About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • April 19, 2024 CDT

  • Time
  • This Date Help
  • What happened in country music on a specific calendar date
  •    
    • Jan 28, 1985
    Jimmy Buffett holds the grand opening of Margaritaville, a restaurant and souvenir shop in Key West, Florida
    Jan 28, 1985
    MCA releases Reba McEntire's "Somebody Should Leave"
    Jan 28, 1985
    Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers join 44 other acts to cut "We Are The World" under the name USA For Africa at the A&M Studios in Los Angeles. Contributors include Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Waylon Jennings, who walks out before the song is completed
    Jan 28, 1985
    Alabama, Willie Nelson and Anne Murray each win two American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, while Loretta Lynn takes home a special Award of Merit. Other country winners on the ABC telecast include Barbara Mandrell, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and The Oak Ridge Boys
    Jan 28, 1985
    RCA releases Alabama's album "Forty Hour Week"
    Jan 28, 1984
    Crystal Gayle lights at the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart with "The Sound Of Goodbye"
    Jan 28, 1984
    Ed Bruce sings "After All" and "The Last Cowboy Song" on "Hee Haw." The episode also features songwriters Sonny Throckmorton and Karen Taylor-Good
    Jan 28, 1984
    Al Dexter dies of a heart attack in Denton, Texas. His career, which included both western swing and honky-tonk, was best known for 1944's "Pistol Packin' Mama"
    Jan 28, 1983
    MCA releases The Oak Ridge Boys' album "American Made"
    Jan 28, 1983
    WDHA, a radio station in Dover, New Jersey, becomes the first commercial broadcaster to use a CD on the air
    Displaying : 80 - 90 of 155 / Page << | 1... | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ...16 | >>



  • 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!