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Jan 28, 1985
Alabama, Willie Nelson and Anne Murray each win two American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, while Loretta Lynn takes home a special Award of Merit. Other country winners on the ABC telecast include Barbara Mandrell, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and The Oak Ridge Boys
Jan 28, 1985
RCA releases Alabama's album "Forty Hour Week"
Jan 29, 1985
Donny and Debbie Osmond welcome a baby boy, Brandon Michael Osmond, in Provo, Utah. Dad is a former winner of an American Music Award as a country artist
Jan 29, 1985
Hank Williams Jr. is a man of gold. His album "Man Of Steel" is certified by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 copies
Jan 30, 1985
Randy Travis records four songs at Nineteenth Avenue Sound in Nashville in his first session for Warner Bros. Among them are "Prairie Rose," destined for the soundtrack to "Rustler's Rhapsody," and "On The Other Hand"
Jan 31, 1985
Epic releases "19 Hot Country Requests," with early-'80s singles from Merle Haggard, Mickey Gilley, George Jones, Charly McClain, David Allan Coe, Ronnie McDowell, Janie Fricke, Willie Nelson, Ricky Skaggs, B.J. Thomas and The Gatlin Brothers
Jan 31, 1985
Pop singer Barbara Cowsill dies from emphysema in Arizona. Along with her six kids, she formed The Cowsills, whose 1968 hit "Indian Lake" was successfully remade for country consumption by Freddy Weller
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