About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • April 18, 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
  •    
    • Jul 11, 1937
    Pop songwriter George Gershwin dies in Beverly Hills during a brain operation. Known for "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So," his song "A Foggy Day" is a vehicle for a Willie Nelson-Frank Sinatra collaboration on the 1994 album "Duets II"
    Feb 3, 1938
    Cole Porter is admitted to New York's Doctors Hospital, where he has a second round of surgery on his legs, which were crushed in a horse-riding accident four months earlier. Porter's country credits later include Gene Autry's "Don't Fence Me In"
    Oct 19, 1941
    Composer Cole Porter checks into Doctors Hospital in Manhattan, where he has surgery on his left leg nearly seven years after he first broke it. Porter has already written "Don't Fence Me In," which goes on to become a country hit for Gene Autry
    Jun 24, 1950
    Billboard reports Kenny Roberts has had his tonsils removed
    Dec 13, 1951
    Hank Williams undergoes surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville to fuse two vertebrae in his back
    Apr 3, 1958
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter has his right leg amputated mid-thigh at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Porter never writes a song again
    Jan 2, 1959
    Roy Acuff has a hernia operation on his right side at Nashville's Baptist Hospital
    Feb 4, 1961
    Rockabilly artist Johnny Burnette has an emergency appendectomy in Hollywood
    Jun 14, 1961
    Patsy Cline is seriously injured in a head-on collision in Nashville. Two passengers in the other car die, while Cline receives a dislocated hip and a cut across her forehead
    Aug 18, 1962
    Billboard reports former Johnny Horton guitarist Tommy Tomlinson has had one of his legs amputated 21 months after he was injured in the car crash that took Horton's life



    Displaying : 1 - 10 of 406 / Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ...41 | >>

  • 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!