AUGUST 24

1897: Songwriter, producer and publisher Fred Rose was born in Evansville, IN. Along with Roy Acuff, Rose formed Acuff-Rose Publishing. He also wrote “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain,” among many other country hits and movie titles.

1952: Vocalist/bass player John Cowan was born in Evansville, IN. He became the lead singer for progressive acoustic act New Grass Revival in 1973 and has contributed to recordings by Garth Brooks, Wynonna and Travis Tritt.

1956: Elvis Presley recorded “Love Me Tender” at the 20th Century Fox Studios in Hollywood.

1961: Patsy Cline recorded “Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue).” Twenty years later, her vocal part was technologically combined with the voice of the late Jim Reeves, who also recorded the song, for a posthumous duet.

1963: Bobby Bare recorded “500 Miles Away From Home” in a morning session at Nashville’s RCA Studio B.

1964: Bobby Bare recorded “Just To Satisfy You” at RCA Studio B in Nashville. It took another 18 years for the song to become a hit, for Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson.

1965: Buck Owens recorded “Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line” in an afternoon session at the Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

1971: Loretta Lynn recorded “Rated ‘X’” during an evening session at Bradley’s Barn in Mt. Juliet, TN.

1977: Waylon Jennings was arrested during a recording session, along with his secretary, Lori Evans, on charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. The event inspires his song “Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out Of Hand.”

1977: Johnny Paycheck recorded the David Allan Coe-penned “Take This Job And Shove It” at Nashville’s Columbia Recording Studio.

1979: Columbia released Rosanne Cash’s debut album, “Right Or Wrong.”

1982: RCA released Earl Thomas Conley’s album “Somewhere Between Right And Wrong.”

1985: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers shared the #1 position in Billboard with “Real Love.”

1988: Nat Stuckey died of lung cancer in Nashville. The singer had only moderate success as an artist in the 1960s and ’70s, but wrote Jim Ed Brown’s “Pop A Top” and Buck Owens’ “Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line.”

1990: Doug Stone made his Grand Ole Opry debut.

1993: Honoring their success with “Chattahoochee,” Alan Jackson and Jim McBride’s wives gave them a plaque for “Best Use Of The Word ‘Hoochie Coochie’ In Song Since 1937” during a #1 party in Nashville.

1994: Giant released Clay Walker’s “If I Could Make A Living,” written by Alan Jackson.

1998: Comedian Jerry Clower died after heart bypass surgery in Jackson, MS. The Grand Ole Opry member earned a reputation for Southern-bred humor revolving around Yazoo City, Mississippi, and the fictitious Ledbetter family.

1999: Asylum released Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt’s “Western Wall” album.