Gold Country 

1939
Born on this day in La Fayette, Alabama, was Razzy Bailey American country music artist, who scored the 1980 #1 single "Loving Up a Storm". Bailey has had three double sided #1's in succession on the Country charts, a feat never accomplished by any other artist.

1950
The #1 best selling Country record "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley became the first Country hit cross over record on the Pop Best Seller chart.

1967
Jack Greene was at #1 on the US County chart with There Goes My Everything. It was Greene's debut studio album as a recording artist after playing in the band of Ernest Tubb's band for several years. Three singles were included in the album. Its biggest hit was the title track, which topped the country charts in 1966 and helped jump-start Greene's music career.

1977
Dolly Parton released her eighteenth solo studio album New Harvest...First Gathering. The album is significant for being Parton's first self-produced album, as well as her first effort aimed specifically at the pop charts.

1978
Dolly Parton was at #1 on the US Country music album chart with Here You Come Again her nineteenth solo studio album. The album included Parton's first significant "crossover" success, the Grammy award-winning title single, which scored her a #3 on the US pop singles charts.

1979
Taken from the soundtrack to the film of the same name, "Every Which Way But Loose" by Eddie Rabbitt was at #1 on the Country chart. Released just weeks before the film premiered nationwide, the title track immediately broke in popularity. In fact, the song debuted at #18 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, the highest debut since the inception of the 100-position chart in July 1973. The record was later tied by Garth Brooks' "Good Ride Cowboy" in 2005.

1989
Randy Travis was at #1 on the Country charts with his second studio album Always & Forever. Released from this album were the singles "Too Gone Too Long", "I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)", "Forever and Ever, Amen" and "I Told You So", all of which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

1998
Hal Ketchum married Gina Pacconi at the Grace Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. Guests include Delbert McClinton and songwriters Jim Lauderdale and Kim Richey.

2002
Forty couples are married in a mass Valentine's Day ceremony in Newport News, Virginia. American country music singer Steve Holy performed his #1 hit "Good Morning Beautiful" for the couples' first dance

2011
Glen Campbell announced he would release his final studio album in 2011 with a farewell tour to follow. He was also is planning an acoustic-style greatest-hits album before officially retiring.

2016
Joey Floyd, longtime band member in Toby Keith's Easy Money Band died aged 47 years old after a long battle with cancer. Floyd played guitar, banjo and fiddle for Keith and he also introduced Keith to Willie Nelson.