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    • Apr 16, 1968
    RCA releases the Charley Pride single "The Easy Part's Over"
    Apr 16, 1968
    Columbia releases Johnny Cash's live recording of "Folsom Prison Blues"
    Apr 16, 1968
    Jerry Lee Lewis records "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)" at Columbia Studio B in Nashville
    Apr 16, 1968
    Waylon Jennings records "Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line" and "Yours Love" during an afternoon session at Nashville's RCA Studio B
    Apr 17, 1968
    Songwriter Monty Criswell is born in Mobile, Alabama. He achieves prominence as a writer on Craig Morgan's "Tough," Trace Adkins' "Just Fishin'" and George Strait's "I Saw God Today"
    Apr 17, 1968
    Bob Wills records "Southwestern Waltz" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. The song is eventually used in the 1983 movie "The Right Stuff"
    Apr 17, 1968
    Songwriter Dorsey Dixon dies of heart failure in Plant City, Florida. He wrote Roy Acuff's classic "Wreck On The Highway"
    Apr 18, 1968
    A friend accidentally shoots Roger Miller in the left hand with an air pistol in his Los Angeles home. It takes 90 minutes for doctors to remove the pellet, delaying a promotional trip to London
    Apr 19, 1968
    Steve Underwood marries Carole Shatswell. One of their daughters, Carrie Underwood, is destined to become a 21st-century country star
    Apr 19, 1968
    The Dillards appear on the ABC-TV series "Operation: Entertainment" with Patti Page and Pat Buttram
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