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    • Jun 2, 1936
    Decca releases Jimmie Davis' "I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine"
    Jun 3, 1936
    Novelist Larry McMurtry is born in Wichita Falls, Texas. The author of such titles as "Lonesome Dove" and "The Last Picture Show," his son, James McMurtry, becomes an alternative country singer/songwriter
    Jun 8, 1936
    Roy Rogers divorces his first wife, Lucille Ascolese. Six days later, he will marry his second wife, Grace Arline Wilkins
    Jun 8, 1936
    The Carter Family conducts its first Decca recording session in New York City. The date's material includes a song destined to become a pop hit for Elvis Presley: "Are You Lonesome To-night?"
    Jun 9, 1936
    The Carter Family records "No Depression" in New York City. The song provides the name for the 1990s-born alt-country magazine No Depression
    Jun 12, 1936
    Dr. Humphrey Bate dies of a heart ailment at his home in Castalian Springs, Tennessee. Bate's band, The Possum Hunters, was the first to play country music on WSM Radio, which would launch the Grand Ole Opry. The Possum Hunters were a component of the Opry for its first 10 years
    Jun 13, 1936
    The Dixie Tabernacle becomes the home of the Grand Ole Opry, seating 3,500. The Opry remains there for the next three years. Pee Wee King and Roy Acuff both make their first Opry appearances at the venue
    Jun 14, 1936
    Roy Rogers marries Arline Wilkins at her mother's house in Roswell, New Mexico
    Jun 16, 1936
    The Blue Sky Boys record "Down On The Banks Of The Ohio" in Charlotte, North Carolina. The title ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jun 16, 1936
    "Blue Skies" songwriter Irving Berlin and his wife, Ellin, welcome a daughter, Elizabeth Irving Berlin, in New York City
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