantle, Western Australia for Ostik Records

Released:-
1995 Joe Ely "No Bad Talk Or Loud Talk 1977-81" album released on Edsel
2000 The Amazing Rhythm Aces" Absolutely Live" album released on Icehouse
2000 Bob Luman "10 Years" 1968-1977" album released on Bear Family

Charted:-
1960 Johnny Cash "Seasons Of My Heart" single charted to #10
1964 Hank Snow "More Hank Snow Souvenirs" album charted to #1
1970 Glen Campbell "Oh Happy Day" single charted to #25
1970 Connie Smith "The Best Of Connie Smith Volume II" album charted to #26
1974 Don Gibson "Snap Your Fingers" single debuted on the Australian Top 40 Chart at #38 peaking at #38
1981 Ronnie Milsap "Out Where The Bright Lights Are Glowing" album charted to #6
1981 Sylvia "Drifter" album charted to #10
1981 Bobby Bare "Learning To Love Again" single charted to #28
1981 Joe Stampley "I'm Gonna Love You Back To Loving Me Again" album charted to #33
1987 Conway Twitty "Borderline" album charted to #25

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Birthdays:-
1897 Fiddlin' Doc Roberts born in Madison, County, Kentucky
1925 Mac Martin born William D Colleran in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - Bluegrass singer from Mac Martin And The Dixie Travelers
1927 Cecil Null born in West Virginia - Songwriter
1933 Johnny Mosby born in Fort Smith, Arkansas - Johnny & Jonie Mosby
1938 Duane Eddy born in Corning, New York - Originator of "Twangy" guitar sound - Married to Jessi Colter 1961-1968 - Charted 28 pop hits 1958-1986 - "Rebel-'Rouser" hit #17 on Billboard Country Charts
1943 *Graeme Clarke born in New Zealand - Singer, songwriter, adventurer and author
1971 Jay DeMarcus born - Rascals Flatts
1978 *Leisa Bye - Born in Moree NSW - Australian Independent Singer/Songwriter/Yodeler based in Brisbane Qld

Died:-
1974 Vernon Tim Spencer died age 65 - Sons Of The Pioneers
1986 Wesley Rose died age 72 - Music executive

Events:-
1890 *A. B. (Banjo) Patterson published the classic Australian poem "The Man From Snowy River"
1952 Martha Carson joined the Grand Ole Opry
1988 *Australian TV Series "Stringer" debuted on ABC TV in Australia
2008 *Barbara Morrison Australian country music broadcaster celebrated 27 years on air at 2SER Sydney - She was one of the inuagural inductees in the Australian Country Music Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1997

Recorded:-
1941 Ernest Tubb recorded "Walking The Floor Over You" in Dallas, Texas

Released:-
1994 Reba McEntire "Read My Mind" album released on MCA
2006 *Bobby Cash "State Of My Heart" album officially launched at the Basement, Sydney, N.S.W.

Charted:-
1969 Kitty Wells "Guilty Street" album charted to #29
1969 Mel Tillis "Who's Julie" album charted to #35
1975 Freddy Fender "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" album charted to #1
1975 Roger Whittaker "The Last Farewell" and Other Hits" album charted to #10
1975 Mel Street "Smokey Mountain Memories" album charted to #16
1975 Vassar Clements self titled album charted to #37
1978 *Olivia Newton John "Jolene" single debuted at #27 on the Australian Top 40 Chart peaking at #20
1980 Cristy Lane "Ask Me To Dance" album charted to #14 - Her biggest hit
1980 Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley "The Champ" single charted to #22
1980 Bobby Bare "Tequila Sheila" single charted to #31
1980 Crystal Gayle "Favourites" charted to #37
1986 Willie Nelson "The Promiseland" album charted to #1
1986 T Graham Brown "I Wish I Could Hurt That Way Again" single charted to #3
1986 Glen Campbell "Cowpoke" single charted to #38
1997 Clay Walker - "Rumor Has It" album charted to #4
1997 Alabama "Dancin' On The Boulevarde" album charted to #5
1997 Wynonna "Collection" album charted to #9
1997 Trace Adkins "I Left Something Turned On At Home" single charted to #2

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Birthdays:-
1890 Lennie Aleshire born Leonard Harrison Aleshire in Aladyl, Christian County, Missouri - Musician, songwriter who made and played many musical instruments including the fiddle, & guitar - Worked in vaudeville, circuses and radiol shows Korn's-A-Krackin on KWTO in Springfield and the Ozark Jubilee - Wrote "My Old Saddle Pal", "Sleepy Time Waltz", Ozark Waltz", "Blackberry Jam" &"Ukelele Melody"Died 15 October 1987
1909 Jimmoe Skinner born in Blue Lick, Kentucky
1927 Sydney Nathan born in Cincinnati, Ohio - Record company executive
1929 Tommy Hill born near Coy City, Texas - Singer/songwriter/A & R man/record label owner - Wrote "Slowly" & "Teddy Bear"
1931 Maxine Brown born in Sampti, Louisiana
1944 Herb Pedersen born in Berkley, California - Singer/songwriter/session musician - Can be heard onTV Themes of "The Rockford Files", "Kojak" & "The Dukes of Hazzard"
---- *Dale Juner

Died:-
1981 Denver Darling age 72 - Singer/songwriter
2002 Hillous Butrum - Age 74 - Original bass player for Hank William's Drifting Cowboys
2003 Edward G Gaylord died age 83 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Chairman of Gaylord Entertainment

Events:-
1971 The Opryland Theme Park opened in Nashville
2004 Martie Maguire of The Dixie Chicks gave birth to twins Kathleen Emile & Ruth

Recorded:-
1996 *Slim Dusty - recorded his 91st Album "91 Over 50" on 27th & 28th April 1996 at Studios 301/Studio A - Sydney NSW

Released:-
1992 Dan Seals "The Songwriter" album released on Liberty
1993 Darden Smith "Little Victories" album released on Chaos
1993 Larry Stewart "Down The Road" album released on RCA
1999 John Conlee "Live At Billy Bob's Texas" album released
1999 Eddy Raven "Live At Billy Bob's Texas" album released

