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    • Jul 1, 1954
    Sun releases Harmonica Frank's "Rockin' Chair Daddy." The song will be ranked among country's 500 greatest all-time singles in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jul 1, 1954
    Faron Young marries Hilda Margot Macon, babysitter for his sergeant in the Army
    Jul 2, 1954
    Elvis Presley attends the Memphis funeral for R.W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles, of the gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers. Blackwood and Lyles died in a plane crash in Alabama two days earlier
    Jul 2, 1954
    Slim Whitman records "Singing Hills" at the KWKH Studio in Shreveport, Louisiana
    Jul 2, 1954
    Guitarist Paul Warmack dies of a heart attack at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He was the leader of The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry in 1927, and would continue an Opry association until the 1970s
    Jul 3, 1954
    Elvis Presley's girlfriend, Dixie Locke, with whom he's discussed the possibility of marriage, leaves Memphis for a two-week vacation in Florida. By the time she returns, he's had his first recording session for Sun Records and appeared on the radio
    Jul 3, 1954
    Johnny Cash is discharged from the U.S. Air Force at Fort Kilmer, New Jersey
    Jul 4, 1954
    The television game show "The Kollege Of Musical Knowledge," formerly hosted by big band figure Kay Kyser, returns on NBC, with Tennessee Ernie Ford hosting. It lasts only two months
    Jul 4, 1954
    Elvis Presley practices at guitarist Scotty Moore's apartment for the first time, with Moore and bass player Bill Black
    Jul 5, 1954
    Elvis Presley records "That's All Right" at Memphis' Sun Recording Studio
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