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Aug 2, 1965
Decca releases Bill Anderson's "Bright Lights And Country Music"
Aug 2, 1965
Claude King records the Dorsey Burnette-penned "Catch A Little Raindrop" in the afternoon at Nashville's Columbia Studios
Aug 4, 1965
Pop idol Bobby Sherman sings Roy Acuff's "Wabash Cannonball" on the ABC series "Shindig!" The Righteous Brothers also do Jimmie Davis' "You Are My Sunshine" and the standard "Unchained Melody"
Aug 5, 1965
Connie Smith records "If I Talk To Him" in a late-night session at Nashville's RCA Studio B. Among the musicians is guitarist Jerry Reed
Aug 7, 1965
Jimmy Dean rises to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And The Last Thing Ev'ry Night)"
Aug 7, 1965
Raul Malo is born in Miami, Florida. He sings lead for The Mavericks, an edgy foursome that wins multiple Vocal Group of the Year honors in the 1990s. He later builds a stylistically diverse solo career before The Mavericks regroup
Aug 7, 1965
Elvis Presley begins location work in Hawaii on "Paradise, Hawaiian Style"
Aug 9, 1965
Decca releases Loretta Lynn's solo single, "The Home You're Tearin' Down," plus "Ernest Tubb And Loretta Lynn," the first of three albums that feature both singers
Aug 9, 1965
Roy Acuff is released from the hospital, 30 days after a head-on car wreck outside of Sparta, Tennessee, nearly claimed his life
Aug 10, 1965
Roger Miller records "England Swings" in Nashville
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