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  • Oct 1, 1985
    Steve Earle records "Goodbye's All We Got Left" at Nashville's Sound Stage
    Oct 2, 1985
    Ronnie Milsap receives a gold album from the RIAA for his "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2"
    Oct 4, 1985
    The Patsy Cline movie "Sweet Dreams" opens in Nashville
    Oct 5, 1985
    Steve Wariner sings "Heart Trouble" and Louise Mandrell performs "I Wanna Say Yes" on an installment of "Hee Haw" that also features pop vocalist Bobby Vinton
    Oct 6, 1985
    Banjo player Amos Binkley dies. He was formerly a member of The Binkley Brothers, who took part in the first Nashville recording session in 1928
    Oct 8, 1985
    "Slippin' And Slidin'" songwriter Little Richard is hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after fracturing his right leg in a car wreck
    Oct 8, 1985
    Epic releases Ricky Skaggs' album "Live In London"
    Oct 9, 1985
    MTM releases Judy Rodman's "Come Next Monday." The song becomes a hit five years later for its author, K.T. Oslin
    Oct 11, 1985
    MCA announces plans to reactive the Dot label in Nashville
    Oct 11, 1985
    Tex Williams dies of pancreatic cancer at Newhall Community Hospital in California. His talking novelty "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" provided Capitol Records its first million-selling country single in 1947

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