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Oct 27, 1979
Kim-Pat releases Elmo & Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"
Oct 27, 1979
Jacky Ward sings the national anthem at the University of Mississippi in Oxford when the Rebels play their homecoming football game. Ole Miss trounces Nashville's Vanderbilt Commodores, 63-28
Oct 27, 1979
Cristy Lane sings "Simple Little Words" on the syndicated "Hee Haw." Other music comes from Tennessee Ernie Ford; Buck Owens, who does "Sam's Place"; and Roy Clark, who performs "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"
Oct 28, 1979
Jimmie Skinner dies of a heart attack at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He earned three Top 10 singles during the late-1950s in a career that also included on-air radio work and ownership of a Cincinnati record store
Oct 29, 1979
Kris Kristofferson takes the role of a Civil War-era farmer as NBC debuts the two-part mini-series "Freedom Road," starring Muhammad Ali
Oct 30, 1979
George Burns receives the key to the city of Nashville at the Holiday Inn Vanderbilt
Oct 31, 1979
ABC's "Vega$" features two guests with strong country ties: Playboy Records hitmaker Barbi Benton and Linda Thompson, the former girlfriend of Elvis Presley
Oct 31, 1979
Columbia releases Willie Nelson's Christmas album, "Pretty Paper"
Oct 31, 1979
George Burns records "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" during the afternoon at Nashville's Sound Stage
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