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    • Aug 3, 1924
    Gordon Stoker, of The Jordanaires, is born in Gleason, Tennessee. The quartet sings back-up on singles by Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers, Jimmy Dean and Tammy Wynette, among others, gaining enrollment in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
    Nov 9, 1996
    Gordon Stoker, of The Jordanaires, receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from his alma mater, Oklahoma Baptist University, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His group sang on hits behind Elvis Presley, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, among others
    Dec 10, 2001
    Ace session guitarist Grady Martin is memorialized at Nashville's Belcourt Theatre. Among those paying respects: fellow musicians Bob Moore, Harold Bradley and Buddy Harman, plus Gordon Stoker and Ray Walker, of The Jordanaires
    Jun 6, 2008
    Jeffrey Buckner Ford donates the Presidential Medal of Freedom earned by his father, Tennessee Ernie Ford, to Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame during the CMA Music Festival. On hand are Jordanaires Gordon Stoker and Ray Walker
    Oct 24, 2010
    The Jordanaires' Gordon Stoker is unable to attend the induction ceremony for new Country Music Hall of Fame members. He's hospitalized with pneumonia
    Aug 9, 2011
    Ronnie McDowell sings a ream of Elvis Presley songs--including "It's Now Or Never" and "Crying In The Chapel"--in a Country Music Hall of Fame benefit at RCA Studio B in Nashville with ex-Presley sidemen Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana and Gordon Stoker
    Mar 27, 2013
    Background vocalist Gordon Stoker dies at his home in Brentwood, Tennessee. A member of Country Music Hall of Fame act The Jordanaires, he sang on hits by such acts as George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Kenny Rogers and Elvis Presley
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