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Today in Country Music, July 11, featuring George Strait.

Posted By: Barry Kent http://www.hi99.com/airstaff/barry.aspx · 7/11/2012 5:11:00 AM

Today in country music, July 11, featuring George Strait.

On this day in 2011, Vince Gill And Amy Grant announced that their "12 days of Christmas" tour would be back, marking the tour's fifth run.  

Today in 2004, Chris Ledoux was the guest of honor at a party in Nashville to celebrate selling more than five million albums.

George Strait's "Write This Down" was spending the last of four weeks at #1 today back in 1999. (Today Feature See below)

And on this day in 1952, Hank Williams recorded "jambalaya" ... The song would go on to be a fourteen week number one hit.

"Write This Down" written by Dana Hunt and Kent Robbins was released in March 1999 as the second single from George Strait's album Always Never the Same. It was Strait's 36th Number One single on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart. It also reached #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

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