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  • Jan 1, 1968
    On the 15th anniversary of Hank Williams' death, the original Drifting Cowboys play together for the first time in 14 years
    Jan 1, 1968
    Little Jimmy Dickens' wife, Ernestine, dies in a car accident in Sherman, Texas, when her car veers off an icy overpass
    Jan 2, 1968
    Capitol releases a Buck Owens album with an appreciative title, "It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me"
    Jan 2, 1968
    Capitol releases Merle Haggard's album "Sing Me Back Home"
    Jan 2, 1968
    Charley Pride records "The Easy Part's Over" in Nashville
    Jan 2, 1968
    The Hyatt Corporation takes over the Continental Hotel in West Hollywood after buying it from Gene Autry, who insisted the contract start on January 2, instead of January 1, so he could keep bar receipts from New Year's Eve
    Jan 3, 1968
    Wynn Stewart records "Something Pretty" at the Capitol Recording Studios on Vine Street in Los Angeles
    Jan 3, 1968
    Jack Greene records "Before The Next Teardrop Falls," seven years before it becomes popular in the hands of Freddy Fender
    Jan 3, 1968
    Roy Acuff returns from a two-week USO tour of American bases in Cuba, the Bahamas, the Canal Zone and Puerto Rico
    Jan 3, 1968
    New instrumental parts are recorded to support the late Jim Reeves' original vocals on "That's When I See The Blues (In Your Pretty Brown Eyes)" during a session at RCA's 17th Avenue studios in Nashville

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