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    • Jul 1, 1989
    Kathy Mattea's "Come From The Heart" hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Jul 1, 1989
    Playboy Records founder Hugh Hefner marries Kimberley Conrad at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. The label, which closed a decade prior, found its greatest success with country hits by Barbi Benton and Mickey Gilley
    Jul 3, 1989
    Rock artist Elle King is born in Los Angeles. She joins Dierks Bentley on his 2016 country duet "Different For Girls" and wins the Academy of Country Music award for Musical Event of the Year after joining Miranda Lambert and three other women on a cover of "Fooled Around And Fell In Love"
    Jul 3, 1989
    Graceland Mansion sets a one-day record with 4,920 visitors. They spend $110,000 for tickets and memorabilia--more than Elvis Presley paid for the mansion in 1957
    Jul 4, 1989
    The Statler Brothers' "Happy Birthday, U.S.A." goes on without a guest artist, when Ricky Van Shelton cancels over contract problems
    Jul 5, 1989
    PBS airs "In Performance At The White House," with host John Denver singing "Rocky Mountain High" before a live audience that includes president George Bush
    Jul 5, 1989
    The movie "Weekend At Bernie's" debuts, with two friends trying to pass off a corpse as a living person. The plot inspires the Joe Diffie hit "Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die)"
    Jul 5, 1989
    Epic releases Ricky Skaggs' "Let It Be You"
    Jul 5, 1989
    Tanya Tucker has her first baby, Presley Tanita Tucker, at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville
    Jul 6, 1989
    Bruce Springsteen receives a platinum album from the RIAA for "Nebraska." The album includes "Atlantic City," cited in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number" among country music's 500 all-time greatest singles
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