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  • Apr 1, 1963
    Elvis Presley gives teenage girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu, who is living at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, a red Corvair
    Apr 2, 1963
    Claude King records "Building A Bridge" during the late-morning at Nashville's Columbia Recording Studios
    Apr 4, 1963
    Seven years after he first recorded it, Stonewall Jackson cuts the hit version of "Don't Be Angry" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville
    Apr 4, 1963
    Merle Haggard has a son, Noel, in Bakersfield, California. The younger Haggard lands on the country charts twice during the 1990s, though he never earns a hit
    Apr 6, 1963
    The Mel Tillis-penned "Mary Don't You Weep" is performed by Bob Gibson, The Limeliters and the rest of the guests as the finale for ABC-TV's premiere of the folk music show "Hootenanny"
    Apr 8, 1963
    Jean Shepard gives birth to a son, Harold Franklin Hawkins II, named after his father, the late Hawkshaw Hawkins
    Apr 8, 1963
    John Lennon becomes the first Beatle to have a child with the birth of Julian Lennon in Liverpool, England. The Lennon-penned titles "I Feel Fine" and "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" will be reinvented as country hits
    Apr 10, 1963
    MGM Pictures releases Elvis Presley's "It Happened At The World's Fair"
    Apr 13, 1963
    Bill Anderson hits #1 on the Billboard country singles chart with his biggest hit, "Still"
    Apr 15, 1963
    Decca releases Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams (Of You)," five weeks after her death in a plane crash

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