YEARS AGO IN THIS DAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC (2012) - Lee Brices I Drive Your Truck video debuts on CMT (2006) - Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson are awarded Kennedy Center Honors in a Washington, D.C., event attended by president George W. Bush. Also recognized are Steven Spielberg and theatrical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (2005) - Dierks Bentleys Come A Little Closer moves into the #1 position on the Billboard country singles chart (2004) - Trace and Rhonda Adkins welcome a daughter, Trinity Lee Adkins (2003) - Toby Keiths American Soldier video debuts on CMT (1983) - Anne Murrays A Little Good News reaches #1 on the Billboard country singles chart (1977) - Dolly Partons Here You Come Again begins a five-week ride at #1 in Billboard (1973) - Bob Wills holds what proves to be his final recording session at the Sumet-Burnet Studio in Dallas. He suffers a stroke during the night, and The Texas Playboys record the next day without him (1954) - Bass player Paul Gregg is born in Altus, Oklahoma. He joins Restless Heart, whose big, pop-tinged harmonies earn them a series of smooth country hits in the late-1980s and the Academy of Country Musics Top Vocal Group award in 1990 (1927) - Ferlin Husky is born in Flat River, Missouri. His 1956 single Gone establishes the Nashville Sound. He also has a landmark with the gospel-themed Wings Of A Dove and enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010
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