Buck Owens was at #1 on the Country singles chart with “Love’s Gonna Live Here”, which spent sixteen weeks at the top spot and a total of thirty weeks on the chart. After “Love’s Gonna Live Here” finished its 16-week stay, no other song would spend more than 10 weeks at #1 for 49 years.
On this day October 31, 1963
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On this day November 01, 1987
Shania Twain's mother and stepfather died in a car accident approximately 50 kilometres north of Wawa, Ontario. As a result Twain moved back to Timmins to take care of her younger siblings and then took them all to Huntsville, Ontario. There, she suppo...
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On this day October 31, 1951
"Always Late (with Your Kisses)" co-written and recorded by Lefty Frizzell was at #1 on the Country charts. The song which spent 13 weeks at the top of the charts has also been recorded by Merle Haggard and Dwight Yoakam.
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On this day October 31, 1963
Buck Owens was at #1 on the Country singles chart with "Love's Gonna Live Here", which spent sixteen weeks at the top spot and a total of thirty weeks on the chart. After "Love's Gonna Live Here" finished its 16-week stay, no other song would spend mor...
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On this day October 30, 1908
Born on this day Beaudry, Arkansas, was Patsy Montana country music singer, songwriter and actress. Montana was the first female country performer to have a million-selling single with her signature song "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart", and is a m...
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On this day October 30, 1971
Dolly Parton released "Coat of Many Colors" as a single which peaked at #4 on the Country charts. Parton explained in her 1994 memoir, she composed the song in 1969, while traveling with Porter Wagoner on a tour bus but because she had no paper, as th...
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On this day October 30, 2016
Curly Putman died aged 85. His biggest success was "Green, Green Grass of Home" (1964, sung by Porter Wagoner), which was covered by Elvis Presley, Johnny Darrell, Gram Parsons, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roberto Leal, Merle Haggard, Bobb...
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On this day October 29, 2007
the film about the life of singer Johnny Cash, was voted the greatest music biopic in a poll. The film starred Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Cash and his wife June Carter as the country stars and won the actress an in 2006.
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On this day October 29, 1977
Dolly Parton released her 19th solo studio album, The album included Parton's first significant "crossover" success, the award-winning title single. The album's cover was the first to show the distinctive "Dolly" signature logo, created by Michael Ma...
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