About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • December 23, 2024 CST

  • Miscellaneous
  • Timelines Help
  • Slice and dice country music history by a specific kind of event: birth, death, gold album, Macy�s Thanksgiving Day Parade appearance - more than 250 ways to look at recurring events
  •    
    • Oct 2, 1998
    Actor, singer and entrepreneur Gene Autry dies of cancer at his home in Studio City, California. The singing cowboy had five stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, owned the California Angels and became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Oct 5, 1998
    Tom Diskin, who carried out many of Colonel Tom Parker's duties for Elvis Presley, dies at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville five days after he was injured in a car accident
    Oct 11, 1998
    T. Tommy Cutrer dies of a heart attack in Gallatin, Tennessee. He served as a Grand Ole Opry announcer during a 10-year stint that ended in 1964 and worked as the announcer on ABC-TV's "The Johnny Cash Show"
    Oct 14, 1998
    Accordion player Frankie Yankovic dies at his home in Tampa. Nicknamed "America's Polka King," he registered three country hits during the late-1940s
    Oct 15, 1998
    Country disc jockey Hugh Cherry dies from cancer in Long Beach, California. He held influential on-air stints in Nashville and Los Angeles in the 1950s and '60s, becoming one of the original 1977 inductees in the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame
    Nov 16, 1998
    J.D. Sumner, the bass singer with gospel music's Stamps Quartet, dies of a heart attack in a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, hotel room. He performed on such Elvis Presley hits as "Burning Love," "Moody Blue" and "Way Down"
    Nov 18, 1998
    Fiddler and bass player Wade Ray dies in Sparta, Illinois. He worked with such artists as Roy Rogers, Rex Allen, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ray Price and Ernest Tubb
    Nov 29, 1998
    Drummer David "Butch" McDade dies of cancer in Maryville, Tennessee. He was a founding member of The Amazing Rhythm Aces, who gained mid-1970s hits with "Third Rate Romance," "The End Is Not In Sight (The Cowboy Tune)" and "Amazing Grace (Used To Be Her Favorite Song)"
    Dec 25, 1998
    Guitarist/songwriter Bryan MacLean dies of a heart attack suffered at a restaurant in Los Angeles. MacLean penned "Don't Toss Us Away," an album cut for his former band, Lone Justice. The song was also a 1989 country hit for Patty Loveless
    Dec 30, 1998
    Johnny Moore, of The Drifters, dies of a respiratory ailment in London, England. He sang lead on "Ruby, Baby," a 1956 R&B classic that was covered as a country hit for Billy "Crash" Craddock in 1975



    Displaying : 1000 - 1010 of 2092 / Page << | 1... | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | ...210 | >>

  • The Ultimate Country Music Database


    • RolandNote.com is a detailed country music database compiled by veteran music journalist Tom Roland that chronicles more than 60,000 events and 10,000 recordings.

     

    Discover what happened in country music on a particular date or in a particular month, get the history of your favorite country songs or your favorite country artists.

     

    From George Jones to George Strait, from the Carter Family to Carrie Underwood, from Johnny Cash to Jason Aldean, from Hank Williams to HARDY, from Merle Haggard to Miranda Lambert.

     

    RolandNote.com is the ultimate country music database!