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    • Jan 26, 1982
    During a show at Nashville's Bullpen Lounge, Razzy Bailey recognizes John Travolta's impact on disco and country music, with a suggestion to keep country hot: "I think we should kill him now while we're still ahead"
    Apr 14, 1982
    Dolly Parton tells UPI she is unable to have children, but says recent gynecological surgery was not the cause: "If I could have had children, I probably wouldn't have had the female problems I've had"
    Feb 12, 1983
    Johnny Cash tells The Houston Post: "I guess you know it's finally happened. People are starting to refer to me as Rosanne Cash's daddy"
    Apr 4, 1983
    People magazine reports that The Oak Ridge Boys are having internal problems, an "undeclared cold war" in which William Lee Golden and Duane Allen didn't speak for almost a year
    Jul 1, 1983
    "Stroker Ace," starring Burt Reynolds, debuts in theaters. A critic with The New York Times calls it the "must-miss" movie of the year. The film's music includes tracks by The Charlie Daniels Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, Larry Gatlin and Terri Gibbs
    Sep 1, 1983
    Six months after marrying the former Nancy Sepulveda, George Jones tells "20/20" reporter Bob Brown he's a "changed and happy man"
    Nov 21, 1983
    Richard Carpenter reflects in a People magazine cover story on the death of his sister, "Sweet, Sweet Smile" singer Karen Carpenter, from an eating disorder: "We never knew how to help her"
    Dec 31, 1983
    Riders In The Sky's Woody Paul crawls out on the Grand Ole Opry stage wearing nothing but boots and diapers in honor of the impending new year. The Riders claim it's "the most undressed anyone's ever been on the Opry"
    Sep 10, 1984
    Johnny Paycheck admits in The Tennessean to using cocaine: "Heroin is a problem. PCP is a killer drug. Cocaine and alcohol are OK, upfront drugs"
    Sep 17, 1985
    A front page story in The New York Times proclaims that country music is "dead." The piece writes off Alabama and Hank Williams Jr. as "not really country"



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