Country Pop Bites: Billy Ray Cyrus – March 19

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2007 Billy Ray Cyrus was told by a judge on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" he looked "like a crazy bear lost in a swamp"?

It’s true! Check out the video for that classic Billy Ray Cyrus song that we all know and love!

Here are 5 little known facts about Billy Ray Cyrus.

• He began singing as a kid with his dad's Crownsmen gospel quartet.
• He attended Georgetown College on a baseball scholarship, but quit to form a bar band called Sly Dog.
• His big break came in 1992 with the hit "Achy Breaky Heart," which was a line lifted from George Jones' 1962 song "Aching, Breaking Heart"; it spawned a national line-dance craze and was named the Country Music Association's Single of the Year.
• In 1995, became the first recipient of the Bob Hope Congressional Medal of Honor Society Entertainer's Award for his support of Vietnam veterans.
• He became serious about acting in 2001 and was cast as Gene the Pool Man in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.