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May 13, 1958
Chet Atkins and Carl Smith are featured on the Red Foley-hosted ABC series "Country Music Jubilee"
May 13, 1958
Jerry Lee Lewis and his second wife, Jane Mitcham, are officially divorced. Lewis is already married to his third wife, 13-year-old cousin Myra Gale Brown
May 15, 1958
Johnny Cash records "You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven" at the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis
May 15, 1958
Kenny Rogers marries his first wife, Janice Gordon
May 17, 1958
Marty Robbins joins host Red Foley on ABC-TV's "Country Music Jubilee," originally called "Ozark Jubilee"
May 17, 1958
Ferriday, Louisiana, celebrates Jerry Lee Lewis Day and gives the singer the key to the city, following a parade
May 19, 1958
Atco Records releases Bobby Darin's pop single "Splish Splash." It becomes the singer's lone country hit
May 20, 1958
Guitarist Jane Wiedlin is born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. She joins the 1980s pop band The Go-Go's and later co-writes Keith Urban's "But For The Grace Of God" with Urban and fellow Go-Go Charlotte Caffey
May 20, 1958
Don Gibson joins the Grand Ole Opry
May 21, 1958
Willie Nelson Jr.--better known as "Billy"--is born in Fort Worth. He dies in December 1991 from an apparent suicide
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