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    • Oct 17, 1963
    Bobby Goldsboro records his first hit, the pop single "See The Funny Little Clown," at Bell Sound in New York
    Oct 17, 1963
    Elvis Presley receives a card that designates him an honorary second-degree black belt in karate
    Oct 18, 1963
    Harty Taylor, one-half of the duo Karl & Harty, dies. The duo came to prominence via Chicago radio station WLS' weekly variety show, "The National Barn Dance"
    Oct 18, 1963
    Chuck Berry leaves the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri, after serving one year of a three-year sentence for violating the Mann Act. During his stay, he wrote "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie," a future country hit for Emmylou Harris
    Oct 19, 1963
    Buck Owens attains the #1 spot on the Billboard country singles chart with "Love's Gonna Live Here"
    Oct 21, 1963
    Capitol releases The Beach Boys' pop hit "Be True To Your School," with Glen Campbell in the band on acoustic guitar
    Oct 21, 1963
    Lefty Frizzell records "Saginaw, Michigan" at Nashville's Columbia Recording Studios after actor George Hamilton leaves the control room. Hamilton had come to watch the session, but his presence intimidated Frizzell
    Oct 22, 1963
    Columbia releases Stonewall Jackson's "B.J. The D.J."
    Oct 22, 1963
    David Allan Coe begins serving a four-year prison sentence at the Ohio State Penitentiary, for car theft, possession of obscene materials and possession of burglary tools. He later claims he killed a fellow inmate during his incarceration
    Oct 22, 1963
    Thieves in St. Louis steal a saddle embedded with 65 silver dollars from Webb Pierce's car while the singer appears on an all-night radio show. Police later find the saddle--minus the silver dollars
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