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May 24, 1978
A day before it opens to the public, Webb Pierce unveils his guitar-shaped swimming pool to the music industry. Record producer Glenn Sutton runs through the crowd in a Green Hornet mask and green trunks, swims the length of the pool and disappears
Nov 23, 1978
Roy Acuff, Jack Greene and Vern Gosdin appear in the rain-drenched Nashville Christmas Parade on Thanksgiving
Mar 7, 1979
Webb Pierce's controversial guitar-shaped swimming pool on Music Row is sold at auction. Top bid: $150,000 from Pierce's former business partner, William Donoho
Jan 23, 1980
Warner Bros. releases Emmylou Harris' "Beneath Still Waters"
May 10, 1980
Emmylou Harris collects a #1 country single in Billboard with "Beneath Still Waters"
Aug 17, 1981
Willie Nelson suffers a collapsed lung while swimming in Hawaii
Nov 29, 1981
Actress Natalie Wood drowns near Catalina Island, California. Cast in such films as "Miracle On 34th Street," "West Side Story" and "The Great Race," her on-camera relationship with James Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause" is referenced at the start of Shenandoah's 1993 single "I Want To Be Loved Like That"
Jan 11, 1982
The staff at Johnny Cash's House of Cash in Hendersonville, Tennessee, discovers it has a burst pipe when water flows from the ceiling and ruins the carpet
Jun 8, 1982
Jerry Lee Lewis' fourth wife, Jaren, is found dead in a Memphis swimming pool
Mar 23, 1985
Billy Joel marries model Christie Brinkley aboard a yacht on the west side of Manhattan. During their relationship, he writes "Shameless," which becomes a country hit for Garth Brooks
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