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    • Jul 11, 1973
    Don Everly tells a Los Angeles Times reporter backstage at Knott's Berry Farm in Anaheim that "it's over." The Everly Brothers will call it quits three days later
    Aug 11, 1973
    "Hee Haw" co-host Roy Clark appears on the cover of TV Guide
    Aug 18, 1973
    Billboard reports Marty Robbins injured his hand in a motorcycle accident
    Aug 27, 1973
    Dottie West marries drummer Byron Metcalf in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. "Donna Fargo isn't the happiest girl in the U.S.A.," she tells The Tennessean. "I am"
    Oct 19, 1973
    The agency is located out west, but the "western" is out of the name: The Los Angeles Times reports the Academy of Country & Western Music has voted to rename the organization the Academy of Country Music
    Oct 25, 1973
    Gene Autry makes the cover of Rolling Stone magazine
    Dec 13, 1973
    The Associated Press reports Lester Flatt has filed suit against Esquire magazine, seeking $500,000 for what he claims is career damage created when the publication portrayed him as "the late" Lester Flatt
    Dec 29, 1973
    A front-page story in The Tennessean offers Nashvillians a chance to appear in the movie "W.W. And The Dixie Dance Kings," starring Burt Reynolds. Eventually, the film also features Don Williams and Jerry Reed
    Jan 8, 1974
    The Cincinnati Bengals' Mike Reid is named alongside Pittsburgh's Joe Greene as defensive tackles on the AFC All-Pro team by the Associated Press. Ten years later, Reid is spotted on the country charts as the writer of Ronnie Milsap's "Show Her"
    Feb 4, 1974
    Newsweek carries a story about streaking, a trend that sees people "making blitzkrieg runs in public areas completely in the buff." Ray Stevens reads the piece during a flight and is inspired to write and record "The Streak"



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