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  • Dec 14, 1978
    Tanya Tucker secures her first RIAA-certified gold album with her "Greatest Hits"
    Dec 15, 1978
    ABC releases Narvel Felts' remake of "Everlasting Love"
    Dec 15, 1978
    Jacky Ward has a guest spot on the syndicated TV show "Hee Haw Honeys"
    Dec 15, 1978
    Barbara Mandrell performs "Woman To Woman" during an installment of NBC's "The Midnight Special." Hosted by Wolfman Jack, the episode also features actor Robby Benson and singer/songwriter Marshall Chapman
    Dec 15, 1978
    Bob Luman makes his final appearance on the Grand Ole Opry
    Dec 15, 1978
    The Nashville Banner quotes George Jones as feeling like he's "been rescued from death" after filing for bankruptcy. Jones had missed 54 performances during the year
    Dec 16, 1978
    Lester Flatt is released from Nashville's Baptist Hospital, where he's been treated for over three weeks for a brain hemorrhage
    Dec 16, 1978
    A "train bound for nowhere" reaches #1 as Kenny Rogers tops the Billboard country singles chart with "The Gambler"
    Dec 16, 1978
    Buck Owens covers Joe South's "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home" and England Dan & John Ford Coley's "Nights Are Forever" on "Hee Haw." Tennessee Ernie Ford and Jody Miller guest on the episode, which also finds the vocal quartet The Nashville Edition singing "The Door Is Always Open"
    Dec 16, 1978
    Jenny Lou Carson dies in Torrance, California. A 1971 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, she wrote Tex Ritter's "Jealous Heart," Eddy Arnold's "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" and Hank Snow's "Let Me Go, Lover!"

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