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    • Jun 24, 1950
    Billboard reports Kenny Roberts has had his tonsils removed
    May 4, 1952
    J.L. Frank dies in a Detroit hotel room, where he's been laid up with strep throat. Referred to as the "Flo Ziegfeld of country music," he was the first major promoter and manager in the genre, working with Pee Wee King, Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl in a career that will place him in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Jun 3, 1959
    Army specialist Elvis Presley begins a six-day stay at a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, with tonsillitis
    Oct 24, 1959
    For the second time in the year, Elvis Presley is hospitalized in a German military hospital with tonsillitis
    Oct 29, 1959
    Elvis Presley is released from a military hospital in Germany, where he's been treated for the previous five days for tonsillitis
    Jun 3, 1964
    Beatles drummer Ringo Starr collapses, suffering from exhaustion and severe tonsillitis. Some 25 years later, he's destined to record with Buck Owens and end up a country Grammy nominee
    Jun 11, 1964
    Ringo Starr is released from London's University College Hospital, where he's been treated for tonsillitis. Twenty-five years later, he joins Buck Owens to vocalize a new version of "Act Naturally," nominated for a country Grammy award
    Dec 2, 1964
    Beatles drummer Ringo Starr enters a London hospital to have his tonsils removed. More than 25 years later, he receives a Grammy nomination in the country field for a recording of "Act Naturally" with Buck Owens
    Feb 8, 1969
    The Beatles' George Harrison undergoes a tonsillectomy in a London hospital, just two months before the band records "Something," with Harrison singing lead. Johnny Rodriguez later turns the song into a country hit
    Jun 14, 1969
    Blues singer Wynonie Harris dies from throat cancer in Los Angeles. One of the colorful figures of early R&B, he was the lead singer for Lucky Millinder's 1944 single "Hurry, Hurry," a hit on an early version of Billboard's country chart



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