Charted:-
1959 Johhny Horton "The Battle of New Orleans" entered the US Charts, reaching #1 where it stayed for 10 weeks
1963 Del Reeves "The Only Girl I Can't Forget" single charted to #13
1963 Eddy Arnold "Yesterday's Memories" single charted to #11
1968 Jack Greene "You Are My Treasure" album charted to #5
1968 Buck Owens "Best Of Buck Owens" album charted to #5
1968 Henson Cargill "Row Row Row" single charted to #11
1968 Buck Owens "Somewhere Between" album charted to #34
1974 Johnny Cash "Ragged Old Flag" single charted to #31
1974 The Osborne Brothers "Fastest Grass Alive" album charted to #40
1985 Merle Haggard "His Best" album charted to #38
1991 The Kentucky Headhunters "Electric Barnyard" album charted to #
1991 Clint Black "One More Payment" single charted to #7
1996 Brooks & Dunn "I Am That Man" single charted to #2
1996 Jo Dee Messina self titled album charted to #22
1996 Hit Country 96" various artists compilation album charted to #39
1996 Hank Williams Jr "AKA Wham Bam Sam" album charted to #40

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Birthdays:-
1877 John "Dad" Crockett born in West Virginia - Crockett Mountaineers
1920 Tex Cherry born in U.S. - Hillbilly singer performed on KNUZ Houston Home Town Jamboree - Recorded "Nicotine Kiss" & "Church Bell Ringing" for Gambler Records and "Dirty Jim Blues" & "Cannon Ball-Fox Chase" for Mel-O-Tone Records - Died 21 February 2006
1929 Dale Potter born in Puxico, Mousouri - Fiddler
1937 *Bill Walker born in New South Wales - Nashville's biggest arranger/conductors in the 60's & 70's
1942 Gene Parker born - Co-founded southwestern Virginia bluegrass band Lost and Found in 1973

Died:-
1963 "Dad" Carter died - The Chuck Wagon Gang
1991 Ken Curtis died age 74 in Fresno, California - Sons of The Pioneers

Events:-
1972 Ranchman's Restaurant opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada - They are the Official Hospatality Location of the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association - Many country music greats have performed at Canada's Greatest Honky-tonk - Ranchman's have been voted the Canadian Country Music Association's Country Club of the Year on five occasions
1988 Terri Gibbs married David Daughty
2001 Brad Paisley debut as host on the Grand Ole Opry
2006 *The Concert For Far North Queensland staged at the Cairns Intertainment Centre by the Endeavour Foundation - Net profits donated to the Premier's Cyclone Larry Relief appeal - Artist who donated their time include Lee Kernaghan, John Williamson, Troy Cassar Daly, Graem Connors, Tania Kernaghan, Adam Harvey, Sara Storer and Phil Emmanuel

Recorded:-
1990 *Slim Dusty - recorded his 91st Album "91 Over 50" on 27th & 28th April 1990 at Studios 301/Studio A - Sydney NSW

Released:-
1998 Juice Newton "The Trouble With Angels" album released
1998 Mark O'Connor "Midnight On The Water" album released

Charted:-
1945 Gene Autry "At Mail Call Today" single charted to #1 - His biggest hit
1945 Gene Autry "I'll Be Back" single charted to #7
1956 Jim Ed Brown (Jim Edward, Maxine & Bonnie Brown "I Take The Chance" single charted to #2
1971 Anne Murray "Danny's Song" album charted to #4
1973 Jim Ed Brown "Southern Lovin'" single charted to #6
1973 Dave Dudley "Keep On Truckin'" album charted to #22
1979 Susie Allanson "Two Steps Forward & Three Steps Back" single charted to #6
1979 Susie Allanson "Heart To Heart" album charted to #11
1984 Altanta "Pictures" album charted to #8
1984 Barbara Mandrell "Clean Cut" album charted to #8
1984 Gary Morris "Faded Blue" album charted to #12
1984 Karen Brooks "Born To Love You" single charted to #40
1990 Alabama "Pass It On Down" single charted to #3

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Birthdays:-
1929 Billy Mize born in Arkansas City, Kansas - Singer/songwriter/musician/tv producer - Billy Mize Productions - Brother of Buddy Mize
1930 Eddie Noack born De Armand A. Noack Jr in Houston, Texas - Singer/songwriter - Wrote "Flowers For Mama", "Barbara Joy", "Poor Chinee" & "A Day In The Life Of A Fool"
1934 Bob Pinson born in U.S. - Musicologist, scholar and collector of Country Music - Researcher and reference librarian for the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum - Died 4 September 2003
1943 Duane Allen born in Taylortown, Texas - Oakridge Boys
1950 Wayne Secrest born in Alton Illinois - Confederate Railroad
1954 Mike Auldridge born - Dobro player
1954 Karen Brooks born in Dallas, Texas - Singer/songwriter
1956 *Graeme Connors born Mackay Qld - Released first album "And When Morning Comes" in 1976
1972 Jame Bonamy born in Winter Park, Florida - Singer/songwriter
1987 *Claye Middleton born New Zealand
---- *Lyn Bowtell

Died:-
1992 Urel Albert died age 63

Events:-
1932 One Man's Family long-running-radio serial made it's debut - The series, tracing a fictional San Francisco family, the Barbours, ran for 27 years
1988 *The Stockmans Hall of Fame opens in Longreach, Qld

Recorded:-

Released:-
1963 Buck Owens "On The Bandstand" album released on Sundazed
1993 *Norma O'Hara Murphy released "Winds of Change" at Rose, Shamrock & Thistle Hotel in Sydney, NSW
1997 Dolly Parton "The Essential Dolly Parton, Vol. 2" album released on RCA
1997 Charley Pride "The Essential Charley Pride" album released on RCA
1997 Jimmie Rodger "The Essential Jimmie Rodgers album released on RCA
1997 Hank Snow "The Essential Hank Snow" album released on RCA
2007 *Graeme Clark "One For The Road" album released at Moonta Town Hall, South Australia

Charted:-
1944 Gene Autry "I Hang My Head And Cry" single charted to #4
1967 Eddy Arnold "The Best Of Eddy Arnold" album charted to #1
1967 Merle Haggard "I Am A Lonesome Fugitive" album charted to #3
1972 Johnny Cash "A Thing Call Love" album charted to #2
1972 Jerry Lee Lewis "The 'Killer' Rocks On" album charted to #4
1972 Bob Luman "When You Say Love" album charted to #38
1978 The Statler Brothers "Entertainers.....On And Off The Record" album charted to #5
1978 Bellamy Brothers "Slippin' Away" single charted to #19
1978 Bill Anderson "I Can't Wait Any Longer" single charted to #4
1978 The Amazing Rhythm Aces "Burning The Ballroom Down" album charted to #28
1978 Debby Boone "Baby I'm Yours" single charted to #33
1989 The Judds "River Of Time" album charted to #2
1989 Kathy Mattea "Willow In The Wind" album charted to #6
1989 T Graham Brown "Never Say Never" single charted to #30
1995 NASCAR-Runnin' Wide Open various artists compilation album charted to #13

