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Nov 17, 1981
Former big-band singer Bob Eberly dies with cancer at his daughter's home in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Noted for his work with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra, he also earned a country hit in 1949 with a version of "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)"
Nov 19, 1981
Grand opera meets Grand Ole Opry, as The Charlie Daniels Band performs with the Nashville Symphony in a benefit for the orchestra at the Grand Ole Opry House
Nov 21, 1981
Hank Williams Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)" settles in at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
Nov 21, 1981
Loretta Lynn sings "They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy" on "Hee Haw" and teams with Conway Twitty on "I Still Believe In Waltzes." Buck Owens, Kenny Price and Roy Clark cover "Four Walls," and Tompall & The Glaser Brothers, who perform "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)"
Nov 21, 1981
Roy Clark hosts NBC's "The Nashville Palace," with guest appearances by Lacy J. Dalton and Tom T. Hall
Nov 21, 1981
The Statler Brothers perform "Years Ago" on NBC-TV's "Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters," which also features the U.S. Air Force choir
Nov 21, 1981
"I Feel Fine" songwriter John Lennon is featured on the cover of TV Guide magazine
Nov 21, 1981
"Hee Haw" star Misty Rowe is a guest of Tattoo on "Fantasy Island"
Nov 22, 1981
Barbara Mandrell appears in the NBC special "Stand Up And Cheer For The National Football League's Sixtieth Year" amid Hollywood stars Bob Hope, Betty White, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Anton and Olivia Newton-John and NFL players Roger Staubach and O.J. Simpson
Nov 22, 1981
George Jones misses a concert at the Salem-Roanoke Civic Center. The following day, his manager calls him a "very sick man" and says he will seek treatment for an undisclosed disease. The promoter later sues for $25,000
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