Dolly Parton, a 13 year-old, made her Grand Ole Opry debut singing George Jones' "You Gotta Be My Baby." That day in 1959, she was introduced by Johnny Cash.
I missed it. Not because we didn't watch the show, we did. Not because I wasn't around, I was but, we only had a CBS station and it wasn't until the 60's and about the time Willie Nelson showed up that I could watch goings on in Nashville .