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Nov 26, 1987
The Oak Ridge Boys ride a strawberry-house float down Broadway in 52-degree weather at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Also appearing: Bobby Vinton and Rita Coolidge, who sings "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" from atop a turkey float
Nov 30, 1987
Gary Morris takes over for Colm Wilkinson in the role of Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables" on Broadway
Dec 18, 1987
Songwriter Chuck Berry is charged with assault after striking a woman at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel. Two of the women's teeth were loosened, and she required five stitches. He pleads guilty 11 months later to a lesser charge of harassment
Dec 19, 1987
Linda Ronstadt is the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live"
Feb 20, 1988
Randy Travis performs "Forever And Ever, Amen" as the musical guest on a Tom Hanks-hosted episode of "Saturday Night Live" on NBC
Mar 2, 1988
"Forever And Ever, Amen" wins Best Country Song for composers Don Schlitz and Paul Overstreet during the 30th annual Grammy Awards in New York. The album the song appears on, "Always & Forever," earns Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for Randy Travis
Apr 9, 1988
R&B singer Brook Benton dies of pneumonia at New York's Mary Immaculate Hospital. Several of Benton's songs were remade in country, including Hank Williams Jr.'s "Rainy Night In Georgia," Sonny James' "Endlessly" and Randy Travis' "It's Just A Matter Of Time"
Apr 18, 1988
R&B songwriters Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York. Noted for dozens of Motown hits, their song "You Can't Hurry Love" gets covered by The Dixie Chicks for "Runaway Bride"
May 1, 1988
Songwriter Claude DeMetrius dies in New York City. He wrote Elvis Presley's "Hard Headed Woman" and "I Was The One," plus Marvin Rainwater's "Nothin' Needs Nothin' (Like I Need You)"
May 11, 1988
Willie Nelson sings "Blue Skies" at Carnegie Hall in New York as CBS shoots "Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration." The cast includes Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney. Berlin doesn't attend
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