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Jul 3, 1926
Uncle Jimmy Thompson plays his fiddle on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, marking a return to the show less than two months after he broke his arm
Mar 5, 1938
Grand Ole Opry founder George D. Hay returns to work at WSM Radio after taking a 14-month leave of absence with nervous exhaustion
Oct 15, 1938
Sarie & Sally return to work as a duo on the Grand Ole Opry at the Dixie Tabernacle in Nashville. Margaret "Sally" Waters' illness had forced Edna "Sarie" Umesetter to perform as a solo comedienne for the previous three months
Sep 6, 1951
Five-year-old Neil Young is discharged from a Toronto hospital after a six-week stay with polio. As an adult, he writes the country hits "Are You Ready For The Country" and "Love Is A Rose"
Nov 1, 1951
Cole Porter, co-author of "Don't Fence Me In," is released from Doctors Hospital in New York after a stay of nearly four weeks in which he underwent repeated shock therapy for emotional problems
Dec 24, 1951
Hank Williams is released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville 11 days after having spinal fusion surgery
Jan 29, 1952
Hank Williams plays his first concert since a December back operation in Richmond, Virginia. At the hotel, he drinks a mixture of tomato juice and rubbing alcohol, then gives a poor, abbreviated show. Ray Price fills in with a 40-minute set
Apr 21, 1956
Not quite one month since breaking his collarbone in an auto accident, Carl Perkins returns to the stage in Beaumont, Texas
May 16, 1957
Elvis Presley is released from Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, where he has been treated for two days after swallowing a porcelain tooth cap during work on his movie "Jailhouse Rock"
Oct 29, 1959
Elvis Presley is released from a military hospital in Germany, where he's been treated for the previous five days for tonsillitis
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