Martina McBride - 6 Months Pregnant!
Country Radio Broadcasters honored Dolly Parton with the organization's career achievement award. Parton's award capped the annual Country Music DJ Hall of Fame and Country Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremonies and reunion banquet. Among the other stars in the audience were Eddie Montgomery, Troy Gentry, Doug Stone, Neal McCoy and Josh Gracin. Martina McBride, backed by a full band and noticeably pregnant (baby #3 is due in June), was next to pay tribute. She began with the tear-inducing "Coat of Many Colors." "What I take away from watching and listening to Dolly," she said, "is that you just believe everything she says, everything she sings." McBride then moved on to the sprightly "Here You Come Again," Parton's first major pop hit from 1977. McBride said she first came to Nashville when she was 16 as a finalist in the True Value Talent Contest. "Neal McCoy and I were both in the same contest," she continued, "but neither of us won. A guy who played the spoons won, actually. Here's the song I sang." With that she swept into "I Will Always Love You." Parton later joked that when McBride hit that song's high notes, "I thought she was going to have her baby right then. I know my water broke."

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