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    • Dec 1, 1986
    Alabama records "Face To Face" and "Fallin' Again"
    Dec 2, 1986
    Piano player Marvin Hughes dies during open-heart surgery at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. His credits included: Hank Snow's "I've Been Everywhere," Elvis Presley's "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," Ray Price's "Heartaches By The Number" and Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go," on which he played vibes
    Dec 2, 1986
    Jerry Lee Lewis checks into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, with an addiction to painkillers
    Dec 3, 1986
    Warner Bros. releases Highway 101's first hit, "The Bed You Made For Me"
    Dec 5, 1986
    Songwriter Carmol Taylor dies of lung cancer in Brilliant, Alabama. Taylor wrote such hits as George Jones' "The Grand Tour," Tammy Wynette's "My Man" and Joe Stampley's "Red Wine And Blue Memories"
    Dec 6, 1986
    George Strait sings "When It's Christmas Time In Texas" during the ABC special "Perry Como's Christmas In San Antonio"
    Dec 6, 1986
    George Strait appears at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "It Ain't Cool To Be Crazy About You"
    Dec 6, 1986
    "Gloom, despair and agony on me..." Music for the week's edition of "Hee Haw" is provided by guests Ray Pillow, Dottie West and Jerry Reed, who co-hosts the episode with Roy Clark
    Dec 7, 1986
    Future Academy of Country Music awards nominee Huey Lewis performs the national anthem with his pop band, The News, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, where the NFL's 49ers beat the New York Jets, 24-10
    Dec 7, 1986
    Ray Charles is celebrated in the Kennedy Center Honors at a White House ceremony alongside Lucille Ball, Jessica Tandy and others. Charles had a country hit two years prior by joining Willie Nelson on "Seven Spanish Angels"
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