Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY (Fri., March 29) Advertisement Hawkshaw Hawkins recorded "Sunny Side Of The Mountain" in 1956. Tootsie's Orchid Lounge opened in Nashville in 1960. Emmett Miller died in 1962. Texas Ruby was killed in a trailer fire in 1963. Ruby was 52. Brady Seals was born in 1969. Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses" single was certified gold in 1971. Lee Davis Wilds -- "Honey" of the comedy team Jamup & Honey -- died in 1982. The Kentucky Headhunters' "Pickin' On Nashville" long-form video was certified gold in 1991. MORE COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY FOR THIS WEEKEND (Sat., March 30) Bobby Wright was born in 1942. Randy Van Warmer was born in 1955. Johnny Cash recorded the Top 5 single "I Walk The Line" in 1956. The Bobby Helms single "Fraulein" debuted on the charts en route to No.1 in 1957. Advertisement Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper joined the Opry, also in 1957. Bobby Goldsboro's first No.1 single, "Honey," made its chart debut in 1968. Hoyt Axton's first Top 10 single, "When The Morning Comes," premiered on the charts in 1974. Moe Bandy debuted on the charts with "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today," also in 1974. Ronnie Milsap charted his first No.1 single, "Pure Love," also in 1974. Duane Allen of the Oak Ridge Boys said in 1987 that William Lee Golden had been kicked out of the group because he "hated" the other members. Golden would later return to the fold. (Sun., March 31) Fiddler Howdy Forrester -- of the Blue Grass Boys and the Smoky Mountain Boys -- was born in 1922. Nashville session fiddler Tommy Jackson was born in 1926. Hoyt Hawkins of the Jordanaires was born in 1927. Lefty Frizzell was born in 1928. Anita Carter was born in 1933. Songwriter John D. Loudermilk was born in 1934. Skeets McDonald died at age 52 in 1968. Johnny Rodriguez' first No.1 single, "You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)," debuted on the charts in 1973. John Jacob Niles died in 1980. Alabama's "Greatest Hits" album was certified gold and platinum in 1986. Advertisement Singer Jonie Mitchell, 52, gave birth to a "test-tube" baby boy in 1992. She already had four grown kids and an adopted daughter with her second husband. Carl Story died at age 78 in 1995. MUSIC AND MORE LYLE LOVETT IN SICK BAY Lyle Lovett is spending the next few days in the hospital after being trampled by a bull at his uncle's farm in Texas Wednesday. The singer and sometime actor, 44, underwent surgery at Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital to repair his broken right leg. Wires, rods and rings were installed around the injured leg to promote proper healing. Dr. Kevin Coupe, the orthopedic surgeon who performed the operation, said full recovery may take at least six months. "It's a bad injury," he told the Houston Chronicle. Lovett was injured when he tried to help his uncle, Calvin Klein, 67, who was flipped by the bull. Klein was treated and released for chest pain trauma at a hospital in Tomball, a few miles north of Houston. Lovett owns a home in the area. In 1995, he broke his collarbone in a motorcycle accident in Mexico's Baja California desert. RYAN ADAMS' DATES WITH ALANIS MORISSETTE Advertisement More dates have been announced for the upcoming Alanis Morissette/Ryan Adams tour, Allstar News reports. Tour dates: May 1, San Diego, Cox Arena May 3-4, Los Angeles, Universal Amphitheater May 5, San Jose, Calif., Compaq Center May 7, Phoenix, Ariz., Dodge Theater May 9, Las Vegas, The Joint May 10, West Valley City, Utah, E Center May 11, Denver, Magnuss Arena May 13, Kansas City, Mo., Starlight Theatre May 14, St. Louis, Mo., Fox Theatre May 16, Grand Prairie, Texas, Next Stage at Grand Prairie May 17, Austin, Texas, the Backyard May 18, The Woodlands, Texas, C.W. Mitchell Pavilion May 20, Daytona Beach, Fla., Ocean Center May 21, Tampa, Fla., Ice Palace May 22, West Palm Beach, Fla., Mars Music Amphitheatre May 24, Pelham, Ala., Oak Mountain Amphitheatre May 25, Atlanta, Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre BIG VALLEY JAMBOREE Toby Keith, Martina McBride, Neal McCoy, Rocky Van Shelton and Collin Raye will headline the 10th annual Big Valley Jamboree, which runs Aug.1-4 in Camrose, Alberta, Canada. It'll be all country all the time, say organizers. "Being it's the 10th anniversary, we're dedicating it to what brought us here," promoter Larry Werner told the Edmunton Sun. "Country music has brought us here. People have supported that over the years, so we're giving them a full slate of what they like." Advertisement (Early bird tickets are on sale now: $129 for an adult pass, $89 for youths and free for kids under 12. Call 1-888-404-1234 for info.) PLATINUM DISCS The Recording Industry Association of America has certified Shania Twain's "Come On Over" 19 times platinum, CMT.com reports. That means her record company has shipped 19 million copies of the album -- more than any other album by a female recording artist and more than any other by a country artist. The new certification moves Twain into a tie with The Beatles' "white album" and AC/DC's "Back in Black" for sixth place on the RIAA's all-time bestseller list. Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard" soundtrack is second among women, with 17 million, while Garth Brooks' "No Fences" is the next country title, with 16 million. Meanwhile, Waylon Jennings' "Greatest Hits" has been certified five times platinum and Brooks & Dunn's "Steers & Stripes" has been certified platinum, for shipments of 5 million and 1 million copies, respectively.
