This week in 1984, the United States warned Soviets against MIGs in Nicaragua, a 15-day-old infant received the heart of a baboon at Loma Linda Medical University in California, Ronald Reagan won the presidency by 59 percent in 49 states and a mother-daughter duo from Ashland, Ky., had their third hit song.

Once in awhile, a songwriter just gets tired of writing and just wants to quit. According to Sonny Throckmorton, he was in that frame of mind and was ready to give it up when he co-wrote The Judds’ No. 1 hit “Why Not Me?”

Sonny commented, “Harlan Howard had called me...

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