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    • Mar 11, 1957
    Decca releases Webb Pierce's "Honky Tonk Song"
    Mar 14, 1957
    Johnny Horton makes contact with Shreveport psychic J. Bernard Ricks, beginning a friendship that lasts the rest of his life. The relationship hones Horton's own psychic abilities, and he eventually predicts, with accuracy, his own death will be violent
    Mar 19, 1957
    Elvis Presley puts down $1,000 to buy Graceland Mansion in Memphis. The deal is completed less than one week later, as Presley buys the property for $102,500
    Mar 20, 1957
    Roni Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has her first child, Eugene Cox Jr.
    Mar 22, 1957
    RCA releases Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up"
    Mar 22, 1957
    A teenage Marine accuses Elvis Presley of pulling a gun on him in Memphis. Unknown to the soldier, the pistol is a movie prop. Three days later, Presley sends an apologetic six-page telegram, and the incident is brushed aside
    Mar 23, 1957
    Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper finish a 10-year run on "The Wheeling Jamboree" in West Virginia, in preparation to move to Nashville, where they've already joined the Grand Ole Opry
    Mar 24, 1957
    Singer/songwriter Carson Robison dies in Pleasant Valley, New York. A recording artist for four decades, he wrote many of his songs from the national events of the day. His hits included "Hitler's Last Letter To Hirohito" and "Life Gits Tee-Jus Don't It"
    Mar 25, 1957
    Broadway performer and R&B artist Shorty Long portrays a theater-goer in an episode of CBS-TV's "I Love Lucy." Long played piano during the Elvis Presley session that yielded "Don't Be Cruel" and "Hound Dog"
    Mar 25, 1957
    Don Everly elopes with Mary Sue Ingraham, marrying in Ringgold, Georgia
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