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    • Aug 8, 1921
    Webb Pierce is born in West Monroe, Louisiana. He gains a reputation for a nasal twang and garish stage persona, but becomes one of the biggest honky-tonk stars of the 1950s through such titles as "I Ain't Never," "In The Jailhouse Now" and "There Stands The Glass." He reaches the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
    Aug 8, 1938
    Webb Pierce receives a $5 guitar from his mother for his 12th birthday. In exchange, he promises not to bang on the buckets while he retrieves water from a nearby spring
    Jun 6, 1942
    Webb Pierce marries Betty Jane Lewis, while stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana, with the U.S. Army
    Feb 10, 1945
    Webb Pierce becomes a member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 116 in Shreveport, Louisiana
    Apr 14, 1950
    Webb Pierce makes his first appearance on "The Louisiana Hayride"
    Mar 7, 1951
    Webb Pierce conducts his first recording session for Decca Records, at the Castle Studio in Nashville. The session includes "Drifting Texas Sand," which he re-records nine years later
    Aug 13, 1951
    Webb Pierce records "Wondering" in an evening session at Nashville's Castle Recording Studio in the Tulane Hotel
    Oct 1, 1951
    Decca releases Webb Pierce's first hit, "Wondering"
    Feb 14, 1952
    Webb Pierce hires Tommy Hill, a future songwriter and record producer, as a fiddler in his band. Hill writes Pierce's "Slowly" and Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear"
    Feb 29, 1952
    Webb Pierce records "That Heart Belongs To Me" during the afternoon at the Castle Studio in Nashville
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