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    • May 23, 1981
    "Feels So Right" lifts Alabama to #1 on the Billboard country albums chart for the first time in the band's career. The album occupies the top spot a total of 28 weeks
    May 23, 1981
    Rosanne Cash nets her first #1 country single in Billboard with "Seven Year Ache"
    May 23, 1981
    Barbara Eden is featured on the cover of TV Guide as she stars in the series "Harper Valley P.T.A.," based on the Jeannie C. Riley hit
    May 23, 1981
    Ronnie Milsap covers "Am I Losing You" and Rick Nelson sings "Believe What You Say" on TV's "Solid Gold." Other guests include Kim Carnes and Sheena Easton
    May 24, 1981
    George Jones fails to show for a concert in Logan, Ohio. Fighting breaks out among disgruntled fans, and one sheriff is hit with a bottle. Spokesmen say Jones is suffering from exhaustion. He's later sued for $10.1 million
    May 24, 1981
    Hendersonville, Tennessee, approves $1.5 million in bonds to finance a tourist complex being developed by Conway Twitty
    May 25, 1981
    ABC airs "Larry Gatlin And The Gatlin Brothers Band," a special that includes appearances by Johnny Cash, Dottie West and Roger Miller
    May 25, 1981
    Glen Campbell sings "Rhinestone Cowboy" and Marie Osmond covers "Mister Sandman" on "Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Birthday At West Point." The NBC special also features Brooke Shields, Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor
    May 25, 1981
    Capitol releases Billy "Crash" Craddock's "I Just Need You For Tonight"
    May 25, 1981
    R&B singer/songwriter Roy Brown dies of a heart attack at Pacoima Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles. He wrote Elvis Presley's "Good Rockin' Tonight" and had a country hit as an artist with the 1948 recording "'Fore Day In The Morning"
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