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Influential country fiddler/songwriter and publisher Roy Acuff is born in Maynardsville, Tennessee, USA, Known as 'The King of Country Music', he will found the massive Nashville-based Acuff-Rose Publishing house. In 1962, he will become the first living inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Lonzo And Oscar record Honky Tonk Sweetheart and Goodbye Little Darlin' No2 in Castle Studio At The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The film-noir crime movie Inside The Walls Of Folsom Prison is released to cinemas in The Philippines, Asia. When Johnny Cash sees the movie, he will be inspired to write the song Folsom Prison Blues, one of his first hit singles.
The Ferlin Husky, Smiley Wilson, Norma Jean, George Morgan, Eamon Napier And The Plainsmen and Leon McAuliff And His Cimarron Boys play a live show in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Johnny Cash, The Tennessee Three, June Carter, Roger Miller, Gordon Terry and Johnny Western play in Danceland, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
Leon McAuliffe And The Cimarron Boys play in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
George Jones plays at the 3rd Annual Morenci Open-Pit Mine Festival in Morenci, Arizona, USA.Marty Robbins records I'm Gonna Be A Cowboy and Fly Butterfly Fly, in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Lefty Frizzell headlines Eddie Zack's W.R.I.B. Hayloft Jamboree radio show in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
The Vatican's weekly magazine, published in Rome, Italy, Europe, compliments American MOR pop crooner Pat Boone on the dignity of his private life, and adds, "It even pleased us, the way you sing. No shouting, no facial gestures, no contortions…"
Marion Worth records I Will Not Blow Out The Light, Don't Count On Tomorrow, Twenty-One Days Of Darkness and Overtime, in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Hugh X. Lewis records Roses Are Red, I Wish I Didn't Love You So, Fourteen Karat Fool and other tracks for Kapp Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Bob Dylan records the first version of his song Visions Of Johanna in New York City, USA. (He will record it again in Nashville, during February 1966)
Sheb Wooley (aka Ben Colder) records May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Snoot, I Wish I'd Stayed In Bed and Make The World Go Away No2 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Lois Johnson records Your Second Wedding Day, Mister John and Goin' Down for Columbia Records in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Bill Howard, with producer Owen Bradley, records The People On The Other Side, Hope, Lonely Me, Lonely Me, and The Power Of A Woman, in Bradley's Barn, 722 Bender's Ferry Road, Mount Juliet, Tennessee, USA.Elvira by The Oak Ridge Boys is awarded gold single status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Randy Travis records four songs, including Prairie Rose and On The Other Hand at Nineteenth Avenue Sound in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, in his first session for Warner Bros. Records.
On Second Thought by Eddie Rabbitt begins the second of two weeks at No1 in the 
Popular singer and tv personality Snooky Lanson dies at the age of 76 in St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
On their The Hard Way tour, Steve Earle And The Dukes play at Shellharbour Workers Club, Wollongong, Australia, Oceania.Ben Smathers, leader of the Stoney Mountain Cloggers dies of complications following open-heart surgery at Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Smathers was best-known through his many appearances on The Grand Ole Opry but also made several low-budget movies, and released some records as a singer.
Jazz, country and rock'n'roll guitarist Hank Garland, who worked with Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Roy Orbison, George Shearing, Charlie Parker, Chet Atkins, Patsy Cline and many others, dies of a staph infection, aged 74, in Orange Park, Florida, USA. In a successful solo career, he achieved a million-selling hit in 1949 with Sugarfoot Rag.
Lonestar release a new single, Class Reunion (That Used to Be Us), on BNA Records in the USA.
Alanis Morissette, supported by Jason Mraz, continues her Jagged Little Pill Acoustic tour at The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Kenny Chesney performs There Goes My Life and Back Where I Come From for US president George W. Bush and Australian prime minister John Howard at the White House in Washington DC, USA
Carrie Underwood earns three awards - Top Female Vocalist and Album of the Year for Some Hearts; and Video, for Before He Cheats, at the 42nd annual Academy of Country Music awards in the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
On her 
After three consecutive top 5 charting releases, country star Gary Allan earns his first Billboard 200 No1 album in the USA with his ninth LP Set You Free.
Miley Cyrus tapes the tv special Miley Cyrus: MTV Unplugged at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Madonna as a guest artist.
On their Mechanical Bull tour, Kings Of Leon play at The Credit Union Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.During their Mechanical Bull Tour, Kings Of Leon play at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
On his That's My Kind of Night Tour, Luke Bryan plays at The Barclays Centre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Taylor Swift releases a new single, Look What You Made Me Do on Big Machine Records. Fred Fairbrass, Richard Fairbrass and Rob Manzoli of British dance-pop band Right Said Fred are credited as co-songwriters on the track, as it interpolates the melody of their song I'm Too Sexy.
Taylor Swift donates £23,000 via a GoFundMe page to help a UK-based Portuguese student, Vitoria Mario, pay for her courses at Warwick University.1903 |
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