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    • May 11, 1955
    Alabama drummer Mark Herndon is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He joins the Hall of Fame band in 1979, just prior to its launch into country's mainstream. Herndon is a live fixture with the group, though he rarely plays on its recordings
    May 12, 1955
    Kix Brooks is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He co-writes hits for John Conlee and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band before forming Brooks & Dunn with Ronnie Dunn. Behind such hits as "Boot Scootin' Boogie," "My Maria" and "Only In America," they become country's most-successful duo, joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2019
    May 13, 1955
    An Elvis Presley performance causes a riot for the first time in Jacksonville. Mae Boren Axton sees the show, and promises to write him a hit. Six months later, she brings him "Heartbreak Hotel"
    May 14, 1955
    Dobro player Uncle Josh Graves auditions for Flatt & Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys. He remains with the group until Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs split in 1969, continuing to work for Flatt
    May 16, 1955
    An intelligence officer writes to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover that Elvis Presley is a "definite danger to the security of the United States" and "possibly a drug addict and a sexual pervert." The letter is placed in an FBI file on The King
    May 16, 1955
    Capitol Records releases Jean Shepard's double-sided hit, "A Satisfied Mind" backed with "Take Possession"
    May 21, 1955
    Mac Wiseman performs the "Ballad Of Davey Crockett" on ABC's "Ozark Jubilee." Host Red Foley also welcomes Jean Shepard and Harold Morrison
    May 21, 1955
    Pre-dating his success as a hit country songwriter, Jackie Gleason makes the cover of TV Guide with Audrey Meadows, his co-star in the sitcom "The Honeymooners"
    May 21, 1955
    Drummer Stan Lynch is born in Gainesville, Florida. A member of Tom Petty's band, The Heartbreakers, he co-writes Tim McGraw's 2004 country hit "Back When"
    May 21, 1955
    Webb Pierce quits the Grand Ole Opry on the WSM airwaves after a three-year membership. Pierce laments that he never had his own half-hour Opry segment
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