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Virginia Wynette Pugh is born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, USA. She will find international fame as country singer Tammy Wynette, nicknamed the First Lady of Country Music.Rated among the greatest old time country singers, Molly O'Day [born LaVerne Williamson] and The Cumberland Mountain Folks record Heaven's Radio for Columbia Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. [She also recorded under the names Mountain Fern and Dixie Lee.]
Kay Starr and Tennessee Ernie Ford release a new single, I'll Never Be Free, on Capitol Records in the USA.
Wilma Lee And Stoney Cooper with Their Clinch Mountain Clan record Sunny Side Of The Mountain and Stoney, Are You Mad At Your Gal, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for Columbia Records.
Guitarist Grady Martin, with vocalist Carmen Lombardo, records Don't Stay Away, You Are The Light O' My Life, Sweethearts On Parade and Coquette, in Castle Studio At The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Country singer Wynn Stewart records the Harlan Howard song Above And Beyond for Challenge Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Dee Clark performs Raindrops on tv show American Bandstand on WFIL-tv in Pennsylvania, USA. Also on the show is country singer Bobby Bare.
Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys, Wilma Lee And Stoney Cooper, Melba Montgomery, Dottie West, Carl Belew and Bill Dudley play at Champaign County Fair, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Country gospel duo Reno And Smiley play at Rollerland, Vorona, Pennsylvania, USA.
Kitty Wells, Johnnie And Jack, Marvin Rainwater, Jimmy Newman, Bill Phillips and The Tennessee Mountain Boys play a show in O'Neill, Nebraska, USA.
Brenda Lee plays the second night of a pre-Christmas season in the Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Etta James plays the first of two nights at The New Era Club, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The show is recorded and tracks will be released on the LP, Etta James Rocks The House, on Argo Records in the USA.
Eddy Arnold records Where Have All the Flowers Gone, The Folk Singer, Green Green and Molly at RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for RCA Records.
Charlie Louvin records I'll Have Made It To The Bridge and Less And Less, in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Carl Butler And Pearl record It's Called Cheatin', Can I Draw The Line and Beers And Tears in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Pearl was Butler's wife.
Walkin' In The Sunshine by Roger Miller enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, at No37, but it will rise no higher, lasting only one week on the chart. The song is taken from Miller's album of the same name.
Jean Shepard is playing during a week-long engagement at The Nashville Club, New York City, USA.
Edwin Starr begins a British tour at The Tabernacle, Stockport, England, UK, Europe.After years of serious alcohol abuse, country music singer and songwriter Lefty Frizzell, regarded as one of the first 'outlaw' country stars, dies aged 47 of a massive stroke, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Ten years later, George Strait will record the tribute song Lefty's Gone, written by Sanger D. Shafer, on his 1985 album Something Special.
the Phil Everly band is playing at The Palomino, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Emmylou Harris.
On their The Hard Way tour, Steve Earle And The Dukes play at Shellharbour Workers Club, Wollongong, Australia, Oceania.Brooks And Dunn are awarded their first gold album by the R.I.A.A. in the USA, for their debut, Brand New Man.
Country music singer-songwriter Martha Carson, known as the First Lady Of Gospel Music, dies in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 83.
Brad Paisley hit single Online is awarded gold status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Country-rock trio Lady Antebellum release their second studio album, Need You Now, in the United Kingdom.Country music fan Michael O'Rourke is sentenced to four months in prison by Peterhead Sheriff Court, England, UK, Europe, for having breached an antisocial behaviour order which banned him from playing loud music to the annoyance of his neighbours. He had played songs by Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash so loudly that they woke his neighbour at 1.30am.
After 45 minutes on stage in The Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, Texas, USA, Caleb Followill, frontman of Kings Of Leon, leaves the stage. The show, and the remaining 26 American dates on their tour are then cancelled for reasons described as Caleb's "vocal issues and exhaustion".
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Record producer David Wilson is found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at the home of his girlfriend, country singer Mindy McCready, in Heber Springs, Arkansas, USA.
The first edition of Rising Star, a new 'reality' singing competition, airs on ABC-tv in the USA with judges Brad Paisley, Kesha, Ludacris and host Josh Groban.
Taylor Swift appears on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in New York City, USA.
During their Mechanical Bull Tour, Kings Of Leon play at The PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA.
Moonshine In The Trunk, the 10th studio album by Brad Paisley, debuts at No1 in the Billboard Country Albums Chart in the USA.
On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays at The Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, supported by Vance Joy.On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays at The Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, supported by Vance Joy.On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays the first of two nights at The Scottrade Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, supported by Vance Joy and HAIM.
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On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays at The Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida, USA, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
Country singer-songwriter Jimmy Work, who composed hits for Kitty Wells, Red Foley, Emmylou Harris and Moe Bandy, as well as recording for Decca and Dot Records, dies aged 94 in Dukedom, Tennessee, USA. The cause of his death is not disclosed.
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