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

  • Time
  • This Date Help
  •    
    • May 19, 1949
    Charles Starrett portrays The Durango Kid once more with the debut of the western movie "Laramie," also featuring Smiley Burnette and Elton Britt
    May 19, 1949
    ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill is born in Dallas. The Texas blues-rock trio is celebrated with a 2002 tribute album, "Sharp Dressed Man," featuring performances by Brad Paisley, Lonestar, Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn and Willie Nelson
    May 19, 1947
    Singer/songwriter Paul Brady is born in Strabane County, Ireland. Fashioning a career as an adult alternative performer, Brady authors Brooks & Dunn's 2001 country hit "The Long Goodbye"
    May 19, 1945
    Gene Autry tops the Billboard country singles chart for the first of eight total weeks with the World War II soldier tale "At Mail Call Today"
    May 19, 1941
    At a Bob Wills concert at Tulsa's Cain's Academy, Betty Anderson requests "You Are My Sunshine" at the bandstand. It's their first meeting, and it becomes "their song" by the time they marry the following year
    May 19, 1940
    Songwriter Mickey Newbury is born in Houston. He writes "I Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye," by Johnny Rodriguez; "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," by Kenny Rogers; and "An American Trilogy," by Elvis Presley
    May 19, 1938
    Session guitarist, producer and recording engineer Chip Young is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He produces Billy Swan's "I Can Help" and The Gatlin Brothers' "She Used To Be Somebody's Baby," and plays on records by Elvis Presley and Conway Twitty
    May 19, 1934
    Bass player Bobby Dyson is born in Dalehart, Texas. He plays on hits by Jim Reeves, Dolly Parton and Waylon Jennings, among others, and is reportedly the first musician to play electric bass on the Grand Ole Opry
    May 19, 1927
    Fiddler Merle Franklin "Red" Taylor is born in Saltillo, Mississippi. He joins Little Jimmy Dickens' band, playing on "A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed" and "Hillbilly Fever," plus Bill Monroe's version of "Uncle Pen"
    May 19, 1925
    Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael plays piano on his first recording session, joining The Happy Harmonists in Richmond, Indiana. He's destined to write the Willie Nelson country hit "Georgia On My Mind"
    Displaying : 180 - 190 of 192 / Page << | 1... | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20



  • 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!