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    • Jul 10, 1966
    Bill Monroe performs on the same bill with Flatt & Scruggs at a bluegrass festival at Whippoorwill Park near Warrenton, Virginia. It marks the first time Monroe has been willing to share the stage with his former band members since they left him in 1948
    Jul 10, 1966
    When Neil Young spots Buffalo Springfield associate Richard Davis being shook up by police over a parking ticket in front of The Whisky in Los Angeles, he tries to assist Davis. He ends up jailed and receives multiple lacerations and head injuries
    Jul 11, 1966
    "The Newlywed Game" debuts on ABC. The game show gets referenced five years later when Loretta Lynn records "One's On The Way"
    Jul 11, 1966
    Shooting begins for Elvis Presley's "Double Trouble" in Los Angeles
    Jul 12, 1966
    The Wilburn Brothers record "Hurt Her Once For Me"
    Jul 14, 1966
    "Any Day Now" songwriter Burt Bacharach and his wife, Angie Dickinson, have a daughter, Lea "Nikki" Bacharach, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. The baby weighs less than two pounds and remains hospitalized until October 11
    Jul 15, 1966
    Dottie West records "Paper Mansions"
    Jul 18, 1966
    Jimmie Rodgers and comedian George Carlin guest on NBC's 13-week replacement series "The Kraft Summer Music Hall"
    Jul 18, 1966
    Pop singer Bobby Fuller dies in Los Angeles of asphyxiation, just months after scoring a hit with "I Fought The Law." The song, written by former Buddy Holly cohort Sonny Curtis, is remade in a 1978 country hit by Hank Williams Jr.
    Jul 19, 1966
    Johnny Rivers records the pop hit "Poor Side Of Town." Joe Stampley revives the song as a country hit in 1983
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