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3 unusual facts about Country Music Association


Barry Michaels

Barry gained national attention when Billboard magazine and the Country Music Association (CMA) nominated him twice as Major Market Air Personality of The Year, for the years 1990 and 1992.

Bob Kingsley

Kingsley won Country Music Association National Broadcast Personality of the Year honors in 2001 and 2003.

WVHT

During the ownership by the Crumps, the station received a number of awards from the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music for its dedication to music and contribution to the industry.


David Frizzell

The song won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year and Vocal Duet of the Year awards in 1981 and was featured in Clint Eastwood's film Any Which Way You Can.

If You're Reading This

In 2001, "unknown fans" taped McGraw's performance of the song "Things Change" during the CMA awards, and posted the recording to Napster; as a result, several stations downloaded and played the live telecast of that song.

Jack Greene

The song dominated the Country music charts for nearly two months in 1967 and earned Greene "Male Vocalist of the Year", "Single of the Year", "Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year" honors from the Country Music Association.

Monty Powell

He also received a Country Music Association award in 2006 for co-writing Urban's "Tonight I Wanna Cry", and an Album of the Year award in 1994 for collaborating on Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles.

No Fences

Some of Brooks most famous songs appear on No Fences, including: "The Thunder Rolls" (CMA's 1991 Video of the Year), "Friends in Low Places" (Academy of Country Music's 1990 Single of the Year), "Unanswered Prayers" and "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House".


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Evi Tausen

In January 2013, the song "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" which Evi sings together with Jim Ed Brown, was number five on the Pan-European TOP-100 Radio Chart, which is the country-hitlist of European Country Music Association (ECMA).

Heather Pierson

In 1994, North Atlantic Band won the Downeast Country Music Association's award for "Best Modern Country" group; that same year, Pierson won the award for "Instrumentalist of the Year" for her rendition of Floyd Cramer's Last Date.