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    • Oct 19, 1973
    The agency is located out west, but the "western" is out of the name: The Los Angeles Times reports the Academy of Country & Western Music has voted to rename the organization the Academy of Country Music
    Oct 21, 1973
    "Bar Room Buddies" singer Clint Eastwood throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a World Series game at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's defeat the New York Mets, 5-2, in the final game
    Oct 23, 1973
    Merle Haggard records "That's The Way Loves Goes" at the Capitol Recording Studios in Los Angeles. He cuts a new version, which becomes a hit, 10 years later
    Oct 30, 1973
    Buck Owens records "(It's A) Monsters' Holiday" during a morning session at his studio in Bakersfield
    Nov 2, 1973
    "Take It Easy" songwriter Jackson Browne and his first wife, Phyllis Major, have a son, Ethan Zane Browne, in Los Angeles
    Nov 11, 1973
    Los Angeles club The Ash Grove is destroyed by fire. Believed by its owner to be a government-bred arson, it marks the end of a venue that increased the profile of such acts as Bill Monroe, The Byrds, Flatt & Scruggs and The Stoneman Family
    Dec 18, 1973
    The Steve McQueen/Dustin Hoffman movie "Papillon" has a benefit premiere at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles. Country singer Barbi Benton attends, as do Hugh Hefner, Billie Jean King and governor Ronald Reagan
    Dec 20, 1973
    Pop singer Bobby Darin dies of heart failure at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His "Splish Splash" crossed into the country charts, and his "Dream Lover" was remade as a country hit by Billy "Crash" Craddock
    Dec 26, 1973
    Johnny Cash and June Carter begin work in Los Angeles on an episode of NBC's detective drama "Columbo." Carl Perkins is written out of the script following his brother's suicide the previous day
    Jan 1, 1974
    Rick Nelson and his Stone Canyon Band begin a six-night run at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Among the fans who walk through the turnstiles is future Desert Rose Band guitarist John Jorgenson
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