Arrhythmia? Buck Owens’ Heart Skips A Beat This Day In Country Music – May 16th (Video)
Well, no. Thank goodness there were no health issues for Buck Owens but, I bet his heat die race when he hit #1 this day in 1964! Check out the vintage video below.
2009 – David Nail makes his Grand Ole Opry debut.
2006 – Kenny Chesney performs “There Goes My Life” and “Back Where I Come From” for president George W. Bush and Australian prime minister John Howard at the White House.
1998 – Faith Hill begins a three-week run at #1 on the Billboard country chart with “This Kiss”.
1989 – “Reba McEntire’s Greatest Hits” becomes the singer’s first platinum album.
1987 – Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris score a #1 country single with a song written by pop record producer Phil Spector, “To Know Him Is To Love Him”.
1980 – RCA releases Alabama’s “Tennessee River”.
1979 – Waylon Jennings’ “Greatest Hits” goes gold.
1971 – Rick Trevino born in Houston. The Hispanic singer, signed to Columbia Records at age 19, develops a short string of 1990s hits, including “She Can’t Say I Didn’t Cry,” “Learning As You Go” and “Running Out Of Reasons”.
1969 – Merle Haggard records “Workin’ Man Blues” at the Capitol tower in Hollywood.
1966 – Scott Reeves born in Santa Monica, California. After working as a soap star on “The Young And The Restless,” he forms Blue County with Aaron Benward, earning a hit with “Good Little Girls” in 2004. He also co-writes Toby Keith’s “Made In America”.
1964 – Buck Owens nets a #1 single in Billboard with “My Heart Skips A Beat”.
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