Sixty years ago today, Buck Owens was nearing the end of a multi-week run at the top of the Hot Country Songs chart.

Buck Owens placed 90 songs on the country music charts between 1959 and 1989 -- including 21 No. 1s. Nineteen of his 90 country charted songs also placed on the pop charts.

“Buck took the shuffle beat and he took the lyrics and the style of honky-tonk, and he added the spunk, the vitality of rock and roll to his sound,” music historian Bill C. Malone has said. “He had a ...