DID YOU KNOW
Did You Know

Think you know a lot about country music and its stars? Well, did you know....

 

Q. Can you name the song that contains these lyrics: "...You say you're gonna take him, oh, but I don't think you can, 'Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man."

A. Song: "You Ain't Woman Enough" 1966
Artist: Loretta Lynn

 

Q. Name Ronnie Milsap's first No. 1 single.

A. Pure Love

 

Q. What country singer once owned the California Angels Baseball team?

A. Gene Autry

 

Q. Who sang the fabulous song "Love Without End, Amen?"

A. George Strait. A song about a dad's love for his children.

 

Q. What as the price on the trademark tag on Minnie Pearl's straw hat?

A. $1.98

 

Q. What humorous song is this line from: "You can't take a shower in a parakeet cage"?

A. Roger Miller's "You Cant Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd"

 

Q. What was Johnny Cash's first single?

A. "Cry, Cry, Cry" in 1955. His first hit single was "I Walk the Line" in 1956.

 

Q. What Harlan Howard song was made famous by Patsy Cline?

A. "I Fall to Pieces"

 

Q. Can you name the country artist that sang "The Fightin' Side of Me"?

A. Merle Haggard

 

Q. Which country artist sang the song "Honky Tonk Girl"?

A. Loretta Lynn

 

Q. Which country artist sang jingles for McDonalds, Miller, and Budweiser?

A. T. Graham Brown

 

Q.Who discovered Alan Jackson?

A. Tim DuBois

 

Q. Who received CMA's "Female Vocalist of the Year" Award four years in a row starting in 1984?

A. Reba McEntire

 

Q. Can you name the first three artists to be inducted into the "Country Music Hall of Fame"? What year?

A. Jimmie Rodger, Fred Rose and Hank Williams - 1961

 

Q. Who sang "Honky Tonk Angels"?

A. Kitty Wells

 

Q. This country music star has been called "King of the Cowboys" who is he?

A. Roy Rogers

 

Q. What country artist was in the movie American Grafitti?

A. Wynonna Judd

 

Q. This country artist won the first Grammy Award for "Dang Me." Who was he and what year?

A. Roger Miller, 1964


Q. Before stardom, she was a barrel racer at rodeos, who is she?

A. Reba McEntire
 

 

Q. He had 30 consecutive Number One hits from 1968 to 1977, who is he?

A. Conway Twitty

 

Q. Which country artist is nicknamed "Tater"?

A. "Little" Jimmy Dickens

 

Q. What two instruments does Dolly Parton play?

A. Guitar and Banjo.

 


Q. Who did Willie Nelson once offer to sell the song "Hello Walls" to for $500?

A. Faron Young. Faron turned him down, and instead loaned him the money.

 

Q. Which 2003 nominee won Musician of the year last year?

A. Jerry Douglas

 

Q. 1967 was the first year of the CMA Awards. What song was crowned Song of the Year?

A. "There Goes My Everything"

 

Q. Who took home the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year award in 1967?

A. Loretta Lynn

 

Q. Who took home the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year award in 1983?

A. Lee Greenwod.

 

Q. Who took home the CMA Entertainer of the Year award in 1967?

A. Our favorite Tennesse Plowboy, Eddy Arnold.


Q. What 1975 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee's real name is Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon?

A. Minnie Pearl

 

Q. Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records and who gave us Elvis Presley, passed away Wednesday. Can you name the country stars careers Phillips also helped launch?

A. Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Charlie Rich.

 

Q. What country star is called "The Tennesse Plowboy"?

A. Eddy Arnold. Eddy plowed behind mules until he was 11 years old, on the family farm in Henderson, Tennesse.

 

Q. What CMT Top 100 Country song was inspired by the movie "The Asphalt Jungle"?

A. "Green, Green Grass of Home". Recorded by Porter Wagoner. It was #66 on the Top 100 Countdown.

 

Q. What George Jones' song did George himself say, "I love the song, but I don't think it is going to do well because it's so dang sad..."?

A. George's 1980 Hit Song "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

 

Q. June Carter Cash began her career singing with her family and also playing what musical instrument?

A. The Autoharp

 

Q. Who did an 18 year-old Elvis say he sounded like when asked by a Sun Studio executive?

A. Nobody. "I don't sound like nobody."

 

Q. Which country artist has crafted more than 400 plainspoken story-songs?

A. Johnny Cash
Songs included (but not limited to) stories about families, coal miners, farmers, Native Americans, and cowboys.

 

Q. Which song is thought to be the first song about trucks?

A. "Truck Driver Blues" (1939) by Cliff Bruner.

 

Q. Which country star had his own local radio show by the time he graduated from high school?

A. Willie Nelson

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