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    • Oct 21, 1978
    Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius sing "I'll Never Be Free" on an episode of the syndicated TV show "Pop! Goes The Country." Hosted by Ralph Emery, it also features Ronnie McDowell performing "I Love You, I Love You, I Love You"
    Oct 21, 1978
    Dave & Sugar perform the national anthem in Austin when the Texas Longhorns defeat the Arkansas Razorbacks, 28-21, in college football
    Oct 21, 1978
    Rex Allen Jr. sings "Lonely Street" on an episode of "Hee Haw" that also features The Sons Of The Pioneers and the president's brother, Billy Carter. Roy Clark performs "Me And Bobby McGee" and Lulu Roman covers "A Thing Called Love"
    Oct 21, 1978
    Chet Atkins performs at halftime of the Alabama-Tennessee football game at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville. The Crimson Tide rolls over the hometown Volunteers, 30-17
    Oct 21, 1978
    Mel Street commits suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot on his 45th birthday at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He scored a number of hits on independent labels from 1972-1978, and influenced later country singers Ricky Van Shelton and Marty Raybon, of Shenandoah
    Oct 22, 1978
    "Midnight Rider" songwriter Gregg Allman is arrested for disorderly intoxication while sitting on a motorcycle in the parking lot of a bar in Bradenton, Florida. He spends three hours in jail before his release on a $54 bond
    Oct 22, 1978
    Dorothy Shay dies of a heart attack at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Known as the Park Avenue Hillbilly, she scored a 1947 country hit with her version of "Feudin' And Fightin'"
    Oct 22, 1978
    A "Hee Haw 10th Anniversary Special" closes with regulars Buck Owens, Roy Clark and Minnie Pearl singing "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" with Barbara Mandrell, Kenny Rogers, Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Milsap, Roy Acuff and Conway Twitty
    Oct 23, 1978
    MCA releases Tanya Tucker's album "TNT"
    Oct 23, 1978
    The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is let off of heroin charges in Toronto on technicalities, pleading guilty only to possession. The group's "Honky Tonk Women" is named in a Country Music Foundation book among country's greatest singles
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