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    • Jul 1, 1961
    Elvis Presley's friend Red West marries Pat Boyd in Memphis. Presley is late to the wedding, and Joe Esposito has to fill in as best man
    Jul 1, 1961
    Michelle Wright is born in Chatham, Ontario. She nets a Top 10 single in 1992 with "Take It Like A Man"
    Jul 1, 1961
    "Buffalo Gun" debuts in movie theaters. The picture stars Marty Robbins, Webb Pierce and Carl Smith
    Jul 2, 1961
    Acclaimed author Ernest Hemingway dies of a self-inflicted gun shot at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He's namechecked 44 years later in the Brad Paisley hit "Alcohol" and again in Keith Urban's 2015 single "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16"
    Jul 4, 1961
    Seven-year-old Larry Franklin plays his first fiddle contest. He goes on to become a Nashville studio musician, appearing on hits by Shania Twain, Deana Carter, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride and Gretchen Wilson, among others
    Jul 4, 1961
    A semi-private feud becomes public when Carter Stanley tells a crowd in Luray, Virginia, that Flatt & Scruggs refused to play the All Day Bluegrass Festival because The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe were there
    Jul 4, 1961
    "Don't Fence Me In" songwriter Cole Porter ends an eight-month stay at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
    Jul 7, 1961
    Kitty Wells records "Day Into Night" and "Unloved Unwanted"
    Jul 8, 1961
    Ray Charles is arrested in Chicago during a heroin bust. The following year, he connects country and R&B through the landmark album "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
    Jul 8, 1961
    Toby Keith is born in Clinton, Oklahoma. The former semi-pro football player emerges in 1993 with "Should've Been A Cowboy," becoming a brash hitmaker, label owner and entrepreneur. He also joins the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2024
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