In 1894, Sam McGee of the McGee Brothers was born in Franklin, Tennessee. They were very popular entertainers, famous for their long sting on the Grand Ole Opry, with Sam usually playing the guitar, though he and his brother, Kirk, could both play anything that had strings.
In 1910, Ott Devine, one time Opry manager, was born in Gadsden, Alabama.
In 1929, Sonny James, one of the most successful of country music artists, was born in Hackleburg, Alabama. My fellow ROPE member scored seventy two charted hits, with twenty three of them being bona fide Number Ones. Another nineteen of his hits were Top Tens. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
In 1965, Jim Reeve's "This Is It" was atop the charts for one of three weeks.
In 1976, "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time" became a Number One for Mickey Gilley.
In 1982, "Mountain Music", by Alabama, became a Number One hit.
In 1993, Tracy Lawrence sat atop the charts for the first of two weeks with "Alibis".
In 2008, half of the Hee Haw duo, the Hager Twins, passed away in a Nashville, Tennessee parking lot. Jim Hager was a protege of Buck Owens, and starred with his brother on Hee haw for twenty years.
