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    • May 15, 1968
    Buck Owens & The Buckaroos perform "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail" and "Sweet Rosie Jones" on NBC's "The Kraft Music Hall." Host Eddy Arnold's contributions include "I Really Don't Want To Know" and his new single, "It's Over"
    May 16, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has his second intestinal surgery in less than a month at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center
    May 17, 1968
    Drummer Dave Abbruzzese is born in Stamford, Connecticut. He joins Seattle alt-rock band Pearl Jam in 1993, but leaves in August 1994, about a year before the band is referenced by Lonestar in the country hit "No News"
    May 18, 1968
    Glen Campbell's "I Wanna Live" tops the Billboard country singles chart
    May 18, 1968
    Charley Pride's "The Country Way" rises to #1 on the Billboard country albums chart
    May 19, 1968
    A dozen years before he joins Merle Haggard on "Bar Room Buddies," Clint Eastwood has a son, Kyle Eastwood, in Los Angeles
    May 20, 1968
    Janis Joplin records "Piece Of My Heart." The song is eventually remade as a country hit by Faith Hill
    May 22, 1968
    Eddy Arnold hosts NBC's "The Kraft Music Hall," joining guest Phyllis McGuire on a version of "Sincerely." Arnold also reprises his hit "I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms)" and the Bobby Goldsboro single "Honey"
    May 22, 1968
    Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton record "We'll Get Ahead Someday"
    May 25, 1968
    Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" spends the first of five total weeks at #1 on the Billboard country albums chart
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