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    • Jan 19, 1963
    Black gold, Texas tea and Flatt & Scruggs: "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" goes to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Feb 6, 1963
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, who already perform the theme song for "The Beverly Hillbillies," make the first of seven on-screen appearances on the CBS sitcom. They introduce a new song, "Pearl Pearl Pearl," addressed to the show's Pearl Bodine
    Feb 25, 1963
    Flatt & Scruggs record "Pearl Pearl Pearl" at the Columbia Recording Studios on 16th Avenue in Nashville
    Mar 22, 1963
    Columbia releases Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "Pearl Pearl Pearl," introduced weeks earlier on "The Beverly Hillbillies"
    May 2, 1963
    Flatt & Scruggs perform at Neely Auditorium in Nashville, with the concert captured on the album "Recorded Live At Vanderbilt University." A remake of The Carter Family's "You Are My Flower" is released the following year as a single
    Jun 8, 1963
    The state of Tennessee and the city of Sparta celebrate Lester Flatt Day, and mayor Wilford Mills presents the bluegrass musician a key to the city. Flatts' partner, Earl Scruggs, is made an honorary citizen
    Jun 15, 1963
    Flatt & Scruggs perform "Worried Man Blues" on ABC's "Hootenanny"
    Jul 14, 1963
    Nine-year-old Randy Scruggs, a future producer and guitarist, performs live for the second time, playing "Wildwood Flower" on autoharp during a concert by his father, Earl Scruggs, at Nashville's Centennial Park
    Nov 2, 1963
    "Country Music On Broadway" premieres in Nashville. The movie features Whitey Ford, Flatt & Scruggs, Roy Drusky, Audrey Williams, Ralph Emery, The Anita Kerr Singers, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Merle Kilgore and The Wilburn Brothers, among others
    Jan 7, 1964
    Columbia releases Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "You Are My Flower"
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