JULY 29

1948: Hank Williams made his last appearance as a disc jockey on WSFA in Montgomery, AL.

1966: Martina McBride was born in Medicine Lodge, KS. The diminutive powerhouse claims the Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year award four times behind such message-soaked singles as “Independence Day” and “A Broken Wing.”

1968: Gram Parsons quit The Byrds rather than join the band in apartheid-torn South Africa. He went on to form The Flying Burrito Brothers, a pioneering band in the development of country-rock.

1975: Crystal Gayle recorded “I’ll Get Over You” at the Jack Clement Studios in Nashville.

1981: George Jones performed at Pee Wee’s dinner club in Nashville. It marked the first performance by Lorrie Morgan as a back-up singer in his band.

1983: MCA released John Conlee’s “In My Eyes” album.

1983: MCA released the Barbara Mandrell album “Spun Gold.”

1986: Singer/songwriter Paul Davis was shot in the parking lot of Nashville’s Quality Inn Hall of Fame Motel. The assault came as Tanya Tucker was succeeding with Davis’ song “Just Another Love.”

1989: Reba McEntire hit #1 on the Billboard country chart with a remake of the old Everly Brothers hit “Cathy’s Clown.”

1992: Joe Diffie recorded “Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die).”

1997: RCA released Clint Black’s “Nothin’ But The Taillights” album.

1999: Anita Carter died at home in Nashville. She joined mother Maybelle, plus sisters June and Helen Carter in The Carter Sisters, and scored a trio of hits between 1951 and 1968, two of them in duets with Hank Snow and Waylon Jennings.

2004: “Blue Collar TV,” starring Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry The Cable Guy, debuted on the WB.

2018: Songwriter Ronnie Samoset died. He authored Doug Stone’s “A Jukebox With A Country Song,” Sawyer Brown’s “(This Thing Called) Wantin’ And Havin’ It All” and Patty Loveless’ “I’m That Kind Of Girl.”