Eddy Arnold

December 10th, 1927 After a couple years on the air, the radio show The WSM Barn Dance was introduced for the first time as the Grand Ole Opry and became known as the Opry from that day on.

December 9th, 1989 Rodney Crowell became the first country artist to score five number one singles from the same album, Diamonds & Dirt

December 6th, 1988 Recording begins for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Volume 2" with Johnny Cash, John Denver, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Earl Scruggs, Steve Wariner, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, The Whites, Chris Hillman and others.

December 4th, 1956 During a Carl Perkins recording session also involving Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley visited the studio and jammed with Perkins and Lewis extensively with the tape recorders rolling.

December 3rd, 1973 Bob Wills holds what proves to be his final recording session at the Sumet-Burnet Studio in Dallas.

December 2,1949 Gene Autry’s “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” debuted on the charts. The recording of the song hit No. 1 on the Billboard pop singles chart the week of Christmas 1949. Autry's recording sold 2.5 million copies the first year, eventually selling a total of 25 million, and it remained the second best-selling record of all time until the 1980s...

November 29, 1994 Brooks & Dunn's Brand New Man becomes the first album by a country duo certified quadruple-platinum, while their Hard Workin' Man album goes triple-platinum.

November 27, 2006 Montgomery Gentry’s Troy Gentry plead guilty in Duluth, Minnesota, to a misdemeanor charge involving his killing of a captive black bear in 2004.

November 26, 1934 Decca Records releases The Sons Of The Pioneers' "Tumbling Tumbleweeds."

November 25, 1998 Garth Brooks’ album Double Live became the first album by any artist ever to sell 1 million copies in its first week of release.

November 22, 1946 Gene Autry rides in the Santa Claus Lane parade in Hollywood, as do Roy Rogers, Jack Benny and Red Skelton.

November 20, 1986  Ex-smoker Chet Atkins is honorary chairman of the sixth annual Great American Smokeout, asking nicotine addicts to lay off their cigarettes for one day.