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    • May 3, 1954
    Tennessee Ernie Ford makes the first of three guest appearances on "I Love Lucy" as hick relative Uncle Ernie. The plot includes a rendition of "Wabash Cannonball"
    May 10, 1954
    Tennessee Ernie Ford makes his second guest appearance as rural Uncle Ernie on CBS' "I Love Lucy." Viewers get renditions of "Wabash Cannonball" and "Y'all Come"
    Jan 24, 1955
    Tennessee Ernie Ford makes the last of three guest appearances on "I Love Lucy" in the role of hick relative Uncle Ernie
    Jul 4, 1955
    CBS introduces the summer replacement sitcom "Those Whiting Girls," featuring Margaret Whiting, who landed nine duets with Jimmy Wakely in the Top 10 of the Billboard country singles chart
    Sep 26, 1955
    "Those Whiting Girls," a summer replacement series for "I Love Lucy" that features pop-and-country singer Margaret Whiting, ends its three-month run on CBS-TV
    Oct 1, 1955
    "The Honeymooners" debuts as a weekly show on CBS-TV. The lead role of Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden belongs to Jackie Gleason, who goes on to write Jimmy Dean's 1962 country recitation, "To A Sleeping Beauty"
    Nov 28, 1955
    "I Love Lucy" characters Fred and Ethel Mertz audition for a rodeo show at Madison Square Garden with Darby & Tarlton's "Birmingham Jail." The CBS episode also features a rendition of "Home On The Range." Also appearing: Doye O'Dell
    Nov 18, 1956
    A young Robert Blake makes a guest appearance on NBC-TV's "The Roy Rogers Show," alongside regular cast members Dale Evans and Pat Brady in an episode titled "Paleface Justice"
    Mar 25, 1957
    Broadway performer and R&B artist Shorty Long portrays a theater-goer in an episode of CBS-TV's "I Love Lucy." Long played piano during the Elvis Presley session that yielded "Don't Be Cruel" and "Hound Dog"
    Jun 15, 1957
    June Carter makes a cameo as a saloon girl on the CBS western "Gunsmoke"



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