RolandNote.com: The Ultimate Country Music Database

RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
October 5, 2024 CDT
Places
State Help

Aug 24, 1961

Patsy Cline records "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)." Twenty years later, her vocal part is technologically combined with the voice of the late Jim Reeves, who also recorded the song, for a posthumous duet

Aug 25, 1961

Patsy Cline records "Strange," written by Mel Tillis, and "You're Stronger Than Me" at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville. Michelle Branch covers the former song and Rebecca Lynn Howard remakes the latter one 40 years later on the tribute album "Remembering Patsy Cline"

Aug 26, 1961

Ray Pillow makes his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry

Aug 30, 1961

Brenda Lee records the pop hits "Break It To Me Gently" and "Fool #1" at Nashville's Bradley Recording Studio

Sep 1, 1961

Claude King records the final version of "The Comancheros" in an overnight session at Nashville's Bradley Recording Studio

Sep 5, 1961

Jim Reeves records "(How Can I Write On Paper) What I Feel In My Heart" and "Losing Your Love" during a midday session at RCA Studio B in Nashville

Sep 7, 1961

Jimmy Elledge records the Willie Nelson-penned pop hit "Funny How Time Slips Away" in Nashville

Sep 8, 1961

"A-Team" guitarist Hank Garland goes into a coma after a car accident near Springfield, Tennessee. Noted for his work with such acts as Elvis Presley, Faron Young and The Everly Brothers, Garland never plays on another recording session

Sep 8, 1961

Loretta Lynn records "Success" in the afternoon at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio on Music Row in Nashville

Sep 11, 1961

Banjo player Richard Bailey is born in Memphis, Tennessee. He becomes a member of the bluegrass band The SteelDrivers, nominees for a country Grammy in 2009

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!