This is a little sample of what milestones are taking place over the long weekend. Number Ones at One will be special today! Today 1952 Born on this day in Durham, North Carolina, was Don Schlitz, country music songwriter who has earned two Grammys, as well as four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards. Since 1993, Schlitz has also been a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Schlitz first hit as a songwriter was Kenny Rogers The Gambler, which became a crossover country hit in 1978. Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker and The Judds have all recorded his songs. 2000 John Michael Montgomery released The Little Girl which featured harmony vocals by bluegrass musicians Alison Krauss and Dan Tyminski. It was released as the lead single from the album Brand New Me and became Montgomerys seventh #1 hit. Mark Chesnutt - Ill Think of Something (1992) Saturday 1949 Hank Williams went into Herzog Studio in Cincinnati to record Im So Lonesome I Could Cry. Williams wrote the song originally intending that the words be spoken, rather than sung. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard and was released as the B side to My Buckets Got a Hole in It which was a #2 hit in 1949 Don Wiliams - Heartbeat In The Darkness (1986) Sunday 1973 Jeanne Pruett was at #1 on the country album chart with Satin Sheets, the singer’s second studio album. The album contained Pruetts first major hit and signature song of the same name as the album. The single reached #1 on the Billboard Country Chart. 2008 Jerry Reed, country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor died. His signature songs included Guitar Man,, A Thing Called Love, (both of which were covered by Elvis Presely), When Youre Hot, Youre Hot Ko-Ko Joe, East Bound and Down (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), and She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft “ Monday 1931 Born on this day in Sterrett, Texas, was American country music singer Boxcar Willie. Boxcar Willie was originally a character in a ballad he wrote, but he later adopted it as his own stage name. He died on April 12, 1999, interstate 35E and Farm to Market Road 664 in Red Oak, Texas was renamed Boxcar Willie Memorial Overpass. 1933 Born on this day in Friars Point, Mississippi, was Conway Twitty (born Harold Lloyd Jenkins). Twitty held the record for the most #1 singles of any act with 55 #1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006. Twitty who scored his first #1 in 1958 with “Its Only Make Believe died on June 5, 1993 in Springfield, Missouri, at Cox South Hospital two months before the release of what would be his final studio album, Final Touches.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:12:14 +0000
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