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Sep 1, 1976
Angaleena Presley is born in Beauty, Kentucky. She joins Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe to create Pistol Annies, releasing their first album in 2011. Presley also co-writes Lambert's hit "Fastest Girl In Town"
Sep 1, 1976
Music executive Lou Adler and an employee are kidnapped from his Los Angeles home. Their captors free them only after Adler agrees to pay $25,000 ransom. Adler co-wrote Joe Stampley's 1983 country hit "Poor Side Of Town"
Sep 2, 1976
Glen Campbell marries Mac Davis' ex-wife, Sarah Jane Davis, in Stateline, Nevada. Roger Miller is best man at the ceremony, attended by Kenny Rogers, Wayne Newton and John Davidson
Sep 3, 1976
Singer/songwriter Wayne Carson records "Barstool Mountain" at Nashville's Sound Stage. The song becomes a Moe Bandy hit three years later
Sep 5, 1976
"Sweet Home Alabama" co-writer Gary Rossington suffers multiple broken bones when the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, driving drunk, crashes into a telephone pole, a tree and a house in Jacksonville, Florida
Sep 5, 1976
Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge guest on the second installment of CBS-TV's four-week "Johnny Cash And Friends" series, also featuring June Carter, Jim Varney and Steve Martin. Cash performs "Ring Of Fire" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
Sep 7, 1976
MCA releases Tanya Tucker's album "Here's Some Love"
Sep 7, 1976
Ex-Beatle George Harrison loses a copyright infringement suit that charges his "My Sweet Lord" borrows from Lonnie Mack's "He's So Fine." Harrison's "Something" had become a country hit two years prior for Johnny Rodriguez
Sep 11, 1976
Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius rack up a #1 country single in Billboard with "I Don't Want To Have To Marry You"
Sep 11, 1976
"Dolly," a syndicated half-hour television show hosted by Dolly Parton, debuts with guest Jim Stafford. She covers "Queen Of The Silver Dollar" and duets with Stafford on "Spiders & Snakes"
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