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    • Dec 24, 1973
    MCA releases Brenda Lee's "Wrong Ideas"
    Dec 24, 1973
    MCA Records releases the Conway Twitty single "There's A Honky Tonk Angel (Who'll Take Me Back In)"
    Dec 24, 1973
    Pam Tillis is injured in a car accident. Her face is shattered in more than 30 places, leading to multiple surgeries over the next five years. "We were partying," she tells The Music City News years later. "We partied right up a tree"
    Dec 25, 1973
    Steve Goodman and his wife, Nancy, host a Christmas dinner party at their home in Chicago for a handful of friends. They include David Allan Coe, who hears "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" for the first time
    Dec 25, 1973
    Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as "The Sting" debuts in theaters, yielding a pop hit with the Marvin Hamlisch piano recording "The Entertainer." The film gets mentioned in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"
    Dec 25, 1973
    Fifteen days after the Grand Ole Opry suspended Skeeter Davis for complaining that police harassed Christ Is The Answer crusaders, she announces she will tour with the group: "Since I'm not singing in the Opry now, I might as well use my time helping"
    Dec 25, 1973
    Carl Perkins' brother, Clayton, commits suicide with a .22 caliber handgun in Jackson, Tennessee. Clayton played bass on "Blue Suede Shoes"
    Dec 26, 1973
    Johnny Cash and June Carter begin work in Los Angeles on an episode of NBC's detective drama "Columbo." Carl Perkins is written out of the script following his brother's suicide the previous day
    Dec 27, 1973
    Jerry Reed records "A Good Woman's Love" at the RCA Studios in Nashville
    Dec 28, 1973
    Reprise releases Gordon Lightfoot's album "Sundown"
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