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
  •    
    • May 26, 1907
    Marion Morrison is born in Winterset, Iowa. Renamed John Wayne for the silver screen, he becomes one of the best-known actors of the 20th century. The Duke is namechecked in Big & Rich's 2004 hit "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)"
    Jul 9, 1907
    Eddie Dean is born in Posey, Texas. The singing cowboy is a pioneering western film star. He also writes Jimmy Wakely's "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" and Tex Ritter's "I Dreamed Of A Hill-billy Heaven"
    Sep 26, 1907
    Bass player and actor George "Shug" Fisher is born near Chickasha, Oklahoma. He joins the Sons Of The Pioneers during World War II, though he is not a member of the lineup that eventually enters the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Sep 29, 1907
    Gene Autry is born in Tioga, Texas. Noted for his signature song "Back In The Saddle Again," he becomes a recording artist, a movie star and, later, the owner of the California Angels baseball team. He joins the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969
    Dec 12, 1907
    Allen Massey is born in Midland, Texas. He joins two siblings in Louise Massey & The Westerners, netting a handful of crossover hits during the 1930s and '40s
    Mar 23, 1908
    Author Louis L'Amour is born in Jamestown, North Dakota. His Western fiction gets him referenced in the words of Ed Bruce's 1980 country hit "The Last Cowboy Song"
    Apr 1, 1908
    Bob Nolan, of the original Sons Of The Pioneers, is born in New Brunswick, Canada. The Sons build a career on western harmony and cowboy songs, particularly "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980
    Jul 13, 1908
    Tim Spencer, of the original Sons Of The Pioneers, is born in Webb City, Missouri. Behind "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," The Sons Of The Pioneers become a major western group, joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980
    Oct 20, 1908
    Stuart Hamblen is born in Kellyville, Texas. Recording country and gospel songs, he becomes a pioneering western singer on Los Angeles radio. With a career stretching from 1925 to the 1970s, his most familiar legacy is the hymn "It Is No Secret"
    Jan 1, 1909
    Multi-instrumentalist Frank Kettering is born in Monmouth, Illinois. He co-founds the comedic "WLS Barn Dance" quartet The Hoosier Hot Shots, who score a trio of hits in the mid-1940s and appear in a string of westerns. He leaves the band in 1944



    Displaying : 40 - 50 of 1299 / Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ...130 | >>

  • 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!