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  • May 17, 1967
    Glen Campbell records "Gentle On My Mind," written by John Hartford and arranged by Leon Russell, at the Capitol Recording Studio in Hollywood
    May 19, 1967
    Ralph Stanley holds his first recording session as a solo artist in Cincinnati, Ohio
    May 19, 1967
    Johnny Cash and his brother, Tommy Cash, get into a fistfight in front of their parents in the Nashville airport over Johnny's use of pills. Johnny draws blood when he lands a punch on Tommy's cheek
    May 20, 1967
    Loretta Lynn's "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)" tops the Billboard country albums chart
    May 20, 1967
    While headed from Houston to southern Louisiana on tour, Ernest Tubb tells Jack Greene it's time he leaves the Troubadours to work on his solo career
    May 22, 1967
    Capitol releases Sonny James' "I'll Never Find Another You"
    May 22, 1967
    Marty Robbins records "Gardenias In Her Hair"
    May 22, 1967
    Columbia releases Johnny Cash and June Carter's "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man"
    May 25, 1967
    Lawrence Welk receives the Horatio Alger Award at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, two decades after he earned a country hit with "Shame On You"
    May 27, 1967
    "The Best Of Eddy Arnold" kicks off a seven-week run at the top of the Billboard country albums chart

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