It Was A Good Day To Be Vince Gill - Today In Country Music History

1993 It Was A Good Day To Be Vince Gill

Vince Gill’s I Still Believe In You was certified double platinum. The album features the singles "I Still Believe in You" (#1), "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away" (#1), "No Future in the Past" (#3), "One More Last Chance" (#1) and "Tryin' to Get Over You" (#1).

Country Music Association awards co-host Vince Gill wins five trophies: Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year; Song and Album, for "I Still Believe In You"; and Vocal Event, for his role in George Jones' "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair."

Vince Gill Named BMI Icon

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2011
John Rich and his wife, Joan, have a son, Colt Daniel Rich
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photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Entertainment
1996
Buck Owens is inducted in to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame along with fellow songwriters Norro Wilson, Jerry Chesnut and Kenny O'Dell ("Behind Closed Doors") during a ceremony at Loews Vanderbilt Plaza in Nashville
1980
The Charlie Daniels Band’s album Full Moon Rising was certified gold. The album, which featured the singles In America and The Legend of Wooley Swamp. was dedicated to the memory of Tommy Caldwell, bassist for the Marshall Tucker band, who had died in a jeep accident on April 28, 1980.
#1 On This Date
2007 - Rascal Flatts "Take Me There"
2001 - Cyndi Thompson "What I Really Meant To Say"
1996 - Bryan White "So Much For Pretending"
1990 - Alabama "Juke Box In My Mind"
1979 - Don Williams "It Must Be Love"
1973 - Tanya Tucker "Blood Red And Goin' Down"
Birthdays
Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 79
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One of the original "Singing Cowboys," Gene Autry was born on this date in 1907 in Tioga, Texas. Noted for his signature song "Back In The Saddle Again," he becomes a recording artist, a movie star and, later, the owner of the California Angels baseball team. He enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969. Autry died of lymphoma on October 2, 1998, at age 91.