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Feb 17, 1955
The Wilburn Brothers record "I Wanna Wanna Wanna"
Feb 18, 1955
The movie "Timberjack," featuring Sterling Hayden and Chill Wills, appears in theaters. The film's cast includes "Georgia On My Mind" songwriter Hoagy Carmichael as a saloon pianist
Feb 18, 1955
Congress authorizes president Dwight Eisenhower to award a gold medal to songwriter Irving Berlin. Among Berlin's compositions is "Blue Skies," which becomes a country hit for Willie Nelson in 1978
Feb 19, 1955
Fabor Robison announces he's given Jim Reeves his release from Abbott Records in exchange for all of Reeves' future Abbott royalties. The announcement comes not quite three weeks after the two argued in the recording studio with a handgun
Feb 22, 1955
Elvis Presley performs a sold-out show in Hope, Arkansas, the home of nine-year-old Bill Clinton. Presley gets his first pink Cadillac stuck in mud in a two-car caravan that includes June Carter and Justin Tubb
Feb 24, 1955
Eddy Arnold presents a special album to the Library of Congress designed by RCA, commemorating 30 million records sold
Feb 25, 1955
Webb Pierce records "I Don't Care" in Nashville at the Castle Studio
Feb 26, 1955
Webb Pierce kicks off 20 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with his remake of "In The Jailhouse Now"
Feb 26, 1955
Five years after scoring a hit as the writer of Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely's "Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)," Steve Allen shares the cover of TV Guide with Judy Holliday
Feb 26, 1955
Lillie Williams, Hank Williams' mother, dies in Montgomery, Alabama
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