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Birthdays:-
1896 Reverend Gary Davis born blind in Laurens, South Carolina - Gospel-blues singer, guitarist, banjoist, songwriter, performer, teacher, recording artist & minister - Master of the fingerpicking blues guitar style - Died May 5 1972
1925 Johnny Horton born in Los Angeles, California
1927 'Toby' Dick Ellis born in U.S, - Hillbilly singer who performed on WGEM Possum Holler Opry
1929 Johnny Horton born in Tyler, Texas
1933 Willie Nelson born in Abbott, Texas - Wrote "Hello Walls" for Faron young, "Pretty Paper" for Roy Orbison and "Crazy" for Patsy Cline. Launched Farm Aid in 1976
1946 *Neil Prodger born in Scotland - Bass guitarist with Ballarat band Chiodo in the 1980's
1962 Robert Reynolds born in Kansas City, Mousouri - The Mavericks
1968 *Mark Tempany
1971 Carolyn Dawn Johnson born in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada
1984 Tyler Wilkinson born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada - The Wilkinsons family band with sister Amanda and father Steve - Biggest hit single "26cents" #3 in 1998
---- *Martin Oakes

Died:-
1990 DeWitt Snuffy Jenkins age 81 died - Bluegrass banjo

Events:-
1995 Rosanne Cash married producer John Leventhal
Recorded:-

Released:-
2002 Shelley King "The Highway" album released
2002 Carter Family "The Carter Family: 1927-1934" album released on JSP
2002 Collin Raye "Super Hits" album released on Epic
2007 *Greg Champion/The Coodabeen Champions "Footy Songs 98-07" album released

Charted:-
1966 Willie Nelson "Country Favourites-Willie Nelson Style" album charted to #9
1966 Tex Williams "The Two Sides Of Tex Williams" album charted to #26
1977 Loretta Lynn "I Remember Patsy" album charted to #2
1977 Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville" single charted to #13 - His biggest hit
1977 Hank Williams Jr"One Night Stand" album charted to #33
1977 Hoyt Axton "Snowblind Friend" album charted to #36
1977 Cal Smith "I Just Came Home To Count The Memories" album charted to #38
1983 Ronnie Milsap "All Keyed Up" album charted to #2
1983 Waylon Jennings "It's Only Rock & Roll" album charted to #10
1983 Razzy Bailey "After The Great Depression" single charted to #19
1994 Mary Chapin Carpenter "I Like My Chances" single charted to #2
1994 Tracy Byrd "Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous" single charted to #4

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Birthdays:-
1894 Sam McGee born in Williamson County, Tennessee
1910 Ott Devine born in Gadsden, Alabama - WSM executive "Grand Ole Opry"
1929 Sonny James born James Loden in Hackleburg, Alabama
1931 Jimmy Gately born in Springfield, Missouri
1944 Rita Coolidge born in Nashville, Tennessee
1948 *Tom McIvor born Thomas Royden McIvor in Brisbane - Former pro rodeo rider - Singer/songwriter, wrote "Chainsaw" - First album released in 1980 - Two of his songs were recorded by Chris LeDoux
1954 Don King born in Fremont, Tennessee - Singer/songwriter
1965 Wayne "The Train" Hancock born in Dallas, Texas
1957 Tim McGraw born in Delhi, Louisiana
1973 Tammy Cochran born in Geneva, Oklahoma

Died:-

Events:-
1950 Springbok Radio launched as the first commercial radio station in South Africa - It closed in 1985
1954 Andy Griffin debuted on the Grand Ole Opry
1960 Silver Dollar City opened in Branson, Missouri - The theme park had previously been known as "Marvel Cave" It featured five frontier-styled buildings - A blacksmith shop, general store, ice cream parlor, doll shop, the Stage Coach Inn - The Herschend Family own the theme park
1964 Merle Kilgore joined Hank Williams Jr road show as opening act
1965 *Johnny Tapp did his first Saturday race broadcast in Sydney on the Macquarie Radio Network - It was only a few weeks before that broadcast that he had done his first full country race call at Wyong, N.S.W. -He recorded a song about champion pacer "Hondo Grattan" in 1974
1967 Elvis Presley & Priscilla Beaulieu married at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
1980 Loretta Lynne named "Artist Of The Decade" by the Academy Of Country Music
1991 BBC Radio 1 started broadcasting around the clock
1993 Charley Pride joined the Grand Ole Opry
1999 Charlie Robison married Emily Robison of The Dixie Chicks
2004 Joe Diffie's wife Theresa gave birth to Kylie Tarissa
2004 Tim McGraw made his acting debut in the movie "Black Cloud" at The Nashville Film Festival

Recorded:-
1998 *Reba McEntire "Reba: Recorded Live in Australia" Exclusive Radio Sampler mini album recorded at the Seagulls Stardust Room, Tweed Heads, New South Wales on May 1, 2 & 3 1998

Released:-
2001 South Sixty-Five "Dream Large" album released on Atlantic
2004 The Kruger Brothers "Choices" album released at MerleFest 2004 at Wilkesboro, North Carolina - First U.S. recorded album from Swiss group - Jens & Uwe Kruger & Joel Landsberg

Charted:-
1965 Connie Smith self titled album charted to #1
1971 Jerry Reed "When You're Hot, You're Hot" charted to #2 - His biggest hit album
1971 Dolly Parton "Joshua" album charted to #22
1976 Del Reeves & Billie Jo Spears "On The Rebound" single charted to #29
1976 Glen Campbell "Bloodline" album charted to #2
1976 Rex Allen Jr (Rex Allen & The Sons Of The Pioneers "Can You Hear These Pioneers" single charted to #17
1976 Joe Stampley "The Sheik Of Chicago" album charted to #38
1982 Don Williams "Listen To The Radio" album charted to #6
1982 The Bellamy Brothers "Where Are The Boys" album charted to #15
1982 Mel Tillis "It's A Long Way To Daytona" album charted to #38
1982 Gary Morris self titled album charted to #39
1993 John Anderson "Money In The Bank" single charted to #1
1999 Alabama featuring NSYNC "God Must Have Spent A Little Time On You" single charted to #3

