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    • Sep 18, 1965
    Connie Smith and Bob Luman join the Grand Ole Opry
    Sep 30, 1965
    Roy Acuff Jr. makes his first recordings, covering his father's "Wabash Cannonball" during a session at Nashville's Columbia Recording Studio
    Oct 8, 1965
    Bass player Bill Black is checked into Memphis' Baptist Hospital with a brain tumor. Noted for his work on "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Hound Dog," he slips into a coma and dies within two weeks
    Oct 14, 1965
    Connie Smith records "Nobody But A Fool (Would Love You)" in an afternoon at RCA Studio B in Nashville
    Oct 21, 1965
    Former Elvis Presley bass player Bill Black dies at Memphis' Baptist Memorial Hospital during surgery for a brain tumor at age 39. He played on Presley's "Don't Be Cruel," "Hound Dog" and "Heartbreak Hotel," eventually forming his own combo
    Oct 22, 1965
    Fire breaks out in Tex Ritter's room at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Nashville. Ritter loses his guitar, several hunting rifles and new cowboy outfits made in England and Hong Kong
    Oct 22, 1965
    Ernest Tubb is named to the Country Music Hall Of Fame during a ceremony at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium
    Oct 22, 1965
    The $500,000 Columbia Recording Studio A is dedicated in Nashville. Little Jimmy Dickens sings "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" at the event, attended by Cliffie Stone and Columbia execs Don Law and Goddard Lieberson
    Oct 23, 1965
    Elvis Presley receives a speeding ticket in Memphis
    Oct 23, 1965
    Roy Acuff Jr. makes his Grand Ole Opry debut, introduced by his legendary father. On an encore, Junior reprises his daddy's classic "Wabash Cannonball"
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