![]() One of the most influential singers and storytellers in country music history, Lynn died last month at age 90. ![]() She also won Female Vocalist of the Year and Vocal Duo of the Year, alongside Conway Twitty, at the 1972 ceremony. "I've won a lot of awards, and this is one I was nominated for and never did get," Lynn said before noting her husband Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn missed the televised ceremony due to a hunting trip that ran long. Lynn jogged on stage that night, hiking up her green dress as Minnie Pearl greeted the singer-songwriter with an ear-to-ear smile (and CMA trophy, of course). 16, 1972, according to Tennessean archives the annual CMA Awards return Wednesday night to Nashville. She made history as the first woman to receive what many believe today to be country music's highest annual honor. ![]() Watch Video: Watch Loretta Lynn accept the 1972 CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Yearįive decades ago, Loretta Lynn ran on stage at the Ryman Auditorium to make country music history.Īt the CMA Awards in 1972, Lynn - a coal miner's daughter who loved country music enough to kiss the concrete outside the so-called Mother Church on her first night in Nashville a decade earlier - reached a pinnacle achieved by no woman before: Entertainer of the Year. ![]()
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