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Birthdays:-
1881 Uncle Bud Landress born in Gwinnett County, Georgia - The Georgia Yellow Hammers
1903 Margaret "Sally" Waters born in Chattanooga, Tennessee - Sarie & Sally
1933 Glenn Honeycutt born in Belzoni, Mississsippi - Rockabilly singer
1919 Thelma Blackmon born in U.S. - Hillbilly artist
1940 Mickey Clark born Michael Clark in Louisville, Kentucky - Highest chart single "When I'm Over You (What You Gonna Do)" reached #54
1943 *Feyne Weaver born in Minyip, Victoria - Writer
1945 R. C. Bannon born Daniel H Shipley in Dallas, Texas
1946 Lesley Gore in New York, NY
1948 Ty Herndon born Boyd Tyrone Herndon in Meridian, Mississippi
1952 *Campbell McComas born in Melbourne - Satirist, humorist, speechmaker and impersonator - Moderator of ABC TV's "World Series Debating" - Died Jan 8 2005
1957 Mark Sissel born - Guitarist with Chris LeDoux's Western Underground
1963 Shawn Cuddy born Camross, Portlaoise, County, Laois, Ireland - In 1981, he and his sisters Elizabeth and Martina formed a country band, later going solo - His first single "Little Nell" became #1 on RTE's country chart - First album "The Calling Home" released in 1992 on Harmac Records - Albums include "The Calling Home" & "Just For You"
Died:-
1974 Roy Lee Centers shot and killed in a fight age 29 - The Clinch Mountain Boys
1980 *Dick Parry died - First performed on his 14th birthday on the "Boys Club Program from 7LA Launceston - Record for Spotlight Records - An unusual and distinctive style of singeing, combining a lisp and a drawled ending to his words, variety of yodelling styles and strange phrasing
1993 Millie Good died age 86 - Girls Of The Golden West
2001 Robert M Douglas died in Dayton, Tennessee age 101 - He was a past winner of the Smithsonian Institutions national fiddle contest
2003 George Wyle died in California age 87 - Writer of the "Gilligan's Island" theme and musical director for the Andy Williams Show
2004 Curtis Gordon died in Moultrie, Georgia age 73 - Western Swing, country, rockabilly singer songwriter, RCA recording artist - He did "Caffeine and Nicotine" & "Draggin'" Songs recorded by George Jones & Fats Domino - Worked with Chet Atkins, Hank Garland and Eddie Hill - Born Edward Curtis Gordon in 1928
2006 Eddie Tichner died - Manager of "The Byrds" - "Flying Burrito Brothers" - Emmylou Harris - Gram Parsons

Events:-
1932 Jack Benny Radio Show debuts - The comedian's show aired for more than 20 years & evolved into a popular TV show
1948 Hour Of Charm radio program broadcasts for the last time - The first "all-girl orchestra" on the air - All played multuple instruments and sang
1956 Sam Phillips signed Sonny Burgess to a recording contract and recorded Sonny and his band "The Pacers" the same day - Sonny was a Rockabilly singer/songwriter/lead guitarist
1965 "Early Bird" - A new Communications Satellite sends TV pictures from US to UK for first time
1972 The Indian Springs Bluegrass Festival debuted in Maryland

Recorded:-
1956 The Louvin Brothers recorded "Cash On The Barrelhead"

Released:-
1994 Mary McCaslin "Broken Promises" album released on Philo
1995 Webb Pierce "Greatest Hits: Finest Performances" album released on Sun
1998 Alabama "The Essential" album released on BNA
2000 Collin Raye "Tracks" album released on Epic
2000 Jim Reeves "Singles: 1953-1960" album released on BMG International

Charted:-
1960 Jeanne Black "He'll Have To Stay" single charted to #6
1964 Melba Montgomery "Bluegrass Hootenanny" album charted to #12
1964 George Jones & Melba Montgomery "Bluegrass Hootinanny" album charted to #12
1964 Hank Williams Jr. "Sings The Songs Of Hank Williams" album charted to #12
1970 Jerry Lee Lewis "The Best Of Jerry Lee Lewis" and "A Taste Of Country"" albums charted to #8 and #16
1970 Harlow Wilcox and the Oakies "Groovy Grubworm And Other Golden Guitar Greats" album charted to #31 - Session guitarist from Norman, Oklahoma
1970 Guy Drake "Welfare Cadilac" album charted to #33
1970 Buddy Alan "Down In New Orleans" single charted to #38
1992 Garth Brooks "The River" single charted to #1

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Birthdays:-
1859 Andy Adams born in Columbia City, Indiana - Cowboy author who published his first novel "The Log Of The Cowboy" in 1903
1909 Colorado Pete born in U.S. - Hillbilly singer who in the 1940's played in Kansas City, Missouri on KMBC's weekly Saturday night show, the Barn Dance Follies and a regular performer on their "Early Bird Jamboree" & "Dinnerbell Roundup" shows
1910 Curtis Massey born in Midland, Texas - Louise Massey & the Westerners
1912 Nonc (Uncle) Allie Young born in Basile, Louisiana - Cajun accordion player formed the Basile Cajun Band in 1984 - Died April 2003
1918 Jesse Carpenter born in U.S. - Hillbilly singer who performed on WSB Barn Dance - Died 16 January 1979
1928 Dave Dudley born David Darwin Pedruska in Spencer, WI - Father of Truck Driving Country Music - "Six Days On The Road" in 1963
1931 Jerry Chestnut born in Harlan County, Kentucky - Singer/songwriter
1937 Frankie Valli born Francis Castelluccio Newark NJ - Lead Singer of "Four Seasons"
1957 Scott "Castus" Moser born in Montrose, Connecticut - Highway 101
1968 Shane Minor born in Modesto, California
1973 Brad Martin born in Greenfield, Ohio - Honky tonk, new traditionalist country, progressive country, contemporary country
2006 *Karen Lynne and husband Martin Louis welcomed the birth of William Aaron

Died:-
1987 Red Taylor died - Fiddler
1989 Dave Stogner died - Texas swing bandleader
1996 Patsy Montana died age 83

