{"id":38099,"date":"2014-10-28T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=38099"},"modified":"2014-10-28T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:00:10","slug":"milsap-wiseman-and-cochran-inducted-country-music-hof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/28\/milsap-wiseman-and-cochran-inducted-country-music-hof\/","title":{"rendered":"Milsap, Wiseman & Cochran Inducted Into Music HOF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RonnieMilsap01\"Ronnie Milsap, Mac Wiseman and Hank Cochran Inducted, Country Music Hall of Fame<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Country star Ronnie Milsap, bluegrass legend Mac Wiseman and the late songwriter Hank Cochran were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame at a private ceremony Sunday night (Oct. 26).<\/p>\n

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Mac Weisman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Milsap, 71, and Wiseman, 89, were both on hand to receive their bronze medallions. Cochran, who passed away in 2010, was inducted posthumously for his contributions to country songwriting, which included \u2018She\u2019s Got You,\u2019 \u2018I Fall to Pieces,\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s Not Love (But It\u2019s Not Bad),\u2019 \u2018Ocean Front Property\u2019 and many, many more.<\/p>\n

Jim Lauderdale, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Gene Watson, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Hunter Hayes and Martina McBride performed musical tributes to all three artists, with highlights including Gill and Moore performing Milsap\u2019s \u2018Lost in the Fifties Tonight,\u2019 McBride singing \u2018(I\u2019d Be) A Legend in My Time\u2019 and Krauss\u2019 renditions of Cochran\u2019s \u2018Make the World Go Away\u2019 and \u2018Don\u2019t Touch Me.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Hank Cochran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former CMA Executive Director Jo Walker-Meador presented Wiseman with his medallion, and she praised his contributions in helping to form the CMA. \u201cHe gave not only ideas, but he did the work, as well,\u201d she told the crowd (quote via CMT). \u201cHe was invaluable to me [because] I knew nothing about country music then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobby Bare presented Cochran\u2019s widow, Suzi, with his medallion, while Brenda Lee gave Milsap his award, standing in for Reba McEntire, who was forced to bow out of the ceremony at the last minute after the death of her father.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be inducted by the great Brenda Lee is the best it\u2019ll ever get,\u201d Milsap said, then went on to thank his producer Tom Collins, manager Burt Stein and Jerry Bradley, who signed him to RCA Records.<\/p>\n

In keeping with tradition, the invitation-only medallion ceremony concluded with the assembled performers and audience joining together to sing \u2018Will the Circle Be Unbroken.\u2019<\/p>\n

According to its website, the Country Music Hall of Fame inducts three new members each year \u201cto recognize significant contributions to the advancement of country music by individuals in both the creative and business communities<\/p>\n

–\u00a0By Sterling Whitaker\u00a0TasteOfCountry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ronnie Milsap, Mac Wiseman and Hank Cochran Inducted, Country Music Hall of Fame Country star Ronnie Milsap, bluegrass legend Mac Wiseman and the late songwriter Hank Cochran were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame at a private ceremony Sunday night (Oct. 26). Milsap, 71, and Wiseman, 89, were both on hand to receive their bronze medallions. Cochran, who passed away in 2010, was inducted posthumously for his contributions to country songwriting, which included \u2018She\u2019s Got You,\u2019 \u2018I Fall to Pieces,\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s Not Love (But It\u2019s Not Bad),\u2019 \u2018Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}