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    • Feb 2, 1961
    Little Jimmy Dickens records "Farewell Party" at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville. The song has to wait 18 years to become a hit, for Gene Watson
    Feb 3, 1961
    Tex Ritter records "I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven," namechecking late country stars Carson Robison, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. Also referenced: Red Foley, Ernest Tubb, Eddy Arnold, Gene Autry and Eddie Dean, among others
    Feb 4, 1961
    Nineteen years away from appearing on a country hit with Merle Haggard, Clint Eastwood makes the cover of TV Guide
    Feb 4, 1961
    Rockabilly artist Johnny Burnette has an emergency appendectomy in Hollywood
    Feb 4, 1961
    Roger Miller records "When Two Worlds Collide" in Nashville
    Feb 6, 1961
    Columbia releases Ray Price's double-pronged single, "Heart Over Mind" with "The Twenty-Fourth Hour"
    Feb 6, 1961
    Don Reno, of Reno & Smiley, has a son, Dale Reno, in Roanoke, Virginia. The lad joins his older brothers, Ronnie and Don Wayne, to form The Reno Brothers following their dad's 1984 death
    Feb 7, 1961
    RCA releases Elvis Presley's single "Surrender"
    Feb 8, 1961
    George Jones records "Tender Years" in Nashville at the Bradley Recording Studio
    Feb 8, 1961
    Ricky Nelson performs "You Are The Only One" for the second time in six weeks on ABC's "The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet"
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