Events:-
1950 *Gwen Hodges married Arthur Steinhardt at Trinity Lutheran Church, Laidley, Queensland - Moved to Ipswich, Queensland in 1969 - Gwen Steinhardt who started singing in church choirs is a member of "West Moreton Country Music Club" & "Country Music Heritage Association" - Organiser of Country gospel concerts in South East Queensland - Gwen recorded an album with Bob Salomon, another Ipswich country singer called "A Tribute To Les Wilson"
1971 National Public Radio began with 112 NPR station affiliates mostly at colleges and universities

Recorded:-

Released:-
2005 Jimmie Wilson "What Else Could Go Right" debut album released - From small town of Pine Knot, Kentucky

Charted:-
1969 Connie Smith "Connie's Country" album charted to #14
1969 Dave Dudley "One More Mile" album charted to #15
1969 Tammy Wynette "Inspiration" album charted to #19
1973 *Col Joye "Heaven Is My Woman's Love" single debuted at #32 on the Australian Top 40 Chart peaking at #3
1975 Mickey Gilley "Mickey's Movin' On" album charted to #9
1975 Brenda Lee "Sincerely, Brenda Lee"" album charted to #23
1975 Sonny James And The Country Gentlemen "A Little Bit South Of Saskatoon/Little Band Of Gold"
1980 Merle Haggard "The Way I Am" album charted to #16
1997 Sawyer Brown "Six Days On The Road" album charted to #8
1997 Aaron Tippin "Greatest Hits.....And Then Some" album charted to #1

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Birthdays:-
1902 Al Dexter born Clarence Albert Poindexter in Jacksonville, Texas
1922 Nelle Poe born in Mississippi - Poe Sisters
1922 Glenn Snoddy born in Shelbyville, Tennessee - Chief engineer of Owen Bradley's Quonset Hut Studio
1933 Bobby Austin born in Wenatchee, Washington - Singer/songwriter
1946 *Pete Hayes born in England - Came to Australia in 1949 - With brother Mike started playing bluegrass styled music releasing their first EP in 1963 followed by two albums with The Bluegrass Ramblers for W & G - A multi instrumentalist who played with The Hawking Brothers, Nite Trane & Hillbilly Lovechild Recorded a solo album "Life Goes On" Inducted into the Hands Of Fame in Tamworth in 1978 (Died 1 December 2003)
1947 *Cash Backman born Arvida Krastins in Germany - Arrived Australia October 1949
1948 Tim DuBois born in Grove, Oklahoma - Songwriter/producer/record company executive
1949 Stella Parton born in Sevierville, Tennessee
1954 Pia Zadora born Pia Schipani in Hoboken, New Jersey - Singer, actress - Three songs charted on Billboard Country Singles Chart "Baby It's You" single charted to #55 in 1980
1955 Robert Ellis Orrall born in Winthrop, Massachusetts - Singer/songwriter
1959 Randy Travis born Randy Bruce Traywick in Marshville, NC
1965 Durelle Ames born Durelle Upchurch in Gaffney, South Carolina - Her highest chart position was #72 in 1987 - Also recorded as De De Ames
---- *Shaza Leigh
---- *Felicity Urquhart

Died:-
1952 J. L. Joe Frank died age 52
1992 Hubert Davis died - Banjo player
1997 *Troy Jamieson died in a bulldozer accident in Toowoomba, Queensland - Bush Ballad singer, songwriter Keith Jamieson's son - Keith wrote a tribute song called "Troys Memory"
2004 George Gillespie died - Rock, country guitar, violin, banjo and mandolin player - Member of Night Shift

Events:-
1905 Kelowna British Columbia, Canada incorporated as a city on the shores of Lake Okanagan - Population over 89,000
1950 *Leyland Family of Ivan, Frances and sons Michael and Malcolm left England on board the Otranto, migrating to Australia - Mike & Mal became famous in the 60's for their travel documentaries
1963 The Wilburn Brothers nationally syndicated television show premieres

Recorded:-

Released:-
1999 Billy Joe Shaver "Electric Shaver" album released on New West
1999 Tim O'Brien "The Crossing" album released on Alula
2004 Chris LeDoux "Greatest Hits The Video Collection" video released

Charted:-
1959 Johnny Cash "You Dreamer You" single charted to #13 - Doubled sided single
1968 Merle Haggard "The Legend Of Bonnie & Clyde" album charted to #6
1968 Conway Twitty "Here's Conway Twitty & His Lonely Blue Boys" album charted to #12
1968 Dolly Parton "Just Because I'm A Woman" album charted to #22
1968 Elton Britt "The Jimmie Rodgers Blues" single charted to #26
1968 Glen Garrison "If I Lived Here" album charted to #39
1974 Bobby Bare "Marie Laveau" single charted to #1
1974 Waylon Jennings "This Time" album charted to #4
1974 Jim Ed Brown "It's That Time Of Night" single charted to #10
1974 Don Gibson "Snap Your Fingers" album charted to #21
1974 Susan Raye "The Best Of Susan Raye" album charted to #30
1975 Tammy Wynette "Greatest Hit's Volume 3" album charted to #28
1985 Bellamy Brothers "Old Hippie" single charted to #2
1985 Ray Charles with Mickey Gilley "It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind" single charted to #12
1985 John Anderson "It's All Over Now" single charted to #15
1991 Lorrie Morgan "Something In Red" album charted to #8
1996 Brooks & Dunn "Borderline" album charted to #1
1996 Toby Keith "Blue Moon" album charted to #6
1996 Mark Chesnutt "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" single charted to #37

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Birthdays:-
1911 Bill E "Cousin Wilbur" Wesbrooks born in Gibson Country, Tennessee - Country comedy/bassist
1917 Clyde Dillaha born in U.S.
1922 J. D. Miller born in Iota, Louisiana - Songwriter/producer/record company owner - He wrote "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" Alice "Al" Montgomery originally released the song on Miller's Feature Records label
1926 Thurston Moore born in Kentucky - Publisher
1927 *John Minson born
1934 Ace Cannon born in Grenada, Mississippi = Saxophonist/session musician
1938 Roni Stoneman born in Washington D. C. - Stoneman Family
1938 Samuel Morris Allred born in Austin, Texas - Geezinslaw Brothers
1942 Tammy Wynette - Born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Tupelo in Itawamba County, Mississippi
1955 Glen Duncan born in Columbus, Indiana - Lonesome Standard Time
1961 *Andrew Clermont born

