1961
Patsy Cline appeared at The Cimarron Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The show was recorded and later released in 1997 as the album Live At The Cimarron Ballroom. The ticket price for the show was $1.50.
1965
Buck Owens was at #1 on the US Country charts with “Before You Go “. The single was Owens’ seventh release to hit #1 on the US country singles chart where it spent six weeks at the top and total of twenty weeks on the chart.
1966
Born on this day in Sharon, Kansas, was Martina McBride, country music singer and songwriter who scored the 1996 US Country #1 single “Wild Angels”. McBride has been called the “Celine Dion of Country Music” for her big-voiced ballads and soprano range.
1968
Johnny Cash was at #1 on the US Country music singles charts with “Folsom Prison Blues”. Cash was inspired to write the song after seeing the movie Inside The Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) while serving in West Germany in the United States Air Force.
1973
Born on this day was James Otto, country music singer, songwriter, who is a member of the MuzikMafia, a group of country musicians known for their “country music without prejudice”. Otto began his career on Mercury Nashville Records in 2002, charting three minor singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recording his debut album Days of Our Lives. He scored the 2008 US Country #1 hit “Just Got Started Lovin’ You.”
1983
Born on this day in Waldron, Arkansas was country music singer-songwriter Ashley Mcbride. Her major label debut album Girl Going Nowhere which includes the single “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega”, was released through Warner Music Nashville to critical acclaim and earned her a Grammy nom for Best Country Album.
1985
Randy Travis released his debut single, a cover of the Paul Overstreet and Don Schmitz song “On the Other Hand” which was only a minor hit. The track was re-released in April 1986 when it became a #1 hit on the Country chart.
1986
Singer Paul Davis (who scored 2 Country #1 hits with Marie Osmond and Tanya Tucker), survived a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. He was leaving a hotel on Music Row with a female companion when an unidentified man walked up, demanded his wallet, and shot him in the abdomen.
1989
Reba McEntire went to #1 on the Billboard country chart with her version of the 1960’s Everly Brothers hit “Cathy’s Clown”. It gave Reba her thirteenth #1 single and unlike the original, Reba sang the song in the third person, thus making the narrator another woman observing the storyline.
