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These programs honor and showcase the careers of songwriters who have made significant contributions to country music history. Through in-depth, one-on-one interviews with the writers, museum visitors gain a better understanding of how songwriters work behind the scenes to create famous songs. Quarterly. Learn more about Poets and Prophets.
On January 10 1956, two months after leaving tiny Sun Records for RCA and two days after turning 21, Elvis Presley retired to a Nashville studio for his first sessions on the new label. The first song he cut was a cover of Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman," the second was "Heartbreak Hotel." The latter song, and Presley's follow-up hits, had such a commercially devastating impact on country music that for a time Nashville's famed 16th Avenue seemed to be the loneliest street in America.
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The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, Inc.,
a section 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, Inc.,
a section 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964.