Died:-
1972 Kenneth MacDonald died age 70 - Actor who made 31 films from 1923-1956, specializing in playing the "bad guy" in westerns - Best known as a judge in "Perry Mason" TV series
1972 Reverend Gary Davis died from heart attack - Blind gospel-blues singer, guitarist, banjoist, songwriter, performer, teacher, recording artist &minister - Master of the fingerpicking blues guitar style
2006 Pat Campbell died age 81 - Pioneer of country music broadcasting in Britain - Label manager for RCA Britain - Hosted BBC's Country Style program

Events:-
1990 *Paul Hogan comedian/actor married American actress Linda Kozlowski
2007 Howard Klein elected as President to The Board of the Carter Family Memorial Music Centre Inc (CFMMC) - He was instrumental in helping Janette Carter found CFMMC as a not-for-profit organization in 1979 - His wife Patricia Windrow, a painter, has served on the Board of CFMMC since it's founding and developed many projects, including formal portraits of Ms Carter, and children's colouring books
2007 Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree Radio Program celebrated their 60th Anniversary of 3,143 consecutive shows - Broadcast at the Texan Troubadour Theatre and hosted by Jeannie Seeley - Special guests were the 60's Texas Troubadours (Buddy Charlton, Don Mills, Juniour Pruneda & Leon Rhodes) and Steve Chapman

Recorded:-

Released:-
1969 Elvis Presley released single "In The Ghetto"
1998 LeAnn Rimes "Sitting On Top Of The World" album released on Curb
1998 Spade Cooley "Radio Broadcasts 1945" album released on Country Routes
1999 Hank Penny "Hollywood Western Swing 1944-1947" album released on Krazy Kat

Charted:-
1962 Walter Brennan & The Johnny Mann Singers "Old Rivers" single charted to #3
1965 *The Seekers "A World Of Our Own" single debuted at #18 on the Australian Top 40 Chart reaching #3
1970 *John Rowles "Cheryl Moana Marie" single hits #1 in New Zealand
1972 Mac Davis self titled album charted to #19
1973 Johnny Cash With The Carter Family & The Statler Brothers "The Gospel Road" album charted to #12
1973 Eddy Arnold "So Many Ways/If The Whole World Stopped Lovin'" album charted to #32
1973 Johnny Bush "Here Comes The World Again" single charted to #38
1979 Waylon Jennings "Greatest Hits" album charted to #1 - His greatest hit
1979 Jerry Lee Lewis self titled album charted to #23
1984 Reba McEntire "Just A Little Love" album charted to #23
1990 Garth Brooks "The Dance" single charted to #1
2001 The Clark Family Experience "Standin' Still" single charted to #34

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Birthdays:-
1904 Cliff Carlisle born in Taylorville, Kentucky - Singer/guitarist
1937 *Hedley Charles born in Burnie, Tasmania
1945 Jimmie Dale Gilmore born in Amarillo, Texas - Singer/songwriter/guitarist
1955 Judy Bailey born in Winchester, Kentucky - "Following The Feeling" Moe Bandy featuring Judy Bailey charted to #10 in 1980
1959 David Ray Robbins born in Atlanta, Georgia - Blackhawk
1965 Lory Lynn born in Gardena, California - Youngest of six children - Released debut album "The Life I Live" in 1999
1982 Amanda Scott born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada - Released first album in 2000 and "Chasing The Sky" in 2005

Died:-
1944 Luches Kessinger died age 37 - Kessinger Brothers
1995 Billy Hughes died age 86 - Fiddler/songwriter
2002 Otis Blackwell died age 70 in Nashville Tennessee- Songwriter/producer, composer of "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and many others
2007 *Neil Beeby died - Country music presenter on Saltbush and Spinifex and Australian Country program on 2XX Canberra A.C.T. - Capital News reporter for his local area

Events:-
1963 *New Zealand's First Locally Written Television Play "All Earth To Love" by Al Flett was produced at WNTV1 by Roy Melford - Cast included Pat Evison, Alan Jervis and Glenis Levestam
1989 Naomi Judd married Larry Strickland in Nashville

Recorded:-

Released:-
2000 Ray Price "Prisoner Of Love" album released on Buddha
2003 Johnny Burnette "Johnny Burnette Sings/ The Johnny Burnette Story" album released on BGO
2006 *Anita Ree "Bush Girls Heart" album released on Ringbarks Records

Charted:-
1957 Eddy Arnold "Misty Blue" single charted to #3
1967 Willie Nelson "Make Way For Willie Nelson" album charted to #9
1967 The Buckaroos "America's Most Wanted Band" album charted to #12
1967 David Houston "A Loser's Cathedral" album charted to #12
1967 Chet Atkins "It's A Guitar World" album charted to #19
1970 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition "Somethings Burning" single debuted on the Australian Top 40 Chart at #39 peaking at #8
1972 Johnny Cash "Kate" single charted to #2
1972 The Magic Organ "Street Fair" album charted to #25 - The Magic Organ is actually solo guitarist Jerry Smith
1972 Carl Smith "Don't Say You're Mine" album charted to #34
1978 Charlie Rich "I Still Believe In Love" album charted to #29
1995 Ty Herndon "What Mattered Most" album charted to #9

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Birthdays:-
1885 Gabby Hayes born George Francis Hayes, Wellsville, New York - Actor, best known for playing the sidekick to the leading man in western movies - Windy Halliday in Hopalong Cassidy movies 1935-1939 - As Gabby Whitaker, he appeared in more than 40 pictures between 1939-1946, usually with Roy Rogers but also with Gene Autry or Bill Elliot - Died 9 February 1969
1894 Riley Puckett born near Alpharetta, Georgia - Singer/musician with The Skillet Lickers - He was accidently blinded as a baby - Died from blood poisoning in 1946
1896 Gale Binkley born in Cheatham County, Tennessee - Fiddler/singer with banjo playing brother Amos & guitarist Tom Andrews in the Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers
1901 Gary Cooper born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana - Actor who starred in "High Noon" and other classic Westerns including "The Virginian" in 1929 "The Plainsman" in 1937 "The Westerner" in 1940
1914 Jack Elliott born John M. Elliott in Gowanda, New York - Composed songs for over 40 Western movies at Republic Studio, mainly for Roy Rogers & Dale Evans including - "Lights Of Old Santa Fe", "Rainbow Over Texas", "Bells Of Rosarita", "Bells Of San Angelo", "Song Of Arizona" Roy Rogers had commercial recordings of "Roll On Texas Moon", "Home In Oklahoma" - Died 3 January 1971
1915 Kyle Bailes born in Enoch, West Virginia
1927 Jim Lowe born in Springfield, Missouri
1942 Lorie Collins born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma - Collins Kids
1943 Terry Allen born in Wichita, Kansas - Singer/keyboard player
1965 *Heather Hoffman born Geelong, Victoria - Married to David and formed The Hoffmans Incprporating Moreton Bay Studio's
---- *Phil Younger

