NOVEMBER 26

1946: Maggie Sue Wimberly was born in Muscle Shoals, AL. Using the stage name Sue Richards, she recorded frequently during the 1970s but earned her biggest hits as a songwriter for Tammy Wynette, Narvel Felts and Jody Miller & Johnny Paycheck.

1960: Hawkshaw Hawkins married Jean Shepard on stage at The Forum in Wichita, KS. Hawkins’ best man: Capitol executive, record producer and future Country Hall of Fame member Ken Nelson.

1962: Linda Davis was born in Dodson, TX. Her 1993 pairing with Reba McEntire on “Does He Love You” earns a Grammy, and Davis nets a 1996 solo hit, “Some Things Are Meant To Be.” Davis’ daughter, Hillary Scott, co-founded Lady Antebellum.

1963: Columbia released Lefty Frizzell’s “Saginaw, Michigan.”

1968: Glen Campbell recorded “Galveston” at Los Angeles’ Capitol Recording Studios.

1973: MCA released Olivia Newton-John’s “Let Me Be There” album.

1974: Merle Haggard recorded “Always Wanting You,” a song he wrote about Dolly Parton, at the Jack Clement Studios in Nashville. Louise Mandrell provided backing vocals.

1976: Joe Nichols was born in Rogers, AR. Starting in 2002, he became one of the first new stars of the century, scoring Grammy nominations and earning hits with “The Impossible,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” “Sunny And 75” and “Yeah.”

1977: Opryland Hotel opened on Briley Parkway, with 600 rooms. In its first decade, the hotel would use more than 17,000,000 eggs and spent $10,000-a-year on light bulbs.

1982: The first “Christmas At Twitty City” began. Twitty sat on Santa’s lap, then headed off for a show in Fayetteville, NC.

1998: Intersound released “NFL Country,” an improbable album pairing country singers with football stars. Among the duets: Kenny Chesney with the Indianapolis Colts’ Peyton Manning, and Jo Dee Messina with the Green Bay Packers’ Brett Favre.

1998: Jo Dee Messina sang, “I’m Alright” from a covered wagon and Martina McBride sang “Happy Girl” from a turkey float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.