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    • Dec 18, 1949
    Record executive Joe Galante is born in Queens, New York. Heading RCA Records' Nashville office beginning in 1982, he remains a label head through 2010 and has a major influence on the careers of Alabama, The Judds, Clint Black and Martina McBride, among others, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2022
    Nov 10, 1982
    Joe Galante is named the successor to Jerry Bradley at RCA Records
    Mar 2, 1983
    The Judds audition at RCA Records, singing "Change Of Heart" and "The Sweetest Gift (A Mother's Smile)" for executives Joe Galante, Randy Goodman, Tony Brown and Norro Wilson
    Aug 8, 1990
    RCA's country chief Joe Galante is promoted to president of the record label's pop division in New York
    Nov 3, 1990
    RCA president Joe Galante marries Arista executive Phran Schwartz in Nashville
    Dec 18, 1999
    RCA chief Joe Galante turns 50 with a party in which guests are asked to wear 1950s attire. Among the bobby-socksers: Eddy Arnold, K.T. Oslin, Martina McBride, The Warren Brothers and Alabama's Randy Owen
    May 30, 2002
    Barbara Mandrell's 27,000-square-foot log mansion, Fontanel, in Whites Creek, Tennessee, sells at absolute auction for $1.97 million to Alabama associate Dale Morris and RCA head Joe Galante. The Mandrells had been asking for $7 million
    Apr 19, 2006
    Sony BMG consolidates its Nashville wing, with Joe Galante heading the RCA, BNA, Arista, Columbia and Epic labels. Sony chief John Grady is axed in the process
    Mar 6, 2008
    Kenny Chesney, Pat Green and Sara Evans pull Sony BMG chief Joe Galante up for a mass rendition of "Honky Tonk Women" during a boat-ride showcase at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville
    Aug 3, 2008
    Kenny Chesney throws a 50th anniversary party for manager Dale Morris and his wife, Earline, in Nashville. Also attending are John Rich, Gretchen Wilson and music executives Joe Galante, Tom Collins, Tom Baldrica, Jerry Bradley, James Stroud, Del Bryant and Robert Deaton
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