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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
(Tuesday, Dec. 10)
WSM Barn Dance officially renamed the Grand Ole Opry, 1927.
Johnny Rodriguez born in Sabinal, Texas, 1951.
Kevin Sharp born, 1970.
Tammy Wynette makes her chart debut with "Apartment No. 9," 1966.
Charlie Rich single "The Most Beautiful Girl" is certified gold, 1973.
Long-time Smoky Mountain Boy and Hee Haw cast member Jimmie Riddle dies at 64 in Nashville, 1982.
Faron Young dies, 1996.
MUSIC AND MORE
PATTY'S 'SANTA TRAIN' INSPIRED BY HER PAST
Patty Loveless' childhood as a coal miner's daughter is reflected in "Santa Train," a track on her new Christmas album named for a piece of history in the hills of Kentucky.
Loveless and her producer-husband Emory Gordy Jr. wrote the song for the album "Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas" after riding the train that has been snaking through Appalachia delivering gifts at holiday time since 1943.
"I look out at the crowd, and a lot of the faces look like my family at some point," Loveless tells the Nashville Tennessean, remembering waiting for the train as a child in Elkhorn, Ky.
In 1999 Loveless and Gordy rode the Santa Train and made the trip again this year, performing along the way and helping Santa give gifts to families waiting at small depots in Kentucky coal towns.
DARRYL SPENDS CHRISTMAS WITH U.S. TROOPS
In a few days Darryl Worley and his guitar player Jeff Jared head for Afghanistan to spend the Christmas holiday with U.S. troops.
Performing 90-minute shows, Worley and the U.S. Army band are featured as part of the USO's "On Duty For You" tour.
This particular trip is called "Roughin' It," however, because performers sleep in tents and eat with troops on the front line, according to Worley's Web site darrylworley.com.
"This is what it is all about," Worley says. "The blessing we receive will be 10 fold the blessing they receive from us being there."
FLATTS' 'MELT' CERTIFIES PLATINUM
Rascal Flatts' second album, "Melt," has been certified platinum on sales of more than 1 million, just five weeks after release.
"Melt" is No. 7 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and its debut single, "These Days," is No. 1 on Billboard's Radio & Records charts.
The Lyric Street trio won the CMA Horizon award, given to the act showing the most significant growth.
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