Sunday, June 29, 2008

June 30 in Country Music History

In 2001, guitar great and recording executive Chet Akins died after a battle with cancer.

In 1984, Vern Gosdin went to the top of the charts with "I Can Tell By The Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)". It was the first of his three Number Ones.

In 1979, Waylon took "Amanda" to Number One on the charts.

In 1962, Claude King went to Number One with "Wolverton Mountain", co-written with Merle Kilgore about the real Clifton Clowers who lived on the mountain in Arkansas.

In 1936, Doyle Holley, singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, and one of the members of the most popular assembly of Buckaroos, was born in Perkins, Oklahoma.

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