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Aug 3, 1964
Filming concludes for the Elvis Presley movie "Girl Happy" in Los Angeles
Aug 14, 1964
Singer/songwriter Johnny Burnette drowns in a boating accident on California's Clear Lake. With his Rock 'N' Roll Trio in the mid-1950s, he helped define rockabilly. The Trio's "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" will be named one of the 500 greatest country singles in history in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Aug 17, 1964
Maria McKee is born in Los Angeles. She becomes the lead vocalist for Lone Justice, whose 1985 recording of "Ways To Be Wicked" is deemed one of country's greatest singles in a 2003 Country Music Foundation book, "Heartaches By The Number"
Aug 17, 1964
Debbie Lee Rogers, the adopted Korean daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, dies in a Sunday School bus accident in San Clemente, California
Aug 19, 1964
The Beatles kick off an American tour at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Opening is The Bill Black Combo; Black is no longer part of the group, but it does feature guitarist Reggie Young, destined to play on hits by Elvis Presley and George Strait
Aug 27, 1964
Comedienne Gracie Allen dies of a heart attack at Cedars Of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. Her husband, George Burns, continues working in multiple mediums, earning a minor country hit some 15 years later with "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"
Aug 31, 1964
Anaheim, California, holds groundbreaking ceremonies for Anaheim Stadium, offering a place for cowboy singer Gene Autry's team, the Angels, to play baseball outside Los Angeles. Autry turns the first pile of dirt
Aug 31, 1964
Bass player Teddy Landau is born in Los Angeles. He plays on The Wreckers' "Leave The Pieces" and marries one member of the duo, Michelle Branch
Sep 2, 1964
Gene Autry's baseball team, the Los Angeles Angels, announces it is being renamed the California Angels
Sep 28, 1964
Songwriter Nacio Herb Brown dies in San Francisco. A tailor for Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin, he co-wrote "Temptation," a Bing Crosby success that was parodied successfully in country music by Red Ingle & The Natural Seven
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