RolandNote.com: The Ultimate Country Music Database

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

Jun 7, 2005

Simon "Si" Waronker, who founded Liberty Records in 1955, dies at his Beverly Hills home. The label gave Willie Nelson his first hit. The Liberty name was later reinstated for hits by Kenny Rogers, Dottie West, Tanya Tucker and Garth Brooks

Jun 21, 2005

Songwriter Paul Westmoreland dies after a struggle with dementia in Sacramento. He wrote the western-swing classic "Detour," which was a hit for Spade Cooley, Foy Willing, Wesley Tuttle and Elton Britt

Jun 27, 2005

Songwriter Robert Byrne is found dead in his Nashville home. Among his hits: Shenandoah's "Two Dozen Roses," The Forester Sisters' "Men" and Earl Thomas Conley's "What I'd Say." The loss inspires Phil Vassar to write "Last Day Of My Life"

Jul 4, 2005

Big Al Downing dies of complications from leukemia at a hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. The singer/songwriter played piano on Wanda Jackson's "Let's Have A Party" and wrote Tom Jones' "Touch Me (I'll Be Your Fool Once More)"

Jul 22, 2005

R&B singer/songwriter Eugene Record dies of cancer in Chicago. A founding member of The Chi-Lites, he wrote and sang lead on the original version of "Oh Girl," remade as a country hit by Con Hunley in 1982

Aug 6, 2005

Lester Buchanan dies in Tampa, Florida. He was one-half of The Buchanan Brothers, who gained fame for their 1946 hit "Atomic Power"

Aug 9, 2005

Steel guitarist Hal Rugg dies of cancer in Tucson, Arizona. A member of the Grand Ole Opry house band from 1963-1979, he played on hits by Loretta Lynn, Bobby Bare, Webb Pierce and Roy Clark, among others

Aug 12, 2005

Cajun fiddler Rufus Thibodeaux dies in a Nashville nursing home. He often played with Jimmy C. Newman, appearing on his hit "Cry, Cry Darling"

Aug 16, 2005

Fiddler Vassar Clements dies of lung cancer at his Nashville home. Noted for his work in numerous genres, he played in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys and appeared on each of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" albums

Sep 14, 2005

Record producer Ray Ruff dies of an apparent heart attack in Saugus, California. He produced 1970s hits for Hank Williams Jr., Stephanie Winslow and T.G. Sheppard

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!