On This Day

A recurring series featuring memorable events and stories from before

On This Day

09.04.26

35 Years Ago Today, Country Music Lost a Grammy-Winning Trailblazer After an Ill-Fated Trip to the Opry

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

09.04.26

On This Day in 1981, Ronnie Milsap Was at No. 1 With a Major Crossover Hit That Was Almost Recorded by Alabama

By Clayton Edwards
On This Day

09.04.26

Born 111 Years Ago Today in Pennsylvania, the Singing Cowboy Who Wrote the Western Anthem Popularized by Bing Crosby

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

09.03.26

Born 101 Years Ago Today in Texas, the Princeton-Educated Country Legend Who Blended Honky-Tonk and Western Swing to Create Decades of Hits

By Clayton Edwards
On This Day

09.03.26

40 Years Ago Today, Randy Travis Was at No. 1 With the Album That Set the Stage for Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and the 90s Country Boom

By Clayton Edwards
On This Day

09.03.26

Born 37 Years Ago Today in North Carolina, the CMA Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Behind No. 1 Hits by Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, and Keith Urban

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

09.03.26

On This Day in 1964, Jim Reeves Was at No. 1 With the First of Several Posthumous Chart-Toppers

By Clayton Edwards
On This Day

09.03.26

Born 93 Years Ago Today in Nebraska, the Outlaw Country Music Legend Hardly Anybody Talks About

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

09.02.26

Born 114 Years Ago in the Lone Star State, the Younger Brother of the King of Western Swing Who Was an Original Texas Playboy Before Forming His Own Band

By Clayton Edwards
On This Day

09.02.26

25 Years Ago Today, We Said Goodbye to the Grammy-Winning Jazz Saxophonist Who Played With the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, and Frank Zappa

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

09.02.26

Born 67 Years Ago Today in Miami, the “Songwriter’s Drummer” Who Co-Founded a Genre-Bending, Grammy-Winning 90s Country Band

By Erinn Callahan
On This Day

09.02.26

On This Day in 1996, Clint Black Released a Stormy Love Song That Broke the Mold and Became His 10th No. 1

By Clayton Edwards

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(MANDATORY CREDIT Ebet Roberts/Getty Images) British rock group Asia ready to take a bow after performing at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey on August 25, 1983. (L-R) Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes, John Wetton and Steve Howe (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns)

Behind The Song

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George Harrison in Birmingham City Centre before performing at the Town Hall. 3 December 1969. (Photo by Birmingham Post and Mail Archive/Birmingham Post and Mail Archive/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

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Michael Mike Score von "A Flock of Seagulls", britische New Wave Band, in Deutschland, 1983. Michael Mike Score of British New Wave band "A Flock of Seagulls" at Germany, 1983 (Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The List

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3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1980s We Hear All the Time in Dentists’ and Doctors’ Offices
OXNARD, CA – MAY 12: Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck during filming of the video 'People Get Ready' circa 1985 in Oxnard, California.

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