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    • May 18, 1966
    Reprise releases Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night." Produced by Jimmy Bowen, the single features Glen Campbell on guitar
    May 19, 1966
    One night after receiving a gold record from Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," Eddy Arnold appears at New York's Carnegie Hall with a 19-piece orchestra
    May 20, 1966
    Beatle George Harrison visits the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India for the first time. Harrison is destined to write the Johnny Rodriguez country hit "Something"
    May 21, 1966
    Jim Reeves' "Distant Drums" begins a four-week ride at the top of the Billboard country singles chart
    May 22, 1966
    Bruce Springsteen writes his first song in the back seat of a Mercury on the way to a recording session. A future Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, he will also write the Mel McDaniel country hit "Stand On It"
    May 23, 1966
    Four years after he earned a country hit with "Old Rivers," actor Walter Brennan is honored with the Horatio Alger Award at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York
    May 23, 1966
    Decca releases Loretta Lynn's "You Ain't Woman Enough"
    May 24, 1966
    Waylon Jennings begins recording his first album since moving to Nashville, a collection of Harlan Howard songs
    May 28, 1966
    Jeannie Seely sings "Don't Touch Me" as she makes her Grand Ole Opry debut at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville
    May 28, 1966
    Elvis Presley records "Fools Fall In Love" at Nashville's RCA Studio B. Jacky Ward will have a country hit with the song in 1977
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