1964
Buck Owens was at #1 on the country charts with “My Heart Skips a Beat”, Owens’s third chart topper. The B-side, “Together Again”, also hit #1 on the country chart both replacing and being replaced by “My Heart Skips a Beat” from the top spot.
1977
Taken from his album Ol’ Waylon, Waylon Jennings started a six week run at #1 on the US Country charts with “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love).” He recorded the song with the help of Willie Nelson.
1982
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson were at #1 on the Country charts with “Just to Satisfy You” a song written by Jennings and Don Bowman in 1963. Jennings included the song in his performing repertoire, and on radio. In 1982 he recorded a duet version along with Willie Nelson, that peaked at #1 for two weeks on Billboard Hot Country Singles.
1988
Alabama, The Judds, George Strait and Randy Travis all appeared at a Country Music Stars Concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1994
Trisha Yearwood married Robert “Bobby” Reynolds, the bass player for the country music group The Mavericks. The couple divorced in 1999, (she married her current husband Garth Brooks in 2005).
2003
Winners at the 38th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards hosted by Reba McEntire included: Entertainer of the Year – Toby Keith, Top Male Vocalist – Kenny Chesney, Top Female Vocalist – Martina McBride, Top New Male Vocalist – Joe Nichols, Top Vocal Group – Rascal Flatts, Video of the Year went to Alan Jackson for “Drive (For Daddy Gene)” and Single Record of the Year was won by Kenny Chesney “The Good Stuff.”
