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Sep 15, 1979
Hoyt Axton performs "Boney Fingers" and "Della And The Dealer" in the season debut of "Hee Haw." Con Hunley sings "I've Been Waiting For You All Of My Life" and "Since I Fell For You," and West Virginia senator Robert Byrd plays the square-dance tune "Turkey In The Straw"
Sep 15, 1979
R&B singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder joins Skeeter Davis on the Grand Ole Opry to perform "Behind Closed Doors"
Sep 16, 1979
Crystal Gayle sings "Half The Way" as NBC airs the Bob Hope special "Road To China." Taped during a month in the Far East, it also features Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peaches & Herb and "Sesame Street" character Big Bird
Sep 17, 1979
Chet Atkins records the Orleans pop hit "Dance With Me" in a midnight session at Nashville's Music City Music Hall with Steve Wariner playing bass. The song is nominated for a country Grammy award
Sep 17, 1979
Two ABC-TV attorneys file suit in a Memphis court in an attempt to have Elvis Presley's autopsy report made public
Sep 18, 1979
Tammy Wynette's hotel room is robbed in Princeton, Indiana. She loses $20,000 cash and $6,000 worth of jewelry
Sep 19, 1979
Jeanne Pruett cuts "Temporarily Yours" at Audio Media Recorders in Nashville
Sep 19, 1979
Joe "Fingers" Carr dies in a car accident near his home in Camarillo, California. The former husband of Margaret Whiting, he shared billing with Tennessee Ernie Ford on the 1951 country hit "Tailor Made Woman"
Sep 19, 1979
Madison Square Garden launches a four-day anti-nuclear event, "Musicians United For Safe Energy," with Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne and The Doobie Brothers. The Doobies include future Southern Pacific members John McFee and Keith Knudsen
Sep 19, 1979
Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested at his home in Nesbit, Mississippi, for possession of cocaine and marijuana
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