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    • Nov 17, 1955
    Ray Charles is busted backstage in Philadelphia for the use of narcotics. The R&B singer later makes waves in country with his 1962 album "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" and his 1985 duet with Willie Nelson, "Seven Spanish Angels"
    Jan 4, 1956
    Merle Travis is arrested at his home, at 12406 Chandler Boulevard in Los Angeles, after pistol-whipping his wife during a drunken rage
    Feb 28, 1956
    Elvis Presley has a minor fender-bender, when another driver runs into his Eldorado convertible in a Memphis parking garage
    Mar 22, 1956
    Carl Perkins suffers a broken collarbone, a concussion and cuts when the Chrysler transporting his band to New York for "The Perry Como Show" back-ends a truck in Delaware. Also injured in the accident are brothers Clayton and Jay Perkins
    Apr 10, 1956
    A dozen years after he appeared on the country charts, Nat "King" Cole is attacked on stage in Birmingham by six members of the White Citizens Council. Despite back injuries, Cole finishes the show but vows never to play the South again
    Apr 11, 1956
    Elvis Presley records with The Jordanaires for the first time, after a flight in which his plane developed engine trouble. They do only one song, "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You," in the Nashville session
    May 23, 1956
    Woody Guthrie is arrested for vagrancy in New Jersey. He is institutionalized at Greystone Park in Morris Plains, where he spends his next five years, suffering from Huntington's chorea
    Jun 15, 1956
    Bob Wills' ballroom at Wills Point, near Sacramento, is destroyed by fire
    Jul 25, 1956
    The S.S. Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish-American ship the Stockholm in fog off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Songwriter Mike Stoller, a co-writer of Elvis Presley's current "Hound Dog," survives the collision along with his wife, Meryl
    Aug 29, 1956
    Carl Perkins wrecks the Cadillac Sam Phillips had presented him in April while speeding near Brownsville, Texas



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