November 9, 2011
"If I Die Young," wins Song and Single of the Year for The Band Perry and songwriter Kimberly Perry at the 45th annual Country Music Association awards.
November 2, 2003
Rodney Crowell, John Prine ("Love Is On A Roll"), Paul Overstreet ("On The Other Hand") and Hal Blair ("(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too") join the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in a Loews Vanderbilt Plaza ceremony.
October 15, 1969
Johnny Cash wins a record-setting five times during the third annual Country Music Association awards at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
1954 A Slight Miscalculation On Management's Part
Elvis Presley makes his only appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, singing "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Opry manager Jim Denny allegedly tells him not to give up his day job.
Famous cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggert, and pretty darn good piano player, that's one way to describe Mickey Gilley.
Another is as the singer for today's KLAW Classic. The song is a lament about loneliness and late-night desperation in finding a desirable significant other in a barroom...
When Ben E. King wrote 'Stand By Me', he had no intention of recording it himself. Written for the Drifters, who passed it by, King added it to the end of a recording session to fill some extra time.
Today's Classic, 'True Love Ways' was a love song written by Buddy Holly for his wife as a wedding gift. Holly recorded the song himself in 1958 along with the Ray Ellis Orchestra.
The movie Urban Cowboy helped to put a little honky tonk in Pasadena Texas on the map. "Gilleys", was the setting for many drinking, dancing, and bull riding scenes from the movie. Mickey Gilley celebrates his 76th Birthday today. Here is your KLAW Classic of the day...