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    • May 21, 1974
    Bell Records announces Clive Davis will be a consultant for the company. Davis, who signed Sonny James to Columbia several years earlier, eventually authorizes Arista's Nashville division, building careers for Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn
    Sep 6, 1974
    Atlantic Records closes its country office in Nashville. Willie Nelson remains under contract to the label, but David Rogers, Terry Stafford and Henson Cargill are left without recording deals
    Nov 9, 1974
    Clive Davis unveils his new Arista Records label to distributors in Chicago. He waits until 1989 to establish a Nashville branch, which debuts such acts as Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Diamond Rio, Pam Tillis and Brad Paisley, among others
    Nov 12, 1974
    Minnie Pearl defends the artists who created ACE during a lecture at a Nashville university: "This year's female vocalist winner, Olivia Newton-John, said she was coming to Nashville to meet Hank Williams. She didn't even know that he was dead"
    Nov 12, 1974
    The Association of Country Entertainers, ACE, is created when a group of country artists complains that some of the Country Music Association awards winners shouldn't be considered "country." Most often cited: Olivia Newton-John
    Apr 24, 1976
    The National Life & Accident Insurance Company announces plans to build a new 615-room hotel adjacent to the Grand Ole Opry House on Briley Parkway in Nashville: The Opryland Hotel
    Aug 21, 1976
    RCA announces Elvis Presley's record sales have topped 400 million units
    Nov 24, 1976
    "Wanted: The Outlaws"--featuring Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter--becomes the first country album to receive the RIAA's new platinum certification, signifying one million units shipped
    Jan 7, 1977
    RCA confirms it's closing four recording studios in Nashville, including RCA Studio B, the site for such recordings as Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World," Elvis Presley's "It's Now Or Never" and Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You"
    Mar 13, 1977
    The Los Angeles Times reports Gene Autry and his Golden West Broadcasters have purchased Detroit radio station WCAR



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