In 1946, Dewayne Smith was born in Bertram, Texas. Geezinslaw Brothers fans known him as Son.
In 1968, Red Foley passed away in Fort Wayne, Indiana, shortly after singing "Peace In The Valley" to close his last show.
In 1970, Ray Price was atop the charts with his monster hit, "For The Good Times", written by Kris Kristofferson.
In 1973, Gram Parsons died of a drug overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn, Room 8, in Joshua Tree, California. (Later, his friend and manager, Phil Coffman, stole the body from the Los Angeles International Airport, where it awaited transport to Louisiana, and drove it to Joshua Tree National Forest, where he proceded to soak the stolen body, in the casket, with five gallons of gas. They then attempted to cremate the remains. Eventually, what was left was returned to Metairie, Louisiana for interment in the Garden of Memories.) Read a little more here at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3110
In 1981, Mickey Gilley achieved Number One success with "You Don't Know Me".
In 1987, The Oak Ridge Boys were Number One on the charts with "This Crazy Love".
In 1992, Alan Jackson was again at the top of the charts with "Love's Got A Hold On You".
In 1999, The Nashville Songwriter's Hall Of Fame inducted, Glenn Sutton, Wayne Kemp, A. L. "Doodle" Owens, and Tommy Collins, four of the greatest songwriters in captivity.
In 2000, the Gaylord Group finished demolishing the TNN country music network by announcing that it would go in a different direction with programming.
In 2004, Skeeter Davis passed away after a long bout with breast cancer. We own her Country Reunion Quilt with the signatures of the greats that starred on that piece of work with her, as well as several other pieces of the Skeeter Davis Collection.
