About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • October 9, 2024 CDT

  • Miscellaneous
  • Timelines Help
  • Slice and dice country music history by a specific kind of event: birth, death, gold album, Macy�s Thanksgiving Day Parade appearance - more than 250 ways to look at recurring events
  •    
    • Jun 5, 1937
    Pee Wee King & The Golden West Cowboys make their first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry
    Jun 27, 1937
    Pee Wee King & The Golden West Cowboys officially join the Grand Ole Opry
    Oct 16, 1937
    Bradley Kincaid makes his first guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry
    Jan 1, 1938
    Texas Ruby performs on the Grand Ole Opry for the first time, part of a duet act with husband-to-be Curly Fox
    Feb 5, 1938
    Roy Acuff makes his Grand Ole Opry debut at the Dixie Tabernacle in Nashville. Within days, sacks of mail begin arriving at WSM radio, requesting the boy who sang "Great Speckled Bird" be invited back. Acuff sideman Clell Summey becomes the first to play Dobro on the Opry
    Feb 14, 1938
    Following his February 5 debut, Roy Acuff receives a letter from the Grand Ole Opry asking him to return. Acuff later calls it "the greatest thrill I ever had in my life"
    Feb 19, 1938
    Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans make their first appearance as a regular act on the Grand Ole Opry. Acuff is the first vocalist to front his own band on the Opry
    Feb 26, 1938
    Fearing that local residents will be insulted by having his band named The Crazy Tennesseans, Roy Acuff makes his first Grand Ole Opry appearance in which the group is billed under a new name, The Smoky Mountain Boys
    Mar 5, 1938
    Grand Ole Opry founder George D. Hay returns to work at WSM Radio after taking a 14-month leave of absence with nervous exhaustion
    Jun 4, 1938
    The Vagabonds and The Lakeland Sisters close out their membership on the Grand Ole Opry, performing at the Dixie Tabernacle in Nashville



    Displaying : 50 - 60 of 1138 / Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ...114 | >>

  • 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!