Merle Haggard

1967 - Merle Haggard goes to #1 on the Billboard chart for the first time...

1992 - George Strait tops the Billboard chart as "Dusty".

1968 - Merle Haggard's prison-themed "Mama Tried" does time at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart.

What are the greatest Country songs of all time?  CMT picked one of the best from Merle Haggard.

1969 - Merle Haggard's blue-collar anthem "Workin' Man Blues" goes to #1 on the Billboard country chart.

It didn't mean much to me but millions of female country music fans were pretty fired up when Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney debuts his butt on national TV.

Greatest, consummate, most influential.  No matter how you describe Chet Atkins there is no denying that his effect on music will be felt for years to come.

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.

One of my favorite songs from one of my all time favorite artists is featured in today's "This Day In Country Music" Merle Haggard.  By the way, are you following Merle on Twitter?  I am @merlehaggard

2009 - Big Machine releases Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" to radio.   2006 - A resolution is introduced in Savannah, Tennessee, to rename part of Pickwick Street as Darryl Worley Way.   2005 - Willie Nelson's attorney sends a Texas senator a letter declining to have a toll road named for the singer. Nelson l...

2010 - Jerrod Niemann sings "Lover, Lover" in his Grand Ole Opry debut.   2009 - "Hannah Montana: The Movie" appears in theaters, featuring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Bucky Covington and Rascal Flatts.   2007 - The former home of Johnny Cash and June Carter burns to the ground in Hendersonville, Tennessee, while workers are restoring it for new owner Barry Gibb

2011 - Tammy Wynette's classic "Stand By Your Man" and The Sons Of The Pioneers' "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" are added by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry.   2009 - George Strait is hailed as the Academy of Country Music's Artist of the Decade during a taping for a CBS-TV special at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Str...