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    • Oct 1, 1962
    Capitol releases Wanda Jackson's "In The Middle Of A Heartache"
    Oct 2, 1962
    RCA releases Elvis Presley's "Return To Sender"
    Oct 2, 1962
    Banjo player Buck Trent, employed by Porter Wagoner, has a daughter, Melissa Trent
    Oct 8, 1962
    Tim Hensley is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A longtime member of Kenny Chesney and Patty Loveless' road bands, Hensley writes Loveless' 2000 country hit "That's The Kind Of Mood I'm In"
    Oct 8, 1962
    Five years after renouncing it, Little Richard blasts back to rock & roll, performing the future country hit "Lucille" during a show at the Gaumont Theater in Dorcaster, England. The bill also features Sam Cooke and emcee Gene Vincent
    Oct 9, 1962
    Stonewall Jackson records "Old Showboat" and "Can't Hang Up The Phone"
    Oct 10, 1962
    The BBC bans Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "The Monster Mash," including a background vocal appearance by future Nashville songwriter Johnny MacRae. Among MacRae's credits: "I'd Love To Lay You Down" and "I'd Be Better Off (In A Pine Box)"
    Oct 12, 1962
    Columbia releases Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett"
    Oct 13, 1962
    "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf" opens at the Billy Rose Theatre in New York. After reading the show's script, songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler is inspired to write the Johnny Cash/June Carter duet "Jackson"
    Oct 13, 1962
    Months after Jimmy Dean netted a country hit with his song "To A Sleeping Beauty," comedian and songwriter Jackie Gleason appears on the cover of TV Guide
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