1977 Country Music Association Awards

1977 Country Music Association Awards
1977 Country Music Association Awards
Date	October 10, 1977
Location	Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, Tennessee
Hosted by	Johnny Cash
Most wins	Ronnie Milsap (3)
Most nominations	Waylon Jennings (5)
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBS
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DateOctober 10, 1977

LocationGrand Ole Opry House, Nashville, Tennessee

Hosted byJohnny Cash

Most winsRonnie Milsap (3)

The 1977 Country Music Association Awards, 11th Ceremony, was held on October 10, 1977, at the Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by CMA Award winner Johnny Cash.^[1]

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Entertainer of the Year	Album of the Year
Ronnie Milsap Merle Haggard Waylon Jennings Dolly Parton Kenny Rogers	Ronnie Milsap Live — Ronnie Milsap I Don't Want to Have to Marry You — Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius I Remember Patsy — Loretta Lynn Kenny Rogers — Kenny Rogers Ol' Waylon — Waylon Jennings
Male Vocalist of the Year	Female Vocalist of the Year
Ronnie Milsap Larry Gatlin Waylon Jennings Kenny Rogers Don Williams	Crystal Gayle Emmylou Harris Loretta Lynn Barbara Mandrell Dolly Parton
Vocal Group of the Year	Vocal Duo of the Year
Statler Brothers Asleep at the Wheel Dave & Sugar Eagles Oak Ridge Boys	Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius Bill Anderson and Mary Lou Turner Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson George Jones and Tammy Wynette Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
Single of the Year	Song of the Year
"Lucille" — Kenny Rogers "It Was Almost Like a Song" — Ronnie Milsap "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" — Waylon Jennings "Margaritaville" — Jimmy Buffett "Southern Nights" — Glen Campbell	"Lucille" — Roger Bowling, Hal Bynum "(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man" — Kent Robbins "It Was Almost Like a Song" — Hal David, Archie Jordan "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" — Bobby Emmons, Chips Moman "Southern Nights" — Allen Toussaint
Instrumental Group of the Year	Instrumentalist of the Year
The Original Texas Playboys Asleep at the Wheel The Charlie Daniels Band Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass Marshall Tucker Band	Roy Clark Chet Atkins Johnny Gimble Charlie McCoy Hargus "Pig" Robbins

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