This Day in Country Music History, March 4 2010 Rascal Flatts has a guest role on the CBS-TV drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The script has bass player Jay DeMarcus electrocuted in the opening scene as the band plays Unstoppable 2008 Arista releases Alan Jacksons album Good Time 2006 Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton share the #1 position in Billboard with When I Get Where Im Going 2003 Toby Keith receives eight nods to lead the competition when the Academy of Country Music announces its nominees in Los Angeles at Tiffanys. Alan Jackson picks up six nominations, while Kenny Chesney and Trick Pony take five apiece 1994 Reba McEntires Greatest Hits becomes the singers fifth double-platinum album 1983 George Jones marries Nancy Sepulveda at the home of his sister, Helen Scroggins, in Woodville, Texas. The newlyweds eat their wedding-night dinner at a Burger King 25 miles away in Jasper, Texas 1980 Coal Miners Daughter, the story of Loretta Lynns life, premieres in Nashville, with Sissy Spacek in the lead role. Also receiving minor roles: Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl 1978 Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson park themselves at #1 in Billboard, where they stay for four weeks, with Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys 1975 Mac Davis wins Favorite Male Musical Performer and Olivia Newton-John the female honor in the first Peoples Choice Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Other winners: The Osmonds, Barbra Streisand, John Wayne and Mary Tyler Moore 1971 Jason Sellers is born in Gilmer, Texas. Signed for a short time to RCA Records, he writes Jason Aldeans Dont You Wanna Stay and Joe Nichols Sunny And 75, and sings background vocals on several hits by ex-wife Lee Ann Womack 1967 Merle Haggard goes to #1 on the Billboard chart for the first time with The Fugitive
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