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Jul 8, 1978
Mel Tillis registers a #1 country single in Billboard with "I Believe In You"
Jul 9, 1978
Fiddler Pat Allingham is born in Beaverlodge, Alberta. He becomes a member of the Canadian sextet Emerson Drive, which makes its American debut in 2002 with the single "I Should Be Sleeping." He leaves the band in 2003
Jul 11, 1978
RCA releases "Elvis Sings For Children And Grownups Too!"
Jul 11, 1978
RCA Records releases the Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius single "If The World Ran Out Of Love Tonight"
Jul 11, 1978
Singer/songwriter Jonathan Singleton is born in Milan, Tennessee. Signed to Universal South in 2007, he authors Luke Combs' "Beer Never Broke My Heart," Billy Currington's "Don't," Tim McGraw's "Diamond Rings And Old Barstools" and Josh Turner's "Why Don't We Just Dance"
Jul 11, 1978
Bill Medley, a future Academy of Country Music nominee, records in Nashville for the first time at the Jack Clement Studios with producer Larry Butler
Jul 13, 1978
Three weeks after entering Santa Barbara's Cottage Hospital with numbness throughout her body, Donna Fargo is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease affecting the nervous system
Jul 13, 1978
Willie Nelson is hailed as "Holy Man of the Honky Tonks" as he occupies the cover of Rolling Stone magazine
Jul 14, 1978
Warner Bros. releases Rodney Crowell's debut single, "Elvira." The song becomes a hit three years later for The Oak Ridge Boys
Jul 15, 1978
Ronnie Milsap rises to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "Only One Love In My Life"
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