This Day April 27 In Country Music

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In 1931 Maxine Brown was born in South Carolina. She performed with siblings Jim Ed and Bonnie Brown as The Browns. The siblings' first chart single "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" in 1955, and in 1956, their recording of "I Take the Chance" was on the country charts. She passed on in 2019. In 1959 singer and actress Sheena Easton was born in Bellshill, Scotland. She is the only artist in the history of the US Billboard charts to have a top 5 hit on each of the Billboards key charts consecutively: "Morning Train (9-5)" (Pop, Adult Contemporary), "We Got Tonight" w/Kenny Rogers (Country), "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" (Dance), and "Sugar Walls" (R&B). In 1970 Tammy Wynette came out with her seventh studio album Tammy's Touch which went to number one on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The first single was "I'll See Him Through" and the second "He Loves Me All the Way" went to number one and became her eighth number one hit. In 1976 Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt performed together for the first time during a recording of the syndicated Dolly! TV show. The show's opening theme was "Love Is Like A Butterfly" and the show's closing song was "I Will Always Love You", both number one hits for Dolly in 1974, and both sung by Dolly on the show. In 1992 "The River" by Garth Brooks was the fifth and final single from his third album, Ropin' the Wind, and became his ninth number one hit on the Billboard country charts. In 1998 "If You See Him/If You See Her" by Reba McEntire, along with the duo Brooks & Dunn was released. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks giving McEntire her twenty-ninth number one single, and Brooks & Dunn their twelfth. In 2001 Monticello, Georgia, renamed Highway 83 the Trisha Yearwood Parkway, honoring its most famous former resident. In 2004 Loretta Lynn came out with her forty-second solo studio album Van Lear Rose. The album was produced by Jack White, then of the White Stripes and was widely praised by critics, making it on the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart and on the Billboard 200, the most successful crossover album of Lynn's 60-year career. In 2011 Jason Aldean was at number one on the country chart with My Kinda Party, his fourth studio album. The album received a Nomination for the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Country Album. In 2019 This One's for You by Luke Combs went back to number one on the Country album chart for another 7 weeks. The album continued to return to number one intermittently during 2018 and 2019. Its total of 50 weeks at the top of the chart tied the record for the longest time spent atop the chart by an album.