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Sep 1, 1963
Engineer/producer Marty Williams is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. After engineering albums for such artists as Faith Hill, Vince Gill and Jo Dee Messina, he produces the first hits for Rascal Flatts and Josh Gracin
Sep 2, 1963
The Beach Boys record "Be True To Your School" at Western Recorders in Hollywood. Playing on the session are piano player Leon Russell, drummer Hal Blaine and future Country Music Hall of Famer Glen Campbell
Sep 3, 1963
Decca releases a pair of Webb Pierce hits, "Those Wonderful Years" and the flip side, "If The Back Door Could Talk"
Sep 3, 1963
Warner Bros. Records and the Frank Sinatra-owned Reprise merge. The combined firms eventually open a country division, working with Donna Fargo, Faith Hill, Dwight Yoakam, Blake Shelton, Randy Travis and Emmylou Harris, among others
Sep 3, 1963
Billy Walker records "Circumstances" in an afternoon session at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville
Sep 3, 1963
Eddy Arnold records "I Thank My Lucky Stars" and "Jealous Hearted Me" at Nashville's RCA Studio B
Sep 5, 1963
Songwriter Dallas Frazier moves to Nashville from Los Angeles. He writes Jack Greene's "There Goes My Everything," The Oak Ridge Boys' "Elvira," George Jones' "If My Heart Had Windows" and Gene Watson's "Fourteen Carat Mind," among others
Sep 6, 1963
Ray Charles pays $52,000 for property on Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, where he makes his home and establishes an office and recording studio. In 1962, he made country mainstream with "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music"
Sep 6, 1963
Jerry Lee Lewis signs with Smash Records, where his career is revived as he shifts from rock 'n' roll to country
Sep 6, 1963
Singer/songwriter Mark Luna is born. He writes Lee Roy Parnell's "When A Woman Loves A Man," and provides background vocals on Lari White's "That's My Baby" and Chad Brock's "Yes!"
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