Aug 12, 1988

John Denver marries Cassandra Delaney in Aspen, Colorado

Aug 12, 1988

Kathy Mattea makes her debut on the Grand Ole Opry

Aug 12, 1986

Whitney Houston performs at Nashville's Starwood Amphitheatre, where the crowd includes Music City artists Gary Morris, Dobie Gray and Restless Heart members Larry Stewart and Dave Innis

Aug 12, 1985

Warner Bros. releases The Forester Sisters' self-titled debut album

Aug 12, 1985

MCA releases Lee Greenwood's "I Don't Mind The Thorns (If You're The Rose)"

Aug 12, 1984

The body of jazz guitarist Lenny Breau is found in a swimming pool in Los Angeles. The coroner determines he was strangled, but the perpetrator is never identified. Breau was the son of Harold Breau and former country hitmaker Betty Cody

Aug 12, 1983

"Smokey And The Bandit Part 3" appears in theaters with Jerry Reed and songwriter Paul Williams accompanying Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason on screen

Aug 12, 1983

Eddie Rabbitt's son, Timothy Rabbitt, is born with biliary atresia at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville

Aug 12, 1982

Columbia releases Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band's "Sure Feels Like Love"

Aug 12, 1982

Jerry Reed records "The Bird," complete with vocal imitations of Willie Nelson and George Jones. It features bits of "Whiskey River," "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "On The Road Again"