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Aug 9, 1963
Sandra Jean Betts files a paternity suit in Los Angeles against Ray Charles, seeking $1,100 monthly in child support. Charles' album "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music" had given the R&B singer a link to the country genre
Sep 2, 1963
The Beach Boys record "Be True To Your School" at Western Recorders in Hollywood. Playing on the session are piano player Leon Russell, drummer Hal Blaine and future Country Music Hall of Famer Glen Campbell
Sep 6, 1963
Ray Charles pays $52,000 for property on Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, where he makes his home and establishes an office and recording studio. In 1962, he made country mainstream with "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
Sep 18, 1963
The Gene Autry Hotel Company acquires the 500-room Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood
Sep 30, 1963
Sandra Jean Betts delivers a baby girl, Sheila, in Los Angeles. The child is already the subject of a paternity suit against Ray Charles, who had made history the previous year with "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
Oct 14, 1963
Elvis Presley plays two different characters as "Kissin' Cousins" begins location filming at Big Bear, California
Oct 28, 1963
Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters buys KTLA-TV in Los Angeles from Paramount Pictures for $12 million, the highest price ever paid at the time for an individual television station
Nov 5, 1963
Location shooting for the Elvis Presley movie "Kissin' Cousins" comes to a conclusion in Big Bear, California
Dec 4, 1963
Jan & Dean record "Dead Man's Curve" in Los Angeles, with guitarist Glen Campbell among the studio musicians
Dec 13, 1963
Songwriter Stan Jones dies in Los Angeles, California. He wrote "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky," which became a hit for Vaughn Monroe and for Johnny Cash, as well as the theme song to a Gene Autry western movie
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