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Aug 4, 1947
Six months after Porter Wagoner began working at the West Plains, Missouri, manufacturing plant for the International Shoe Company, his wife, Ruth, takes a job in the fitting department
Aug 9, 1947
Bonnie Campbell joins Buck Owens' band as a background singer. Five months later, she marries the bandleader
Aug 11, 1947
Chet Atkins And The Colorado Mountain Boys record "Canned Heat" in Chicago. It will be used in the 2019 PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
Aug 11, 1947
Decca Records has its first Nashville recording session at the Castle Studios in the Tulane Hotel, with Red Foley, Ernest Tubb and Milton Estes. Tubb records "That Wild And Wicked Look In Your Eye"
Aug 12, 1947
Red Foley records "Tennessee Saturday Night" and "Blues In My Heart" at the Castle Studio in downtown Nashville
Aug 15, 1947
Jerry Clower marries Homerline Wells at Eastfork Baptist Church in Mississippi
Aug 17, 1947
Gary Talley is born in Memphis, Tennessee. A member of the pop group The Box Tops, he sings background vocals on the 1982 Willie Nelson country single "Always On My Mind"
Aug 18, 1947
Lonzo & Oscar record the comedic hit "I'm My Own Grandpa" in New York City
Aug 19, 1947
Eddy Arnold records "Molly Darling" at the RCA Studios in New York
Aug 20, 1947
Eddy Arnold records "Then I Turned And Walked Slowly Away," "Texarkana Baby," "My Daddy Is Only A Picture," "There's Not A Thing (I Wouldn't Do For You)" and "Anytime" at RCA's New York studios
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