JUNE 25

1952: Don Gibson signed with Columbia Records, his third label. He held three recording sessions for the company over the next two years.

1954: Keyboard player David Paich was born in Los Angeles. Best known as a member of the rock band Toto, he also appears as a supporting musician on the Glen Campbell hits “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Southern Nights.”

1965: Eddy Arnold recorded “Make The World Go Away” at RCA Studio B in Nashville. Cameras captured the session for the ABC-TV series “The Jimmy Dean Show.”

1982: The Statler Brothers announced that Crohn’s disease has forced the retirement of Lew DeWitt. Jimmy Fortune replaced him, the group’s first lineup change in 18 years.

1984: Epic released Ricky Skaggs’ “Uncle Pen.”

1984: MCA released a Barbara Mandrell & Lee Greenwood duet, “To Me.”

1984: George Strait recorded “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind” at Nashville’s Sound Stage.

1985: Ronnie Milsap recorded “Happy, Happy Birthday Baby” at Groundstar Laboratory in Nashville.

1987: Boudleaux Bryant died from cancer at Knoxville’s Baptist Hospital. Bryant was a pioneering Nashville songwriter, whose credits included “Bye Bye Love,” “Come Live With Me” and “Hole In My Pocket.” He later joined the Country Music Hall of Fame.

1996: Capitol released Trace Adkins’ debut album, “Dreamin’ Out Loud.”

1996: Columbia released Wade Hayes’ “On A Good Night” album.

2008: George Jones waited in line for an autograph when actor Gene Hackman signed copies of his book “Escape From Andersonville: A Novel Of The Civil War” at the downtown branch of the Nashville Library.

2014: Rosanne Cash testified before a House committee in Washington, D.C., on music licensing rates. She told the panel that a website streamed her songs 600,000 times in an 18-month period, providing her just $114 in royalties.