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    • Aug 23, 1959
    Jimmy Dean appears on the NBC series "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show"
    Aug 23, 1958
    Country singers Rusty Draper and Jerry Wallace guest on ABC's "The Dick Clark Show," headlined by Chuck Berry
    Aug 23, 1958
    "Splish Splash" singer Bobby Darin appears on the NBC summer replacement series "The Bob Crosby Show"
    Aug 23, 1956
    A dozen years after he appeared on the Billboard country charts, Nat "King" Cole addresses the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco
    Aug 23, 1952
    Kitty Wells becomes the first woman to reach #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
    Aug 23, 1952
    Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' daughter, Robin Rogers, dies from the mumps just one day before her second birthday
    Aug 23, 1949
    Red Foley records "Sunday Down In Tennessee"
    Aug 23, 1949
    Paul Chrisman--alias Woody Paul, of Riders In The Sky--is born in Nashville. The comedic trio reverently re-creates western music, joining the Grand Ole Opry in 1982
    Aug 23, 1948
    Bill Swindell is born. His son, Cole Swindell, becomes a country star, beginning with the 2013 hit "Chillin' It"
    Aug 23, 1948
    Rounder co-founder Marian Leighton-Levy is born in Harrington, Maine. The label specializes in acoustic music and earns its widest recognition as the recording home of Alison Krauss + Union Station
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