B-MO in the MO’rning

Born on this day in 1926 in Perryville, Texas, was Ray Price, singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.... Read More.

Born on this day in Brewton, Alabama, was William Lee Golden, singer with The Oak Ridge Boys who scored the 1978 US Country #1 "I'll Be True To You." The Oak Ridge Boys will be appearing at the 56th Annual Dixie National Rodeo later... Read More.

Born on this day in 1905, was Woodward Maurice Ritter, better known as Tex Ritter, the American country music singer and movie actor who was popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s. He was the first artist signed with the newly-formed Capitol Records in... Read More.

Taylor Swift was at #1 on the US Country chart with her second studio album Fearless. The album topped the Billboard 200 chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks, thus setting various records, including the longest chart-topper by a female country artist. On Billboard's Country albums chart the album logged a... Read More.

On this date in 1964, Ring Of Fire The Best of Johnny Cash became the first #1 album when Billboard debuted their Country Album Chart. It was his sixteenth album in total and the first compilations album by Cash. Then on this date on 1967, Johnny Cash... Read More.

BMO's NEWS'eum - On this date in 2012 Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott married Nashville-based drummer Chris Tyrrell. The two first met in college and reconnected when Lady Antebellum and fellow country music band Love and Theft, in which Tyrrell was the drummer at... Read More.

BMO's NEWS'eum - On this date in 1991 Alan Jackson released "I'd Love You All Over Again" as the last single from his debut album, Here in the Real World. The song was Jackson's first #1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. #BMOintheMOrning... Read More.

BMO's NEWS'eum - Today back in 1971 Lynn Anderson was at #1 on the country music chart with "Rose Garden." The title track from her album stayed at the #1 position for four weeks. Anderson received a Grammy Award for the song for Best Female... Read More.

Born on this date in 1923 near Florence, Alabama, was Sam Phillips, businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who most notably founded Sun Studios and Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Through Sun, Phillips discovered such recording talent as Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Jerry... Read More.