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Now, we want to bring you a look back at the biggest moments in country music history that happened this week.
Let’s take a look:
May 5
1942
Born on this day in Tremont, Mississippi was Tammy Wynette. Known as the first lady of country music. Her best-known song, “Stand by Your Man”, was one of the biggest selling hit singles by a woman in the history of the country music genre. Later in her career Wynette had the 1991 hit “Justified and Ancient” with The KLF which became a #1 hit in eighteen countries. She died from cardiac arrhythmiaon aged 55 on 6th April 1998.
May 6
1996
Canadian singer Shania Twain scored her third #1 country hit with “You Win My Love”, the fifth single released from her 1995 album The Woman in Me. The song was written solely by producer Mutt Lange, making it one of the very few Shania songs which she did not co-write.
May 7
1987
Randy Travis was at #1 on the Country chart with second album Always & Forever. The singles “Too Gone Too Long”, “I Won’t Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)”, “Forever and Ever, Amen” and “I Told You So”, from the album all reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
May 8
1976
Johnny Cash received an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from San Diego’s National University. San Diego mayor Pete Wilson also declared this day ‘Johnny Cash Day’.
May 9
1989
Keith Whitley, the country music singer who charted 19 singles on the Billboard country charts, including five consecutive #1’s was found dead fully clothed face down on his bed. The cause of death was determined to be acute ethanolism (alcohol poisoning). At the time of his death, he had just finished work on his fourth and final studio album, I Wonder Do You Think of Me. The album was released three months after his death, and produced two more #1 hits, with the title track and “It Ain’t Nothin’.”
May 10
1994
Police in Hewitt, Texas found Willie Nelson asleep on the back seat of his Mercedes where he had parked at the side of a road. After waking the singer and searching him, he was arrested on drug charges. The country singer was taken to the McLennan County Jail in Waco. After posting bail, he told reporters he had been returning to Austin from a poker game in Hillsboro, about 140 miles northeast of Austin.”I played all night long and I was driving back to Austin. It was foggy and the weather was bad, so I pulled over on the side of the road to sleep, and the policemen found me there in the back seat. They found a roach in the ashtray,” Nelson said.
Info from This Day in Country Music
