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    • Mar 3, 1959
    Lefty Frizzell records "The Long Black Veil" during an evening session at Nashville's Bradley Film & Recording Studio, hours after Marijohn Wilkin and Danny Dill wrote it
    Apr 20, 1959
    Columbia releases Lefty Frizzell's "The Long Black Veil"
    Feb 9, 1960
    The Hollywood City Council holds the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among those honored in its initial installment: Hank Williams, Sonny James, Elvis Presley, Johnny Mercer, Lefty Frizzell, Gene Autry and Jimmy Wakely
    Oct 21, 1963
    Lefty Frizzell records "Saginaw, Michigan" at Nashville's Columbia Recording Studios after actor George Hamilton leaves the control room. Hamilton had come to watch the session, but his presence intimidated Frizzell
    Nov 16, 1963
    Ernest Tubb's bus has a head-on collision with a car going the wrong way on a North Carolina freeway exit. Jean Shepard suffers a broken knee cap, while Tubb and Lefty Frizzell are bruised in the crash
    Nov 26, 1963
    Columbia releases Lefty Frizzell's "Saginaw, Michigan"
    Mar 7, 1964
    Lefty Frizzell begins a four-week stay atop the Billboard country singles chart with "Saginaw, Michigan," written by Bill Anderson
    May 23, 1964
    Six months after releasing "Saginaw, Michigan," Lefty Frizzell plays Saginaw, where the mayor surprises him on stage with a silver hammer. Fearful of a stranger with a potential weapon, Frizzell gets him in a headlock and wrestles him to the ground
    Feb 10, 1965
    Lefty Frizzell records "She's Gone, Gone, Gone" at the Columbia Studios in Nashville
    Mar 29, 1965
    Columbia releases Lefty Frizzell's "She's Gone Gone Gone"
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