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    • May 16, 1964
    Buck Owens nets a #1 country single in Billboard with "My Heart Skips A Beat"
    May 16, 1964
    Buck Owens, Ernest Tubb and Bill Monroe draw fans to all-country concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York. Also featured: Webb Pierce, Bill Anderson, Stonewall Jackson, Skeeter Davis, Carl Smith, Hank Snow, Ray Price, Porter Wagoner and Leon McAuliffe
    May 18, 1964
    English rock band The Animals record "The House Of The Rising Sun." Dolly Parton earns a country hit with a 1981 remake
    May 18, 1964
    Jim Reeves records "I Guess I'm Crazy," "Angels Don't Lie," "I Won't Come In While He's There" and "This Is It" during an evening session at RCA Studio B in Nashville
    May 19, 1964
    Songwriter Horatio Nicholls dies in London, England. The best known of his 600 compositions is "Among My Souvenirs," remade a dozen years later as a country hit by Marty Robbins
    May 19, 1964
    Columbia releases Marty Robbins' "The Cowboy In The Continental Suit"
    May 19, 1964
    Billy Walker records "Cross The Brazos At Waco" in an afternoon session at the Columbia Studios in Nashville
    May 23, 1964
    Six months after releasing "Saginaw, Michigan," Lefty Frizzell plays Saginaw, where the mayor surprises him on stage with a silver hammer. Fearful of a stranger with a potential weapon, Frizzell gets him in a headlock and wrestles him to the ground
    May 24, 1964
    The Righteous Brothers' Bill Medley marries his first wife, Karen O'Grady. Two decades later, he makes a brief foray into country music, receiving a nomination from the Academy of Country Music
    May 24, 1964
    Kenny Rogers' son, Kenneth Rogers II, is born
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