This Day May 6 In Country Music

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In 1970 Marty Robbins was at number one on the Country chart with "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife", which was his 14th number one country hit. The song won Robbins a Grammy Award for Best Country Song the following year. In 1982 Alabama came out with "Take Me Down" their second single from the album Mountain Music. It was written by Exile band members Mark Gray and JP Pennington. Originally recorded by Exile in 1980 the song did not chart. The track was the seventh in a string of 21 consecutive number-one singles for Alabama in as many releases, a string that spanned from 1980 through 1987. In 1985 winners at the 20th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards hosted by Glen Campbell, Janie Fricke and Loretta Lynn included: Top Female Vocalist of the Year - Reba McEntire, Top Male Vocalist of the Year - George Strait, Top Vocal Group - Alabama, Top New Female Vocalist of the Year - Nicolette Larson, Top New Male Vocalist of the Year - Vince Gill and Single Record of the Year went to Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson for "To All The Girls I've Loved Before." In 1996 Country singer Shania Twain had her third number one Country hit with "You Win My Love" and was the fifth single from her album The Woman In Me. The song was written solely by producer Mutt Lange, making it one of the very few Shania songs which she did not co-write. In 2002 Kenny Chesney came out with "The Good Stuff" which became his fifth number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. In 2013 Lady Antebellum came out with their fifth studio album Golden which topped the Billboard Top 200 Country Album chart, The lead single from the album was "Downtown."