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    • May 17, 1969
    Tammy Wynette joins the Grand Ole Opry, remaining a member only a short time. Her performances include "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," "Stand By Your Man," "Singing My Song" and "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
    May 17, 1969
    Bill Anderson rises to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "My Life (Throw It Away If I Want To)"
    May 17, 1969
    The Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy, is honored with a six-cent postage stamp. Fourteen years later, he is inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
    May 19, 1969
    Roger Miller records "Where Have All The Average People Gone" in Nashville
    May 20, 1969
    Elvis Presley sells his Mississippi cattle ranch for $440,100
    May 21, 1969
    "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" is no longer a replacement show. With its promotion to regular weekly series, Campbell's salary rises to $15,000-a-week
    May 22, 1969
    Pop songwriter Jimmy McHugh dies in Beverly Hills. He earned country hits as a writer of Ella Fitzgerald's "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" and Jimmy Wakely's duet with Margaret Whiting, "When You And I Were Young Maggie Blues"
    May 24, 1969
    Plainview, Texas, declares Jimmy Dean Day as the singer arrives to open a sausage factory in the city
    May 24, 1969
    Two months after his split with longtime partner Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs debuts The Earl Scruggs Revue--sons Gary and Randy Scruggs, Boomer Castleman and Travis Murphy--in Gatlinburg
    May 25, 1969
    Jimmy Dean opens a sausage plant in his hometown: Plainview, Texas
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