Garth Brooks Gaines Platinum - Today In Country Music History

November 24, 1999

The profile of Chris Gaines, Garth Brook’s fictional Australian rock-star, alter-ego, aired on VH1′s Behind The Music. The album In The Life Of Chris Gaines, was certified double platinum. Brooks created the persona to explore rock and roll styles far removed from his success as a country singer.

Initially, Brooks planned to feature the Gaines persona in The Lamb, a motion picture which never materialized. Brooks released one album as Gaines; the album produced two charting singles, "Lost in You" which climbed to #5 on the pop chart and "It Don't Matter to the Sun" which made it to #24 on the US Country charts, against Brooks' insistence that no single from the album be recognized by the country charts.

Brooks would later call the project his "greatest professional disappointment." The album stands at the least selling album of Brooks' career, though it did generate his only U.S. Top 40 single in "Lost In You."

Next: When Do We Get A Chris Gaines Comeback Album?

1986
The Charlie Daniels Band’s album Million Mile Reflection was certified platinum. It featured the singles "Mississippi" (#19) and the legendary "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" (#1 pop & country).
1976
Wanted: The Outlaws, the album by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser, was certified platinum and became the first country album to sell 1 million copies.
The original album featured two singles, "Suspicious Minds" (#2) and "Good Hearted Woman" (#1). In 1984, this album was among the first to be issued on CD by RCA Records.
In 1988, an abridged version of this album was released on CD, omitting Waylon & Jessi's "Suspicious Minds", Tompall Glaser's "Put Another Log On The Fire" and Waylon's "Honky Tonk Heroes". The reasons for the deletions are unknown to this day.
Wanted! The Outlaws was reissued on CD on RCA Records in 1996 not only with all 11 original tracks restored but augmented with ten bonus tracks. Only one of these, Steve Earle's "Nowhere Road", had previously been unreleased.
1958
Decca releases Brenda Lee's holiday classic "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree." Lee recorded this song when she was only thirteen years old, and although Decca released the single in both 1958 and 1959, it did not sell until Lee became a popular star in 1960.
It peaked at #14 on the charts in 1960 and re-entered the charts in 1965, peaking at #3.
1929
The Carter Family recorded "Wabash Cannonball" and "Lonesome Valley" for Victor Records
#1 On This Date
SINGLES
2012 – Taylor Swift – “We Are Never Getting Back Together”
2007 – Dierks Bentley – “Free And Easy (Down The Road I Go)”
2001 – Toby Keith – “I Wanna Talk About Me”
1990 – K.T. Oslin – “Come Next Monday”
1984 – Johnny Lee – “You Could’ve Heard A Heartbreak”
1979 – Waylon Jennings – “Come With Me”
1973 – Charlie Rich – “The Most Beautiful Girl”
1962 – Bill Anderson – “Mama Sang A Song”
1958 – Ray Price – “City Lights”
1956 – Marty Robbins – “Singing The Blues”
1951 – Pee Wee King – “Slow Poke”
1945 – Dick Thomas – “Sioux City Sue”

ALBUMS
2012 – Taylor Swift - Red
2007 – The Eagles – Long Road Out of Eden
2001 – George Strait – The Road Less Travelled
1990 – Randy Travis – Heroes & Friends
1984 – Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans
1979 – Kenny Rogers – Kenny
1973 – Marie Osmond – Paper Roses
Birthdays
Guitarist Tommy Allsup (Asleep At The Wheel) is 83

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