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Guitarist Robert 'Jabbo' Arrington is born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, His playing can be heard on Little Jimmy Dickens' A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed and Hillbilly Fever, plus several recordings by Carl Smith.
Bernie Baum is born in The Bronx, New York, USA. He will find success as a songwriter, composing material for Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, Bobby Darin and Eartha Kitt.
John Hartford, country and bluegrass composer and recording artist, is born in New York City, USA. His best-known song is perhaps Gentle On My Mind.
Roy Hogsed records Free Samples, I Wish I Wuz, I'm Gonna Get Along Without You and Orange Blossom Special in Capitol Recording Studio, 5515 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Unwilling Outlaw, starring singing cowboy Roy Rogers, is shown on tv in the USA as episode ten of series one of The Roy Rogers Show.
Kitty Wells records It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels at Castle Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, during her first session for Decca Records.
Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley And His Comets enters the Billboard singles chart in the USA for one week at No23. Re-released almost a year later it will go to No1 for eight weeks, ushering in the rock'n'roll era.
Dottie West, Kathy Dearth (later to become Kathy Dee) and The Dixie Harmonaires play at The Annual Farm Bureau Fish Fry, Lake Park, Coshocton, Ohio, USA.
Brenda Lee sings the American national anthem at the opening of the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, USA.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet plays a live show in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
Frankie Laine, with the Johnny Williams Orchestra And Chorus, records Miss Sutton, Deauces Wild, Ride Through The Night and Cow Cow Boogie in CBS Recording Studio, 6121 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Flatt and Scruggs play a live concert in Liberty, North Carolina, USA.
James O'Gwynn records Losing Game, Two Little Hearts, If I Never Get To Heaven and The Way That You're Living with producer Shelby Singleton in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Guitarists on the session are Kelso Herston, Harold Bradley and Jerry Kennedy.
Hank Snow records Ancient History and I've Been Everywhere, with producer Chet Atkins, at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
B-movie star and occasional singing cowboy Rex Bell dies in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Mark White, bassist of The Spin Doctors is born in Sheffield, UK.
Faron Young plays at Harry Smythe's Buck Lake Ranch, Angola, Indiana, USA.
Johnny Cash is among the musical guests on the ABC-TV show Hootenanny in the USA.
Leon McAuliffe And The Cimarron Boys play at George Air Force Base, Victorville, California, USA.
Johnny Cash plays at Kane's Ballroom, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA.
Guitar instrumental band The Spotnicks play Lovesick Blues live on the radio show Combo in Leiden, Holland, Europe.
Jerry Lee Lewis plays the third of seven nights at The Carnival Club, Cocos Beach, Florida, USA.
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter is inducted into the Country Music Association Hall of Fame.
Country music guitarist Doc Watson and The Danny Kalb Quartet [later known as The Blues Project] play the twelfth of fifteen nights at The Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Doc Watson plays the first of three nights at Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
The High Flying Birds (formerly The Squires), featuring Neil Young, play at The Fourth Dimension, Fort William, Manitoba, Canada. This proves to be their last gig together.
Ricky Nelson records I Need You for Decca Records in the USA.
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Country singer and songwriter Faith Hill is born in Ridgeland, Mississippi, USA. She will sell over 40m records worldwide and will marry fellow country star Tim McGraw.
The single Honey by Bobby Goldsboro is awarded a Gold Disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
The Band is awarded a Gold Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. for the album The Band.
Ray Charles and Jane Powell are the musical guests on tonight's edition of the This Is Tom Jones Show on tv in the USA.
The new No1 on the Billboard Country singles chart in the USA is All These Things by Joe Stampley.
The Grateful Dead play at The Public Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
The Grateful Dead play at Autzen Stadium, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Uncle Tupelo play at The Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Bob Dylan begins another leg of his Never-Ending Tour by playing the first of two nights at Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Canada.
Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers buys the 55-room Lake Malone Inn, Powderly, Kentucky, USA. His manager states that he has "been wanting to buy a place to get away".
The three-day long jam-orientated Bonnaroo Festival begins in Manchester, Tennessee, USA, with acts including Grateful Dead bassman Phil Lesh, Trey Anastasio, Ben Harper, Jurassic 5, Bela Fleck, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Ween, Norah Jones, Del McCoury, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Disco Biscuits and others. On the same day, Pulp play at Roseisle Forest, Elgin, Scotland, UK.
At the Academy Of Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Sugarland are presented with gold plaques representing 500,000 sales of their debut album Twice The Speed Of Life.
Making Memories Of Us by Keith Urban begins its second of five weeks at No1 in the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart in the USA.
Troubled country singer Mindy McCready is jailed in Florida, USA, on charges of having violated her probation on a drug conviction by leaving Tennessee without permission and failing to check in with her probation officer during the month of July.
Billy Ray Cyrus is forced to abandon a TV concert on the show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Hesperia, California, USA, when fire breaks out in the neighbouring Boulder Creek Ranch.
Country-rock trio Lady Antebellum release their fourth single, Need You Now, in the UK.
Taylor Swift releases her new single, Mine, in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and Sweden, Europe.
The Special Consensus play BAG at Mick Murphy's, Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, Ireland.
Jug Free America play at The Nomad Cafe, San Francisco, California, USA.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood play the first of three nights at The Royal Farms Arena, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays at CenturyLink Field, Seattle, Washington, USA, supported by Charli XCX.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth make their public debut as husband and wife at the G'Day USA Gala in Culver City, California, USA, when The Hunger Games star is honoured with an Excellence In Film award.
Electric Hot Tuna play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA, with The David Bromberg Quintet.
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