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Mar 11, 1964
Elvis Presley is injured while filming a fight scene for "Roustabout" in Los Angeles. He requires stitches in his forehead
Mar 12, 1964
Buck Owens performs "My Heart Skips A Beat" and "Love's Gonna Live Here" on ABC-TV's "The Jimmy Dean Show." He joins Dean and Molly Bee on "Gotta Travel On," while Dean delivers "To A Sleeping Beauty." Dean and Bee also cover the Red Foley hit "Midnight"
Mar 12, 1964
Roy Drusky records "Pick Of The Week" at Nashville's Columbia Recording Studio
Mar 14, 1964
Columbia releases Ray Price's "Burning Memories" with "That's All That Matters" featured on the B side
Mar 14, 1964
Flatt & Scruggs are featured on ABC's "Hootenanny"
Mar 15, 1964
"Lonely Teardrops" songwriter Berry Gordy Jr. has a son, Kennedy William Gordy, in Detroit. The boy earns a pop hit in 1984 under the stage name Rockwell with "Somebody's Watching Me"
Mar 16, 1964
Rock & roll deejay Alan Freed is charged in New York with evading more than $37,000 in income tax. He earned co-writing credit on the '50s pop hit "Sincerely," eventually remade for the country charts by The Forester Sisters
Mar 17, 1964
Sun Records owner Sam Phillips fires Nashville studio manager Scotty Moore--Elvis Presley's former guitarist--after Moore records an instrumental album, "The Guitar That Changed The World"
Mar 18, 1964
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs appear in an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" for the second time. The duo already sings the theme song to the weekly CBS-TV series
Mar 18, 1964
Keyboard player Scott Saunders is born in Fort Worth, Texas. He joins the Waco band Sons Of The Desert, whose 1997 debut album nets hits with "Whatever Comes First" and "Leaving October"
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