- RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
- May 4, 2024 CDT
Miscellaneous-
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 -
May 5, 1947
A plane carrying Tex Ritter crashes after leaving the airport in Richmond, Virginia. Ritter is bruised on his arms and legs, but catches a car ride to the venue in Tappahannock, Virginia, where he performs a matinee
Oct 23, 1947
Beechcraft delivers a single-engine plane to the Butler Company of Chicago. Nearly a dozen years later, the plane crashes, killing Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper, who had taken Waylon Jennings' seat
Jan 30, 1948
Airplane inventor Orville Wright dies of heart failure in Dayton, Ohio. He's referenced in the 2001 Trick Pony hit "Just What I Do"
Nov 12, 1950
Hank Thompson's small plane crashes, though he sustains no serious injuries
Dec 7, 1951
Flying to Salt Lake City from California, where they filmed the movie "Rough, Tough West," Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys' airplane comes up missing in a snowstorm, and the media erroneously reports that the singer has died. The flight, it turns out, was diverted to Las Vegas, where it landed safely
Dec 31, 1952
Hank Williams sets out from Birmingham to Charleston, West Virginia, for a New Year's Eve show. Slowed by snow, he tries to grab a flight in in Knoxville, but the flight is cancelled. Williams gets a shot of morphine, then takes what proves to be his final ride in the back seat of his blue Cadillac
Jun 30, 1954
R.W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles, of The Blackwood Brothers, die in a plane crash in Clanton, Alabama. The group's "His Hand In Mine" is named one of country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Dec 17, 1954
Jim Reeves departs from Burbank, California, on a USO tour of Europe that takes him overseas until January 3
Apr 11, 1956
Elvis Presley records with The Jordanaires for the first time, after a flight in which his plane developed engine trouble. They do only one song, "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," in the Nashville session
Nov 4, 1958
Roger Peterson receives a pilot's license that does not allow him to fly at night. Peterson, however, will take off near midnight two months later piloting a plane that crashes, killing "True Love Ways" songwriter Buddy Holly
Displaying : 10 - 20 of 191 / Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ...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!