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    • May 5, 2002
    After the plane makes popping noises at takeoff, an American flight bound for Los Angeles circles Nashville for four hours before making an emergency landing. On board: Brad Paisley and two members of SHeDAISY
    May 6, 2002
    VH1 kicks off its "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders," pegging Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" at #89 and Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley P.T.A." at #95
    May 6, 2002
    Travis Tritt cancels a recording session with Charlie Daniels, while struggling with allergy problems
    May 6, 2002
    Songwriter Otis Blackwell dies in Nashville following a heart attack. He fashioned Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" and "All Shook Up," plus Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls Of Fire," entering the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986
    May 6, 2002
    "Seven Spanish Angels" singer Ray Charles receives an honorary doctorate of philosophy from Albany State University in Albany, Georgia
    May 7, 2002
    PBS debuts "DeFord Bailey: A Legend Lost," a half-hour profile of a late harmonica player who became country music's first black star
    May 7, 2002
    Dualtone releases the album "Lost In The Lonesome Pines" by Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
    May 7, 2002
    "Who Says You Can't Go Home" songwriter Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorothea have a son, Jacob Hurley Bongiovi
    May 7, 2002
    Carole King, who's written country hits recorded by Anne Murray and Bobby Bare, makes her first appearance as music shop owner Sophie Bloom on the WB's dramatic series "Gilmore Girls"
    May 7, 2002
    C.W. McCall's "Convoy" ranks at #73 among VH1's "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders." Vicki Lawrence's original version of "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" finishes at #70
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