About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • June 2, 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
  •    
    • Jan 8, 2016
    Singer/songwriter Red Simpson dies in Bakersfield. He earned a Top 5 hit as an artist in 1972 with "I'm A Truck." He also wrote a handful of Buck Owens hits, including "Gonna Have Love" and "Sam's Place"
    Jan 18, 2016
    Singer/songwriter Glenn Frey dies in New York with multiple ailments, including colitis. His band The Eagles earned a country hit with "Lyin' Eyes," while Frey co-wrote such hits as "Desperado," "Take It To The Limit" and "Heartache Tonight"
    Feb 11, 2016
    Songwriter Kim Williams dies in Florida. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame since 2012, he penned such hits as Randy Travis' "Three Wooden Crosses," Garth Brooks' "Ain't Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)" and Reba McEntire's "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter"
    Mar 18, 2016
    Singer/songwriter Ned Miller dies in Medford, Oregon. He had three hits as an artist, including "From A Jack To A King," which was remade by Ricky Van Shelton. Among the other hits he wrote were Jim Reeves' "Snow Flake," Bonnie Guitar's "Dark Moon" and Sonny James' "Behind The Tear"
    Apr 6, 2016
    Merle Haggard dies after a battle with pneumonia in California. A smooth singer, adept guitarist, insightful songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame member, his legacy includes "Okie From Muskogee," "Workin' Man Blues," "Big City," "Mama Tried" and "Today I Started Loving You Again"
    Apr 8, 2016
    Songwriter Jack Hammer dies of heart failure in Oakland. He was best known as an author of the Jerry Lee Lewis landmark "Great Balls Of Fire"
    Apr 10, 2016
    Songwriter Bob Tubert dies in Tennessee. His credits included Eddy Arnold's "Here Comes Heaven," Marty Robbins' "Gardenias In Her Hair" and Sonny James' "You're The Only World I Know"
    May 17, 2016
    Singer/songwriter Guy Clark dies in Nashville. A 2004 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he authored Ricky Skaggs' "Heartbroke," Rodney Crowell's "She's Crazy For Leaving," Vince Gill's "Oklahoma Borderline" and Jerry Jeff Walker's "L.A. Freeway," among others
    Jun 13, 2016
    Producer/songwriter Chips Moman dies at a hospice facility in LaGrange, Georgia. An author of George Strait's "So Much Like My Dad" and B.J. Thomas' "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song," he produced hits for Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette and Elvis Presley
    Jun 21, 2016
    Songwriter Freddy Powers dies of Parkinson's disease. Among his compositions were the George Jones hit "I Always Get Lucky With You" and several Merle Haggard singles, including "Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room" and "Natural High"



    Displaying : 580 - 590 of 715 / Page << | 1... | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | ...72 | >>

  • 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!