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  • Feb 22, 1956
    Elvis Presley opens for Little Jimmy Dickens at City Auditorium in Waycross, Georgia. Sitting in the front row for the show is future Byrd Gram Parsons, who goes backstage to collect The King's autograph
    Feb 22, 1956
    Patsy Cline tells fan club president Treva Miller in a letter that she "still can't say I'm satisfied" after moving into a new 33-foot trailer, and that she may leave Gerald Cline. If they divorce, she says, "I'm certainly not going to marry again"
    Feb 23, 1956
    Red Sovine records "Hold Everything (Till I Get Home)"
    Feb 23, 1956
    Red Foley hears Brenda Lee for the first time, when both perform at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia. He becomes a mentor, and she receives a contract that night to become a regular on "The Ozark Jubilee"
    Feb 23, 1956
    Elvis Presley collapses after a concert at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. A doctor tells him to slow down, but Presley performs again the next night
    Feb 25, 1956
    Elvis Presley collects his first #1 record as "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" reaches the top of the Billboard country singles chart
    Feb 26, 1956
    Carl Smith records "Doorstep To Heaven," "You Are The One" and "Before I Met You" in an afternoon session at Hollywood's Radio Recorders
    Feb 27, 1956
    Capitol releases Faron Young's double-sided single, "I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night" and "You're Still Mine"
    Feb 28, 1956
    Elvis Presley has a minor fender-bender, when another driver runs into his Eldorado convertible in a Memphis parking garage

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