YEARS AGO IN THIS DAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC ( december 31) (2011) - The Band Perry performs If I Die Young on the ABC year-end special Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve along with Fergie, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Hot Chelle Rae. Its the last iconic New Years Eve of Clarks life (1999) - Eight years after their last show together, The Judds usher in the new millennium with a reunion show at the America West Arena in Phoenix, with Ashley Judd hosting. First song in the set: Love Can Build A Bridge (1999) - Faith Hill and Tim McGraw mark the dawn of the new millennium by kissing on stage at Nashvilles Gaylord Entertainment Center. Kenny Chesney and Mark Collie also join McGraw, and the bill includes Jessica Andrews and The Clark Family Experience (1990) - Following his show at the Houston Summit, Clint Black meets TV personality Lisa Hartman, whom he marries the following October (1985) - Rick Nelson dies in a plane crash outside of DeKalb, Texas. A TV star on The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet, he crossed between pop and country with his 1950s rockabilly-influenced recordings, including Stood Up and Poor Little Fool (1952) - Hank Williams sets out from Birmingham to Charleston, West Virginia, for a New Years Eve show. Slowed by snow, he tries to grab a flight in in Knoxville, but the flight is cancelled. Williams gets a shot of morphine, then takes what proves to be his final ride in the back seat of his blue Cadillac (1947) - Roy Rogers marries Dale Evans at the Flying L Ranch in Murray County, Oklahoma. Rogers is late for the ceremony, having put out a fire started by a cigarette butt in another room (1943) - John Denver is born in Roswell, New Mexico. He straddles pop and country music in the mid-1970s, making him a controversial winner of the Country Music Associations Entertainer of the Year award for 1975
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:08:15 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015