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    • Apr 8, 1980
    Kenny Rogers portrays Brady Hawkes for the first time as CBS airs a TV movie built around his signature hit, "The Gambler"
    Apr 9, 1980
    Jerry Lee Lewis records "Over The Rainbow" at the Fireside Studio in Nashville
    Apr 9, 1980
    Pop singer/songwriter Albert Hammond has a son, Albert Hammond Jr., in Los Angeles. The younger Hammond joins the rock band The Strokes; the older Hammond nets a country hit as a songwriter with "To All The Girls I've Loved Before"
    Apr 10, 1980
    Merrill Osmond, of The Osmonds, collapses in a London hotel, suffering with a heart issue and diabetes. He returns to the U.S. while the rest of the group continues what it says will be its farewell tour. Three years later, he's heard in The Osmonds' country hit "I Think About Your Lovin'"
    Apr 10, 1980
    MCA releases John Conlee's "Friday Night Blues"
    Apr 11, 1980
    Merle Haggard records "Misery And Gin" and "Bar Room Buddies," the latter with Clint Eastwood, at Wally Heider's Studio C in Los Angeles for the movie "Bronco Billy"
    Apr 11, 1980
    With their single "My Home's In Alabama" moving up the national charts for independent MDJ Records, Alabama signs with RCA Records
    Apr 11, 1980
    Cousin Emmy dies in Sherman Oaks, California. Born Cynthia May Carver in Lamb, Kentucky, she taught Grandpa Jones to play the banjo, and became a significant singer and bawdy comedian in concert and on radio from the 1920s to the 1950s. Additionally, she penned Buck Owens' "Ruby (Are You Mad)"
    Apr 12, 1980
    Emmylou Harris appears on the PBS show "Soundstage"
    Apr 12, 1980
    Months before she earns a country hit, Susan Anton guests on the CBS series "The Tim Conway Show"
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