About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • December 26, 2024 CST

  • Time
  • This Month Help
  • Recreates a specific month in country music history
  •    
    • Mar 1, 1973
    Former Sun Records owner Sam Phillips takes over radio station WQLT in Florence, Alabama. Twenty-one years later, the road that runs by the studio will be renamed Sam Phillips Street
    Mar 1, 1973
    Lynn Anderson records "Sing About Love" during an afternoon session at the Columbia Studios in Nashville
    Mar 1, 1973
    The animated "Charlotte's Web" appears in movie houses. Rex Allen narrates the film, which also features voiceovers by Debbie Reynolds, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde and Danny Bonaduce
    Mar 1, 1973
    Decca Records is folded with its artists moving to MCA. The last country album released on the Decca label was Webb Pierce's "I'm Gonna Be A Swinger." Also shifting to MCA: Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Cal Smith, Bill Anderson and others
    Mar 2, 1973
    Anne Murray performs "Snowbird" and "Danny's Song" while hosting NBC-TV's "The Midnight Special," where The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band covers "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)." Other guests: Don McLean, Steve Martin, The Association and Badfinger
    Mar 2, 1973
    Fiddler Joe "Big Red" Hayes dies from a heart ailment in the arms of Vassar Clements at the Free Trade Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, after a performance with Connie Smith. Hayes co-wrote the classic "A Satisfied Mind"
    Mar 3, 1973
    Cal Smith bubbles up to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "The Lord Knows I'm Drinking"
    Mar 3, 1973
    Wanda Jackson, Tony Booth and pop singer Frankie Laine are the musical guests on the week's edition of "Hee Haw." The Hagers sing "Burning Love" during the episode
    Mar 3, 1973
    Songwriter Ben Peters wins Best Country Song, for "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'," during the 15th annual Grammy awards at the Tennessee Theater in Nashville. The album it came from, "Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs," earns Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
    Mar 4, 1973
    RCA releases Elvis Presley's two-sided single: "Steamroller Blues" and "Fool"
    Displaying : 1 - 10 of 67 / Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7



  • 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!