Brad Paisley is set to join William Shatner at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium on February 12th for a conversation, Q&A and screening of Shatner’s “Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan.”
Brad and Shatner have known each other for decades, with Brad performing at Shatner’s annual Hollywood Charity Horse Show in Los Angeles. Brad even wrote the song “I’m Real” for the “Star Trek” star, and it appeared on his 2004 album “Has Been.”
Source: The Tennessean
Today in 1980, Dolly Parton’s first movie, “9 to 5,” premiered. It was a huge hit and the title song went on to hit #1 on the country charts and pop charts — Dolly also won two Grammy Awards for the song.
The film stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton as three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with, and their overthrow of, the company’s autocratic, “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” boss, played by Dabney Coleman.
The film grossed over $103.9 million and is the 20th highest-grossing comedy film. As a star vehicle for Parton—already established as a successful singer, musician and songwriter—it launched her permanently into mainstream popular culture. A television series of the same name based on the film ran for five seasons, and a musical version of the film (also titled 9 to 5), with new songs written by Parton, opened on Broadway on April 30, 2009.
9 to 5 is number 74 on the American Film Institute’s “100 Funniest Movies” and has an 82% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
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The lineup for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020” just got even bigger. Sam Hunt has been added to the telecast, marking his first TV appearance since his arrest last month for DUI.
But Sam isn’t the only new addition. Post Malone is set to perform live from New York City’s Times Square, just minutes before the ball drops, with BTS, and Alanis Morissette also added to the lineup.
The new artists join previously announced performers Paula Abdul, Kelsea Ballerini, Blanco Brown, Dan + Shay, Green Day, Dua Lipa, Ava Max, Megan Thee Stallion, Anthony Ramos, Salt-N-Pepa and SHAED, from Los Angeles, Sheryl Crow and Usher from New Orleans and Jonas Brothers, from Miami.
ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020” kicks off at 8 pm on December 31st.
Today in 1981, Buck Owens had a fictitious speeding ticket rescinded by singing “I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail” in an episode of the CBS series “The Dukes Of Hazzard,” starring John Schneider and Tom Wopat.
Tammy Wynette, Roy Orbison, Dottie West, the Oak Ridge Boys and Mel Tillis were also “caught speeding” in Hazzard County. The recurring “Celebrity Speed Trap” bit was a way to feature the most popular country artists of the era on the show.
Other notable appearances included Loretta Lynn in a 1980 episode in which she was kidnapped. And Mickey Gilley played himself in an episode that featured Boss Hogg attempting to sell an illegal bootleg of a concert.
“Pollstar” has come out with their year in review, and when it comes to touring, Garth Brooks is still doing mighty fine business.
Garth is the highest-ranking country star on the mag’s list of the Top 100 Worldwide Tours, landing at 24. What makes the feat even more impressive, is that he landed so high with only 13 shows in 10 cities, bringing in $76.1 million.
Other country artists making the list include: Erich Church (28), Florida Georgia Line (35), Carrie Underwood (44), Thomas Rhett (45), Zac Brown Band (50), Luke Bryan (52) and Chris Stapleton (61).
Today in 2002, the numbers were made final and Faith Hill was tapped as logging a record setting 6-million streams as AOL’s “Artist of the Month” campaign. The achievement proved to be the online provider’s most successful in history. This news also came on the heels of Faith’s nomination as Favorite Female Artist by the People’s Choice Awards and the highest network ratings for any music special broadcast during Thanksgiving week.
Jon Pardi may not be the musician he is today if it wasn’t for a very special Christmas present he got when he was young.
Jon says when he was “real young” he got a guitar for Christmas, although he admits he didn’t take very good care of it. “This guitar spent multiple nights in the backyard and probably got hit by a sprinkler,” he shares. “I was a kid. I didn’t know what to do with this thing.”
But apparently that guitar had an impact on him. “I always tell parents you just never know, if you get a little toy that’s a guitar or drum set, you never know what that’ll spark in a child’s mind,” he shares. “So, who would’ve know if I had never gotten that guitar.”
Meanwhile, like most people, Jon loves a good holiday movie, but what he watches definitely depends on who he’s watching it with. Jon says that while he’s a fan of the raunchy Christmas comedy “Bad Santa,” if he’s watching with his little cousins the movie choice tends to be “Elf.”
As for what he plans to do this Christmas, Jon and his fiancée Summer invited their family to Hawaii, with the caveat of “no gifts.” “We’re just gonna go and help celebrate as a family and everybody and Christmas in Maui,” he shares. “So we kinda turned it into this nice family vacation that’s over Christmas, and then we’ll fly back to Nashville and have Christmas there. So, it’s cool.”
Today in 1966, Tracy Byrd was born in Vidor, Texas. He emerged in 1993 to record a series of hits, including “Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous,” “Watermelon Crawl,” and “The Keeper Of The Stars.”
Byrd has charted more than thirty hit singles in his career, including eleven additional Top Ten hits. He has also released ten studio albums and two greatest-hits albums, with four gold certifications and one double-platinum certification from the RIAA.
Byrd has been the National Spokesperson for Special Olympics International for the Country Music Association. He developed a crank bait fishing lure marketed by Norman Lures called The Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich & Famous’, named after his hit recording of the song written by Byron Hill and Wayne Tester. For every one of the lures sold Byrd donated ten cents to the Special Olympics.
For several years Byrd hosted an annual golfing/fishing/music event, “The Tracy Byrd Homecoming Weekend,” later called “The Beaumont Boys Bash”, in Southeast Texas to raise money for local charities, including the March of Dimes, the Children’s Miracle Network, and culminating in the donation of money to fund the Tracy Byrd Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Center at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Beaumont. Byrd also raised money by soliciting pledges for his attempt to complete the 2002 Houston Marathon. He finished the marathon, and donated all of his pledges to the Children’s Miracle Network.
In 2003 Byrd published Eat Like a Byrd: The Tracy Byrd Cookbook. He also launched a line of spices, rubs, and marinades to go along with it, called “Tracy Byrd’s Tiny Town Products”; a portion of these sales were donated to the Children’s Miracle Network.
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It doesn’t take much to get Keith Urban in the Christmas spirit, and that started pretty early this year.
Keith says “the lights going up” is guaranteed to put him in a holiday mood, and this year they got that done by Thanksgiving. “We didn’t wait. We just put those puppies up, and the place looked awesome,” he shares. “We had the best Christmas-looking Thanksgiving ever.”
But growing up in Australia, Christmas felt a little bit different for Keith than it does for kids here in the States, because even though he got up early like other kids to open presents, when that was all over he and his family would do something very untraditional.
“We’d go to the beach, you know, ’cause there it’s summertime,” Keith shares. “Load up the station wagon and head off to the beach.”
And now that he has kids of his own, Keith is carrying on the same traditions. “Yeah, we still love going to the beach at Christmas time, as long as we’re in Australia,” he says. “It’s huge. Everybody’s out. It feels very celebratory.”
But if Keith and the family, wife Nicole Kidman and daughters Sunday and Faith, spend Christmas Down Under this year, they won’t be able to stay long. Keith will need to be back in order to headline New Year’s Eve in Nashville for the fourth year in a row.
Today in 1994, Garth Brooks released his “best of” album, “The Hits.” It’s since gone on to sell 10-million copies, making it the best-selling country greatest hits record in history.
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