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Jul 6, 1981
Elektra releases Eddie Rabbitt's single "Step By Step"
Jul 7, 1981
George Jones' manager tells the Associated Press the singer is once again suffering from a drinking problem, and that he spent four days in a Beaumont, Texas, hospital the previous week for exhaustion
Jul 8, 1981
Less than a month after the death of Roy Acuff's wife, Lola Oswald, the wife of Smoky Mountain Boy Bashful Brother Oswald, dies in Nashville
Jul 8, 1981
Ervin T. Rouse dies from a heart attack in Miami, Florida. As a member of The Rouse Brothers, he wrote the fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special" and recorded the first version of the song
Jul 9, 1981
Bass singer Tim Foust is born in Lubbock, Texas. He joins the a cappella country group Home Free in 2012, the year before the act wins NBC's "The Sing-Off." Home Free releases "Crazy Life," the first of numerous Top 10 albums, in 2014
Jul 9, 1981
Merle Haggard records "Big City" and "Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)" at Britannia Studios in Hollywood
Jul 10, 1981
Jerry Lee Lewis has five hours of surgery at Methodist Hospital South in Memphis to remove multiple abscesses and battle infection developing in his stomach. The Killer had undergone four hours of emergency surgery just 10 days prior
Jul 11, 1981
Hank Williams Jr. performs "Dixie On My Mind" on TV's "Solid Gold." Also aboard: Jose Feliciano, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty
Jul 11, 1981
Earl Thomas Conley earns his first #1 country single in Billboard with "Fire & Smoke"
Jul 12, 1981
Johnny Cash stops by Memphis' Methodist Hospital South to pray for Jerry Lee Lewis, who's undergone two surgeries in less than two weeks for a perforated stomach. The doctor has given The Killer only a 50/50 chance of survival
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