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Jun 1, 1958
Bass singer Ray Walker officially joins The Jordanaires vocal quartet
Jun 1, 1958
Jimmie Rodgers performs "Secretly" from a New York stage during CBS' telecast of "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Jun 1, 1958
Capitol releases The Kingston Trio's self-titled debut album. The folk act scores a pop hit with "Tom Dooley," which wins the first Grammy given for a country recording
Jun 2, 1958
The Everly Brothers take over #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "All I Have To Do Is Dream"
Jun 2, 1958
Columbia releases Mel Tillis' "A Violet And A Rose." Little Jimmy Dickens earns a hit with the song four years later
Jun 2, 1958
"Maybellene" songwriter Chuck Berry is arrested in St. Charles, Missouri, on a federal charge of transporting a firearm on the interstate. The charges are later dropped
Jun 2, 1958
Johnny Horton holds an evening session at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville, recording "All Grown Up"
Jun 3, 1958
Songwriter Georges Boulanger dies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His song "My Prayer" was a 1956 pop hit for The Platters and will become a Top 15 country single for Narvel Felts in 1976
Jun 4, 1958
Ray Price and Charlie Walker find "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down" in a stack of demo tapes, the night before a scheduled Walker session. Ernest Tubb helps them change the gender on the song, originally penned for Kitty Wells
Jun 4, 1958
Jerry Lee Lewis remarries Myra Gail Brown in Ferriday, Louisiana, after returning from a trip to Great Britain. Lewis' divorce from his second wife had not been finalized when he first married Brown, his 13-year-old
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