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    • Oct 13, 1962
    Don Everly collapses on stage at the outset of an English tour. He is hospitalized at Charing Cross Hospital in London for a drug overdose, though the hospital calls it food poisoning. He tries a second overdose the same day in his hotel room
    Oct 13, 1962
    John Wiggins is born in Nashville. A member of the 1990s duo John & Audrey Wiggins, he later writes Joe Nichols' "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off," Randy Houser's "Anything Goes" and Blake Shelton's "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking"
    Oct 14, 1962
    Margie Bowes and The Wilburn Brothers' Doyle Wilburn welcome a daughter, Sharon Renae Wilburn, in Tennessee
    Oct 15, 1962
    Don Everly returns to Nashville from London with an illness he says he can't explain. Reports indicate he overdosed on sleeping pills, but an associate insists he has a strong case of food poisoning
    Oct 16, 1962
    Smokey Robinson & The Miracles record "You've Really Got A Hold On Me" in Detroit, Michigan, at Motown's Hitsville Studio. Mickey Gilley turns the song into a country hit more than 20 years later
    Oct 16, 1962
    "Requiem For A Heavyweight" debuts in movie theaters, featuring Anthony Quinn, Mickey Rooney and Jackie Gleason. Just six months earlier, Gleason had a hit as a country songwriter on Jimmy Dean's "To A Sleeping Beauty"
    Oct 17, 1962
    Jim Reeves records "When You Are Gone" during an evening session at RCA Studio B in Nashville
    Oct 17, 1962
    Future Oak Ridge Boy William Lee Golden welcomes a son, musician Chris Golden, in Brewton, Alabama
    Oct 20, 1962
    Roy Acuff begins a seven-week USO tour that features performances before American military personnel in more than 10 nations, including Ethiopia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon and Libya
    Oct 20, 1962
    Leroy Van Dyke joins the Grand Ole Opry
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