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  • Oct 3, 1973
    Bass vocalist Jim "Big Chief" Wetherington dies of a heart attack in his room at Nashville's Ramada Inn. Wetherington appeared on The Statesmen Quartet's "This Ole House," ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book, "Heartaches By The Number"
    Oct 4, 1973
    Mandolin player Esther "Violet" Koehler dies in Berea, Kentucky. She was a longtime member of The Coon Creek Girls, who became the first all-female stringband when the group coalesced in Cincinnati in 1937
    Oct 5, 1973
    MCA releases Elton John's album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." It contains the original version of "Candle In The Wind," a tribute to Marilyn Monroe that gets mentioned in the lyrics of Old Dominion's 2016 country hit "Song For Another Time"
    Oct 5, 1973
    Mac Wiseman and Petula Clark join host Dean Martin on "She's A Little Bit Country" and "For The Good Times" during "The Dean Martin Show" on NBC-TV
    Oct 6, 1973
    Ray Price takes over #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"
    Oct 6, 1973
    Conway Twitty reaches #1 on the Billboard country albums chart with "You've Never Been This Far Before"
    Oct 6, 1973
    Sonny James and Charlie McCoy hit the cornfields as guests on "Hee Haw." James performs "If She Just Helps Me Get Over You"
    Oct 6, 1973
    It's a match-up of songwriter/TV hosts: Mac Davis appears on the variety series "The Bobby Goldsboro Show." Davis and Goldsboro duet on "I Believe In Music"
    Oct 8, 1973
    Buck Owens records "Big Game Hunter" during a morning session at the Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California
    Oct 8, 1973
    Willie Wynn resigns from The Oak Ridge Boys, paving the way for Joe Bonsall

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