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Country Music History – January 29

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JANUARY 29

1953: Drummer Louie Perez was born in East Los Angeles. He joined Los Lobos and co-wrote “Will The Wolf Survive,” a country hit for Waylon Jennings in 1986.

1959: Ray Price recorded “Heartaches By The Number” in the evening at the Bradley Film & Recording Studios in Nashville.

1969: The “Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell” project became the first gold album by a duet in country music history.

1973: Donna Fargo received the only gold album of her career, with “The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.

1977: Andy Warhol visited the Grand Ole Opry, where he was given a bag of Goo Goo clusters. He knew few of the Opry stars, and Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff didn’t know him. “Whoever he is,” Acuff says, “we’re mighty happy to have him here.”

1977: Kris Kristofferson won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for “A Star Is Born.” The film won Best Movie, netted Best Actress for Barbra Streisand and Best Original Song for composer Paul Williams.

1979: The Oak Ridge Boys recorded “Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight,” written by Rodney Crowell, during an afternoon session at Nashville’s Woodland Sound.

1980: Loretta Lynn told The Nashville Banner she believes in reincarnation and that she’s had at least six different lives, including one as an Indian princess and one in which she was a servant and mistress for the king of England.

1986: TNN began airing the daily “Crook & Chase” show, starring Lorianne Crook and Charlie Chase, on weeknights. The pair eventually replaced Ralph Emery’s “Nashville Now” talk show in 1993 with “Music City Tonight.”

1990: Alabama recorded “Down Home.”

1990: Waylon Jennings received his General Educational Development certificate, the equivalent of a high-school diploma, at the state capitol in Frankfort, KY.

1991: Columbia released Mike Reid’s debut album, “Turning For Home.”

1996: At the American Music Awards, Garth Brooks refused to accept the Award for the American Music Awards’ Favorite Artist of the Year, saying he “cannot agree with this” and that it should have been awarded to Hootie + The Blowfish. Brooks accepted two other awards, The Eagles got three, and Reba McEntire, Alabama, and Shania Twain, each got one.

1999: The [Dixie] Chicks’ collected a quadruple-platinum album for “Wide Open Spaces.”

2004: Gretchen Wilson signed her record deal.

2008: Lost Highway released Willie Nelson’s album “Moment Of Forever,” produced by Kenny Chesney. The disc included the first recording of “I’m Alive.”

2010: Roy Orbison received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2014: Tim McGraw and Miranda Lambert each got seven nominations for the Academy of Country Music Awards. Keith Urban got six.