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    • May 24, 1973
    Roy Acuff performs at the White House--along with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Sammy Davis Jr.--for POWs who returned from Vietnam. Acuff sings "Wabash Cannonball." Irving Berlin conducts the orchestra during "God Bless America"
    May 25, 1973
    "Crying In The Rain" songwriter Carole King draws 100,000 people to a concert in New York's Central Park
    May 26, 1973
    Waylon Jennings has a stadium gig, opening for The Grateful Dead at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco
    Jun 21, 1973
    The pop band Bread plays its last concert, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Group members David Gates, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer all subsequently earn country hits as songwriters, with Griffin joining the 1990s group The Remingtons
    Jul 1, 1973
    Elvis Presley performs two shows at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium. The audience includes Donna Fargo
    Jul 4, 1973
    Johnny Cash joins his former backing vocal group, The Statler Brothers, for their "Happy Birthday U.S.A." concert at Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton, Virginia
    Jul 4, 1973
    Willie Nelson holds his first Fourth of July Picnic in Dripping Springs, Texas. The lineup includes Tom T. Hall, Leon Russell, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Charlie Rich. Nelson's drummer, Paul English, gets married on stage with Jennings serving as best man
    Jul 9, 1973
    John Denver gives the first concert at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre, opened the previous year as an outdoor theatrical venue. A year later, the singer records his album "An Evening With John Denver" at the same location
    Jul 11, 1973
    Don Everly tells a Los Angeles Times reporter backstage at Knott's Berry Farm in Anaheim that "it's over." The Everly Brothers will call it quits three days later
    Jul 14, 1973
    The Everly Brothers break up in the midst of a concert at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, Phil Everly smashing his guitar at the side of the stage after "('Til) I Kissed You." Don Everly performs the night's remaining two shows solo



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