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Jan 6, 1978
Kenny Rogers & Dottie West record "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" during an 8:30 p.m. session at Nashville's Jack Clement Studios
Jan 6, 1978
Kenny Rogers brings a country presence to the NBC music series "The Midnight Special," hosted by pop group The Bay City Rollers. Rogers sings "Sweet Music Man" and "Something's Burning"
Jan 6, 1978
Warner Bros. releases Emmylou Harris' album "Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town"
Jan 7, 1978
Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job And Shove It" works its way to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
Jan 7, 1978
Vernon Presley guests on "Hee Haw" on the eve of the late Elvis Presley's birthday, introducing "Amazing Grace" by the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet: Roy Clark, Buck Owens, Kenny Price and Grandpa Jones. The episode also features musical guests Susan Raye and Larry Gatlin, who sings "Broken Lady"
Jan 8, 1978
Merle Haggard sings "From Graceland To The Promised Land" for an Elvis-themed edition of NBC's "The Big Event," also featuring Ronnie McDowell, The Jordanaires, Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty, Larry Gatlin, Dottie West and Jimimy Dean
Jan 8, 1978
English punk band The Sex Pistols perform at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio, Texas, for an audience that includes Steve Earle
Jan 8, 1978
Quarter-inch parcels of sod from Elvis Presley's farm in Mississippi sell for $10 apiece, as 10,000 fans journey to Memphis on his first post-death birthday
Jan 9, 1978
Pop singer A.J. McLean is born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He becomes a member of The Backstreet Boys, earning a country hit when the group collaborates with Florida Georgia Line on the 2017 single "God, Your Mama, And Me"
Jan 9, 1978
RCA releases the album "Waylon & Willie"
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