YEARS AGO IN THIS DAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC (2004) - Gretchen Wilsons Here For The Party album is certified double-platinum (2003) - The video to Its Five OClock Somewhere, the Alan Jackson collaboration with Jimmy Buffett, makes its debut on CMTs Most Wanted Live (1997) - George Strait starts a four-week stay at the top of the Billboard chart with Carrying Your Love With Me (1993) - Love Can Build A Bridge becomes The Judds fifth platinum album (1993) - Liberty releases Garth Brooks Aint Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up) (1991) - The brakes fail on Dottie Wests car on the way to the Grand Ole Opry. She loses control and hits a wall but sustains only minor injuries (1980) - Mickey Gilleys version of the Buddy Holly song True Love Ways goes to #1 on the Billboard country chart (1975) - Lefty Frizzell dies in Nashville following a stroke. He leaves a trail of honky-tonk classics, such as If Youve Got The Money Ive Got The Time and Always Late (With Your Kisses), on his way to membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame (1947) - Bernie Leadon is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He becomes a founding member of The Eagles, playing on their lone country hit, Lyin Eyes, before leaving the group in 1975. He briefly joins The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band during the 1980s (1937) - George Hamilton IV is born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Added to the Grand Ole Opry in 1961, he gains a massive #1 single with Abilene in 1963 and earns hits with Gordon Lightfoots Early Morning Rain and Joni Mitchells Urge For Going
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