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    • Dec 7, 1985
    Rosanne Cash tops the Billboard country albums chart with "Rhythm & Romance"
    Dec 7, 1985
    John Denver sings "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in a flood-relief benefit at the Charleston Cultural Center in West Virginia. Some $1 million is raised with the concert which includes Richie Havens, Poco and Kathy Mattea
    Dec 7, 1985
    Shelly West guests on "Hee Haw" with Ray Stevens and actor Ernest Borgnine
    Dec 7, 1985
    Terry Speegel, a woman described as an acquaintance of Hank Williams Jr., is arrested for allegedly stealing a $4,500 diamond bracelet, a briefcase and $15,000 cash from Williams' home near Kentucky Lake in Tennessee
    Dec 10, 1985
    Meghan Linsey is born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. She joins Joshua Scott Jones to form Steel Magnolia, winning CMT's "Can You Duet" in 2009. The act applies big, soulful harmonies in a subsequent hit, "Keep On Lovin' You." The duo splits by 2014
    Dec 10, 1985
    Johnny Cash's tenth CBS Christmas special features Larry Gatlin, Jerry Lee Lewis, June Carter Cash and Rosanne Cash, who sings "Never Be You." Johnny and June team on "It Ain't Me, Babe"
    Dec 12, 1985
    David Crosby, tormented by a string of arrests and disappearances, surrenders to the FBI in West Palm Beach, where he's jailed overnight. Crosby was a founding member of The Byrds, a leading act in the growth of country-rock
    Dec 13, 1985
    Dolly Parton, in the midst of a copyright trial over "9 To 5," tells reporters in Los Angeles she had offered a settlement to the plaintiffs, Neil and Jan Goldberg, to keep the suit out of the public eye. She maintains her song did not borrow parts from the Goldbergs' creation, "Money World"
    Dec 13, 1985
    Warner Bros. releases Pam Tillis' "Those Memories Of You." The song becomes a hit two years later for Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
    Dec 13, 1985
    Columbia releases David Allan Coe's "17 Greatest Hits"
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