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Jun 5, 1978
Third National Bank files suit in Nashville to collect payments for a loan to The Stoneman Family
Jun 5, 1978
Waylon Jennings records "The Conversation," which becomes a duet hit with Hank Williams Jr. five years later, at the Jack Clement Studios in Nashville. Part of the session is also devoted to overdubs on "I've Always Been Crazy"
Jun 6, 1978
Larry Gatlin claims top honors at The Music City News awards, winning three trophies, including Favorite Male Vocalist
Jun 7, 1978
Willie Nelson, Gene Watson, Narvel Felts, Jerry Lee Lewis and Joe Stampley are inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame's Walkway of Stars
Jun 8, 1978
Singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson is born in Jackson, Kentucky. Compared favorably to Waylon Jennings, he gains a Top 10 country album in 2014 with "Metamodern Sounds In Country Music" and a #1 album in 2016 with "A Sailor's Guide To Earth"
Jun 8, 1978
RCA releases Ronnie Milsap's album "Only One Love In My Life"
Jun 8, 1978
Warner Bros. releases Exile's album "Mixed Emotions"
Jun 9, 1978
Riding the success of "Take This Job And Shove It," Johnny Paycheck makes his Sunset Strip debut, performing at Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre. Opening the show is Delbert McClinton, whose set list includes the Willie Nelson-penned "Night Life"
Jun 9, 1978
Marty Robbins tells the Grand Ole Opry audience that he saw Christ during the moments he was dead on the operating table during open heart surgery in 1970
Jun 10, 1978
Willie Nelson's "Stardust" begins an 11-week run in the #1 position on the Billboard country albums chart
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