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  • Nov 24, 1985
    R&B singer Big Joe Turner dies of a heart attack in Inglewood, California. His 1951 hit "Chains Of Love," written by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, had been remade for the country charts in 1977 by Mickey Gilley
    Nov 24, 1984
    Johnny Lee cracks the #1 slot on the Billboard country singles chart with "You Could've Heard A Heart Break"
    Nov 24, 1984
    "Hey, Grandpa! What's for supper?" Grandpa Jones' recipe on "Hee Haw" is fitted between music by Gary Morris and John Conlee
    Nov 24, 1984
    John Denver performs a concert at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
    Nov 24, 1983
    Three years after he worked as a card dealer in Las Vegas, Lee Greenwood has his name in the marquee lights at the MGM Grand on the Strip as a co-headliner with The Oak Ridge Boys
    Nov 24, 1983
    William Lee Golden, of The Oak Ridge Boys, gets engaged to model Louetta Calloway in Las Vegas
    Nov 24, 1983
    Paul Overstreet and Albert Gore (the songwriter--not the politician) write the future Randy Travis hit "Diggin' Up Bones"
    Nov 24, 1983
    Lynn Anderson rides a general store float and Charley Pride travels down Broadway atop a turkey float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Also appearing are Margaret Whiting, Cissy Houston, Ashford & Simpson and Lou Rawls, who sings "The Wind Beneath My Wings"
    Nov 24, 1981
    Governor Lamar Alexander recognizes Johnny Cash with the Pride of Tennessee Award for his work in battling illiteracy
    Nov 24, 1981
    Ray Price records "Old Friends" with his former employees Roger Miller and Willie Nelson in Spicewood, Texas

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