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    • Jan 27, 1974
    Elvis Presley performs at the Las Vegas Hilton for a celebrity-dotted audience that includes George Burns, Lorne Greene, Ernest Borgnine and Danny Thomas
    Mar 16, 1974
    Elvis Presley plays Memphis' Mid-South Coliseum, giving four performances over the next six days. The concerts become the album "Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis," including a Grammy-winning version of "How Great Thou Art"
    Apr 12, 1974
    Johnny Cash does a free show for inmates at the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville with Linda Ronstadt and Roy Clark. The concert becomes a TV special, "Behind Prison Walls," featuring such titles as "Desperado," "Honeymoon Feelin'," "A Boy Named Sue" and "Folsom Prison Blues"
    May 1, 1974
    The Carpenters perform at the White House for president Richard Nixon and West German chancellor Willy Brandt, less than a year after Richard Carpenter scored a country hit as a songwriter on Lynn Anderson's "Top Of The World"
    May 9, 1974
    Bruce Springsteen performs "Born To Run" live for the first time when he opens for Bonnie Raitt at the Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Boss and the song will appear in the first verse of Pat Green's "Feels Just Like It Should"
    May 11, 1974
    Led Zeppelin meets Elvis Presley backstage when The King performs at The Forum in Los Angeles. The band's Robert Plant ends up singing "Love Me" with Presley
    May 15, 1974
    Spokane declares Tom T. Hall Day as Hall donates $5,000 to the Sierra Club and gives a free performance. It's Hall's first Spokane appearance since he angered the city with his song "Spokane Motel Blues," written on Thanksgiving in 1972
    May 16, 1974
    Dolly Parton makes her solo debut with a concert at Nashville's Northside Junior High School gym. Also on the show: Jim Ed Brown and Betty Jean Robinson
    Jun 5, 1974
    Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass play the Swan Ball, a benefit for the Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville
    Jun 16, 1974
    Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton perform at Opryland in a show that Parton calls "the last time we'll play together." Parton dedicates the final song to Wagoner in front of an audience that includes Paul McCartney



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