April 24 in Country Music History

In 2006, one of the sweetest and most talented ladies in country music, Bonnie Owens, died in a Bakersfield hospice from Alzheimer's disease. In my talks with her, I found her to be fully committed to furthering the career of her second husband, Merle Haggard, and found her to be one of the friendliest people I have met. She had her own harmony style that gave Hag's records a sound all their own. She also was married to Buck, and her ashes are interred in the Owens Family Mausoleum in Bakersfield, California.

In 1993, Sammy Kershaw hit Number One with "She Don't Know She's Beautiful".

In 1981, Mickey Gilley had a Number One trying to decide between "A Headache Tomorrow (Or A Heartache Tonight).

In 1943, Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge boys was born in Camden, New Jersey. Giddy-up, oompa mow mow.......