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Jun 7, 1982

The Music City News awards are presented, though two trophies are mistakenly given to artists who did not win. Lew DeWitt rejoins The Statler Brothers to host the show after five months off the road with Crohn's disease

Jun 7, 1982

Graceland Mansion opens for public tours in Memphis

Jun 7, 1982

Conway Twitty opens Twitty City to the general public. The grounds of the fan attraction in Hendersonville, Tennessee, feature his office, a theater and his house. The $5 cost of admission allows fans into the park, but not his home

Jun 7, 1982

Former Grand Ole Opry star DeFord Bailey checks into Nashville's Baptist Hospital with a failing heart and kidneys

Jun 8, 1982

Jerry Lee Lewis' fourth wife, Jaren, is found dead in a Memphis swimming pool

Jun 12, 1982

Jimmie Riddle, of the Smoky Mountain Boys, undergoes surgery at Nashville's Baptist Hospital. Doctors discover he has bladder cancer

Jun 19, 1982

Riders In The Sky join the Grand Ole Opry, performing "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" during the evening

Jun 19, 1982

Nashville's Patsy Bruce holds tryouts to find replacements for Tom Wopat and John Schneider on "The Dukes Of Hazzard"

Jun 20, 1982

An audit uncovers a mistake in voting for The Music City News awards. The Best Comedy Act of the Year should have gone to The Statler Brothers, instead of The Mandrells. It's the second error discovered within a week

Jun 24, 1982

John Anderson holds the last recording session in Nashville's historic Columbia Studio B, recording Lefty Frizzell's "The Long Black Veil"

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