April 25th: On this day

1954
Born on this day in Sumter, South Carolina was American country music artist Rob Crosby. Between 1990 and 1996, he charted eight singles on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Crosby has written songs from many artists including Lady Antebellum, Carl Perkins, Brooks & Dunn, Restless Heart, Martina McBride, Eric Paslay, Darryl Worley, Boy Howdy, Ty Herndon and Don Williams.

1960
Jim Reeves was at #1 on the US singles chart with "He'll Have to Go," which spent a total of 14 consecutive weeks at the top of the charts and was one of just five different titles to occupy the chart's summit during 1960.

1971
Lynn Anderson was at #1 on the country music album chart with Rose Garden. The title track went on to top the country charts, where it stayed at the #1 position for five weeks, and reached #3 on the pop charts in 1971. Anderson received a Grammy Award for the song for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

1974
Born on this day in Arlington Heights, Illinois was mandolinist and singer Jeff Austin best known for being a founding member of the Yonder Mountain String Band. Austin died on June 24, 2019 age 45.

1978
"Every Time Two Fools Collide" by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West was at #1 on the US Country charts. Written by Jan Dyer and Jeff Tweel the duet happened after a recording session with West was running over resulting in Rogers sitting in the studio wating for his session to begin. They began talking about recording a duet, and West suggested "Every Time Two Fools Collide".

1990
Clint Black won four trophies at the 25th annual Academy Of Country Music awards at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre: Top Male and New Male Vocalist, Album of the Year, for Killin' Time, and Single Record of the Year, for "A Better Man". The show which was hosted by George Strait, Tammy Wynette, Alabama and The Judds saw Country Music Video of the Year going to Hank Williams Jr. and Hank Williams Sr. for "There's a Tear in My Beer."

1994
The Eagles played the first of two shows where they recorded their Hell Freezes Over album. Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmit first got back together the previous December for the making of a Travis Tritt video of their song, "Take It Easy". The name of the album was taken from an earlier quote by Glen Frey, who responded to the question "When will the Eagles get back together?"

2012
Brad Paisley was featured on the South Park episode "Cartman Finds Love", in which he voiced himself, sang "The National Anthem", and helped Cartman sing the 90's hit song "I Swear", which was popularized in 1994 by John Michael Montgomery.

2020
Country singer, songwriter Harold Reid died of kidney failure age 80. With The Statler Brothers he had the 1980's US Country #1 hits "Elizabeth" and "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine."

2022
Shane Yellowbird died, he was 42 years old. He was named the Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year at the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards, Chevy Trucks Rising Star of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards, and had one of the 10 most played country music songs of the year in 2007 in Canada.