📺 🎙️ 🎸 Remembering Webb Pierce - died on this day in 1991 . February 24th: On this day 1991 Webb Pierce died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was one of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, charting more #1 hits than any other country artist during the decade. His best know hit “In The Jailhouse Now,” stayed on the charts for 37 weeks in 1955. . Pierce also charted number one for several weeks each with his recordings of “Slowly” (1954), “Love, Love, Love