On this day (July 4) in 1970, the first American Top 40 countdown premiered on KDEO in El Cajon, California. Hosted by the legendary radio personality Casey Kasem, the show counte ...

In 1946, Riley Puckett, one of the pioneers of recorded old-time country music, died in East Point, Ga., at age 52. His death was due to blood poisoning from an infected boil on his neck. Among ...