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Nov 1, 1960
RCA releases Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome To-night?"
Nov 2, 1960
"Feudin' And Fightin'" singer Jo Stafford attends a campaign rally for presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, along with Louis Prima, Milton Berle, Stan Freberg and Janet Leigh
Nov 2, 1960
Johnny Horton visits his mother in Rusk, Texas, where they reminisce with family photo albums and he tells her he's had premonitions of his death. He dies in a car accident three days later
Nov 3, 1960
Merle Haggard is released from San Quentin Prison and allowed to complete the more than two years remaining of his sentence on parole
Nov 3, 1960
Guitarist James Alan Shelton is born. He becomes a member of Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys
Nov 3, 1960
Coral releases the album "In Style With The Crickets," featuring the first version of "I Fought The Law," written by group member Sonny Curtis. Hank Williams Jr. turns it into a country hit in 1978
Nov 4, 1960
Johnny Horton performs in what proves to be his final show at The Skyline Club in Austin, Texas. The club also provided the setting for Hank Williams' final concert
Nov 4, 1960
Kim Forester is born in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. She joins three siblings to form The Forester Sisters, whose thick, genetic harmonies, partially influenced by gospel music, create 15 hits in the late-1980s
Nov 5, 1960
Johnny Cash records the title track to the B-movie "Five Minutes To Live" in Nashville. Following the session, he travels to Shreveport to console Billie Jean Horton after Johnny Horton died in a car accident
Nov 5, 1960
"Dear Oakie" songwriter Doye O'Dell is a train conductor during the week's episode of the NBC western "The Tall Man"
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