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    • May 23, 1963
    Gene Autry cuts the ribbon on the Hotel Continental, a 13-story building at 8401 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles
    May 23, 1963
    Pop singer Eddy Howard dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. A prolific figure during the 1940s and '50s, he made one appearance in country music's Top 10 with his 1947 recording of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe"
    May 23, 1962
    United Artists releases Elvis Presley's movie "Follow That Dream"
    May 23, 1961
    Gene Autry is arrested in North Hollywood and charged with drunk driving after failing a field sobriety test. He's released on $263 bail
    May 23, 1961
    Five weeks after location shooting ended in Hawaii, filming for the Elvis Presley movie "Blue Hawaii" ends in Los Angeles
    May 23, 1961
    Flatt & Scruggs record "Go Home" at the Recording Studio in Nashville
    May 23, 1960
    Don Gibson records "(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time" and "Far, Far Away" late at night at Nashville's RCA Studio B. "Legend In My Time" is destined to become a hit for Ronnie Milsap almost 15 years later
    May 23, 1959
    Priscilla Beaulieu graduates from junior high school in Austin, Texas, just months before she meets Elvis Presley in Germany
    May 23, 1958
    Shelly West is born in Cleveland, Ohio. The daughter of Dottie West, she shares the Country Music Association's Vocal Duo of the Year honor with David Frizzell in 1981 and '82, and earns three solo hits in '83, led by "Jose Cuervo"
    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
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