May 14: Panola County’s Linda Davis is a hit with country music fans

Published 12:13 pm Thursday, May 14, 2020

Panola County native Linda Davis had country music hits in the mid-1990s. On this date in 1994, her album “Shoot the Moon” peaked at No. 28 on the Top Country Albums chart.

Davis is known for “Does He Love You?” a Grammy-winning duet with Reba McEntire.

She also has recorded hit Christian music as member of Hillary Scott and the Scott Family. Hillary Scott, her daughter, is one member of the popular country group Lady Antebellum.  

In the Spotlight

— 2017: Gilmer native Johnny Mathis appears on “CBS News Sunday Morning.”

— 2015: Lindale native Miranda Lambert appears on “Entertainment Tonight.”  

— 2014: Brady Smith, who attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, has a guest role on two-part episode of “Criminal Minds.”

— 2011: Lindale native Miranda Lambert and country music star Blake Shelton marry. They divorce four years later.  

— 2004: Terrell native Jamie Foxx stars in “Breakin’ All the Rules.”

— 1985: Gilmer native Johnny Mathis is a guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” 

— 1984: Tyler native Johnny Gimble wins Fiddle Player of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

–1983: “Got Me Under Pressure” by ZZ Top, with Frankston native Frank Beard on drums, peaks at No. 18 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. 

— 1973: The Temptations, with Texarkana native Otis Williams, scores a No. 1 hit on Billboard R&B singles chart with “Masterpiece.”

— 1948: Whitewright native Guy Wilkerson appears in “Speed to Spare.”

— 1943: Corsicana native Mary Brian and John Carradine star in “I Escaped from the Gestapo.”

— 1931: Greenville native John Boles stars in “Seed.”

— 1922: Corsicana native Jacqueline Logan stars in “Gay and Devilish.”