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    • Jul 1, 1908
    Alvino Rey, the King of the Swing Guitar, is born in Oakland, California. One of pop music's first electric guitarists, he backs Elvis Presley on "Can't Help Falling In Love" and marries The King Sisters' Louise King
    Dec 21, 1913
    Louise King is born in Payson, Utah. As a member of The King Sisters, she participates in more than a dozen pop hits, plus one country hit: a 1946 remake of Merle Travis' "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    May 11, 1931
    Louise King, of the pop act The King Sisters, has a daughter, Marilyn Adine Driggs, in Los Angeles. Fifteen years later, the Kings collect a country hit with a remake of "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    May 21, 1937
    Louise King marries guitarist Alvino Rey. Not quite a decade later, The King Sisters end up on the country charts with a version of Merle Travis' "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Aug 4, 1997
    Pop vocalist Louise King dies in Sandy, Utah. In addition to a string of pop recordings in the 1940s and a 1960s network TV show, The King Sisters realized a country hit with a 1946 remake of Merle Travis' "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Mar 2, 2004
    Pop guitarist Alvino Rey dies of pneumonia in Draper, Utah. Married to The King Sisters' Louise King, he played on Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love"
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