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    • Aug 6, 1984
    When a Wisconsin burn victim is unable to attend Alabama's concert at the State Fair, lead singer Randy Owen visits him in the hospital
    Aug 7, 1984
    Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson receive a platinum album from the Recording Industry Association of America for "Pancho & Lefty"
    Aug 10, 1984
    Banjo player Bill Mounce dies in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He joined Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys in 1945, playing on "White Cross On Okinawa"
    Aug 10, 1984
    Columbia releases Julio Iglesias' pop album "1100 Bel Air Place." It includes his duet with Willie Nelson, "To All The Girls I've Loved Before"
    Aug 10, 1984
    Plagued by breathing difficulties, Ernest Tubb enters Nashville's Baptist Hospital, where he dies nearly one month later
    Aug 10, 1984
    Colonel Tom Parker is named honorary police chief during a banquet in Elvis Presley's hometown: Tupelo, Mississippi
    Aug 11, 1984
    Don Williams reaches the top of the Billboard country singles chart with "That's The Thing About Love"
    Aug 11, 1984
    Gary Morris makes his Grand Ole Opry debut, singing "Velvet Chains," "Wind Beneath My Wings" and--following an encore--"The Love She Found In Me"
    Aug 12, 1984
    The body of jazz guitarist Lenny Breau is found in a swimming pool in Los Angeles. The coroner determines he was strangled, but the perpetrator is never identified. Breau was the son of Harold Breau and former country hitmaker Betty Cody
    Aug 13, 1984
    Alabama, Anne Murray and Lee Greenwood are among several triple-nominees as finalists for the Country Music Association awards are announced in Nashville
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