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Sep 8, 1978
Warner Bros. releases Con Hunley's "You've Still Got A Place In My Heart"
Sep 9, 1978
Dolly Parton stakes out the #1 position on the Billboard country albums chart for the first of nine straight weeks with "Heartbreaker"
Sep 9, 1978
Waylon Jennings' "I've Always Been Crazy" starts a three-week run at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
Sep 9, 1978
"The Donna Fargo Show" debuts on television in syndication with Tammy Wynette as its first musical guest
Sep 9, 1978
Jack Warner, the founder of Warner Bros. Records, dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. At the time, the Warner/Reprise family's country acts include Emmylou Harris, Margo Smith and Donna Fargo
Sep 9, 1978
Jimmy Buffett's former wife, Margie, marries music executive Bob Mercer in London. In a twist of fate, Mercer is destined to become a future business partner with Buffett in Margaritaville Records
Sep 11, 1978
Warner Bros. releases T.G. Sheppard's "Daylight"
Sep 11, 1978
Mercury releases The Statler Brothers' album "Christmas Card"
Sep 13, 1978
Aaron Latham's "Ballad Of The Urban Cowboy," about life at Gilley's nightclub in Texas, is the cover story in Esquire magazine. The piece becomes the basis for the movie "Urban Cowboy"
Sep 13, 1978
Willie Nelson makes a White House appearance, invited by president Jimmy Carter to a NASCAR reception for 500 people. Carter, involved in Middle East peace talks, is unable to attend, but brother Billy Carter sings "Goodnight Irene" with Nelson
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