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Oct 1, 1975
Drummer Al Jackson Jr. is shot five times and killed by burglars at his Memphis home. A member of Booker T. & The MG's, he played on Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay," hailed among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Oct 2, 1975
Tammy Wynette checks in to Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an undisclosed illness
Oct 3, 1975
Roger Miller sings his first hit, "You Don't Want My Love," with host Helen Reddy on "The Midnight Special." Also appearing are Janis Ian and Keith Carradine
Oct 3, 1975
Vocalist Dean Upson dies. He was a former member of The Vagabonds, one of the Grand Ole Opry's leading acts in the 1930s. As an employee at Shreveport radio station KWKH, he also helped establish "The Louisiana Hayride"
Oct 4, 1975
Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" spends the first of five total weeks at #1 on the Billboard country albums chart
Oct 4, 1975
Willie Nelson picks up his first #1 single as an artist on the Billboard country chart with "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"
Oct 4, 1975
Tammy Wynette sings "Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)" on "Hee Haw" with Rudy Gatlin among her background singers. Billy Walker performs "Word Games." The show's regulars include Roy Clark, Buck Owens, Gunilla Hutton, Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones, The Hagers and George "Goober" Lindsey, who does "A Little Bitty Tear"
Oct 5, 1975
Mac and Sarah Davis are legally separated
Oct 5, 1975
Mac Davis appears on the CBS variety show "Cher," singing a medley of songs he wrote--including "Stop And Smell The Roses," "In The Ghetto" and "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me"--with the show's host. Also appearing: Patti LaBelle
Oct 6, 1975
Drummer Patrick Keeler is born in West Harrison, Indiana. In 2005, he becomes a member of The Raconteurs, a rock band that earns a Country Music Association awards nomination for "Old Enough," recorded with Ricky Skaggs and Ashley Monroe
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