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    • Dec 21, 1957
    After giving Colonel Tom Parker a red sports car for Christmas, Elvis Presley goes to the Grand Ole Opry in a tuxedo. He takes pictures with Brenda Lee, Johnny Cash, Hank Snow, Ray Price and Faron Young, and goes on stage to wave to the audience
    Dec 1, 1958
    Maria Elena Holly gives her husband, "True Love Ways" songwriter Buddy Holly, a gold watch for an early Christmas present. Barely two months later, the timepiece is found in the rubble of his fatal plane crash
    Dec 18, 1958
    For his 15th birthday, Keith Richards receives his first guitar. He goes on to play with The Rolling Stones, whose "Honky Tonk Women" is judged among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Dec 25, 1958
    Elvis Presley, serving with the Army in Germany, receives an electric guitar from his father for Christmas
    Dec 25, 1959
    While spending Christmas in Germany, Elvis Presley gives Priscilla Beaulieu a gold watch with diamonds. She presents him bongo drums
    Dec 25, 1960
    Merry Christmas! On their first yuletide in the first house they have owned, Harlan Howard gives his wife, Jan Howard, a poodle
    Dec 25, 1961
    Harlan and Jan Howard give their boys a collie for Christmas. They name the puppy Bucko, for Buck Owens
    Dec 25, 1962
    Elvis Presley gives Priscilla Beaulieu a musical cigarette case that plays "Love Me Tender," the first Elvis song she ever heard. The teenager is visiting Presley at Graceland Mansion from Germany with her parents' approval
    Feb 11, 1963
    Patsy Cline gives several cowgirl costumes to fellow singer Pearl Butler
    Apr 1, 1963
    Elvis Presley gives teenage girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu, who is living at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, a red Corvair



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