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    • Sep 2, 1992
    Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through The Night" ranks #23 as Country America magazine lists the Top 100 Country Songs Of All-Time
    Feb 24, 1998
    Ernest Tubb's "Walking The Floor Over You" enters the Grammy Hall of Fame during a New York ceremony, along with Marty Robbins' "El Paso," Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter" and Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through The Night"
    Jul 12, 1999
    Thirteen years after its release, the Reader's Digest package "30 Years Of No. 1 Country Hits" is certified gold and platinum by the RIAA. It features Johnny Cash, Sammi Smith, Jack Greene, Webb Pierce, Roger Miller, Pee Wee King and others
    Mar 14, 2003
    Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through The Night" is #1 as the Country Music Foundation publishes "Heartaches By The Number," honoring country's 500 greatest singles. Smith is also cited for "Today I Started Loving You Again" and "Kentucky"
    Jun 13, 2004
    Two Kristofferson-penned songs make the list when "CMT 100 Greatest Love Songs" premieres: Ray Price, with "For The Good Times," at #40; and Sammi Smith, with "Help Me Make It Through The Night," #80
    Feb 12, 2005
    Sammi Smith dies in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The former wife of Willie Nelson guitarist Jody Payne, she earned a Grammy award for her recording of "Help Me Make It Through The Night"
    Nov 1, 2007
    Cal Smith, Sammi Smith, Hoyt Axton, Mae Boren Axton and the rock band Hinder are inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame during a public ceremony at the Muskogee Civic Center
    Jan 7, 2011
    Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through The Night" plays as Jim Carrey's character is hauled to jail in the debut of "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy about two gay men who begin a relationship in prison
    Sep 23, 2019
    Three Kris Kristofferson songs are featured twice--by Kristofferson, and by the artists who made them famous--in episode six of the PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns." They include Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through The Night," Janis Joplin's "Me And Bobby McGee" and Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
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