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    • Apr 25, 1940
    O.B. McClinton is born in Senatobia, Mississippi. The self-billed "Chocolate Cowboy" charts often in the 1970s and '80s. His "Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You" ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Nov 17, 1973
    Donna Fargo sings "You Were Always There" and O.B. McClinton performs "Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You" on an episode of "Hee Haw"
    Nov 11, 1986

    A Nashville benefit raises $40,000 for O.B. McClinton, suffering from liver cancer. Performers include Reba McEntire, Kathy Mattea, Waylon Jennings, Ricky Skaggs, Jeff Cook, Jessi Colter, Tom T. Hall, Larry Gatlin, Johnny Rodriguez, Steve Wariner and Rex Allen Jr.

    Sep 23, 1987
    O.B. McClinton dies from abdominal cancer in Nashville. Nicknamed the "Chocolate Cowboy," the African-American performer's "Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You" ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jun 8, 1988
    O.B. McClinton is inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame's Walkway Of Stars
    Mar 14, 2003
    The Country Music Foundation issues "Heartaches By The Number," celebrating country's "500 greatest singles." African-Americans Stoney Edwards ("Hank And Lefty Raised My Country Soul") and O.B. McClinton ("Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You") both appear
    Oct 14, 2006
    "Neither One Of Us" songwriter Jim Weatherly and banjo player Carl Jackson join the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame during an event at the Vicksburg Convention Center. Also inducted: Steve Forbert, Prentiss Barnes, O.B. McClinton, Mississippi John Hurt and executive Marty Gamblin
    May 12, 2011
    The late O.B. McClinton receives a Mississippi Country Music Trail marker at Gabbert Park in Senatobia
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