About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • April 18, 2024 CDT

  • Places
  • State Help
  •    
    • Aug 26, 1949
    Merry Christmas, a few months early: Ernest Tubb records "White Christmas" and "Blue Christmas" in an afternoon session at the Castle Studio in Nashville. It marks the first Tubb session for guitarist Billy Byrd, an essential Texas Troubadour
    Sep 7, 1949
    Hank and Audrey Williams buy a home at 4916 Franklin Road in Nashville
    Sep 20, 1949
    Elvis Presley's family moves into Lauderdale Courts, a public housing project in Memphis. Rent is $35 monthly
    Oct 11, 1949
    On her 17th birthday, Dottie West--then known as Dorothy Marsh--breaks down in the principal's office and admits her father has been raping her for years. Her father is sentenced to 40 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary
    Oct 14, 1949
    Little Jimmy Dickens records "A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed" during the afternoon at Nashville's Castle Recording Studio
    Oct 22, 1949
    Bill Monroe records in Nashville for the first time, at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel. The session includes "Can't You Hear Me Callin'," later the title for a Monroe biography. It also marks the first time Mac Wiseman records with Monroe
    Oct 25, 1949
    Ernest Tubb becomes a critic: The singer begins a six-month stint on Nashville's WMAK Radio, with a daily, one-hour show, "Ernest Tubb's Record Roundup," in which he offers his opinions on the latest releases
    Oct 29, 1949
    Dewey Phillips debuts his "Red Hot 'N' Blue" radio show on WHBQ in Memphis. Five years later, he becomes the first deejay to play a record by Elvis Presley
    Nov 7, 1949
    Red Foley records "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy," hailed as the first million-selling country release cut in Nashville, at the Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel, along with "Careless Kisses" and "I Gotta Have My Baby Back"
    Nov 8, 1949
    Red Foley records "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" and "Steal Away" in Nashville
    Displaying : 460 - 470 of 12613 / Page << | 1... | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | ...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!