This Day In Country Music – A Signature Song Is Recorded & A Tiny Bird Makes History

Over the course of your lifetime you will experience a moment when you know something you did was going to be memorable. In most cases our moments only live within the framework of friends and family in the world of Country Music there was a moment that happened this day in 1960 that still has a profound effect on the music we love.

There was also a moment in 1970 when a soft spoken artist whose song about a tiny bird did something that had never been done. Climb in the way back machine with us and lets visit some of the amazing moments that occurred on this day in Country Music.

It was on this day in 1960 legendary Patsy Cline recorded the song I Fall to Pieces. This song along with Crazy and Walkin' After Midnight would become the signature songs of a career that was cut tragically short.

Another item of note also happened on this day in 1970. Canadian born Anne Murray did something no other performer from north of the border had ever done. She topped the Country Music charts with her iconic hit Snowbird.