Buck Owens and Harlan Howard came together to write songs in 1964. However, the session was going nowhere. There, Owens saw an Esso gas station ad with the slogan “Put a tiger in your tank ...

On June 15, 1963, Buck Owens landed his first No. 1 single: the song "Act Naturally." A clever take on feeling down on your luck, the song stars a narrator who feels he's so good at being ...

Buck Owens songs recorded in 1975 will see the light of day on Aug. 17, more than 40 years after the album "A Singer's Prayer" was shelved.

Buck Owens was one of the most celebrated and influential country musicians of all time. In his career, which spanned five decades, the versatile singer-songwriter and guitarist helped to pioneer ...

While this song has been covered by artists like the Beatles, Dwight Yoakam and Loretta Lynn, it was Buck Owens' version that made 'Act Naturally' a hit first.In 1963, the song became his first No ...

Buck Owens died at 76 Saturday, March 25, hours after taking the stage at his Crystal Theater in Bakersfield, California, and playing some of the songs that rocked Nashville on its boot heels back ...

One of my go-to songs when it comes to country music artists tackling a rhythm and blues song is the version of "Save the Last Dance for Me" by Buck Owens and The Buckaroos. Buck and the boys were ...

But they finally got past it and kicked off the Homer Joy-penned favorite, "Streets of Bakersfield," a song that hit huge for Yoakam and Owens in 1988. "I remember Buck laughing trying to help ...

Q:Having read what I have about Buck Owens, he would have been pleased to see you covering his songs. A: He would have. Buck would have been happy to have me play them and record them.

Buck Owens' 'Hee Haw Honey' reflects on romance with late country star: ... "He said, ‘I’ve got this song that’s been running around in my head all day, all night,’" she recalled.

To many country music fans, the country equivalent of the anniversary of the birth of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln is the birthday of Buck Owens, a principal early architect of country ...

Johnny Cash had a gift for authenticity and a presence that was hard to define but impossible to deny, Bakersfield country music legend Buck Owens said Friday.