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1961 - Red Foley was acquitted of federal income tax evasion charges in a trial that ended with a hung jury. His highly successful Country TV show Ozark Jubilee was canceled partly because of the charges

1972 - Jerry Lee Lewis was ...

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1969 - Glen Campbell was at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with the Jimmy Webb song “Galveston”, which also made #4 on the Billboard Hot 100

1978 - Columbia Records released Willie Nelson’s hallmark Stardust ...

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1959 - George Jones went to number one for the first time with “White Lightning”

1963 - Bill Anderson hit the top of the country chart with his biggest hit, “Still”

1965 - Roger Miller won five trophies at the seventh annual ...

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1938 - Born on this day in Scottsville, Kentucky, was Norro Wilson, country music singer, songwriter and producer. Wilson has written numerous hits including songs for Charlie Rich, Charley Pride, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, and has also ...

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1946 - Gene Autry rides in the Santa Claus Lane parade in Hollywood, as do Roy Rogers, Jack Benny and Red Skelton. When Autry hears children shout, “Here comes Santa Claus,” he’s inspired to write “Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus ...

As the singers reached that part in Norwegian Wood with the sitar, Dan Chouinards voice grew reedy: Yannng, yang-yang-yang-yonnng, ying-ying-ying yannng, yang-ying-yang-yonnnng.

The singing resumed raggedly, undone by laughter before the crowd gathered itself to finish the Beatles hit. It ...

Josh Brolin wouldn’t be in ‘Deadpool 2’ if it wasn’t for his wife.

The 49-year-old actor will appear in the highly-anticipated sequel as villain Cable opposite Ryan Reynolds as the titular character but he wasn’t going to commit to the project because of his role in ‘George and Tammy’ - a ...

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1938 - Born on this day in Dublin, Texas, was Johnny Duncan singer who scored the 1977 US #1 Country hit “It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better.” In his career, he released fourteen studio albums, producing more than thirty chart singles, including, ...

MONTROSE – Since 1945, Montrose has hosted the Watermelon Festival featuring free watermelon, town-wide yard sales, food, crafts and entertainment. The festival opens at 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 18, and after the parade on Saturday, Aug. 19.

Again this year, a talented singer from ...

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1949 - The first 45-rpm disc, “Texarkana Baby” by country & western singer Eddy Arnold, was issued by RCA in the US. It was made of green vinyl, as part of an early attempt to color-code singles according to the genre of music they ...