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Jul 17, 1985
Wynn Stewart dies from a heart attack at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A major link in the Bakersfield Sound, he had a half-dozen hits from 1960-1976, topped by 1967's "It's Such A Pretty World Today"
Jul 18, 1985
Loretta Lynn opens the summer concert season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where she meets vice president George Bush
Jul 20, 1985
Lee Greenwood drives "Dixie Road" to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
Jul 20, 1985
Crystal Gayle and Lou Rawls co-host the syndicated music show "Solid Gold," featuring guests Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins and The Beach Boys
Jul 24, 1985
Kenny Rogers is named the first winner of the Roy Acuff Humanitarian Award by the Country Music Foundation
Jul 27, 1985
Earl Thomas Conley climbs to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "Love Don't Care (Whose Heart It Breaks)"
Jul 28, 1985
Johnny Cash & June Carter perform for 85,000 people during a Billy Graham Crusade at Anaheim Stadium in California
Jul 30, 1985
Alabama becomes the first country act to go quadruple-platinum as the albums "Mountain Music" and "Feels So Right" are certified by the RIAA for shipments of 4 million copies. "The Closer You Get" goes triple-platinum
Jul 31, 1985
Bee Gee Robin Gibb, a co-writer of the Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton hit "Islands In The Stream," marries his second wife, Dwina Murphy
Jul 31, 1985
Patsy Cline's "Greatest Hits" is certified gold by the RIAA
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