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Oct 20, 1978
Charlie Dore records the pop hit "Pilot Of The Airwaves" in Nashville, using local musicians David Briggs, Audie Ashworth, Reggie Young, Ronny Light, Bobby Wood, Johnny Christopher, Larrie Londin and Joe Osborn
Oct 21, 1978
Mel Street commits suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot on his 45th birthday at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He scored a number of hits on independent labels from 1972-1978, and influenced later country singers Ricky Van Shelton and Marty Raybon, of Shenandoah
Oct 21, 1978
Chet Atkins performs at halftime of the Alabama-Tennessee football game at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville. The Crimson Tide rolls over the hometown Volunteers, 30-17
Oct 23, 1978
Mother Maybelle Carter dies at her Nashville home. The Carter Family became the first family of country music after a 1927 session. The trio broke up in 1943, but she rallied her daughters and kept performing. The original lineup joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970
Oct 25, 1978
Johnny Cash leads mourners in "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" to close the funeral for Maybelle Carter at the First Baptist Church in Madison, Tennessee. Attendees include June Carter Cash, Chet Atkins, Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones, Earl Scruggs and The Oak Ridge Boys
Oct 26, 1978
Johnny Duncan records "Slow Dancing" at Nashville's Columbia Studios
Oct 31, 1978
Hoyt Axton plays the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, welcoming surprise guest Michael Martin Murphey
Oct 31, 1978
Strings are added to Con Hunley's remake of "Since I Fell For You" during evening overdubs at the Columbia Studios in Nashville
Nov 1, 1978
Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius remake the Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand duet "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" at RCA Studio A in Nashville
Nov 1, 1978
Tanya Tucker gets booed for a rock-influenced performance on the Grand Ole Opry
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