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.

On this Day in 1966, Buck Owens took "Think of Me" to No. 1 for six weeks and ignited thee rise of the Bakersfield sound.

“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 ...