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    • May 22, 1971
    "Hag" takes Merle Haggard to #1 on the Billboard country albums chart for the first of four total weeks
    May 23, 1971
    Kris Kristofferson brings out two surprise guests during a show at New York's Bitter End: John Prine and Steve Goodman, who serves up "City Of New Orleans"
    May 24, 1971
    Steve Goodman writes "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," with uncredited assistance from John Prine, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York after leaving Paul Anka's show
    May 24, 1971
    On his birthday, Bob Dylan visits the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Dylan is destined for a place in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
    May 25, 1971
    John Prine records "Paradise" at the A&R Studios in New York with Steve Goodman providing harmony vocals. The song becomes a signature piece in Prine's career and will be covered by Randy Travis for the soundtrack of "Fire Down Below"
    May 25, 1971
    Astronaut Stuart Roosa writes a letter to Jerry Lee Lewis thanking him for a tape he took on Apollo 14, a mission that sent the crew into orbit around the moon
    May 25, 1971
    Johnny Cash is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the world premiere of his first movie, "A Gunfight," also starring Kirk Douglas
    May 26, 1971
    Don McLean records "American Pie" at the Record Plant in New York City. It will be referenced in the 2015 Keith Urban hit "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16"
    May 26, 1971
    Singer/songwriter Keith Gattis is born in Georgetown, Texas. Signed to RCA during the 1990s, he plays guitar in Dwight Yoakam's band for a time and writes the Kenny Chesney hits "El Cerrito Place" and "When I See This Bar"
    May 27, 1971
    Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass record "Under The Double Eagle" during the evening at Nashville's RCA Studio B. The track appears on the Grammy-nominated 1977 album "Chet, Floyd & Danny"
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