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    • May 7, 1988
    Dolly Parton performs "When Will I Be Loved" in the final episode of her beleaguered ABC variety show "Dolly!" Her musical guest is Loretta Lynn
    May 7, 1988
    Recording begins for The Traveling Wilburys' album "Vol. 1" at a studio in Encino, California, owned by rocker Dave Stewart. The band includes Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne
    May 9, 1988
    MCA releases Glen Campbell's "I Have You"
    May 10, 1988
    George Jones is released from University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham following several days of treatment for double pneumonia
    May 11, 1988
    Garth Brooks performs at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, where Capitol executive Lynn Shults, who auditioned him one month earlier, is present. Following a set that includes "If Tomorrow Never Comes," Shults gives him a handshake, promising to sign him
    May 11, 1988
    Willie Nelson sings "Blue Skies" at Carnegie Hall in New York as CBS shoots "Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration." The cast includes Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney. Berlin doesn't attend
    May 12, 1988
    Tennessee Repertory Theater presents an 11-day run of "Jesus Christ Superstar," with Pam Tillis taking the role of Mary Magdalene
    May 13, 1988
    Trisha Yearwood competes on TNN's talent search, "You Can Be A Star." She loses to a cab driver from Atlanta
    May 14, 1988
    Lyle Lovett, Tammy Wynette and Porter Wagoner guest on TV's "Hee Haw"
    May 14, 1988
    Kim Forester, of The Forester Sisters, marries the group's production manager, Brian Keefe. The wedding music includes the group's "Love Will"
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