Sep 22, 1954

The Randolph Scott western "The Bounty Hunter" debuts in theaters. It earns a mention in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"

Sep 22, 1954

Sun releases Elvis Presley's "Good Rockin' Tonight"

Sep 22, 1953

Hank Snow records "Would You Mind?" at Thomas Productions in Nashville

Sep 22, 1952

The Louvin Brothers record "Let Us Travel, Travel On" in their first session for Capitol Records. The song is reprised by Marty Stuart & Del McCoury in the award-winning tribute album "Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers"

Sep 22, 1952

Woody Guthrie is released from Brooklyn State Hospital in New York. During the previous four months, he was treated at three different hospitals for alcoholism but later diagnosed with a neurological ailment, Huntington's chorea

Sep 22, 1951

Lefty Frizzell headlines one of country music's first stadium shows, at Griffith Park in Washington, D.C. The lineup also features Ernest Tubb, Flatt & Scruggs, Moon Mullican, Carl Smith and the Duke of Paducah, drawing 14,000 fans

Sep 22, 1950

Songwriter Larry W. Johnson is born in Lebanon, Kentucky. He co-writes Tim McGraw's "Don't Take The Girl"

Sep 22, 1948

Eddie Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has his third child, Wayne Stoneman

Sep 22, 1947

Columbia Records releases Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys' original version of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky"

Sep 22, 1944

Recording engineer Roger Nichols is born in Oakland, California. A Grammy winner for his work with Steely Dan, he participates in albums for Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell and John Denver, producing Denver's "Dreamland Express"