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    • Mar 28, 1980
    Merle Haggard is the opening-night performer when a 1,000-seat venue, The Country Club, bows in Reseda, California
    Apr 9, 1980
    Pop singer/songwriter Albert Hammond has a son, Albert Hammond Jr., in Los Angeles. The younger Hammond joins the rock band The Strokes; the older Hammond nets a country hit as a songwriter with "To All The Girls I've Loved Before"
    Apr 11, 1980
    Merle Haggard records "Misery And Gin" and "Bar Room Buddies," the latter with Clint Eastwood, at Wally Heider's Studio C in Los Angeles for the movie "Bronco Billy"
    Apr 11, 1980
    Cousin Emmy dies in Sherman Oaks, California. Born Cynthia May Carver in Lamb, Kentucky, she taught Grandpa Jones to play the banjo, and became a significant singer and bawdy comedian in concert and on radio from the 1920s to the 1950s. Additionally, she penned Buck Owens' "Ruby (Are You Mad)"
    Apr 14, 1980
    "It Goes Like It Goes," performed by Jennifer Warnes in the movie "Norma Rae," wins the Oscar award for Best Original Song. Warnes has already earned country hits with 1977's "Right Time Of The Night" and 1979's "I Know A Heartache When I See One"
    Apr 24, 1980
    HBO shoots "Linda Ronstadt In Concert" in Los Angeles. She performs "Blue Bayou," "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me," "Faithless Love" and "Desperado"
    Apr 27, 1980
    Paul "Hezzie" Trietsch dies in Westlake Village, California. Playing drums and washboard, among other instruments, he was a member of The Hoosier Hot Shots, who earned a trio of mid-1940s hits and appeared in numerous westerns
    May 1, 1980
    Larry Gatlin wins three times in the 15th Academy Of Country Music awards, aired on NBC from Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, taking Top Male Vocalist, Single Record ("All The Gold In California") and Album of the Year ("Straight Ahead")
    May 5, 1980
    Phil Everly and Emmylou Harris play a benefit at The Palomino in Los Angeles
    May 26, 1980
    Former Eagle Randy Meisner begins recording his first album as a solo artist at Record One in Los Angeles
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