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Aug 11, 1966

Sheb Wooley, under the name Ben Colder, records "Almost Persuaded #2"--a parody of David Houston's original hit--during a late-night session in Nashville

Aug 11, 1966

Six weeks after an unsatisfactory attempt at it, Ray Price records "Touch My Heart" during the evening at Nashville's Columbia Recording Studios

Aug 15, 1966

Bobby Darin records "If I Were A Carpenter," developing a Top 10 pop hit in the process. Johnny Cash and June Carter remake it as a country hit three years later

Aug 25, 1966

Connie Smith records "The Hurtin's All Over" in a late-night Nashville session at RCA Studio B. She also takes the first of three attempts at "I'll Come Runnin'"

Aug 29, 1966

Claude Gray records "I Never Had The One I Wanted"

Aug 30, 1966

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs record "I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. Thirty-five later, The Soggy Bottom Boys redo it for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Aug 31, 1966

Bobby Bare records "The Game Of Triangles" with Norma Jean and Liz Anderson

Aug 31, 1966

Eddy Arnold records "Lonely Again" at Nashville's RCA Studio B

Sep 9, 1966

Tammy Wynette records her first single, "Apartment #9," at the Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville

Sep 27, 1966

Bill Anderson and Jan Howard record "For Loving You"

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