This Day In Music History - August 21st

In 2008, drummer Buddy Harman died of congestive heart failure at aged 79. Harman worked with Elvis Presley ("Little Sister"), Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Roy Orbison ("Pretty Woman"), Johnny Cash ("Ring Of Fire"), and Tammy Wynette ("Stand By Your Man"). Harman was the first house drummer for The Grand Ole Opry and can be heard on over 18,000 recordings.

In 1961, Patsy Cline recorded the classic Willie Nelson song, "Crazy." At the time, she was still on crutches after going through a car windshield in a head-on collision two months earlier and had difficulty reaching the high notes of the song at first due to her broken ribs. "Crazy" spent 21 weeks on the chart and eventually became one of her signature tunes.

Crazy-Patsy Cline Unofficial Music Video from Lindsay Kalliokoski on Vimeo.

In 1938, Kenny Rogers, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur was born. He has charted over 120 hit singles across various music genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the U.S. alone. He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People.

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