- RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
- April 25, 2024 CDT
Places-
Apr 20, 1947
Songwriter/record producer Buddy Cannon is born in Lexington, Tennessee. He writes George Strait's "Give It Away" and Vern Gosdin's "Set 'Em Up Joe," and produces hits for Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Chely Wright and Sara Evans
Apr 21, 1947
Hank Williams records "Move It On Over" and "I Saw The Light" at Nashville's Castle Studio in his first MGM recording session. Also on the date: "Six More Miles (To The Graveyard)" and "(Last Night) I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep"
May 3, 1947
Ernest Tubb's Record Shop opens at 720 Commerce Street in Nashville. The event draws a number of artists, including Eddy Arnold, Clyde Moody, Johnny Bond, Lew Childre and Curly Fox & Texas Ruby
May 21, 1947
Songwriter Janis Carnes is born in Shelbyville, Tennessee. Her credits include three hits for The Whites plus Alabama's "When It All Goes South"
Jun 28, 1947
Songwriter Kim Williams is born in Kingsport, Tennessee. A 2012 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he creates Randy Travis' "Three Wooden Crosses," Reba McEntire's "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" and Garth Brooks' "Ain't Goin' Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)"
Aug 4, 1947
Hank Williams records "Honky Tonk Blues" for the first time at Nashville's Castle Studios. He cuts the hit version of the song four years later
Aug 11, 1947
Decca Records has its first Nashville recording session at the Castle Studios in the Tulane Hotel, with Red Foley, Ernest Tubb and Milton Estes. Tubb records "That Wild And Wicked Look In Your Eye"
Aug 12, 1947
Red Foley records "Tennessee Saturday Night" and "Blues In My Heart" at the Castle Studio in downtown Nashville
Aug 17, 1947
Gary Talley is born in Memphis, Tennessee. A member of the pop group The Box Tops, he sings background vocals on the 1982 Willie Nelson country single "Always On My Mind"
Nov 6, 1947
Hank Williams records "Honky Tonkin'" and "I'm A Long Gone Daddy" at Nashville's Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel
Displaying : 400 - 410 of 12613 / Page << | 1... | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | ...1262 | >>
- 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!