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    • Nov 23, 1995
    Ricochet's Heath Wright hears the band's first single, "What Do I Know," on the radio for the first time around 1 a.m. while driving from Nashville to his parents' house in Oklahoma for Thanksgiving dinner
    Jan 28, 1996
    Songwriter Jerry Capehart appears on Nashville's WRLT-FM, in what turns out to be his last public performance. Capehart wrote the rock classic "Summertime Blues," reprised as a country hit in 1994 by Alan Jackson
    Feb 8, 1996
    President Bill Clinton signs the Telecommunications Act, de-regulating the broadcast industry and setting off a flurry of purchases that results in the consolidation of the radio industry. The result: fewer people decide what country songs become hits
    Feb 14, 1996
    Recently ordained as a minister through the mail, Rhett Akins conducts a marriage at the Macaroni Grill in Kansas City, Missouri, in a Valentine's Day promotion arranged by radio station KBEQ
    Nov 28, 1996
    Ty Herndon rides the KIKK/KILT float in the Houston Thanksgiving Day parade
    Feb 3, 1997
    Holly Dunn joins Jim Bosh as the regular co-host of the morning show on Detroit country station WWWW-FM
    May 3, 1997
    The 50th anniversary of Ernest Tubb's radio show, "The Midnite Jamboree," is observed with a street party on Broadway in Nashville. The night's lineup includes Bill Anderson, Travis Tritt, Stonewall Jackson and Leona Williams, among others
    Jul 25, 1997
    John Berry serenades 48 couples shortly after they're married in a mass ceremony, sponsored by Cincinnati radio station WYGY-FM. He sings "Your Love Amazes Me" and "I Will If You Will" at Coyotes Music & Dance Hall in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky
    Aug 1, 1997
    Disc jockey Carl P. Mayfield begins playing an Anita Cochran duet with Steve Wariner, "What If I Said," on WSIX-FM in Nashville, eventually convincing Warner Bros. to release it as a single
    Aug 6, 1997
    When Jon Bon Jovi does a lunchtime on-air stint from a Nashville restaurant for a pop radio station, the crowd includes one Jo Dee Messina



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