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    • Jun 15, 1953
    Slim Whitman records "North Wind" at the KWKH Studio in Shreveport, Louisiana
    Dec 4, 1953
    Slim Whitman records "Secret Love" in Baltimore, Maryland
    Mar 1, 1954
    Slim Whitman records "Rose-Marie" in the studio at Shreveport radio station KWKH
    Jul 2, 1954
    Slim Whitman records "Singing Hills" at the KWKH Studio in Shreveport, Louisiana
    Jul 30, 1954
    Elvis Presley makes his first advertised concert appearance, playing with Slim Whitman, Billy Walker and The Louvin Brothers at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis
    Aug 10, 1954
    Eleven days after he first played the venue, Elvis Presley makes an unpromoted appearance at Memphis' Overton Park Shell during a concert that features Slim Whitman, Carl Smith and Webb Pierce, who refuses to go on after Presley
    Nov 19, 1954
    Slim Whitman records "Cattle Call" at the KWKH studios in Shreveport
    Oct 29, 1955
    Slim Whitman joins the Grand Ole Opry
    Nov 12, 1957
    Jerry Lee Lewis makes his film debut, singing "Great Balls Of Fire," as "Jamboree" opens. Also in the picture: Fats Domino, Slim Whitman, Carl Perkins, Buddy Knox, Connie Francis, Jimmy Bowen, The Four Coins and Frankie Avalon
    May 19, 1961
    Ottis Dewey Whitman dies in Florida. His survivors include son Slim Whitman, a yodeling country singer
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