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    • May 22, 1959
    Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters buys Seattle radio station KVI
    Aug 13, 1959
    Singer/songwriter Bobby Darin signs a million-dollar contract with Paramount Pictures. "Dream Lover," a song Darin wrote, will eventually become a country hit in 1971 for Billy "Crash" Craddock
    Feb 17, 1960
    The Everly Brothers sign a record-setting $1,000,000 contract with Warner Bros., the recording arm of the motion picture company
    Apr 4, 1960
    Billboard magazine reports that RCA has become the first record label to release pop singles in stereo
    May 1, 1960
    Chicago radio station WLS adopts a rock & roll format, a day after "The WLS Barn Dance" had its final broadcast
    Jul 4, 1960
    Country music is featured for the first time at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, as Chet Atkins hosts "Nashville Night"
    Feb 13, 1961
    Frank Sinatra creates Reprise Records. Purchased by Warner Bros., the label eventually develops country hits for such acts as Dwight Yoakam, Blake Shelton, Kenny Rogers, Gordon Lightfoot and Carlene Carter
    Mar 27, 1961
    Reprise Records releases its first album, Frank Sinatra's "Ring-a-Ding Ding!" The label goes on to success in country music, with such artists as Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Blake Shelton and Michael Peterson
    Apr 1, 1961
    Jerry Kennedy goes to work at Mercury Records in Nashville as an assistant to label president Shelby Singleton. He goes on to produce hits for such Mercury and Smash acts as The Statler Brothers, Tom T. Hall, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roger Miller
    Feb 1, 1962
    The Bradley Film & Recording Studio, the cornerstone of Nashville's Music Row, becomes Columbia Recording Studios as Owen Bradley sells the facility for $300,000



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