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  • Mar 18, 1954
    Red Foley records "Jilted"
    Mar 19, 1954
    Elvis Presley quits his job at Precision Tool, the same employer that fired him three years earlier for being under-age
    Mar 20, 1954
    Jim Seales, of Shenandoah, is born in Hamilton, Alabama. The guitarist is a key ingredient to such hits as "Next To Me, Next To You," "The Church On Cumberland Road" and "Two Dozen Roses"
    Mar 22, 1954
    Capitol releases Hank Thompson's double-sided hit, "Breakin' The Rules" backed with "A Fooler, A Faker"
    Mar 22, 1954
    Hank Thompson records "Honky-Tonk Girl," "We've Gone Too Far," "If Lovin' You Is Wrong," "Tears Are Only Rain" and "Annie Over" at the Capitol Studios on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles
    Mar 24, 1954
    Wanda Jackson and Billy Gray record "You Can't Have My Love" in an evening session at the Capitol Studios on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles
    Mar 24, 1954
    Hank Thompson records "The New Green Light" at the Capitol Studios on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles
    Mar 26, 1954
    Jackie Gleason makes the cover of TV Guide, seven years before he earns a country hit as the writer of Jimmy Dean's "To A Sleeping Beauty"
    Mar 27, 1954
    Opera meets the Opry: opera singer Helen Traubel makes a guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry
    Mar 29, 1954
    Jimmy Dean's wife, Sue, gives birth to their daughter, Connie Elizabeth Dean, at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland. Connie inspires his 1962 recitation "To A Sleeping Beauty"

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