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    • Aug 2, 1954
    Three masked robbers steal $3,500 at gunpoint at Dunbar Cave, a resort owned by Roy Acuff near Clarksville, Tennessee
    Aug 2, 1954
    Columbia releases Marty Robbins' "Call Me Up (And I'll Come Calling On You)"
    Aug 7, 1954
    Johnny Cash marries Vivian Liberto at St. Ann's Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas. The service is conducted by her uncle, Vincent Liberto
    Aug 9, 1954
    Capitol releases Tommy Collins' "Whatcha Gonna Do Now"
    Aug 10, 1954
    Eleven days after he first played the venue, Elvis Presley makes an unpromoted appearance at Memphis' Overton Park Shell during a concert that features Slim Whitman, Carl Smith and Webb Pierce, who refuses to go on after Presley
    Aug 11, 1954
    Webb Pierce records "More And More" in Nashville at the Castle Studio
    Aug 12, 1954
    Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is born in Lee's Summit, Missouri. He eventually becomes a Grammy nominee in the country genre
    Aug 13, 1954
    "Johnny B. Goode" songwriter Chuck Berry takes part in the first recording session of his career, for Ballad Records, at Premier Studios in St. Louis, Missouri
    Aug 14, 1954
    Ernest Tubb leaves the Grand Ole Opry, though their split will be mended before the end of the year
    Aug 17, 1954
    Pop singer Billy Murray dies of a heart attack at Jones Beach, New York. Fifteen years later, his 1916 hit "Are You From Dixie (Cause I'm From Dixie Too)" is reprised as a country single by Jerry Reed
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