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Dec 22, 1961
Warner Bros. releases The Everly Brothers' pop hit "Crying In The Rain." Tammy Wynette gains a minor country hit with the song in 1981
Dec 25, 1961
Harlan and Jan Howard give their boys a collie for Christmas. They name the puppy Bucko, for Buck Owens
Dec 27, 1961
"The Steve Allen Show" airs for the last time on NBC, more than five years after it began. The variety series' comedic host wrote the 1950 crossover hit "Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)," recorded by Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
Dec 29, 1961
Columbia releases Jimmy Dean's "To A Sleeping Beauty," written by Jackie Gleason
Dec 30, 1961
Jack Greene is asked to be Ernest Tubb's drummer when Tubb plays Atlanta's East Point. Six months later, he's in the band
Dec 31, 1961
Johnny Cash plays Camden, New Jersey, with June Carter, Flatt & Scruggs and Marty Robbins. While Robbins performs, bass player Marshall Grant tosses an M-80 into a urinal backstage, the resulting blast covering a dressing room in sewage
Dec 31, 1961
Janis Joplin performs her first concert at the Halfway House in Beaumont, Texas. Joplin's "Me And Bobby McGee" is ranked among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
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