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    • Dec 11, 1951
    Hank Thompson records "The Wild Side Of Life" and "Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart" during the evening at the Capitol Studios on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles
    Dec 11, 1951
    Hank Williams records "Honky Tonk Blues" and "I'm Sorry For You, My Friend" during a midday session in Nashville at the Castle Studio. It marks his last recording date before dissolving the Drifting Cowboys
    Dec 13, 1951
    Hank Williams undergoes surgery at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville to fuse two vertebrae in his back
    Dec 14, 1951
    Mercury releases Flatt & Scruggs' "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms." The bluegrass standard is later made into a country hit by Buck Owens
    Dec 16, 1951
    Cynthia Dunn is born in Nashville. She becomes Steve Earle's second wife in 1977
    Dec 24, 1951
    Hank Williams is released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville 11 days after having spinal fusion surgery
    Dec 24, 1951
    Decca releases Ernest Tubb's "Missing In Action"
    Dec 25, 1951
    Merle Haggard spends Christmas in the Bakersfield Juvenile Hall for truancy. His mother shows up during the day with a holiday gift: a Martin guitar. Haggard runs away during the early part of 1952, and ends up in a reformatory in Whittier, California
    Dec 26, 1951
    Neil Young's family sets out from Toronto for New Smyrna Beach, Florida, spending five months in the sun while the six-year-old recovers from polio
    Dec 28, 1951
    Ferlin Husky, using the alias Terry Preston, holds his first recording session for Capitol, a business relationship that lasts for more than two decades
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