Top 5 CMA Memories/Moments

[tim]

In honor of the 50th annual Country Music Association Awards I had an idea to start a thread with your five fondest memories/moments. I've added a video for those that are available, however obviously some may go way back that they are not online.  Here are my five top memories from when I first started watching in 1991:

1. 1996 - George Strait performing "Blue Clear Sky"



2. 1991 - Mark Chesnutt singing "Brother Jukebox"

One of my earliest memories I can remember from an awards show that began to then slowly influence my musical tastes for years to come.

3. 1993 - George Strait singing "Easy Come, Easy Go"



4. 1996 - George Strait winning for Single, Album, and Male Vocalist of the Year



5. 1991 - Clint Black and Roy Rogers singing "Hold On Partner" together

[carriefan15]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=R2EEdhT551Y

[jasonthescott]

I'll have to gather 4 others, but this performance from Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of my first memories ever.

[onebuffalo]

Nothing will top this. Alan Jackson sticking up for George Jones (1999):

[CoJoFan]

1. Reba McEntire performing "She Thinks His Name Was John" from the 1994 CMA Awards.



2. Chris Stapleton And Justin Timberlake from the 2015 CMA Awards singing "Tennessee Whiskey" and "Drink You Away"


3 Alan Jackson debuting "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)" at the 2001 CMA Awards

4. Tim McGraw Performing "Live Like You Were Dying" from the 2004 CMA Awards

5. Luke Bryan toasts a beer to his sister and brother after performing "Drink A Beer" at the 2013 CMA Awards.

[bboat11]

UUUGGGGGGHHHH, I just came here to post this video and then I realized it is from the ACMs...  

Oh well, I'll post it anyway, because it deserves to be mentioned. I cannot get over this video of Reba winning the ACM Top Female Vocalist Award in 1991. Just one month after her band was tragically killed in a plane crash...  :'( :'(  This one absolutely guts me every time... Reba is the very definition of class, and just such a REAL person. You can't help but love her as a person and feel her pain when tries so hard to hold it all together and ends up crying anyway.  :'(

[onebuffalo]

^That's all right, bboat11. Why don't you post a video of Martina McBride winning Female Vocalist of the Year? There would be four to choose from! That Reba McEntire video got to me as well.