About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • December 27, 2024 CST
  • People
  • Timeline Help
  • An instant history for your favorite artists, plus producers, musicians, songwriters and others
    • Feb 26, 1955
    Lillie Williams, Hank Williams' mother, dies in Montgomery, Alabama
    Feb 9, 1960
    The Hollywood City Council holds the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among those honored in its initial installment: Hank Williams, Sonny James, Elvis Presley, Johnny Mercer, Lefty Frizzell, Gene Autry and Jimmy Wakely
    Dec 23, 1960
    Two 150-pound marble flower vases and a marble replica of Hank Williams' hat are stolen from his grave in Montgomery, Alabama
    Feb 3, 1961
    Tex Ritter records "I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven," namechecking late country stars Carson Robison, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. Also referenced: Red Foley, Ernest Tubb, Eddy Arnold, Gene Autry and Eddie Dean, among others
    Nov 3, 1961
    Hank Williams, music publisher Fred Rose and Jimmie Rodgers are the first inductees in the Country Music Hall Of Fame
    Dec 11, 1963
    Hank Williams Jr. has his first recording session, at age 14, in Nashville. The session features some of his father's songs: "You Win Again," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Cold, Cold Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
    Jan 1, 1964
    Eleven years after Hank Williams' death, Audrey Williams starts a promotional concert tour for Hank Williams Jr.'s first record, "Long Gone Lonesome Blues," in Canton, Ohio, the city in which Hank Senior was scheduled to play the day he died
    Nov 4, 1964
    The MGM movie biography of Hank Williams, "Your Cheatin' Heart," opens in Montgomery, Alabama, with Hank Williams Jr. appearing on the soundtrack. Governor George Wallace declares Hank Williams Week
    Nov 6, 1964
    "Your Cheatin' Heart" makes its Nashville premiere, with actor George Hamilton portraying the late Hank Williams. Hank Williams Jr. provides the voice of his father for the movie's soundtrack
    Jan 7, 1965
    Hank Williams Jr. records his voice alongside Hank Sr.'s vocals on "Crazy Heart" and "May You Never Be Alone" in Nashville in the first session for the Grammy-nominated album "Father & Son"
    Displaying : 160 - 170 of 357 / Page << | 1... | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | ...36 | >>

  • 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!