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    • Aug 20, 1984
    Mercury releases The Statler Brothers' "Atlanta Blue"
    Aug 20, 1983
    The Oak Ridge Boys hit #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with "Love Song"
    Aug 20, 1983
    Johnny and Betty Mann are married. He was the leader of The Johnny Mann Singers, who backed Walter Brennan two decades prior on the country hit "Old Rivers"
    Aug 20, 1982
    Johnny Lee and wife Charlene Tilton welcome a daughter, Cherish Lee
    Aug 20, 1982
    Bass player and guitarist Louis Innis dies in Nashville. Building on his membership in Red Foley's band, he played on numerous country hits by Hank Williams, Kitty Wells and Eddy Arnold
    Aug 20, 1982
    The Ken Wahl movie "The Soldier" opens in a small number of theaters. The picture marks the on-screen debut of George Strait, who has a role as a barroom singer, performing "Fool Hearted Memory"
    Aug 20, 1981
    Record producer and Capitol executive Lee Gillette dies after a fall at his home in California. He produced hits for Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jimmy Wakely, Leon Payne and Hank Thompson while overseeing the label's country releases from 1944-1950
    Aug 20, 1981
    George Jones fails to show for a concert in Wichita Falls, Texas. He also stiffs two managers at a meeting to reassign his contract
    Aug 20, 1981
    "The Waltons" ends a 10-year prime-time run on CBS. For half of its TV life, the show featured Tex Ritter's son, John Ritter, as reverend Matthew Fordwick
    Aug 20, 1978
    Ralph Stanley has a son, Ralph Stanley II
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