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    • 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
    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 24, 1961
    Buck Owens records "Under The Influence Of Love" in an afternoon session at the Capitol tower in Hollywood
    Jun 1, 1961
    Tex Ritter throws a party for the Los Angeles Dodgers at his home in Toluca Lake, California. The guests include first baseman Gil Hodges and pitchers Don Drysdale and Ron Perranoski
    Jul 10, 1961
    Spade Cooley's murder trial, in which he's accused of killing his wife, begins in Kern County, California. He's sentenced to prison the following month
    Jul 19, 1961
    Johnny Cash records "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" in Hollywood at the Columbia Studios
    Jul 27, 1961
    Spade Cooley suffers a heart attack in his holding cell at the Kern County Jail in Bakersfield, California, after his 14-year-old daughter, Melody, testified against him in a trial for the murder of his wife. He is transferred to Kern County General
    Aug 4, 1961
    Spade Cooley, who has already suffered two heart attacks since April, is taken to Bakersfield's Kern County General Hospital, suffering from chest pains. It causes a delay in his trial for the murder of wife Ella Mae Cooley
    Aug 15, 1961
    Singer/songwriter Paul Jefferson is born in Woodside, California. After a brief solo career in the mid-1990s, he scores a hit as the writer of Aaron Tippin's "That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You"
    Aug 22, 1961
    Spade Cooley is sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife in April. He's sent to Vacaville Medical Center
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