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    • Apr 17, 1961
    Wanda Jackson records "I May Never Get To Heaven" and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" in Nashville. The former becomes a Conway Twitty hit in 1979, while the latter Chuck Berry song is a hit for Waylon Jennings in '69
    May 31, 1961
    Chuck Berry--the author of such country hits as "Maybellene," "Johnny B. Goode" and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"--opens a new family shopping and entertainment site called Berry Park in Wentzville, Missouri
    Feb 19, 1962
    Chuck Berry, the author of "Maybellene," "Johnny B. Goode" and "Thirty Days," begins a three-year sentence in the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for violating the Mann Act, an antiquated law designed to battle prostitution
    Oct 18, 1963
    Chuck Berry leaves the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, after serving one year of a three-year sentence for violating the Mann Act. During his stay, he wrote "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie," a future country hit for Emmylou Harris
    Jan 14, 1964
    Chuck Berry records the original version of "You Never Can Tell." Thirteen years later, Emmylou Harris re-tools the song as a country hit
    Feb 20, 1964
    Chuck Berry records "Promised Land," with Willie Dixon sitting in, at the Chess Recording Studio in Chicago. The song is destined to climb the country charts after a re-recording by Elvis Presley
    May 9, 1964
    Chuck Berry kicks off his first tour of the United Kingdom, with Carl Perkins, The Animals and The Nashville Teens in tow. In the audience: The Rolling Stones
    Oct 28, 1964
    Glen Campbell, Leon Russell and David Gates are in the house band for "The T.A.M.I. Show" at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Acts include The Supremes, Chuck Berry, James Brown, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and The Miracles
    May 5, 1969
    Capitol releases Buck Owens' remake of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode"
    Sep 13, 1969
    Jerry Lee Lewis performs at a rock 'n' roll oldies concert in Toronto with Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Gene Vincent, Little Richard and John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band
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