About Us
  • RolandNote™Country Music Database Searches
  • May 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
  •    
    • Sep 13, 1968
    Jeannie C. Riley wins a $390,000 breach of contract lawsuit filed against her and Plantation Records owner Shelby Singleton in Nashville by Little Darlin' Records founder Aubrey Mayhew, who claimed she was signed to his label
    Mar 1, 1969
    Barbara Mandrell signs her first recording contract with Columbia
    Apr 22, 1969
    A&M Records signs the brother-and-sister act The Carpenters to a recording contract. During their tenure with the label, the pop duo earns one country hit, with the Juice Newton-penned "Sweet, Sweet Smile"
    Jul 28, 1969
    RCA signs The Stoneman Family to a recording contract
    Jan 10, 1970
    Billboard reports Don Gibson has signed with Hickory Records, following more than a dozen years with RCA
    Feb 18, 1970
    Hank Williams Jr. signs with MGM Records for $500,000, the highest amount paid at the time in the label's history
    Dec 19, 1970
    President Richard Nixon commends MGM head Mike Curb for dropping more than 15 acts from the label roster under the premise that they advocated drug use. The artists, in fact, were selling poorly
    Jan 16, 1971
    The Stoneman Family signs with Capitol Records
    Oct 1, 1971
    George Jones signs a 10-year recording contract with Epic Records
    Mar 3, 1972
    Thirteen-year-old Tanya Tucker signs her first recording contract with Columbia



    Displaying : 90 - 100 of 523 / Page << | 1... | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ...53 | >>

  • 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!