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    • May 12, 1965
    Keyboard player Eddie Kilgallon is born in East Greenbush, New York. He co-writes George Strait's "One Night At A Time" and performs with Ricochet, the Academy of Country Music's 1998 Vocal Group of the Year
    May 13, 1965
    Roy Clark performs "The Tip Of My Fingers" on ABC's "The Jimmy Dean Show." The episode includes a medley of recent country hits, as Dean sings "Once A Day," Judy Lynn covers "Here Comes My Baby," Clark and Dean do "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail," and Rex Allen delivers "King Of The Road"
    May 13, 1965
    Elvis Presley begins three days of recording sessions for the movie "Frankie And Johnny" at the United Artists Studios in Hollywood. The title track is eventually certified gold by the RIAA
    May 13, 1965
    Lari White is born in Dunedin, Florida. The soulful vocalist nets three hits in the 1990s and acts in the Tom Hanks movie "Cast Away." She also becomes the first woman to produce an album by a major male star: Toby Keith's "White Trash With Money"
    May 13, 1965
    Beaumont declares George Jones Day
    May 15, 1965
    Del Reeves pops up in the top position on the Billboard country singles chart with "Girl On The Billboard"
    May 16, 1965
    Pop songwriter Burt Bacharach marries actress Angie Dickinson in Las Vegas. During the 15 years they're legally linked, he earns a country hit when Sonny James covers his song "Only Love Can Break A Heart," originally a pop hit for Gene Pitney
    May 16, 1965
    The Jimmie Davis Tabernacle, a non-denominational place of worship named after the "You Are My Sunshine" singer, is dedicated near Jonesboro, Louisiana
    May 17, 1965
    Columbia releases Claude King's "Tiger Woman"
    May 17, 1965
    Rock musician Trent Reznor is born in Mercer, Pennsylvania. The focal point of Nine Inch Nails, he becomes a force in the 1990s alternative movement. Johnny Cash records his song "Hurt," which nets six MTV video nominations in 2003
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