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    • Jan 30, 1938
    Norma Jean Beasler is born near Welliston, Oklahoma. Known professionally as Norma Jean, she becomes a regular on TV's "The Porter Wagoner Show," replaced by Dolly Parton when she leaves the show in 1967 to get married
    Feb 15, 1959
    Norma Jean signs her first recording contract, with Columbia Records. The association lasts 18 months
    Jan 9, 1965
    Norma Jean joins the Grand Ole Opry
    Jun 7, 1965
    Porter Wagoner records "Green, Green Grass Of Home." On the same session, Norma Jean records "I Wouldn't Buy A Used Car From Him"
    Feb 25, 1966
    Norma Jean is featured in a concert at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York
    Jun 18, 1966
    Faron Young, Waylon Jennings and Norma Jean provide a pre-game concert at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, where the hometown Cardinals baseball team edges the Philadelphia Phillies, 3-2
    Aug 31, 1966
    Bobby Bare records "The Game Of Triangles" with Norma Jean and Liz Anderson
    Sep 28, 1966
    "Road To Nashville" opens, starring Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Ralph Emery, The Osbornes, Bill Phillips, Margie Singleton, Kitty Wells, Johnny Wright, Norma Jean, Bobby Sykes, Don Winters and multiple Carters: Maybelle, June, Helen and Anita
    Apr 6, 1967
    Nineteen artists band together to record a tribute to Chet Atkins, titled "Chet's Tune," including Eddy Arnold, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Hank Snow, Hank Locklin, Dottie West and Skeeter Davis
    Jun 16, 1967
    Rumors emerge that Porter Wagoner has been killed and that his female singing partner, Norma Jean, is critically injured after a South Carolina man with a name similar to Wagoner is shot. Wagoner's road show is in Little Rock at the time
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