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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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