Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

* June 19 – DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

The Sounds ' new affiliation started well as the club captured the 2005 Pacific Coast League championship, Nashville's first professional title since the Sounds ' previous league crown in 1982.

Reform Jews, predominantly German, became Nashville's largest and most influential Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century ; they enjoyed good relations with the Orthodox and Conservative congregations.

* Concrete Wave Country – Nashville's first public skatepark.

Nashville's first airport was Hampton Field, which operated until 1921.

In a less passionate but still interesting matchup, Detroit played division rival Nashville ( whom they had struggled against during the regular season ) in Nashville's first ever franchise visit to the playoffs.

On Friday nights in the fall, Sports Talk was extended by an hour and featured Nashville's first television show entirely devoted to high school football scores.

In conjunction with Curb's educational projects, Curb has purchased and restored Elvis Presley's first home in Memphis, TN, the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, TN, the Historic RCA Studio B, and Columbia's Historic Quonset Hut which was the first recording studio on Nashville's famed Music Row.

Beginning with the successful first show on April 3, 1948, Louisiana Hayride ranked second only to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry in terms of importance until ABC began telecasting Ozark Jubilee in 1955.

Nashville's first winning season came in 1995 with a 12-6 record and their first playoff appearance.

It was Nashville's first skyscraper and the tallest in Tennessee until 1965, when 100 North Main Street in Memphis surpassed it.

After surgery, Louvin made his first public appearance, and second to last, at Nashville's Americana Music Conference, Sept. 10th.

The first CMA awards were presented at an untelevised ceremony in Nashville's Municipal Auditorium in 1967.

Early important businesses located nearby included the Green Hills Market, one of Nashville's first true supermarkets, and the Green Hills Theater, a cinema.

Just prior to that, Pam performed with many Nashville ' club ' bands including " Cor ", Stan Lassiter's " Oceans " and " Strutt " which included a new in Nashville Dan Schafer with Freeman Brown, formerly with Nashville's first Motown act " Bottom & Co ." on drums.

Fitzgerald was named Nashville's first captain and so served for four seasons.

On November 11, 2005, Centennial Park became Nashville's first wireless internet park by offering free Wi-Fi internet access to park patrons.

Reg Lindsay was one of the first Australians to perform at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry in 1974.

* October — The first Country Music Association Awards are handed out at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium.

On the Monday following the first sit-in, the Baptist Minister's Conference of Nashville, representing 79 congregations, unanimously voted to support the student movement, thus throwing the weight of Nashville's black religious community behind the students.

In 1793, Judge John McNairy sentenced Nashville's first horse thief, John McKain, Jr., to be fastened to a wooden stock one hour for 39 lashes, his ears cut off and cheeks branded with the letter " H " and " T ".

Leko also began recording with Nashville's Hilary Williams, pop singer and daughter of country music legend Hank Williams, Jr. Their debut collaboration, " Sign of Life ", written about Hilary's near-death auto accident with sister Holly, has received considerable national media attention and was coveted for airplay on Alan Freed's " BPM Project " show on XM-81 BPM.

In the United States, varieties of cowpunk played by bands such as Nashville's Jason & the Scorchers, Arizona's Meat Puppets, and Southern California's Social Distortion had a similar effect.

To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large transoceanic radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R & B music and the disc jockeys who played it, such as " Jocko " Henderson of Philadelphia, New York's " Dr. Jive " ( Tommy Smalls ), the " Moon Dog " Alan Freed, and Nashville's " John R ." Richbourg, who later became his mentor.

Although he developed a cult following with his performances, he was not able to develop any mainstream success, but other performers achieved charting success by recording songs Coe had written, including Billie Jo Spears ' 1972 recording " Souvenirs & California Mem ' rys " and Tanya Tucker's 1973 single " Would You Lay With Me ( In a Field of Stone )," which was a number one hit, and responsible for Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and Coe himself being signed by Columbia Records.

Released on Nashville's Dot Records, the song became a soul / R & B chart hit, and laid the foundation for the modern recording studio FAME.

Daniels was born October 28, 1936, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and raised on a musical diet that included Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass bands and the rhythm & blues and country music from Nashville's 50, 000-watt radio stations WLAC and WSM.

( It was unable to use Nashville's ornate new Union Station terminal for instance, as that was controlled by the rival Louisville and Nashville Railroad and its subsidiary Nashville, Chattanooga & St.

Stein sued the same day in Nashville's federal court, saying he was entitled to 1. 875 percent of what the band makes.

Fred Foster later argued that Rose's takeover was responsible for the commercial failure of Orbison's work at MGM ; engineer Bill Porter agreed that Orbison's best work could only be achieved with RCA Nashville's A Team.

Mercury Nashville's promotion of the album was based largely upon a series of music videos.

The ceremony was then moved to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in New York City, and then Nashville's Tennessee Theatre in the following two years.

Although both Brooks and director Bud Schaetzle publicly denied that the video was crafted specifically to foster debate, its banning shed light on Nashville's conservative programming practices and brought attention to Brooks ' developing sense of showmanship.

" Black soon became known as one of Nashville's " hat acts "; like other country artists such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and Mark Chesnutt, Black was a relative newcomer who wore a hat, and had " clean, neotraditional sound with pop appeal ".

Nashville's pop song structure became more pronounced and it morphed into what was called countrypolitan.

Nashville's Duane Walker was named the MVP.

The following year was Nashville's last as a Reds affiliate.

Nashville's Rick Renick was named the American Association Manager of the Year.

The Observer, Nashville's weekly Jewish newspaper, tried to find a middle ground between assimilation and particularism, but after years of calling for group solidarity, accepted that the Jewish community was pluralistic.

Severinsen declared from the stage that Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center was the finest performing venue in the United States.

Nashville's predominance in county music was regained by the early 1980s, when Dwight Yoakam and other neo-traditionalists entered the charts.

According to The Tennessean, while hospitalized at Nashville's Centennial Medical Center, he was in intensive care with a fever of 104 degrees.

Nashville's temporary Parthenon was reconstructed in permanent materials in a project lasting from 1920 to 1931 and still stands today as an art gallery on the original exposition grounds, which became Centennial Park.

His picture was placed on the cover of Nashville's city directory, testifying to his popularity in the non-traditional hockey market.

The station signed on the air on November 29, 1995 and was Nashville's affiliate for The WB.

It was long controlled by Nashville's influential Stahlman family.