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Today In Music History: A Salute To Roy Acuff

Posted at 7:13 AM on November 23, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Today in:

1964 - The BBC banned the Rolling Stones from its airwaves after the band arrived late for two radio shows.
1976 - Ten hours after his last arrest, Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested again after brandishing a Derringer pistol outside Elvis Presley's Graceland's home in Memphis, demanding to see the 'King'. When police arrived they found Lewis sat in his car with the loaded Derringer pistol resting on his knee.
1979 - Keith Richard's girlfriend Anita Pallenburg was cleared by a court of shooting a man found dead at her home.
2008 - Guns N' Roses released their long-awaited album, "Chinese Democracy."

History highlight:

Today in 1992, American country music singer Roy Acuff died aged 89. Known as the "King of Country Music," he was the first living artist elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Acuff started his career in 1932 working for Dr. Hauer's Medicine Show, hired as one of its entertainers to draw a crowd to whom Hauer could sell medicines. In 1942, Acuff co-founded with Floyd Rose the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company, Acuff-Rose Music, which signed acts such as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers. Acuff is often credited with moving the genre of country music from its early string band format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. From Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Folks, we played "Wabash Cannonball."

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