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    • Mar 7, 1985
    The Nashville Network hosts a birthday bash at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Scheduled host George Jones, feeling mistreated, leaves just before the show starts. Ricky Skaggs takes over as host
    Jun 10, 1985
    George Jones shoots his first video, for "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes," in Nashville with producer Billy Sherrill playing a bus driver
    Aug 2, 1985
    Epic releases the George Jones album "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes"
    Sep 6, 1985
    Columbia releases a Willie Nelson duets album, "Half Nelson," featuring Merle Haggard, Julio Iglesias, Ray Charles, Hank Williams, Leon Russell, Lacy J. Dalton, George Jones, Carlos Santana and Mel Tillis, among others
    Sep 20, 1985
    "I could hear you was playin' Haggard and Jones": RCA releases The Judds' single "Have Mercy," namechecking two future Country Music Hall of Fame members
    Sep 22, 1985
    Willie Nelson sponsors the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois, with Merle Haggard, John Cougar Mellencamp, Roger Miller, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Alabama, George Jones, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, B.B. King, Judy Rodman and Waylon Jennings, among others
    Sep 26, 1985
    A Nashville law firm files suit against George Jones to collect $124,024 in legal fees amassed between May 1984 and August 1985
    Feb 15, 1986
    George Jones, Loretta Lynn, John Hartford and Johnny Russell gang up on "Hee Haw" guest duties, appearing along with The Million Dollar Band, including Chet Atkins, Charlie McCoy, Boots Randolph and Floyd Cramer
    Apr 14, 1986
    "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" wins Country Music Video of the Year for George Jones, producer Kitty Moon and director Marc Ball during the 21st Academy of Country Music awards at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California
    May 22, 1986
    George Jones and Merle Haggard post $50,000 bond money to get Johnny Paycheck out of jail in Hillsboro, Ohio, where he was being held for the December shooting of Larry Wise in a barroom argument
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