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  • Jul 1, 1997
    The George Strait album "Carrying Your Love With Me" is certified gold and platinum by the RIAA
    Jul 1, 1997
    "Songs You Know By Heart: Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s)" is certified for shipments of 6 million copies by the RIAA
    Jul 1, 1997
    Actor Robert Mitchum dies of lung cancer in Santa Barbara, California. In addition to taking roles in such pictures as "Cape Fear," "The Longest Day" and "River Of No Return," he earned a country hit in 1967 with "Little Old Wine Drinker Me"
    Jul 2, 1997
    "Men In Black" debuts in movie theaters with Elvis Presley's "Promised Land" playing as agents J and K drive upside down on the ceiling of a tunnel
    Jul 3, 1997
    Merle Haggard has a 15-minute procedure in at the Redding Medical Center in California to fix a clogged artery
    Jul 3, 1997
    Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed take over the Masterfonics studio in Nashville, where they record a live album, "Old Dogs." The audience includes Shel Silverstein, Jan Howard, Carl Smith and Bobby Bare Jr.
    Jul 4, 1997
    Willie Nelson hosts his Fourth of July Picnic in Luckenbach, Texas, for the third straight year, joined by Ray Price, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Steve Fromholz, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Joe Ely, who welcomes surprise guest Dwight Yoakam
    Jul 4, 1997
    Kenny Rogers sings "Islands In The Stream" and Deana Carter performs in the PBS special "A Capitol Fourth" from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
    Jul 4, 1997
    Songwriter John Jarrard, battling diabetes, has a kidney transplant at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital. His left leg is amputated below the knee months later. Among his songs: "Blue Clear Sky," "Money In The Bank" and "There's No Way"
    Jul 4, 1997
    "Crook & Chase" airs its last California-based episode, after a move to Hollywood in January, designed to attract more top-name celebrities for the syndicated talk show

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