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Apr 15, 1983
Singer/songwriter Margo Price is born in Buffalo Prairie, Illinois. Signed to Jack White's Third Man Records, she earns a Top 10 album with her first solo release in 2016, "Midwest Farmer's Daughter"
Apr 15, 1983
MCA releases Ed Bruce's "You're Not Leavin' Here Tonight"
Apr 15, 1983
Five Elvis Presley singles are certified gold by the RIAA more than 20 years after their release: "Are You Lonesome To-night?" "I Got Stung," "Don't," "It's Now Or Never" and "Return To Sender"
Apr 15, 1983
Alabama's Teddy Gentry opens a dog kennel in Fort Payne, Alabama
Apr 16, 1983
Alabama's "Dixieland Delight" rises to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
Apr 16, 1983
Alabama spends the first of 21 total weeks at #1 on the Billboard country albums chart with "The Closer You Get"
Apr 16, 1983
EMI, which includes Capitol Records, begins producing compact discs. Within seven years, the CD supplants vinyl as the industry's primary format, affecting such future Capitol acts as Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum
Apr 18, 1983
Steve Earle signs his first recording contract, with Epic Records in Nashville
Apr 18, 1983
Jim Ed Brown begins work on TNN's "You Can Be A Star"
Apr 19, 1983
Glen and Kimberly Campbell have a son, Cal Campbell, at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona
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