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  • Aug 13, 1988
    Houston Oilers coach Jerry Glanville leaves a press pass for Elvis Presley at a preseason game against the New England Patriots in Memphis' Liberty Bowl. Presley is a no-show. The Oilers are not--they win, 27-14
    Aug 13, 1988
    Willie Nelson becomes the first artist ever to have an album spend 10 years on the Billboard country chart as "Stardust" logs its 520th week
    Aug 13, 1987
    The site of Elvis Presley's first public performance, at a 1953 talent contest, is renamed in his honor. The auditorium at Memphis' Humes Junior High becomes the Elvis A. Presley Auditorium
    Aug 13, 1986
    Capitol releases T. Graham Brown's "Hell And High Water"
    Aug 13, 1986
    Five months after she filed for divorce from Jerry Lee Lewis, Kerry McCarver announces she's pregnant
    Aug 13, 1984
    Alabama, Anne Murray and Lee Greenwood are among several triple-nominees as finalists for the Country Music Association awards are announced in Nashville
    Aug 13, 1984
    Bass player and comedian Bill Wesbrooks dies in Tucker, Georgia. Known as Cousin Wilbur, he appeared in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1940-1944, playing on such Monroe recordings as "Kentucky Waltz" and "Mule Skinner Blues"
    Aug 13, 1983
    Janie Fricke pushes to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "He's A Heartache (Looking For A Place To Happen)"
    Aug 13, 1982
    R&B singer/songwriter Joe Tex dies of a heart attack in Navasota, Texas. Known for such hits as "I Gotcha" and "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)," he also wrote Barbara Mandrell's 1972 country hit "Show Me"
    Aug 13, 1982
    The Cameron Crowe-produced "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" debuts in theaters. Jimmy Buffett appears on the soundtrack with Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, The Go-Go's, Don Felder, Graham Nash, Donna Summer, Stevie Nicks and Poco

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