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    • Aug 22, 1998
    The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame opens in Carthage, Texas. The inaugural six members: Gene Autry, Willie Nelson, Jim Reeves, Tex Ritter, and songwriters Cindy Walker and Joe Allison
    Feb 24, 1999
    Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula," Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On," Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go" and Ray Price's "Crazy Arms" enter the Grammy Hall of Fame, along with the original versions of "Lonely Teardrops," "Only You (And You Alone)," "Summertime Blues" and "Johnny B. Goode"
    Nov 11, 1999
    Mary Reeves Davis, the widow of country singer Jim Reeves, dies at Richland Place, a nursing home in Nashville
    Jan 14, 2000
    Time-Life's "Classic Country: Late '60s" earns a gold album from the RIAA. It includes Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton, Bobby Goldsboro, David Houston, Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty, Jim Reeves, Sonny James, Marty Robbins, Buck Owens, Glen Campbell and others
    Feb 9, 2000
    Wanda Lohman, a waitress at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville, confesses in The Tennessean to having an affair with Jim Reeves that ended just weeks before his fatal 1964 plane crash
    Mar 15, 2000
    Ed Gregory receives a controversial pardon from president Bill Clinton for a 1982 fraud conviction. Gregory's carnival company, United Shows, had purchased the rights to much of Jim Reeves' estate in 1996
    Jan 29, 2001
    Ames Davis, administrator for the estate of Jim Reeves' widow, Mary Reeves Davis, files suit against her nephew, saying he was improperly influenced to sell rights to most of Reeves' estate to Ed Gregory, a carnival promoter for United Shows
    Jun 16, 2001
    United Shows auctions off several vehicles once owned by now-deceased country stars in Nashville. Included are Jim Reeves' tour bus, Gene Autry's Mercedes and Faron Young's Lincoln
    Mar 14, 2003
    The Country Music Foundation publishes "Heartaches By The Number," celebrating country's "500 greatest singles." Among the 1960s hits on the list: Jim Ed Brown's "Pop A Top," Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go" and Johnny Bond's "10 Little Bottles"
    Jun 8, 2003
    Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go" ranks at #90 when CMT debuts its "100 Greatest Songs Of Country Music"
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