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    • Jun 1, 1961
    Tex Ritter throws a party for the Los Angeles Dodgers at his home in Toluca Lake, California. The guests include first baseman Gil Hodges and pitchers Don Drysdale and Ron Perranoski
    Sep 6, 1961
    Webb Pierce records "Sands Of Gold" and the Tex Ritter-written "Cow Town"
    Sep 20, 1961
    Tex Ritter stars in his first theatrical production in almost three decades, "The Stovepipe Hat," as it opens at the Music Box Theater in Los Angeles. The show closes three nights later
    Sep 22, 1961
    "Five Star Jubilee" ends a six-month run on NBC. The country variety series, telecast from Springfield, Missouri, rotated five hosts: Rex Allen, Snooky Lanson, Tex Ritter, Carl Smith and Jimmy Wakely
    Mar 17, 1963
    A Grand Ole Opry road show pays homage to Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins at the Memorial Building in Kansas City, Kansas, where they gave their final concert 12 days prior. The tribute comes at the end of a concert, with Tex Ritter performing "I Dreamed Of A Hill-billy Heaven"
    Dec 26, 1963
    Jimmy Dean sings "Jingle! Jangle! Jingle!" as he introduces his guests on ABC's "The Jimmy Dean Show," including Tex Ritter, who sings "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" and recites the Gettysburg Address. Dean also duets with Patty Duke on "A Bushel And A Peck"
    Nov 5, 1964
    Two days after Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater in the presidential election, the Country Music Association re-elects Tex Ritter as its president. "I had another president in mind," Ritter says, "but I want you to know I'm mighty thankful"
    Nov 6, 1964
    Tex Ritter is added to the Country Music Hall Of Fame during a ceremony at the Loew's Theater in Nashville
    Jun 10, 1965
    After years of recording primarily in Los Angeles, newly-minted Country Music Hall of Famer Tex Ritter holds his first Nashville recording session
    Jun 12, 1965
    Tex Ritter becomes a member of the Grand Ole Opry. His first performance during the evening is "Deck Of Cards"
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