man
Page: 2
18 April 1970, Johnny Cash was at No.1 on the Country album chart with Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, his 33rd album release. The album featured ‘If I Were a Carpenter’, the famous duet with his wife, June Carter Cash, which earned the couple a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group […]
18 April 1970, Johnny Cash was at No.1 on the Country album chart with Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, his 33rd album release. The album featured ‘If I Were a Carpenter’, the famous duet with his wife, June Carter Cash, which earned the couple a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group […]
Happy 90th birthday to Loretta Lynn, born 14 April 1932, country singer, the first woman to be named Country Music Artist Entertainer Of The Year. Since her first No.1 ‘Fist City’, in 1967 she has scored another 15 chart toppers. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography was made into an Academy Award winning film, Coal Miner’s Daughter, […]
6 April 1998, American country singer Tammy Wynette died aged 55. She scored 12 hit singles including ‘Stand By Your Man’, and sold over 30 million records world-wide, married five times and once filed for bankruptcy. Known as the first lady of country music. Wynette had the 1991 hit with The KLF ‘Justified and Ancient’ […]
3 March 1972, Elton John released ‘Rocket Man’ as a single, (officially titled ‘Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)’. The song was inspired by the short story “The Rocket Man” in The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, and echoes the theme of David Bowie’s 1969 song ‘Space Oddity’. Kate […]