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May 14, 1968
Songwriter Beasley Smith dies in Nashville. He co-wrote Roy Acuff's 1942 classic "Night Train To Memphis"
May 16, 1968
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has his second intestinal surgery in less than a month at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center
May 22, 1968
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton record "We'll Get Ahead Someday"
Jun 11, 1968
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman has surgery for the third time in two months at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center. He dies three days later
Jun 14, 1968
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman dies in Nashville. A country recording pioneer, he organized his children into a group, The Stoneman Family, earning a CMA award a year before his death. He enters the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008
Jun 20, 1968
Jan Howard takes her oldest son, Jimmy Howard, to the Nashville airport as he leaves for deployment in Vietnam. It's the last time she sees him alive
Jun 22, 1968
Conway Twitty records "Next In Line" at the Columbia Studios in Nashville
Jul 26, 1968
Jeannie C. Riley records "Harper Valley P.T.A."
Jul 30, 1968
Johnny Cash records the Carl Perkins-penned "Daddy Sang Bass" at the Columbia Recording Studios on Music Row in Nashville, with The Statler Brothers and Jan Howard providing additional voices
Aug 3, 1968
Johnny Cash guitarist Luther Perkins is burned over 50% of his body when he falls asleep smoking a cigarette at his home in Nashville. He is rushed to Vanderbilt Medical Center, but dies two days later
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