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  • Jan 20, 1968
    Merle Haggard reaches the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart with "Sing Me Back Home"
    Jan 20, 1968
    Henson Cargill is featured on "The Porter Wagoner Show"
    Jan 20, 1968
    Woody Guthrie is celebrated with a tribute concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. The lineup includes Bob Dylan, The Band, Tom Paxton, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie, who covers "Oklahoma Hills." The night closes with a multi-artist performance of "This Land Is Your Land"
    Jan 21, 1968
    Glen Campbell makes his first appearance on CBS' "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," beginning a path that leads him to his own TV show
    Jan 22, 1968
    Jerry Lee Lewis begins rehearsals for the Los Angeles production of "Catch My Soul," an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello," in which Lewis portrays Iago
    Jan 24, 1968
    Songwriter Kelley Lovelace is born in Paducah, Kentucky. He authors multiple Brad Paisley hits, plus Jason Aldean's "Laughed Until We Cried," Randy Houser's "Runnin' Outta Moonlight" and Carrie Underwood's "All-American Girl"
    Jan 24, 1968
    Roger Miller records "Little Green Apples" in Nashville
    Jan 25, 1968
    Buck Owens serves up "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" as a guest on NBC-TV's "The Dean Martin Show." Martin covers "Welcome To My World," and Owens and Martin duet on "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail" and "Love's Gonna Live Here"
    Jan 26, 1968
    The Everly Brothers, Minnie Pearl and Gladys Knight & The Pips appear on the ABC series "Operation: Entertainment"
    Jan 26, 1968
    Singer/songwriter Neil Young and his Buffalo Springfield bandmate, Stephen Stills, have a fight in their dressing room before a concert

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