{"id":33960,"date":"2025-12-03T04:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33960"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:39:06","slug":"heres-the-1-song-from-100-years-of-the-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/heres-the-1-song-from-100-years-of-the-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"The #1 Song From 100 Years Of The Grand Ole Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Ole Opry has spent the whole year celebrating its 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>They asked their fans to join in the fun by asking them to vote for the greatest country song ever played on the Opry stage, and then they chose\u00a0Vince Gill\u00a0to perform it.<\/p>\n<p>So, when Vince walked out, he joked,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No pressure, singing the most popular song of all time. \u00a0Thanks a million. \u00a0They asked me to do it, &#8217;cause I&#8217;ll do anything. I ain&#8217;t scared of nothing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The top song was\u00a0George Jones&#8217;\u00a0song\u00a0&#8220;He Stopped Loving Her Today,&#8221;\u00a0which was written by\u00a0Bobby Braddock\u00a0and\u00a0Curly Putman.<\/p>\n<p>It came out in 1980 and won a Grammy, and then won Song of the Year at the ACMs and the CMAs.<\/p>\n<p>Vince told the crowd it was only the second time he had ever sung it live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vEQ8LGwFIXM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He Stopped Loving Her","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":31235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1917,108,6801,91,6802],"class_list":["post-33960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-george-jones","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-he-stopped-loving-her-today","tag-opry","tag-vice-gill"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 02:20:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/heres-the-1-song-from-100-years-of-the-grand-ole-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33965,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33960\/revisions\/33965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}