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Aug 1, 1985
John Denver takes part in a benefit concert at The Bitter End in New York, celebrating the Greenwich Village venue's 25th anniversary. Also appearing are Tom Paxton, Joni Mitchell and Peter, Paul & Mary
Aug 28, 1985
Mick and Jerry Jagger have a son, James Leroy Jagger, in New York. The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" earns a spot among country's greatest singles in a list created in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Sep 3, 1985
Songwriter Johnny Marks dies in a New York hospital. Marks was best known for the Christmas classics "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
Sep 15, 1985
Charles "Cootie" Williams dies in New York City. A jazz trumpet player, his 1944 single "Red Blues" made an unlikely entry onto the Billboard folk hit parade, an early version of the magazine's country charts
Sep 17, 1985
A front page story in The New York Times proclaims that country music is "dead." The piece writes off Alabama and Hank Williams Jr. as "not really country"
Sep 18, 1985
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy marries Pamela Gregg in New York's Central Park
Sep 23, 1985
Randy Schlappi is born in Albany, New York. Adopting the stage name Randy Montana, he signs for a time with Mercury as a recording artist. Montana co-writes Luke Combs' hit "Beer Never Broke My Heart" and the Carly Pearce & Lee Brice duet "I Hope You're Happy Now"
Nov 28, 1985
Lee Greenwood lip syncs "God Bless The U.S.A." from a Statue of Liberty float in the rain during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Janie Fricke does "If The Fall Don't Get You" aboard a turkey float. At the close, she's stranded for an hour, unable to disembark
Dec 14, 1985
"Bartender's Blues" songwriter James Taylor marries Kathryn Walker at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York
Mar 3, 1986
Buddy Holly is inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, along with the songwriting team of Felice & Boudleaux Bryant. Holly's "True Love Ways" became a country hit for Mickey Gilley. The Bryants wrote "Bye Bye Love" and "Rocky Top," among others
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