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    • Dec 11, 1962
    Brenda Lee's 18th birthday party, in Brentwood, Tennessee, features Mexican food cooked by Grand Ole Opry member Marty Robbins
    Dec 31, 1962
    Elvis Presley welcomes the new year in a private party at Memphis' Manhattan Club. Priscilla Beaulieu gets drunk and leaves early
    Jan 5, 1963
    Six months after he was snubbed by Bill Monroe, Ralph Rinzler is reintroduced to the bluegrass legend at a party in New York. By the end of the evening, Rinzler is Monroe's manager, in charge of resurrecting his career
    Apr 26, 1964
    Roy Orbison's 28th birthday party draws The Beatles among its guests
    Apr 29, 1965
    Decca celebrates Ernest Tubb's 25th anniversary with the label during a luncheon at New York's Friar's Club, where he receives a gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Walking The Floor Over You"
    Oct 22, 1965
    The $500,000 Columbia Recording Studio A is dedicated in Nashville. Little Jimmy Dickens sings "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" at the event, attended by Cliffie Stone and Columbia execs Don Law and Goddard Lieberson
    Nov 21, 1965
    Fiddler Cecil Brower dies during a party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City of a perforated ulcer. One of the pioneers of western swing, he established the fiddle's role in the genre during his tenure with Milton Brown's Musical Brownies
    Dec 11, 1965
    Decca presents Brenda Lee a red Mustang convertible during a 21st birthday party at Nashville's Hermitage Hotel. In attendance: future Country Music Hall of Famers Red Foley, Owen Bradley and Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
    Dec 31, 1968
    Elvis Presley holds a New Year's Eve party for 200 at Memphis' Thunderbird Lounge. Performers include B.J. Thomas, Billy Lee Riley and Ronnie Milsap
    Dec 31, 1969
    Elvis Presley's New Year's Eve party starts at Chenault's in Memphis, then moves to T.J.'s for music by Billy Lee Riley and Ronnie Milsap. In addition, songwriter Mark James performs "Suspicious Minds"



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