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    • Oct 24, 1980
    Epic releases Mickey Gilley's album "Encore"
    Oct 24, 1980
    Eddie Rabbitt earns his first two gold albums from the RIAA, for "Horizon" and "The Best Of Eddie Rabbitt"
    Oct 24, 1980
    RCA releases Steve Wariner's "Your Memory"
    Oct 25, 1980
    Hoyt Axton and Joe & Rose Lee Maphis appear with hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark on "Hee Haw." The Hagers cover "Tennessee River" and Owens leads the whole "Hee Haw" gang on "Big Ball's In Cowtown"
    Oct 25, 1980
    T.G. Sheppard guests on "Solid Gold," performing "Do You Wanna Go To Heaven" on the TV music countdown. The installment also features The Commodores, John Stewart, Johnny Rivers and host Dionne Warwick
    Oct 26, 1980
    Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard play for 30,000 people at a rare stadium date at Anaheim Stadium in California with Emmylou Harris and Johnny Paycheck. Haggard's set is recorded for the album "Rainbow Stew/Live At Anaheim Stadium"
    Oct 27, 1980
    Mark David Chapman buys a .38-caliber handgun in Honolulu. He uses it a few weeks later to murder "I Feel Fine" songwriter John Lennon in New York
    Oct 27, 1980
    Conway Twitty records "Tight Fittin' Jeans" in an overnight session at Nashville's Woodland Sound Studio
    Oct 28, 1980
    Conway Twitty records "Red Neckin' Love Makin' Night" in a late-night session in Nashville at the Woodland Sound Studios
    Oct 29, 1980
    Alabama governor Fob James declares Alabama Band Day
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