Died:-
1971 Cleveland Chenier died age 69 in Lafayette, Louisiana - Rubboard player
1998 Eddie Rabbitt - age 56 Died of Lung Cancer
2001 Robert Woltering died in Nashville, age 76 - Former manager of "The Music City News"

Events:-
1914 Sarnia in Ontario, Canada incorporated as a city
1955 Werly Fairburn joined the Louisiana Hayride
1993 Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada re-opened again after a fire in 1991 destroyed most of it's interior - Many local Cape Breton performers and visitors including Stompin' Tom Connors, Michelle Wright have performed on it's stage

Recorded:-

Released:-
2002 Doyle Lawson "The Hard Game Of Love" album released on Sugar Hill
2002 Kellie Coffey "When You Lie Next To Me" album released on BNA
2006 *Jeff Gibson debut album "Born For The Saddle" launched in his home town at the Kyogle Bowling Club, N.S.W.

Charted:-
1949 Bob Atcher "Tennessee Border" single charted to #12
1960 *Rolf Harris "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" single debuted at #12 on the Australian Top 40 Chart reaching #1
1960 Johnny Horton "Sink The Bismark" single debuted on the Australian Top 40 Chart at #27 peaking at #3
1966 Wilma Burgess "Don't Touch Me" single charted to #12
1966 Ernest Tubb "By Request" album charted to #28
1977 Bill Anderson "Head To Toe" single charted to #7
1977 Jim Ed Brown "Born Believer" single charted to #12
1977 Tom T Hall "About Love" album charted to #20
1983 George Jones "Shine On" album charted to #7
1983 Don Williams "Yellow Moon" album charted to #12
1983 John Conlee "John Conlee's Greatest Hits" album charted to #17
1983 Mickey Gilley "Fool For Your Love" album charted to #20
1983 Mel Tillis "After All This Time" album charted to #34
1988 Bellamy Brothers "I'll Give You All My Love Tonight" single charted to #6
1988 Rodney Crowell "Diamonds & Dirt" album charted to #8 - His biggest hit

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Birthdays:-
1885 Gabby Hayes born George Francis Hayes, Wellsville, New York - Actor, best known for playing the sidekick to the leading man in western movies - Windy Halliday in Hopalong Cassidy movies 1935-1939 - As Gabby Whitaker, he appeared in more than 40 pictures between 1939-1946, usually with Roy Rogers but also with Gene Autry or Bill Elliot - Died 9 February 1969
1894 Riley Puckett born near Alpharetta, Georgia - Singer/musician with The Skillet Lickers - He was accidently blinded as a baby - Died from blood poisoning in 1946
1896 Gale Binkley born in Cheatham County, Tennessee - Fiddler/singer with banjo playing brother Amos & guitarist Tom Andrews in the Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers
1901 Gary Cooper born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana - Actor who starred in "High Noon" and other classic Westerns including "The Virginian" in 1929 "The Plainsman" in 1937 "The Westerner" in 1940
1914 Jack Elliott born John M. Elliott in Gowanda, New York - Composed songs for over 40 Western movies at Republic Studio, mainly for Roy Rogers & Dale Evans including - "Lights Of Old Santa Fe", "Rainbow Over Texas", "Bells Of Rosarita", "Bells Of San Angelo", "Song Of Arizona" Roy Rogers had commercial recordings of "Roll On Texas Moon", "Home In Oklahoma" - Died 3 January 1971
1915 Kyle Bailes born in Enoch, West Virginia
1927 Jim Lowe born in Springfield, Missouri
1942 Lorie Collins born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma - Collins Kids
1943 Terry Allen born in Wichita, Kansas - Singer/keyboard player
1965 *Heather Hoffman born Geelong, Victoria - Married to David and formed The Hoffmans Incprporating Moreton Bay Studio's
---- *Phil Younger

Died:-
1971 Cleveland Chenier died age 69 in Lafayette, Louisiana - Rubboard player
1998 Eddie Rabbitt - age 56 Died of Lung Cancer
2001 Robert Woltering died in Nashville, age 76 - Former manager of "The Music City News"

Events:-
1914 Sarnia in Ontario, Canada incorporated as a city
1955 Werly Fairburn joined the Louisiana Hayride
1993 Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada re-opened again after a fire in 1991 destroyed most of it's interior - Many local Cape Breton performers and visitors including Stompin' Tom Connors, Michelle Wright have performed on it's stage

Recorded:-

Released:-
2002 Doyle Lawson "The Hard Game Of Love" album released on Sugar Hill
2002 Kellie Coffey "When You Lie Next To Me" album released on BNA
2006 *Jeff Gibson debut album "Born For The Saddle" launched in his home town at the Kyogle Bowling Club, N.S.W.

