42 years ago the Number one song in the land was 'Sunday Morning Coming Down', written by Kris Kristofferson, and performed by the one and only Johnny Cash.
The Friday K-LAW Classic takes us back to 1985, a year where 51 different songs rotated out the the #1 spot on the Billboard Country chart. Only two songs that year that spent more than one week at #1 - 'Have Mercy' by The Judds, and today's K-LAW Classic.
K-LAW's Saturday Classic is a song that was #1 twice. Alan Jackson would take it the top of the charts in 2000, but it was originally a #1 song 33 years ago today - September 29th, 1979 - for Don Williams.
George Strait announced his retirement from touring yesterday in a press conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. His final tour will run through 2013 and 2014 with about 20 dates each year.