Mar 4, 1976

Weird concert moment: Mountain Smoke, a bluegrass band featuring Vince Gill, opens for Kiss at the Oklahoma City Civic Center. Gill and crew are booed off stage; he flashes a middle finger to the crowd as they walk off

Mar 4, 1975

Mac Davis wins Favorite Male Musical Performer and Olivia Newton-John the female honor in the first People's Choice Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Other winners: The Osmonds, Barbra Streisand, John Wayne and Mary Tyler Moore

Mar 4, 1974

Cher picks up a gold single from the RIAA for her pop hit "Half Breed." The record is produced by future country producer Snuff Garrett

Mar 4, 1973

RCA releases Elvis Presley's two-sided single: "Steamroller Blues" and "Fool"

Mar 4, 1973

Scotty Stoneman dies in a Nashville hospital after an alcoholic binge that led him to drink shaving lotion. The son of country pioneer Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, he joined five siblings to create The Stoneman Family, which earned the Country Music Association's Vocal Group of the Year honor in 1967

Mar 4, 1972

Tammy Wynette's "Bedtime Story" rests at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart

Mar 4, 1972

Tom T. Hall performs "The Year That Clayton Delaney Died" on "Hee Haw." The episode also features Susan Raye, George "Goober" Lindsey, Roy Clark and Buck Owens, who covers "Alabam"

Mar 4, 1971

Jason Sellers is born in Gilmer, Texas. Signed for a short time to RCA Records, he writes Reba McEntire's "Strange," Joe Nichols' "Sunny And 75" and Jason Aldean's duet with Kelly Clarkson, "Don't You Wanna Stay." Sellers also sings background vocals on several hits by his ex-wife, Lee Ann Womack

Mar 4, 1970

Ferlin Husky's 17-year-old son Danny, who plays drums in Husky's band, dies in a storm-related car accident in Kentucky

Mar 4, 1970

Sonny James sings "Only The Lonely" on CBS-TV's "Hee Haw." Hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark, the episode also features musical guest Wanda Jackson, who performs "If I Had A Hammer"