Charted:-
1949 Bob Atcher "Tennessee Border" single charted to #12
1960 *Rolf Harris "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" single debuted at #12 on the Australian Top 40 Chart reaching #1
1960 Johnny Horton "Sink The Bismark" single debuted on the Australian Top 40 Chart at #27 peaking at #3
1966 Wilma Burgess "Don't Touch Me" single charted to #12
1966 Ernest Tubb "By Request" album charted to #28
1977 Bill Anderson "Head To Toe" single charted to #7
1977 Jim Ed Brown "Born Believer" single charted to #12
1977 Tom T Hall "About Love" album charted to #20
1983 George Jones "Shine On" album charted to #7
1983 Don Williams "Yellow Moon" album charted to #12
1983 John Conlee "John Conlee's Greatest Hits" album charted to #17
1983 Mickey Gilley "Fool For Your Love" album charted to #20
1983 Mel Tillis "After All This Time" album charted to #34
1988 Bellamy Brothers "I'll Give You All My Love Tonight" single charted to #6
1988 Rodney Crowell "Diamonds & Dirt" album charted to #8 - His biggest hit

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Birthdays:-
1892 Jimmie Tarlton from Darby & Tarlton born in Cheraw, South Carolina
1922 Homer Bailes of The Bailes Brothers born in Kanawha County, West Virginia
1928 Benny Martin born in Sparta, Tennessee - Bluegrass fiddler
1934 Dotty Jean Fillmore born in U.S. - Hillbilly performer
1940 Rick Nelson born Eric Hilliard Nelson in Teaneck, New Jersey - Died Dec 31 1985 De Kalb, Texas in Plane Crash
1942 Jack Blanchard born in Buffalo, New York - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan
1953 Billy Burnette born in Memphis, Tennessee - Singer/songwriter
1968 Del Anthony Gray born in Hamilton, Ohio - Little Texas
1963 Keith Harling born Greenwood, South Carolina
---- *Ray Cullen
---- *Nash Chambers

Died:-
1952 Leon Huff died age 39 - Light Crust Doughboys
1968 George D Hay died age 72 in Virginia Beach, Virginia -

Events:-

Recorded:-
1958 Brenda Lee recorded "Ring-A-My-Phone" & "The Golden Key"
Released:-
1995 Charlie Major "The Other Side" album released on Arista
2001 Connie Smith "Born To Sing" album released on Bear Family
2001 Rosie Flores released "Speed Of The Sound" on Eminent Records
2002 Mickey Newbury "Winter Winds" album released on Mountain Retreat

Charted:-
1965 Johnny Bond "Ten Little Bottles" album charted to #12
1968 *Eric Jupp & His Orchestra "Skippy" Extended Play debuted at #37 on the Australian Top 40 Chart peaking at #21
1971 Lynn Anderson "You're My Man" single charted to #1
1971 Marty Robbins "Greatest Hits, Vol. III" album charted to #5
1993 Patty Loveless "Only What I Feel" album charted to #9
1993 Tanya Tucker "Greatest Hits 1990-1992" album chartedt to #15
1971 Conway Twitty "How Much More Can She Stand" album charted to #5
1971 Porter Wagoner "Simple As I Am" album charted to #11
1975 *Olivia Newton John "Have You Ever Been Mellow" single debuted at #37 on the Australian Top 40 Chart peaking at #18
1976 Don Williams "Harmony" album charted to #1 - His biggest selling album
1982 Lee Greenwood "Inside And Out" album charted to #12
1982 John Conlee "Busted" album charted to #21
1993 Toby Keith self titled album charted to #17
1993 Ricky Lynn Gregg self titled album charted to #15

[Heather]

Birthdays:-
1904 Big Slim, The Lone Cowboy born H. C. McAuliffe in Bluefield, West Virginia - WWVA Original Jamboree and WPIT Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1909 Don Messer born in Tweedside, New Brunswick, Canada - In 1934 started regular broadcasts as Don Messer & His New Brunswick Lumberjacks - Recorded for Melotone in 1938 before moving to CFCY Charlottetown to take over the Islanders in 1939 - In 1959 Don Messer & The Islanders started on CBC-TV running for 10 years - Died 26 March 1973
1914 Hank Snow born Clarence Eugene Snow in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada - Died Dec 20 1999
1914 Milton Estes born in Arthur, Tennessee - Hillbilly singer who performed on the Grand Ole Opry - Died 23 August 1963
1916 Zeke Morris born in Old Fort, North Carolina - Bluegrass singer/multi-instrumentalist
1937 Sonny Curtis born in Meadow, Texas - The Crickets
1944 Richie Furay born in Yellow Springs, Ohio - Poco
1946 Bobby Lewis born in Hodgenville, Kentucky
---- *Jim Haynes Born in Sydney, NSW

Died:-
1983 Bob Neal died age 65 - Country music promoter
1984 Nudie Cohn died age 81 in North Hollywood, California - Clothing designer for the stars
1989 Keith Whitley died from alcohol poisoning in Goodletsville, Tennessee age 33
2001 James Myers died in Nashville age 81 - Wrote "Rock Around The Clock"

Events:-
1850 *Horsham Victoria notified as a village site
1887 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show first international performance, opens at the Earls Court showground in London, England
1921 *New Guinea Act come into force - Military administration in the Mandated Territory is replaced by a civilian government
1963 *Leyland Brothers Darling River Expedition with Mike & Mal Leyland and Keith Davey reached the Murray River after 68 day on the river - The film "Down The Darling" of the trip sold to Channel 9 and went to air in November 1963 - The first travel documentary of it's kind
1965 *Bruce Mason's Play "The Evening Paper" adapted from his stage original, became New Zealand Television's first full-length dramatic production
1998 *Jim Ferricks was posthumously honoured with the Queensland Award of Recognition in Country Music on 9 May 1998
2005 Kenny Chesney married Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger on the island of St John in the US Virgin Islands

Recorded:-

Released:-
2000 Jerry Reed "Alabama Wild Man/Jerry Reed Explores Guitar Country" 2 for 1 album released on One Way
2000 Jerry Reed "Better Things In Life/Cookin'" 2 for 1 album released on One Way
2000 Jerry Reed "Georgia Sunshine/Oh, What A Woman" 2 for 1 album released on One Way

Charted:-
1953 Bonnie Lou "Seven Lonely Days" album charted to #7
1960 Johnny Cash "Smiling Bill McCall" single charted to #13
1970 Buck Owens & Susan Raye "We're Gonna Get Together" album charted to #10
1970 Eddy Arnold "The Best Of Eddy Arnold, Vol. II" album charted to #26
1970 Bobbie Gentry "Fancy" album charted to #34
1970 The Strangers "Merle Haggard-Introducing My Friends The Strangers" album charted to #34
1970 Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton "Once More" album charted to #7
1981 Jim Ed Brown "Don't Bother To Knock" single charted to #13
1981 John Anderson "John Anderson 2" album charted to #25
1981 Ed Bruce "One To One" album charted to #29
1987 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Hold On" album charted to #14
1987 Bellamy Brothers "Country Rap" album charted to #31
1992 George Strait "Holding My Own" album charted to #5
1998 Trace Adkins "Big Time" single charted to #27